Category: 3. Middle East

US President Donald Trump will turn his focus to the Middle East on Monday, as he hosts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Florida for talks that are expected to cover Gaza and a range of other pressing issues.

Any decisions made could…

Mining company Axis International said Monday it was seeking World Bank arbitration against Guinea for withdrawing its right to operate a major bauxite mine in the west African country.

Guinea, which has been run by a junta since a coup in 2021,…

BAGHDAD, Dec 29 (Reuters) – Iraq’s newly elected parliament convened on Monday for its first session since the November national election, opening the way for lawmakers to begin the process of forming a new government.

Parliament is due to elect a…

MOSCOW, Dec 29 (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Monday that Ukraine should withdraw its troops from the part of Donbas that it still controls if it wanted peace, and that if Kyiv did not strike a deal then it would lose yet more territory.

Putin…

Dec 29 (Reuters) – Activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, freed from prison in Egypt and now in Britain, apologised on Monday for his “shocking and hurtful” social media posts made more than a decade ago, which have led to calls for his deportation from…

A British-Egyptian activist apologised Monday for resurfaced social media posts in which he called for violence against Zionists and police, as opposition lawmakers urged the UK government to revoke his citizenship.

The posts, dating back to 2010,…

ANKARA, Turkey  — Turkey’s interior minister said six Islamic State terrorists and three police officers were killed in a clash in northwest Turkey.

The shooting occurred in Yalova province, south of Istanbul, on Monday, as police…