Category: 3. Middle East

Israel reportedly started shipping weapons to the Syrian Druze just days after Syria’s Iran-backed President Bashar al-Assad was ousted last December.

The weapons supply peaked in late April, and ebbed starting in August, as Israel grew…

UN experts and 400 prominent women have urged Iran not to execute Zahra Tabari, a 67-year-old electrical engineer and women’s rights activist.

Ms Tabari was arrested in April and accused of collaborating with a banned opposition group, the…

The head of Libya’s armed forces and four other passengers died on Tuesday when their business jet crashed shortly after taking off from Ankara, officials in Turkey’s capital and Tripoli said.

The wreckage of their Falcon 50 aircraft was located…

ANKARA, Dec 23 (Reuters) – The Libyan army’s chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad, died in a plane crash on Tuesday after leaving Turkey’s capital Ankara, the prime minister of Libya’s internationally recognised government said, adding…

PARIS — France has launched a probe after a video emerged of a man harassing and humiliating a young Jewish child at a Paris airport, demanding that he “free Palestine” and “dance,” a judicial source said Tuesday.

The Paris police…

Lebanese authorities are investigating the recent disappearance of a retired security officer whose brother was apparently involved in the 1986 capture of an Israeli air force navigator, a Lebanese judicial official told AFP on Tuesday,…

Dec 23 (Reuters) – The United States and Iran traded barbs at the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday over conditions for reviving nuclear talks, with the U.S. saying it remains ready for direct negotiations and Iran rejecting Washington’s…

ANKARA — A business jet carrying Libya’s army chief, Mohammed Ali Al Haddad, and four others lost contact shortly after departing Ankara’s Esenboga International Airport on Tuesday, Turkey’s Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said.

The plane…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Belgium on Tuesday joined South Africa in a case brought before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which accuses Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip.

The UN’s highest court, based in The…