Category: 3. Middle East

By Ece Toksabay

ANKARA (Reuters) -Senior Kurdish lawmakers in Turkey say a lasting peace with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) requires legal protections for militants who disarm, direct talks with the group’s jailed leader and an easing of a…

In a wooded valley close to the Israeli border, United Nations peacekeepers showed AFP journalists a Hezbollah bunker they had uncovered in southern Lebanon, a former bastion of the militant group.

The UN Security Council is set to vote Thursday…

Algeria’s envoy to the UN on Wednesday broke down as he read a farewell letter by Palestinian journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa to her son Gaith, written before she was killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza’s Nasser…

A Palestinian health official accused the Israeli army on Thursday of deliberately targeting a hub for journalists at Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza before striking humanitarian workers who rushed to rescue…

France, Germany and the United Kingdom have triggered a mechanism to reimpose sanctions on Iran after a series of meetings failed to reach an agreement on the Iranian nuclear programme.

The three European…

Israel’s role as one of the major contributors to the rise in global Islamophobia was further highlighted this week when the self-proclaimed Jewish state, founded through ethnic cleansing and settler colonialism,…

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Iran ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi, arriving at Sydney Airport before an expulsion deadline, on Thursday rejected as “lies” Australia’s accusation that Tehran had directed antisemitic arson attacks in the cities of Sydney and…

New York, United States – Behind the thick velvet drapes and marble columns of the United States Supreme Court, a creeping trend has emerged.

More and more, decisions are being made without full briefings or oral arguments. Time is tight, and…

The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced that it is firing Susan Monarez, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), just weeks after her official confirmation to the post, and days…

The Assistant Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Abdel Hakim El-Waer, said on Wednesday that the entry of 600 trucks a day into Gaza before 7 October 2023 can no longer be considered a…