Category: 3. Middle East

There has been no contact with Iranian Nobel peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi since her arrest at the end of last week, her supporters said Sunday, urging the Islamic republic to release the campaigner and dozens of others arrested alongside…

JERUSALEM, Dec 14 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned Sunday’s ​deadly shooting at a Jewish ​holiday celebration in Sydney and said he had warned his Australian ⁠counterpart that the country’s support for…

The Israeli military on Sunday carried out three separate drone strikes in southern Lebanon, targeting what it said were three Hezbollah operatives who were violating the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

Lebanese media reported that…

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JERUSALEM, Dec 14 (Reuters) – Israel’s Supreme Court ruled on Sunday against ​a government push to oust the ​attorney general, who has sparred with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s nationalist-religious coalition ⁠over the legality of…

For 903 days, Elizabeth Tsurkov languished in captivity in Iraq, after she was captured by the Shi’ite Islamist group Kataib Hezbollah in Baghdad in March 2023. Born in Russia and raised in Israel, Tsurkov had been living in the Iraqi capital…

By Christine Chen

SYDNEY, Dec 14 (Reuters) – A bystander captured on video tackling and disarming ​an armed man during an attack in ​which 12 people were shot dead at a Jewish holiday event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach ⁠on Sunday has been hailed…

By Byron Kaye and Pete Mckenzie

SYDNEY, Dec 14 (Reuters) – Days after Hamas attacked Israel in ​2023, killing some 1,200 people and sparking the ​war in Gaza, an inverted red triangle was spray-painted on the front of a Jewish bakery in…

Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya on Sunday said the terror group’s arms are “a right guaranteed by international law,” and rejected the International Stabilization Force (ISF) envisioned by US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan,…