Category: 3. Middle East

After years of being banned from leaving Iran, filmmaker Jafar Panahi is enjoying his tour of the United States — visiting Los Angeles, New York and Telluride — as he promotes his Oscar-hopeful “It Was Just an Accident.”

The film, which won…

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump hosted a delegation at the White House on Thursday of nearly all the hostages freed through as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal he brokered last month.

“You’re not a hostage anymore… today…

Israel’s security establishment has drafted a series of new recommendations aimed at curbing Jewish nationalist crime and settler violence in the West Bank, following a sharp rise in serious incidents over the past year, Israeli…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that there will not be a Palestinian state, even at the cost of normalization with Saudi Arabia, during an interview aired on Thursday evening.

“There will not be a Palestinian state. It’s very…

Searchers on Thursday found the body of an Israeli tourist who drowned off the coast of Koh Phangan while on vacation on the Thai island with his wife and four children, the Foreign Ministry said.

Sagi Mor, 45, drowned on Wednesday after…

(Reuters) -The Syrian central bank on Thursday sent its first Swift message to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, central bank Governor AbdulKader Husrieh told Reuters.

“We sent (a) greeting message to all our international correspondent banks….