Category: 3. Middle East

Freed hostage Avinatan Or on Sunday night recounted harrowing details from his time in Hamas captivity, describing his failed escape attempt, severe beatings and the ways he kept himself focused while stuck in Gaza’s tunnels for more than…

Released hostage Rom Braslavski  accused the government of ignoring the plight of the released captives who are “truly suffering,” as they deal with prolonged trauma and said the financial assistance provided to them was completely…

Forty-five Indian pilgrims have been killed after the bus they were travelling in caught fire in an accident near Medina in Saudi Arabia, the police commissioner of India’s Hyderabad city has said.

The bus had 46 passengers, said VC Sajjanar in a…

The Kurdish militant PKK said Monday its forces had withdrawn from a key border area in northern Iraq in a move aimed at shoring up the peace process with Turkey.

The pull out comes six months after the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) formally…

NICOSIA (Reuters) -Leaders of ethnically-split Cyprus will meet on November 20, officials said on Monday, marking their first encounter since the election of a new Turkish Cypriot leader last month.

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman and Greek…

Hamas-led terror groups in Gaza on Monday rejected a “dangerous” resolution submitted by the US to the UN Security Council that would create a stabilization force to oversee its demilitarization.

The statement, made by of Hamas on…

By Samia Nakhoul

DUBAI (Reuters) -On his first White House visit since the killing of Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi sparked global outrage, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is on a mission to reclaim his place on the world stage and prove to…

By Timour Azhari and Matt Spetalnick

RIYADH/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A visit by Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler to the White House for talks on Tuesday with U.S. President Donald Trump aims to deepen decades-old cooperation on oil and security while…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Republicans are working on legislation that will impose sanctions on any country doing business with Russia, and he said Iran may get added to that list.

“As you know, I suggested…

As the referee’s whistle signalled the start of the match, two five-year-old Iranian girls faced off, delivering a closely watched karate bout to a captivated audience — a sign of the changing attitude toward martial arts in the Islamic Republic…