Category: 3. Middle East

US president says any potential agreement with Tehran will be ‘good and proper’ as mediation efforts continue.

The right-wing president highlighted anti-crime operations and economic progress, while critics warned of abuses.

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has used his State of the Union speech to tout his United…

Cuba has announced the first shipment in an expected donation from China of about 60,000 tonnes of rice, as the Caribbean island contends with an ongoing humanitarian crisis.

In a series of social media posts on Sunday, Cuban President Miguel…

For nearly 20 years, Mario Habib has run a barbershop in Beirut’s Furn el Chebbak neighbourhood – through wars, economic collapse and political crisis in Lebanon. Mario says many customers now come not just for haircuts, but for relief,…

Baltimore, United States – Muslim Americans are grieving after two gunmen last week opened fire at the Islamic Center of San Diego, killing three people.

But at the annual conference for the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) in Baltimore,…

Livestock traders in Pakistan say the war on Iran has hurt their sales ahead of Eid al-Adha.
Rising fuel prices have driven up transport and food costs for the traders, pushing animal prices higher and hurting sales at one of…

The speaker of Senegal’s parliament says he is resigning, two days after his close ally was fired as prime minister in a deepening political crisis.

The move by speaker El Malick Ndiaye clears the way for…

Israeli strikes pounded south and east Lebanon Sunday despite a ceasefire as Hezbollah’s chief expressed hope for an agreement between Iran and the United States to end the Middle East war that includes Lebanon.

Lebanon’s health ministry raised…

Harlan Ullman of the Killowen Group argues that US President Donald Trump is chasing any deal to relieve mounting pressures at home, even as key nuclear and Hormuz issues remain unresolved.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Hezbollah in a statement Sunday of trying to plunge Lebanon “back into chaos.”

Rubio denounced what he called Hezbollah’s “reckless call to overthrow Lebanon’s democratically elected government” and said…