Category: 3. Middle East

Residents of Lebanon’s Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp described their fear and astonishment a day after a deadly strike that Israel said targeted a Hamas compound, a claim the Palestinian militant group rejected.

Tuesday night’s raid,…

By Tarek Amara

TUNIS (Reuters) -Thousands of young doctors went on strike across Tunisia on Wednesday to demand higher pay and warn of an impending collapse of the health system, part of a broader wave of social unrest convulsing the country.

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Iranian scientists with ties to the regime made a secret trip late last year to Russia, where they met with military experts and may have sought to advance nuclear weapons work, The Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

Citing various…

BEIRUT (Reuters) -The Israeli military stepped up airstrikes in south Lebanon on Wednesday, killing at least one person as it pressed a campaign of near-daily attacks which it says is designed to block a military revival by Iran-backed Hezbollah…

By Patrick Werr

CAIRO (Reuters) -Egyptian restorers are reconstructing a dilapidated neighbourhood in Cairo’s historic centre, dismantling houses and then rebuilding them with materials from the old structures in a model they hope can be…

After months of crisscrossing the region and the globe, Fadwa Barghouti has seen her campaign to secure the release of her husband, prominent Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti, again came up short.

The 66-year-old inmate, sentenced by an…

The head of the UN nuclear agency on Wednesday renewed his call for Iran to allow inspections at key nuclear sites attacked by Israel and the United States in June.

Tensions between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have…