Category: 3. Middle East

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US envoy Jared Kushner discussed the second phase of the plan for settlement in the Gaza Strip, which provides for the disarmament of Hamas and the demilitarisation of the…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Inspectors of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) visited Iranian nuclear sites last week, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday, according to state media, a week after the…

About two months after the army declared three Palestinian villages a closed military zone, several hundred of their residents haven’t received the Israeli permit they need in order to remain in their villages and their homes. The villages are…

Syria has foiled two separate Islamic State plots to assassinate President Ahmad al-Sharaa, two senior officials said, adding a personal dimension to the leader’s plans to join a U.S.-led coalition to fight the militant group that he has long…

PARIS (AFP) — Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was set to be freed from prison Monday as a judge ordered his release pending an appeal hearing over Libyan funding.

During the examination of Sarkozy’s request in court earlier…

HOLON, Israel (Reuters) -Released Israeli hostage Bar Kupershtein says he managed to survive two years in a cramped Hamas tunnel in Gaza with no sunlight, little food and regular beatings, by clinging to his belief that he was in God’s hands the…

“Sixteen killed.” “Seven killed.” “Thirty-one killed.” “People are eating cowhide to survive.” “The bombs are getting closer.” “They’re shooting people trying to run away.”

These were the grim updates shared with AFP’s veteran Sudan correspondent…