Category: 3. Middle East

By Can Sezer

ISTANBUL, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Turkey is telling Russia, Ukraine, and all other parties to keep energy infrastructure out of their conflict and wants energy flows to continue uninterrupted, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said after…

Dec 4 (Reuters) – Israel has identified the remains of the hostage it received from Hamas on Wednesday as Thai agricultural worker Sudthisak Rinthalak, the prime minister’s office said on Thursday.

The body of Israeli police officer Ran Gvili, the…

By Ahmed Rasheed, Maha El Dahan, Humeyra Pamuk and Anna Hirtenstein

BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Iranian drones swept through the mountain air of northern Iraq’s Kurdistan region in mid-July, homing in on their targets: oilfields run by…

US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the next phase of his Gaza peace plan is “going to happen pretty soon,” amid mounting concern that his proposal has stalled.

Trump managed to coax both Israel and Hamas into a ceasefire…

Like a ghost in the night, Bilal Shorba, the artist they call the “Syrian Banksy”, slipped through the rubble of Daraya to paint his murals, praying that Bashar al-Assad’s gunners wouldn’t spot him.

Returning from exile to one of the devastated…

After U.S. President Donald Trump reprimanded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in response to the military operation in the town of Beit Jinn in the Syrian Golan Heights and his order, “It is very important that Israel maintain a strong and true…

Atop one of Egypt’s Sinai mountains, near where the three Abrahamic faiths say God spoke with Moses, another unmistakable sound rings out: the incessant drilling of construction work.

In the remote, rugged terrain of southern Sinai, Egypt has…

On the morning of November 10, inside Evin Prison in Tehran, guards in Ward 7 closed off the doors leading to Ehsan Afrashteh’s cell. The 31-year-old civil engineer had been sentenced to death on charges of spying for Israel and was awaiting his…