Category: 3. Middle East

In the Nile Delta village of Nagrig, residents love local son Mohamed Salah from a distance, with ructions between the Egyptian super striker and long-time English club Liverpool doing little to dim his lustre at home.

“Thanks to him I can dream,”…

Scottish rock group Primal Scream superimposed swastikas combined with Stars of David over the eyes of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant, as well as other global politicians, in on-stage graphics…

JERUSALEM, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Israel’s cabinet has decided to give legal ​status to 19 settlements in the ​occupied West Bank, including two that were vacated 20 years ago under ⁠a pullout aimed at boosting the country’s security and the…

Iranian security forces on Friday detained the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi along with at least eight other activists in an arrest condemned as “brutal” by the Norwegian Nobel committee.

Mohammadi, who was granted temporary leave…

Gaza’s civil defence agency on Friday said at least 16 people had died in the last 24 hours, including three children who died from exposure to the cold, as a winter storm batters the territory.

Heavy rain from Storm Byron has flooded tents and…

Iranian authorities have freed a woman who was condemned to hanging over the killing of her husband who she married while a child, in a case that sparked international concern over the plight of women sentenced to death in the Islamic republic,…

Gaza’s civil defence agency on Friday said at least 13 people had died in the last 24 hours, including three children who died from exposure to the cold, as a winter storm batters the territory.

Heavy rain from Storm Byron has flooded tents and…

A raft of proposed measures from Israel’s ruling coalition targeting the media has sparked outrage, with critics warning the planned reforms would deliver a blow to press freedom.

Suggested changes to public broadcasting, coupled with a bid to…