Category: 3. Middle East

LONDON — A Palestinian NGO was on Wednesday refused permission to appeal a court ruling that Britain lawfully allowed F-35 fighter jet parts to be indirectly exported to Israel, despite accepting they might be used to breach international…

Algeria has pardoned French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal after a request from Germany, to where he will be transferred for medical treatment after a year in detention, it was announced Wednesday.

After German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on…

Dubai and Abu Dhabi are in the top five of the world’s cities for high-net-worth individuals in 2025, according to a new report, underscoring the United Arab Emirates as a global destination for affluent individuals and investors. This category…

With less than a month to go until the European Broadcasting Union makes a final decision on Israel’s participation in next year’s Eurovision, host Austria has been pushing publicly and behind the scenes for the Jewish state to be…

Syrian authorities have temporarily closed the national museum in Damascus and launched an investigation after thieves made off with several pieces, an official told AFP on Wednesday.

The robbery took place overnight Sunday to Monday in the…

Ancient statues and other artefacts have been stolen from Syria’s National Museum in Damascus, officials say.

The theft was discovered on Monday, when staff reportedly found that one of the museum’s doors had been broken from the inside.

The six…

Israel reopened the Zikim border crossing border for the entry of humanitarian aid into the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, two months after it was closed during an Israel Defense Forces operation to capture Gaza City.

The Defense…

When engineer Tarek Mazraani started campaigning for the reconstruction of war-battered southern Lebanon, Israeli drones hovered ominously overhead — their loudspeakers sometimes calling him out by name.

Despite a ceasefire struck last November…