Category: 3. Middle East

Dec 19 (Reuters) – Major shipping companies are devising strategies for ​a potential return to the Suez ​Canal after two years of disruptions due to security risks ⁠in the Red Sea.

They have been rerouting vessels via longer, costlier routes…

By Laila Bassam and Jana Choukeir

BEIRUT, Dec 19 (Reuters) – The committee overseeing the ​Hezbollah-Israel truce in Lebanon focused on Friday ​on how to return displaced people to their homes, addressing civilian issues to help ⁠prevent…

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 19 (Reuters) – There is no longer famine in Gaza, a global hunger monitor said on Friday, after access for humanitarian and commercial food deliveries improved following a ​fragile October 10 ceasefire in the war between…

New rules in Israel for registering non-governmental organisations, under which more than a dozen groups have already been rejected, could have a catastrophic impact on aid work in Gaza and the West Bank, relief workers warn.

The NGOs have until…

When Sudanese nurse Asmaa returned to the Darfur city of El-Fasher, she found only bodies where her neighbours once lived and no sign of the family she had come to save.

The Rapid Support Forces, battling Sudan’s military since April 2023, seized…

Members of an ultra-Orthodox cult, led by convicted sex offender Rabbi Eliezer Berland, illegally entered the West Bank city of Nablus overnight between Thursday and Friday and rammed their car into a Palestinian, security officials said…

More than a month after Iraq’s parliamentary elections, the country’s top leaders remain locked in talks to form a government while facing pressure from Washington to exclude Tehran-backed armed groups.

Amid seismic changes in the Middle East,…

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JERUSALEM, ​Dec 19 (Reuters) – Israel has ​charged a Russian citizen with spying for Iran, ⁠including photographing Israeli ports and infrastructure under the direction of Iranian…