Category: 3. Middle East

In September 2005, Israeli forces pulled out of the Gaza Strip, with the last troops leaving through the al-Karara (Kisufim) and Beit Hanoon (Erez) crossings.

The withdrawal was seen at the time as a historic turning point, raising hopes that…

Israel has widened its military campaign beyond the Gaza genocide, launching deadly attacks on targets in Yemen, Tunisia, Lebanon,…

Ten children from a professional football academy in Gaza City have been killed in Israeli attacks since it began its war on the enclave. The director of the academy described the children as some of Gaza’s brightest football stars.

Russia and Belarus say war games are meant to be a show of force designed to test combat readiness.

Russia has practised launching cruise missiles over the Barents…

Robert Redford, the Oscar-winning actor, director and godfather of independent cinema as the founder of the Sundance Film Festival, has died at the age of 89.

Redford died “at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah – the place he loved,…

For the first time, a British soldier has gone on trial for murder over the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre of Northern Irish protesters. Families have spent half a decade fighting to get the case to court, blaming authorities for…

Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili broke the news that his family members had been killed in the same Israeli attack he was reporting on. Residents of the neighbourhood say Israel gave no warning before striking, as it intensifies its…

Northern Ireland boxer Tyrone McKenna saluted the Aida refugee camp in the occupied West Bank after winning a fight in Belfast. Video shows fans cheering from the camp, where McKenna led boxing classes earlier this summer.

More than one million people in Gaza are facing renewed terror after receiving an emergency order to evacuate Gaza City. This morning, with hundreds of thousands of civilians still trapped inside, the Israeli military began its ground invasion….

Press reports revealed that Egypt has deployed Chinese HQ-9B long-range air defence systems at strategic sites in the Sinai Peninsula, a move that has triggered fresh concerns in Israel over possible escalation.

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