Category: 3. Middle East

The fear is palpable in this Palestinian village. It’s clear from how farmers gather their harvests quickly, how they scan the valley for movement, how they dare not stray past certain roads. At any time, they say, armed Israeli settlers…

KABUL, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s Taliban administration said it assured neighbouring Tajikistan on Tuesday it was ready to tighten border security and conduct joint investigations, after attacks which Dushanbe said were launched from Afghan…

Around 150,000 people gathered at Beirut’s waterfront for mass with Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday morning, the highlight of the Catholic leader’s visit to the capital, where he delivered a message of hope and peace.

The pontiff arrived from Turkey on…

Thousands of Lebanese faithful were making their way to Beirut’s waterfront ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s mass on Tuesday morning, the highlight of the Catholic leader’s visit to the capital expected to draw huge crowds.

Before the service the pope was…

Alon Ohel, who was held hostage for two years in Gaza, said he was intentionally starved and “chained like a monkey” for the vast majority of his captivity but still made a conscious decision to survive.

“Anyone who wasn’t there…

In makeshift homes lacking even the most basic necessities surrounded by piles of rubbish and flanked by dirt roads, thousands of Somalis in Yemen live in soul-crushing poverty in Aden’s “Little Mogadishu”.

Yemen, the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest…

By Joshua McElwee and Catherine Cartier

BEIRUT, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Pope Leo ends a three-day visit to Lebanon on Tuesday, wrapping up his first overseas trip as Catholic leader, during which he pleaded for peace in the Middle East and warned that…

Raghad al-Fara is struggling to rebuild her teenage life in Athens, not least because she now moves around with crutches because of injuries suffered in the Gaza war.

Evacuated from the besieged Palestinian territory in February she now lives in a…

The UK government has criticised delays in aid being allowed into Gaza after a consignment of more than 1,100 tents it sent to the strip took more than a year to arrive.

The foreign secretary has also raised concerns that other UK-funded aid had…