Category: 3. Middle East

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…

The Israeli military has carried out a new round of air strikes in southern Lebanon, less than a day after Israel and Lebanon held their first direct talks in decades.

Residents of the towns of Mjadel, Baraachit, Jbaa and Mahrouna were told to…

LONDON — A British activist on trial over a raid targeting Israeli defense firm Elbit said on Thursday she and her co-defendants had wanted to “cause as much property damage as we could,” but said she was opposed to…

With US President Donald Trump and other sceptics calling climate change a hoax, the UN’s climate science body must tell the world in a “very clear way” that humans are heating the planet, its chairman told AFP.

Jim Skea, a Scottish professor,…

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir on Thursday said he appointed a former general to head a panel of experts that would investigate the military’s failed handling of intelligence reports received since 2018, which outlined Hamas’s…

Dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has said he plans to return to Iran despite being sentenced to a year in prison and a travel ban earlier this week, a report said Thursday.

The 65-year-old is currently touring to promote his latest…

Negotiations on the next stage of the Gaza ceasefire continue without significant progress at a moment when the truce appears particularly fragile.

The United States, alongside Qatar and Egypt, secured a truce in Gaza that came into effect on…