Category: 3. Middle East

TYRE: Nearly a year after a truce was meant to bring calm to Lebanon’s border with Israel, tens of thousands of people have not yet returned to ruined towns in the south, kept away by deadly Israeli strikes and slim…

Nearly all US Senate Democrats urge Trump to ‘reinforce’ his stance against West Bank annexation

Almost the entire Democratic Senate caucus has signed a letter to US President Donald Trump hailing his pledge to prevent Israel…

TYRE: Nearly a year after a truce was meant to bring calm to Lebanon’s border with Israel, tens of thousands of people have not yet returned to ruined towns in the south, kept away by deadly Israeli strikes and slim…

JERUSALEM: US Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday cautioned there were challenges ahead both in terms of disarming Hamas and rebuilding Gaza as part of a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian militant…

A small number of British planning officers has been sent to Israel to join a US-led multinational taskforce to help monitor the ceasefire in Gaza, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.

The taskforce, called the civil military coordination…

Israel has received two bodies that Hamas says are two more deceased hostages who had been held in Gaza.

The Israeli military said two coffins were handed over to troops in the Palestinian territory by the Red Cross, which had earlier received…

LONDON, United Kingdom — The UK on Tuesday removed Syria’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) from its list of banned terrorist organizations, after the group ousted Bashar al-Assad last December and took control of the government.

The move…

WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Donald Trump’s pick to lead an office charged with protecting federal whistleblowers appeared to be in jeopardy on Tuesday after Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he hoped the White House would…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) — Iran’s economy is at risk of simultaneous hyperinflation and severe recession, officials and analysts say, as clerical rulers scramble to preserve stability with limited room to manoeuvre after a…