Category: 3. Middle East

A mass shooting at a Jewish festival at Bondi Beach in the Australian city of Sydney has killed at least 11 people and wounded 29 in what was a grisly, rare occurrence for the country.

Authorities said the “terrorist” incident on Sunday was…

Australian media reported that the individual, who intervened in a shooting attack on a beach in Sydney and disarmed one of the suspects, was a man named Ahmed al Ahmed, Anadolu reports.

According to a report…

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There has been no contact with Iranian Nobel peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi since her arrest at the end of last week, her supporters said Sunday, urging the Islamic republic to release the campaigner and dozens of others arrested alongside…

JERUSALEM, Dec 14 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned Sunday’s ​deadly shooting at a Jewish ​holiday celebration in Sydney and said he had warned his Australian ⁠counterpart that the country’s support for…

The Ukrainian president says Kyiv could drop its long-held ambition of joining NATO in exchange for Western security guarantees.

Ukraine has indicated it is prepared to drop its long-held ambition of joining NATO in exchange for Western security…

Officials, social media users hail bystander, identified by Australian media as Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed gunman.

A bystander who has been filmed tackling and…

Police are not looking for anyone else over the shooting that wounded nine people at the Ivy League school in the northeastern US.

Police in Providence, Rhode Island,…

Winter came to Gaza last month with a violent storm. I woke up at night to a disaster. Our tent was flooded with water which had transformed our “floor” into a shallow pool. The mattresses and pillows were completely soaked, cooking pots were…