Category: 3. Middle East

ANKARA, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Turkey demanded an explanation from Iraqi Kurdish officials after former leader Masoud Barzani arrived in a mainly Kurdish Turkish border region last weekend surrounded by heavily armed and uniformed guards.

Barzani, who…

Israel announced on Wednesday that it will reopen the Rafah Border Crossing in the coming days for the exit of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt, though Cairo denied it was coordinating with Jerusalem on renewing operations at the…

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Lebanese and Israeli civilian representatives held their first direct talks Wednesday in decades, part of a year-old ceasefire monitoring mechanism in the war with militant group Hezbollah, a source close to the talks told AFP.

The meeting was…

ANKARA, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte discussed Black Sea safety on Wednesday, a Turkish Foreign Ministry source said, after Ankara expressed alarm at attacks on Russia-linked…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supports recognizing illegal farming outposts in the West Bank, some of which are home to extremist settlers who have been carrying out attacks on neighboring Palestinians, the Ynet news site reported…

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OSLO, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Norway’s governing Labour Party said on Wednesday it had reached agreement with four left-wing parties in parliament on a 2026 fiscal budget, ending a standoff that had threatened to…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s Taliban administration and Pakistan have held fresh peace talks in Saudi Arabia and agreed to maintain a ceasefire, the latest attempt to dial down tensions between the South Asian neighbours. …