Category: 3. Middle East

Why has Hamas announced a delay just days before it is due to release the next group of hostages?

In one of its official statements, released on Telegram, the group called its announcement a “warning” to Israel and said it was giving mediators…

US President Donald Trump set a Saturday deadline for all hostages to be released from Gaza, saying that otherwise “all hell” would break out and he would call for the Israel-Hamas ceasefire to be canceled.

Trump’s latest extraordinary…

Dozens of Palestinian families fled on Monday from the Nur Shams refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank, as Israel pushed on with a sweeping military operation.

“We hear explosions and bombings as well as bulldozers. It’s a tragedy….

At the key intersection of Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor and the Salaheddin Road, US and Egyptian security personnel, armed and wearing military fatigues, inspected vehicles carrying Palestinians, many of them displaced by the war.

On Monday morning,…

Syrians are once again picnicking and smoking shisha amid the ruins of ancient Palmyra, once desecrated by jihadists but still awe-inspiring, and open to the public following the overthrow of president Bashar al-Assad.

The city’s renowned ruins, a…

A Saudi PhD student at the University of Leeds has been released from prison in Saudi Arabia after her sentence over critical social media activity was reduced, activists have said.

Salma al-Shehab, a 36-year-old mother of two, was arrested in…

A mother who has been on hunger strike for 134 days to campaign for her son to be freed from an Egyptian prison has asked Sir Keir Starmer to continue to press for his release if she dies “in the coming days”.

Pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel…