Category: 3. Middle East

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…

The Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is spreading as locally transmitted cases have been confirmed in neighbouring Uganda.
The World Health Organization warns of a very high public health risk and health…

President Donald Trump was able to purge his most vocal critics within the Republican Party, as Americans voted for the congressional candidates who will run in November’s midterm elections.

One of the most prominent politicians to be unseated…

Israel’s attacks on southern Lebanon seem to be expanding with these fresh strikes.

Israeli strikes have killed at least six people in southern Lebanon as the Israeli army issues fresh evacuation orders.

Israeli…

May 24 (Reuters) – The foreign ministers of the Group of Eight Arab-Islamic states on Sunday strongly condemned the actions of far-right Israeli police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir towards participants in the Gaza-bound flotilla while they were in…

Russia has launched one of its largest attacks on Kyiv since the war began, firing hundreds of drones and missiles across Ukraine overnight.

Speaking to Al Jazeera after visiting damaged sites, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned…