Category: 3. Middle East

Israel’s defence minister told Hamas on Monday to lay down its arms or face annihilation, after US President Donald Trump said the militant group must accept a deal to release hostages in Gaza.

The warnings came as the Israeli military…

According to the army, soldiers were taking part in an operation in San Juan de Micay when they were blocked by about 600 locals.

Colombian authorities have rescued 27 out of 72 soldiers who were held captive in…

Australian mother Erin Patterson has been sentenced to a minimum of 33 years in prison for murdering three of her former in-laws with a meal laced with death cap mushrooms. The judge said she showed no pity in a case that has devastated…

The Buenos Aires provincial election is a test of Milei’s popularity ahead of upcoming congressional polls next month.

The party of Argentina’s libertarian president, Javier Milei, has suffered a crushing…

The Palestinian movement Hamas said on Sunday that it has received, through mediators, ideas from the United States aimed at reaching a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip. The group welcomed any initiative that…

In recent months, the small East African coastal region of Somaliland has been making international headlines after several high-profile Republicans in the United States endorsed a bill to recognise it as an independent state.

The question of…

The European Union Agency for Asylum finds that in May only 3,100 Syrian applications were lodged.

New data from the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) has found that asylum applications to the 27-nation bloc…

Watch the moment Israeli forces bomb the eight-storey al-Roya residential building, the third Gaza City high-rise leveled in three days. At least 50 buildings have now been destroyed in Israel’s campaign to seize the city.

Issa Amro lives in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank. He never knows how far he can venture out of his neighbourhood, due to attacks by Israeli settlers and random checkpoint closures. His video diary shows the challenges Palestinians living in…

Stargazers enjoyed a “blood moon” during a total lunar eclipse visible across Asia, as well as swaths of Europe and Africa.

When the sun, Earth, and the moon line up, the shadow cast by the planet on its…