Category: 3. Middle East

Turkey on Thursday stepped up a crackdown on media coverage of mass protests since the arrest of Istanbul’s popular mayor, deporting a BBC journalist and imposing a 10-day broadcast ban on an opposition TV channel.

The moves came after police…

Mohammed Hussein Mohammedie was just 19 when he left Iraq and attempted the perilous English Channel crossing in November 2021.

He died alongside 26 others when their dinghy sank.

His family were refugees from Iran and suffered financial hardship,…

Sudan’s gold industry has become the lifeblood of its war, with nearly all of the trade channelled through the United Arab Emirates, enriching both the army and paramilitaries, according to official and NGO sources.

The two-year conflict has…

The Iran-backed Huthis said Thursday they targeted an Israeli airport and army site as well as a US warship, soon after Israel reported intercepting missiles launched from Yemen.

The Huthis “targeted Ben Gurion airport… with a ballistic…

The rare anti-Hamas demonstrations that took place over the past few days in Gaza took many by surprise. In fact, they were so rare and so surprising that analysts had a hard time seeing them as spontaneous or authentic, questioning…

The Iranian-backed Houthis launched two long-range missiles at Israel on March 27. This was an attempt by the group to showcase that they can fire multiple missiles in broad daylight, even as they continue to be hit by US airstrikes.

Six people died on Thursday, two of them minors, when a tourist submarine carrying dozens of Russian visitors sank off Egypt’s Red Sea coast near a major resort town.

Egyptian state media put the toll at six, while Russian state news agencies…

Six people died on Thursday when a tourist submarine sank off Egypt’s Red Sea coast, state media reported, with Russia’s consulate saying 45 Russian citizens were aboard.

Russia’s consulate in Hurghada, a town popular with tourists from the…