Category: 3. Middle East

VIENNA (Reuters) -The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s 35-nation Board of Governors passed a resolution on Thursday saying Iran must inform the watchdog “without delay” of the status of its enriched uranium stock and bombed atomic sites, diplomats at the…

Gaza health authorities said fresh Israeli air strikes killed four people Thursday as Qatar, a mediator of the weeks-long ceasefire, warned that renewed attacks threatened to undermine the fragile truce between Israel and Hamas.

The new strikes…

(Reuters) -Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Israeli troops deployed in southern Syria, drawing strong condemnation from the government in Damascus, which denounced the trip as a violation of sovereignty.

Israel expanded its…

(Reuters) -The rival leaders of ethnically split Cyprus said they were ready to meet the United Nations Secretary-General to discuss the potential for relaunching long-stalled peace talks, the U.N. mission on the island said on Thursday.

Greek…

SHEJAIYA, Gaza Strip — In Gaza City this week, a vast landscape of gray rubble stretched as far as the eye could see against a vibrant blue sky marred by dust and dark pillars of smoke.

Since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went…

US officials and defense experts told Reuters on Wednesday that the F-35 fighter jets that will be sold to Saudi Arabia will be less advanced than those used by the IDF, after Israel expressed concerns over how the agreement would affect…

US President Donald Trump said late Wednesday that the long-awaited meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani would happen in Washington later this week, setting up an in-person clash between the political polar opposites who…

When Liberia’s government signed an agreement with a little-known Dubai company run by a royal sheikh in 2023, the “carbon credit” deal promised to protect vast tracts of forests and offset big polluters’ emissions.

It was one of a flurry of deals…

(Reuters) -Israel’s expulsion of tens of thousands of Palestinians from three West Bank refugee camps in early 2025 amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday, calling for urgent international…