Category: 3. Middle East

The revival of diplomatic efforts to secure a normalization deal with Saudi Arabia has triggered intense criticism from Israel’s far-right ministers and West Bank settlement authorities, who pressured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on…

The Trump administration is looking to forgo the stage in its peace plan calling for the deployment of a stabilization force to Gaza to disarm Hamas, so it can move ahead with starting to rebuild the enclave, according to an Israeli…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation on Saturday, which the Prime Minister’s Office said was arranged at Moscow’s initiative and followed “a series of talks preceding it recently,…

Jamal Zahalka, former chairman of the Balad party, was elected to lead the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, the main umbrella organization representing Arab citizens in Israel, replacing Mohammad Barakeh, who had served…

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Winter’s first heavy rainfall sent water cascading through Gaza’s sprawling Mawasi tent camp on Saturday, as the territory struggles to cope with flooding and devastated infrastructure after two years…

Lebanon will file a complaint to the United Nations Security Council alleging that Israel is building walls in southern Lebanon, an accusation Israel has denied, the Lebanese presidency said Saturday.

The United Nations Interim Force in…

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Lebanon will file a complaint to the U.N. Security Council against Israel for constructing a concrete wall along Lebanon’s southern border that extends beyond the “Blue Line”, the Lebanese presidency said on Saturday.

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The Trump Organization is holding discussions to potentially bring a Trump-branded building to a Saudi government-owned project worth some $63 billion, The New York Times reported Saturday, ahead of US President Donald Trump’s White House…