Category: 3. Middle East

(Reuters) -Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa is expected to address the U.N. General Assembly in New York in September, a Syrian official told Reuters on Monday.

Sharaa, who once pledged allegiance to al Qaeda before severing ties in 2016, met…

US forces have begun a “sudden” and “unannounced” withdrawal from the Ain al-Asad airbase, a military facility in western Iraq, and the Victory Base Complex (VBC).

Informed political sources revealed that US…

Gaza’s civil defence agency said four journalists were among at least 15 people killed Monday when Israeli strikes hit Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis

Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said “the death toll is 15, including four journalists and one…

Gaza’s civil defence agency said five journalists were among at least 20 people killed Monday when Israeli strikes hit a hospital in the south, with Reuters, the Associated Press and Al Jazeera mourning their slain contributors.

Civil defence…

An eerily familiar set of headlines is making the rounds in Ethiopia, troubling many in the fragile, northern Tigray region.

Successive delegations of civil society and religious leaders have, in recent weeks, travelled to the Tigrayan capital,…

Measure comes amid sustained crackdown on opponents of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party.

Cambodian lawmakers have passed a law giving the government the power to strip citizenship from people who “collude” with foreign countries.

The law…

The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, has held Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fully responsible for the lives of Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip.

This came after Netanyahu approved a plan to…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced on Sunday that 9 out of 10 schools in the Gaza Strip, including its own, have been destroyed by Israeli shelling and need to be…