Category: 3. Middle East

The latest round of qualifiers for the FIFA 2026 World Cup has come to a close, with a clearer picture of who can make it to the global showpiece event next year.

Morocco, who became the first African team to reach the semifinals of a World Cup in…

Iran has expressed its gratitude to Egypt for hosting a meeting in Cairo between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which led to the signing of a cooperation agreement on Tuesday evening between…

BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s defence minister Dong Jun held a video call with his U.S. counterpart Pete Hegseth on Tuesday at the latter’s request, China’s state-run news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday.

Dong urged the U.S. defence secretary to…

DUBAI (Reuters) -A new agreement between Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog does not guarantee inspectors’ access to Iranian nuclear sites and Tehran wants further talks on how inspections are carried out, the country’s foreign minister said on…

By Alexander Cornwell

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee said on Wednesday that growing international momentum to recognize a Palestinian state directly led to the collapse of U.S. efforts to persuade Israel to release much-needed…

The Syrian government has blamed Israel for a series of attacks around the country.

The attacks early on Tuesday targeted sites in and around the city of Homs in western Syria and the coastal city of Latakia.

The Israeli occupation forces continue to commit systematic violations against Palestinian journalists in general, and against female journalists and media activists in particular, as part of a policy aimed at…

Polish and NATO forces scrambled to intercept Russian drones which entered Poland’s airspace early on Tuesday night and early on Wednesday, marking their first direct military engagement with Moscow since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of…

By Steven Scheer

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza said they were fearful for the fate of their loved ones after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to launch strikes on the Hamas leadership in Qatar,…