Category: 3. Middle East

The Trump administration expects that Israel will reopen the Rafah Border Crossing in the coming days to both the entry and exit of Gazans after US President Donald Trump and his aides raised the issue during their meetings in Florida with…

Dec 31 (Reuters) – The European Union said on Wednesday that recent developments in the Yemeni provinces of Hadramout and Al Mahra threaten to bring new risks to the Gulf region.

“The EU calls for de-escalation and avoiding steps that further…

US President Donald Trump has blamed wind turbines for killing iconic American bald eagles in a year’s end social media post that hit on one of his pet peeves.

There were two problems with this latest lament: the picture in his Truth…

Adam Louis-Klein, a Jewish anthropologist, was living in an indigenous village in Colombia’s Amazon rainforest on October 7, 2023, studying the local Desana people, with no phone service or internet access.

Two days later, he made his way…

Iranian protesters tried to break into a local government building in the southern Fars Province on Wednesday, state media said, on a fourth day of mounting demonstrations over the cost of living.

Protests over high inflation and a slump in…

Israeli bulldozers began demolishing 25 buildings housing Palestinians in a refugee camp on Wednesday, in what the military said was an effort to root out armed groups in northern areas of the occupied West Bank.

The buildings, home to some 100…

Defense Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday called for the military to be prepared for a potential mass attack on West Bank settlements “in the style” of the Hamas-led October 2023 invasion of southern Israel from Gaza.

The warning from…

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday appointed Ramzi Kassem, a prominent lawyer and who has supported anti-Israel protest groups, as the city’s next chief counsel.

Kassem has provided legal guidance to…