Category: 3. Middle East

Defense Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday said he had approved the appointment of Brig. Gen. Omer Tischler as the next chief of the Israeli Air Force and Vice Adm. Eyal Harel as the next commander of the Israeli Navy.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt….

ANKARA, Dec 24 (Reuters) – Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Wednesday met with Hamas political bureau officials in Ankara to discuss the ceasefire in Gaza and advancing the agreement to its second phase, a Turkish Foreign Ministry source…

The United Nation’s famine monitoring organization issued its latest report on the humanitarian situation in Gaza on Friday, and once again made dire assertions about severe food insecurity in the territory.

It also stood by a…

Turkish authorities found the cockpit voice recorder and black box from a private jet that crashed Wednesday killing the head of Libya’s armed forces and his four aides.

The Falcon 50 aircraft requested an emergency landing because of electrical…

By Pesha Magid

DEIR DIBWAN, WEST BANK, Dec 24 (Reuters) – The Jewish settler outpost of Or Meir is small. A handful of prefabricated white shelters, it sits at the end of a short dirt track on a hill leading up from Road 60, a major route that…

Christmas lights illuminate Damascus’s Old City while government forces patrol its shadows as security fears haunt Syria’s Christian community.

They recall the shooting and suicide attack in June at the Saint Elias church in the Syrian capital…

NEW ADMINISTRATIVE CAPITAL, Egypt (AFP) — Workers have started laying tracks in the desert east of Cairo for Egypt’s first high-speed train, which will link the Red Sea and the Mediterranean in the latest attempt to modernize transport…