Category: 3. Middle East

Last week, European Union and Syrian officials met in Brussels for high-level talks on the country’s reconstruction. The EU’s support for Syria’s health system, including 14 million euros ($16.25m) to rehabilitate Ar-Rastan Hospital in…

As the US and Iran inch towards a deal to end the war, analyst Trita Parsi argues the framework resembles the original ceasefire deal before Trump disrupted it with a blockade of Iranian ports. He points out the role that regional powers…

By Emily Rose

JERUSALEM, May 24 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. President Donald Trump Israel would remain free to act against threats in Lebanon during a phone call about an emerging agreement between Washington…

Voters in Texas head to the polls on Tuesday for the Republican run-off in the highly contentious US Senate primary between the state’s Attorney General Ken Paxton, who was endorsed by President Donald Trump, and John Cornyn, the incumbent, who…

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman has invoked ancient Persia’s victory in the face of a failed invasion by the Roman Empire. The post suggests the US has been forced to make concessions in a deal to end its war on Iran on Tehran’s…

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Mahmoud Issa

CAIRO/GAZA, May 24 (Reuters) – An Israeli airstrike on an apartment in a refugee camp in central Gaza on Sunday left three people dead, including a six-month-old child, health officials said.

Medics named the…

With no food aid, 65-year-old Saeedah Mohammed heads out with a plastic bag to pick tree leaves near her displacement camp in southern Yemen, before serving them to her grandchildren to stave off hunger.

Behind the camp wooded hills stretch under…

A Baloch separatist group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a train carrying soldiers in Quetta, Pakistan. The suicide car bombing killed at least 24 people and injured dozens more, including women and children.

The United States and Iran appear closer than ever to a deal that would end a war that has engulfed the Middle East and disrupted the global oil market.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the world might “get some good news”, soon after…

At least 24 people have been killed in a blast targeting a train carrying military personnel in Pakistan’s restive southwestern province of Balochistan, according to a senior official.

Army servicemen were…