Category: 3. Middle East

When Maj. Gen. Eli Zeira died last month at age 97, it was the passing of the longest-lived and most contentious of the generals who led the Israeli army in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. As head of Aman, or Israel’s Military Intelligence…

Dec 20 (Reuters) – Iran executed a man on Saturday who it said was convicted of spying for Israel and having ties to Iranian opposition groups, the judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported.

Entangled in a decades-long shadow war with Israel, Iran…

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US Justice Department on Friday began releasing a long-awaited cache of records from its investigations into the politically explosive case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — though much of the material…

SYDNEY, Dec 20 (Reuters) – Around 1,000 surf lifesavers returned to duty at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Saturday, restarting regular patrols six days after two gunmen killed 15 people and wounded dozens more at a seaside celebration of Hanukkah, the…

By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart

Dec 19 (Reuters) – The U.S. military launched large-scale strikes against dozens of Islamic State targets in Syria on Friday in retaliation for an attack on U.S. personnel, U.S. officials said.

A U.S.-led coalition…

US forces struck more than 70 Islamic State group targets in Syria on Friday in what President Donald Trump described as “very serious retaliation” for an attack that killed three Americans last weekend.

Washington said a lone gunman from the…

A growing vacuum has reportedly been felt in US-Israel relations following the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s top aide, strategic affairs minister Ron Dermer, last month.

His absence is particularly felt as the sides…

The US says its military has carried out a “massive strike” against the Islamic State group (IS) in Syria, in response to a deadly attack on American forces in the country.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said Operation Hawkeye Strike was aimed…