Category: 3. Middle East

Dec 4 (Reuters) – The U.S. plans to expand the number of countries covered by its travel ban to more than 30, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Thursday.

Noem, in an interview on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle,” was asked to…

As relentless harassment from Israeli settlers drove his brothers from their Bedouin community in the central occupied West Bank, Ahmed Kaabneh remained determined to stay on the land his family had lived on for generations.

But when a handful of…

US President Donald Trump’s administration is aiming to announce the transition to the second phase of its Gaza peace plan in about two weeks, as Washington aims to maintain a fragile ceasefire it brokered between Israel and Hamas nearly…

By Nate Raymond

BOSTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday said she was “struggling” to understand why President Donald Trump’s administration is preventing a Tufts University PhD student who had engaged in pro-Palestinian activism from…

A prominent Palestinian militia leader in Gaza who opposed Hamas has been killed.

Yasser Abu Shabab headed the so-called Popular Forces group, which has dozens of fighters and operates in Israeli-controlled territory near the southern city of…

The parents of the last dead hostage in Gaza have spoken to the BBC about their desperate wait for his body to be returned.

Itzik and Talik Gvili insisted the Gaza peace deal could not progress until Hamas handed over the remains of their son Ran,…

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Adams on Tuesday signed executive orders that oppose divestment from Israel and protests at houses of worship, presenting a challenge to the far-left anti-Israel activist Zohran Mamdani weeks before Mamdani…

By Trevor Hunnicutt

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump gathered the leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda to sign a peace deal in Washington on Thursday even as fighting continued in their war-scarred…

Israel will be allowed to compete in the 2026 Eurovision, following an overwhelming vote by European Broadcasting Union members to adopt a series of reforms rather than force a referendum on whether to oust the country amid anger over the…