Category: 3. Middle East

Lebanon has agreed to present a plan aimed at persuading Hezbollah to disarm, and Israel will submit a corresponding framework for its military withdrawal, United States envoy Tom Barrack has said, as the Lebanese armed group has repeatedly made…

Qatar says Israel hasn’t responded to a Gaza ceasefire proposal which has already been agreed to by Hamas, despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying last week that he was pushing for ‘immediate negotiations’.

The order gives California, New Mexico and Washington-state a month to comply.

The United States Department of Transportation has threatened to withhold federal funding from three states unless they add English proficiency as a requirement for…

The International Commission of Jurists has formally requested an investigation into International Court of Justice (ICJ) Vice-President Julia Sebutinde, stressing that her recent statements about Israel reveal a…

Ugandans have criticised an agreement with United States President Donald Trump’s administration to receive deportees from the US, questioning the lack of approval from the East African country’s parliament and suggesting the deal is a means…

A World Health Organization official said on Tuesday that the evacuation of the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza, which was attacked on Monday by Israel, would be “beyond disastrous.”

“I do not want to think what…

The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, Norges Bank Investment Management, announced late Monday that it has removed five Israeli banks and US-based Caterpillar from its portfolio, Anadolu reports.

The fund’s…

ANKARA — Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party said Tuesday it will hold a new meeting with jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, a central figure in peace talks aimed at ending the four-decade insurgency by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

On…

The Associated Press and Reuters on Tuesday demanded accountability from the Israeli army over a deadly airstrike on a hospital in southern Gaza that killed 20 people, among them five journalists, including three…