Category: 3. Middle East

ANKARA — In the misty mountains and coastal towns of Turkey’s eastern Black Sea, the Laz language, which once echoed through the lanes of small villages, now lingers mostly in the quiet houses of great-grandparents, and activists are turning…

Some 15 Hamas terror group operatives emerged from tunnels Friday in two separate locations in eastern Rafah, an area in southern Gaza controlled by Israel, the military said after a preliminary investigation.

The Israeli Air Force, with…

Palestinians reported a wave of settler violence across the West Bank overnight Thursday to Friday, highlighting a pattern of attacks that continue despite recent condemnations from Israeli officials and pledges to prosecute the largely…

(Reuters) -Bulgaria has arrested 35 people linked to a criminal network involved in large-scale trafficking of cultural goods across Europe, BTA news agency reported on Thursday, quoting the head of the country’s anti-organised crime unit.

“We…

Mark Mellman, an American pollster and political consultant who founded the Democratic Majority for Israel group and was a close adviser to now-Opposition Leader Yair Lapid, died this week.

He first worked on a winning US congressional…

BARCELONA — The Israel-Premier Tech cycling team has found a new name and will race as the NSN Cycling Team from next year onward.

The team had said last month it would rebrand and move away from its Israeli identity after being…

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish lawmakers overseeing the disarmament of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group will visit its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan in his island prison, state broadcaster TRT Haber said on Friday.

The move,…