Category: 3. Middle East

Qatar’s emir accused Israel of trying to derail Gaza ceasefire efforts with its attack on Hamas in Doha, as Arab and Muslim leaders held emergency talks on Monday to discuss a unified response.

The joint Arab League and Organisation of Islamic…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington will encourage Doha to continue to play a constructive role in Gaza during a press conference with Israel’s PM in Jerusalem on Monday. The comments come after last week’s Israeli…

Fresh from its unprovoked “terror attack” on Doha and threats to bomb every Arab country, Israel is now said to be coordinating with senior US officials on plans to annex large parts of the illegally occupied West…

Israeli Channel 12 reported on Sunday that the Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, Eyal Zamir, told political leaders that Hamas cannot be defeated either militarily or politically, even if Israel occupies Gaza…

Arab and Muslim leaders are meeting in Qatar’s capital Doha for an emergency summit after Israel’s unprecedented attack on the city killed five Hamas members and one Qatari security officer. Al Jazeera’s Urooba Jamal is there.

By Andrew Mills, Jana Choukeir and Simon Lewis

DOHA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he didn’t rule out further strikes on Hamas leaders “wherever they are” as the heads of Arab and Islamic states held a summit…

DOHA (Reuters) -Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday that Israel’s current actions hindered any chances of new peace treaties in the Middle East.

In remarks aimed at Israel, he told the Arab-Islamic summit in Doha: “What is…

By Francois Murphy

VIENNA (Reuters) -Iran’s uranium-enrichment programme must be “completely dismantled”, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s annual General Conference on Monday.

The U.S. and Israel bombed Iran’s…

The Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth (Ynet) reported on Sunday that Britain has decided to stop Israeli army officers from studying at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London, starting next year.

According to the…

UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram explains the desperate conditions families find themselves in while being forcibly displaced from Gaza City by Israeli…