Category: 3. Middle East

Scores of celebrities, as well as a handful of NGOs and some dozen Palestinian medical personnel, signed a letter published Monday accusing Israel of deliberately targeting medical facilities in Gaza and the West Bank, and urging an end to…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) — Iran’s bazaar merchants, the trader class who were the financial backbone of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, have turned against the clerics they helped bring to power, fuelling unrest over an…

Hamas is preparing to hold internal elections to rebuild its leadership, decimated by Israel during the war in Gaza, which it sparked by carrying out the October 7, 2023, massacre, sources in the terror group told AFP on Monday.

With…

Over two weeks of protests mark the most serious challenge in years to Iran’s theocratic leadership in their scale and nature but it is too early to predict the immediate demise of the Islamic republic, analysts say.

The demonstrations moved from…

By Kirsty Needham

SYDNEY, Jan 13 (Reuters) – The director of one of Australia’s top writers festivals resigned on Tuesday saying she could not be party to silencing a Palestinian author and warning government moves to ban protests and slogans in…

US President Donald Trump has options to intervene in protest-hit Iran that range from low to high risk, but choosing his course depends on him deciding his ultimate goal.

It has been 10 days since Trump said the United States was “locked and…