Category: 3. Middle East

The Israel Defense Forces said it launched a wave of airstrikes against Hamas targets across Gaza on Wednesday after terror operatives opened fire on troops earlier in the day in the enclave’s southern Khan Younis area.

The military said…

PARIS, France — French authorities have expanded an investigation into Elon Musk’s platform X to include “Holocaust-denying comments” generated by its AI chatbot Grok, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Wednesday.

A Grok X post…

Saudi Arabia has lifted a travel ban on a US citizen who criticized the kingdom on social media, his family said Wednesday, as President Donald Trump welcomed the crown prince.

Saad Ibrahim Almadi, a US citizen of Saudi origin, had been arrested…

Hard-right British lawmaker Nigel Farage, who is leading in the polls to become the UK’s next prime minister, is denying claims that he made racist and antisemitic comments while at school, his spokesman said Wednesday.

Former classmates…

By Mike Stone

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The F-35 fighter jets the U.S. plans to sell Saudi Arabia will be less advanced than those operated by Israel, in line with a U.S. law that guarantees Israel’s military edge in the region, U.S. officials and…

PARIS, France — An extremely rare and operational Nazi Enigma encryption machine, famously cracked by Allied codebreakers during World War II, has sold for nearly half a million euros in Paris, double its expected price, auction house…

(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s lavish welcome of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Washington this week, touted by many as rehabilitation of human rights record of Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, has been followed by the kingdom…

US President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to end Sudan’s grinding civil war at the request of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, condemning “tremendous atrocities” in a conflict he has previously overlooked.

Trump admitted that the devastating war…