Category: 3. Middle East

A former minister under ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has turned himself in, the interior ministry said Tuesday, making him one of the highest-profile figures captured by the new authorities.

“The minister of interior in the government…

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Palestinians would “love” to leave their embattled homeland in Gaza and live elsewhere if given an option.

They would “love to leave Gaza,” he told reporters as he signed a raft of initiatives at the White…

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump appeared to call for the near total removal of the Palestinian population from Gaza on Tuesday during a White House meeting alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, doubling down on prior…

Israeli military offensives in two West Bank refugee camps have displaced nearly 5,500 Palestinian families since December, local and UN officials said Tuesday, amid escalating violence in the occupied territory.

The Israeli military describes its…

Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday hailed Syria’s Ahmed al-Sharaa for his “strong commitment” to fighting terror as the newly installed interim president made his first visit to Turkey.

Sharaa flew to Ankara from Saudi Arabia where he had…

Amena Mohamed can’t stop smiling as she prepares to board a bus home to Wad Madani, in Sudan’s central Al-Jazira state, more than a year after she fled brutal fighting there.

“I can’t describe the feeling, we’re so happy,” she told AFP in the…