Category: 3. Middle East

Hadeel Sbakhi and Abdelrahman Abu Taqyia are a young Palestinian couple hoping to get married soon, despite the ongoing war on Gaza. Their video diary shows the challenges of planning a wedding and what daily life looks like when even vegetables…

Bangladesh is holding a two-day conference in Cox’s Bazar on the persecuted Rohingya community before a high-level conference on the Rohingya refugee crisis in September on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

The meeting,…

Far-right protesters and anti-racism campaigners have faced off at rallies across the UK against hotels housing asylum seekers. Police intervened in Liverpool to separate rival crowds, arresting a dozen people. It follows weeks of…

Thousands of Australians rallied across the country, demanding an end to genocide in Gaza and sanctions against Israel for its atrocities in the Palestinian enclave, which is now facing Israel-induced starvation and famine.

The mass rallies come…

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will chair an extraordinary meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers in Saudi Arabia’s city of Jeddah on Monday to discuss the…

I woke up one morning in July to a flurry of messages lighting up my phone. Every news channel, every social media post, every conversation buzzed with cautious optimism. “Negotiations progressing well”, the headlines declared. “Truce…

(Reuters) -The World Health Organization said a staff member was released on Sunday more than four weeks after being detained in Gaza by Israeli forces.

“Extremely relieved that our colleague, detained since 21 July in Gaza, was released this…

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran will stand strongly against the United States wanting to make Tehran ‘obedient’, the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in comments carried by state media on Sunday.

“Those who threaten us to have direct…

Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili reports from inside the main UNRWA warehouse in Gaza City, showing the completely empty shelves where food aid used to be stored. The UN officially declared famine in Gaza on Friday with Israeli-imposed…