Category: 3. Middle East

After two years in an Israeli jail, Yousef Salem set out on a journey to his house in Gaza. The former detainee, who says he was tortured during his time in…

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Tuesday upheld a ban preventing Israeli athletes from competing in the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, set to begin Sunday in Jakarta, after rejecting an appeal…

The killing of far-right influencer Charlie Kirk last month by a 22-year-old suspect has brought into focus the epidemic of gun violence in the United States. While Kirk was a victim of political violence, investigators are now pointing to a…

Dozens of people have been killed and injured in fighting between Pakistan and Afghan forces on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Both sides traded fire and blamed each other for the escalation, as tensions between the…

An Iranian lower court handed heavy prison sentences to two French citizens charged with spying for France and Israel, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Tuesday, a week after Paris and Tehran indicated

The United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Tuesday called for all border crossings into Gaza to be opened to allow the delivery of urgently needed humanitarian aid to the war-torn…

An Egyptian criminal court has sentenced two Egyptians to ten years in prison for stealing 15 million Egyptian pounds from the bank account of Sheikh Mubarak Faisal Saud Al-Sabah, the head of the Kuwaiti Amiri…

The National Gathering of Palestinian Tribes and Clans in the Gaza Strip has expressed its appreciation to the “fighters” of the Palestinian people for their sacrifices, while firmly rejecting all forms of…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared in court to testify in his corruption trial, days after U.S. President Trump called for him to be pardoned. Protesters outside the court demanded the trial continue as a test of…

Israel’s war on Gaza has not ended with the pullback of its tanks or the falling silent of its warplanes. Tens of thousands have been killed, hundreds of thousands of homes reduced to rubble, and some two million people driven from their homes….