Category: 3. Middle East

(Reuters) -Syria’s Druze have reached a ceasefire agreement with the Syrian government in Sweida that will take immediate effect, Druze religious leader Sheikh Yousef Jarbou said in a video broadcast by state media on Wednesday.

An earlier…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani on Wednesday, the White House said, as Trump presses for progress on a Gaza ceasefire and hostage-release…

By Ammu Kannampilly, Jonathan Landay and Jessica Donati

(Reuters) -With 1,100 metric tons of emergency food rations nearing expiry in a U.S. government warehouse in Dubai after President Donald Trump’s aid freeze, it took a warning of “wasted tax…

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran is ready to respond to any renewed military attack, the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in comments carried by state TV on Wednesday, adding Tehran was capable of giving a bigger blow to adversaries than…

THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday rejected Israel’s request to withdrawarrest warrantsagainst its prime minister and former defence minister while the ICC reviews Israeli challenges to its…

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -An Istanbul court on Wednesday sentenced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the main rival of Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan, to a fresh prison term, state broadcaster TRT reported, extending a crackdown on the…

Japan has accused China of expanding its military reach and threatening regional stability.

For the first time, Tokyo says a Chinese military aircraft entered its airspace.

The incident is detailed in Japan’s latest defence white paper.

It…

Israel is ploughing ahead with a plan to build what critics have described as a “concentration camp” for Palestinians on the ruins of Rafah in southern Gaza, in the face of a growing backlash at home and abroad.

The suggestion, first mooted…

Israel has carried out powerful air strikes near Syria’s presidential palace and on the military headquarters in the heart of Damascus, a major escalation in its bombardment of the neighbouring country.

At least three people were killed and 34…

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the attack as ‘simply horrific, stupid Russian terror’.

A Russian air raid on a shopping centre and market in Dobropillia in eastern Ukraine has killed at least two people, wounded 22 others and caused…