Category: 3. Middle East

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.

Political correspondent Sam Sokol and legal reporter Jeremy Sharon join host Jessica…

UR/BABYLON, Iraq (Reuters) — Iraqi officials are sounding the alarm to save monuments of the cradle of civilization, with thousands of years of history at risk of disappearing as Iraq’s ancient southern cities face erosion because of…

Israeli troops raided a town in southern Lebanon overnight and killed a municipal worker who was sleeping in the municipality building, Lebanese state media said Thursday morning.

The Israel Defense Forces confirmed the incident, saying it…

Israeli troops carried out an incursion into a southern Lebanese town overnight into Thursday and killed one civilian, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. The Lebanese media said he was a municipal employee who was sleeping in the local…

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto raised eyebrows of the normally staid diplomats at the United Nations General Assembly in New York last month with a single, surprising word: “Shalom.”

Before ending his assembly address with the…

BUSAN, South Korea (Reuters) — US President Donald Trump ordered the US military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons, for the first time in 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with Chinese President Xi…