Category: 3. Middle East

Japan marks 80 years since Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s surrender to Allied forces.

A Japanese cabinet minister was among thousands of people to visit a controversial war memorial in Tokyo as Japan marks 80 years since the end of…

Sewage water has flooded the emergency department of Gaza’s Nasser Hospital after an Israeli strike damaged nearby infrastructure. Doctors warn the flooding increases patients’ risk of infections and disease outbreaks.

A private security company run by Blackwater founder Erik Prince will send hundreds of fighters to violence-racked Haiti to combat the country’s gang violence problem and restore its tax collection system, according to United States media…

For all the West’s lofty claims about spreading freedom, prosperity and progress, the world remains scarred by chronic instability and mass hunger. Last month, as part of its wind-down of international food and medical aid, the United States…

Former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki Al-Faisal has said the kingdom cannot normalise relations with a war criminal obsessed with mass killings, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In an…

KARBALA, Iraq (Reuters) -Majid al-Kareem is poorly equipped for his 500 km pilgrimage by foot through the scorching deserts of southern Iraq. He wears sandals and black clothes that absorb the heat, and carries a wooden broom handle for a walking…

Since 2000, Vladimir Putin has served as Russia’s president or prime minister, engaging with five different United States presidents, starting with Bill Clinton.

As he prepares for discussions with US President Donald Trump in Alaska focused on…

Philip Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said the UN agency, like other non-governmental organisations (NGOs), “has also been banned from bringing…

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem warned the Lebanese government on Friday against confronting the Iran-backed militant group, saying there would be “no life” in Lebanon in that event.

Qassem said Hezbollah and the Amal movement, its…

Sudan’s army chief and de facto ruler, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, on Thursday ruled out any reconciliation with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), with whom his forces have been fighting for more than two years.

The…