Category: 3. Middle East

Israeli forces raided an elementary school in the town of al-Khader in Bethlehem, southern occupied West Bank on Sunday evening and physically assaulted the town’s mayor and other officials, according to a local…

GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold an urgent debate in Geneva on Tuesday on Israel’s September 9 attack targeting Hamas leaders in Qatar, the Council said on Monday.

The September 9 airstrike, which Hamas says…

DUBAI (Reuters) -The Abraham Accords, which normalised diplomatic relations between Israel and some Arab states, are under the spotlight after Israel attacked Hamas on September 9 with airstrikes on Qatar, outraging the U.S. ally that has hosted…

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Simon Lewis

CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel destroyed a score of buildings in Gaza City, killing at least 16 Palestinians, local health authorities said on Monday, while U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed the…

The United States and China are set to hold a second day of trade talks in Spain amid efforts to de-escalate tensions between the world’s two largest economies.

US and Chinese officials will meet at the Santa Cruz Palace in Madrid on Monday in…

The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has accused Israel of pursuing a systematic policy aimed at erasing Gaza’s historical and cultural identity. The group warned that the ongoing Israeli…

Sixteen ships from the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) had departed Tunisian ports by Sunday evening, heading towards Gaza to break Israel’s blockade of the Palestinian territory, according to a senior flotilla…

ANKARA (Reuters) – A Turkish court on Monday adjourned to October a case on whether to annul the 2023 congress of the country’s main opposition CHP party over irregularities and oust its leader Ozgur Ozel, in a long-running crackdown that has…

(Reuters) -Israel’s bombing of Qatar last week risks a new breach with Arab states who are meeting on Monday, opening another chapter in a fractious history since Israel’s creation in 1948 marked by repeated wars and periods of frosty peace.

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