Category: 3. Middle East

By Gram Slattery and Humeyra Pamuk

WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Trump administration officials have held advanced discussions on hitting U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA with terrorism-related sanctions, said two ​sources with direct…

Israel agreed to release a Palestinian-American teenager detained for over nine months after US President Donald Trump’s top aide Jared Kushner intervened on the boy’s behalf last month, a US official and a second source familiar with…

Syrian authorities on Wednesday granted a license to a Jewish-Syrian organization that plans to work to return properties confiscated under previous governments, one of its founders said.

“This is a strong message from the Syrian state…

NEW YORK (AP) — Secret grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking case can be made public, a judge ruled on Wednesday, joining two other judges in granting the Justice Department’s requests to unseal material…

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon said Wednesday that its observers came under fire from Israeli troops in a tank a day earlier, during a patrol along the Blue Line close to the village of Sarda.

“One ten-round burst of…

US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said Wednesday he expects “upcoming” announcements on the advancement of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan in Gaza, stressing that Washington will not allow Hamas to rebuild under…

NEW YORK — New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, a Jewish ally of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, announced a run for Congress on Wednesday, as progressives in the city seek to build on the momentum of Mamdani’s election win.

Lander, the…