Category: 3. Middle East

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband has urged the government to scale up efforts to return a jailed British couple from Iran to prevent another family being separated for years.

Craig and Lindsay Foreman were arrested by Iranian authorities in…

By Federico Maccioni

ABU DHABI (Reuters) -The United States presented the warring Sudanese army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) with a strong text for a peace plan but neither side has accepted it, senior U.S. envoy Massad Boulos said…

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Tuesday publicly executed a man convicted of raping two women in the northern province of Semnan, the judiciary said.

The execution was carried out in the town of Bastam after the Supreme Court upheld the verdict,…

GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday that at least 127 civilians had been killed in Lebanon in strikes by the Israel military since a ceasefire nearly a year ago, and called for an investigation and for the truce to be…

ABU DHABI (Reuters) -Anwar Gargash, the diplomatic adviser to the United Arab Emirates’ president, said on Tuesday the UAE welcomed U.S. efforts to end war in Sudan and condemned “atrocities” committed by both Sudan’s army and the paramilitary…

(Reuters) -Afghanistan’s Taliban administration said on Tuesday that nine children and a woman were killed in Pakistani air strikes and vowed to respond, ratcheting up tensions between the South Asian neighbours.

The bombardment overnight reported…

In a town near Jerusalem, a growing number of houses and businesses are receiving demolition and evacuation notices, and Palestinian residents link the drive to Israel’s approval of a major new settlement project.

“This is a project of total…

Police bodycam footage that was played Monday at the trial of six Palestine Action members who broke into a UK subsidiary of Israeli arms firm Elbit last year showed one of the intruders striking an officer on the back with a sledgehammer…