Category: 3. Middle East

US forces have seized a fifth oil tanker in the Caribbean as Washington ramps up enforcement against sanctioned Venezuelan oil shipments. The vessel, Olina, was boarded in a pre-dawn operation by US Marines and Navy forces, the military…

The mayor of Minneapolis and the local elected officials have called on the administration of US President Donald Trump to “embrace the truth” and guarantee an impartial investigation into an immigration agent’s killing of a city resident…

Switzerland holds national day of mourning to remember victims of deadly fire in ski resort town of Crans-Montana.

Swiss prosecutors have requested that one of the…

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have shared new video of the Syrian army shelling a large ammunition and weapons depot belonging to the SDF in Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood.

A collapse of garbage at a landfill in Cebu city, Philippines killed one worker, injured at least 12 and left 27 missing. Rescuers pulled multiple people alive from the debris as search efforts continued Friday.

A nation with the world’s largest oil reserves, Venezuela is now at the centre of a high-stakes economic power play over energy…

AL-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the highest levels, as…

Kurdish political leader Ahmad Suleiman is urging dialogue between the Syrian army and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic forces to avoid ‘real disaster in Aleppo’ that could spread across the country. The Syrian army says a curfew…

The outbreak of clashes between the Syrian army and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has highlighted the political and security challenges the country continues to face more than a year after the fall of former President Bashar…

Naval exercises come as tensions run high after US military intervention in Venezuela, seizures of several oil tankers.

Chinese, Russian and Iranian warships have…