Category: 3. Middle East

Oscar-winning Spanish director Pedro Almodovar called Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin ‘monsters’ during a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, where he wore a Palestine solidarity pin.

The footage lasts just three minutes. An Israeli flag flies over a position in the village of al-Bayada, in occupied southern Lebanon. One drone approaches the flagpole while another observes from above. The flag falls after the impact. The final…

Iran has jailed a former goalkeeper for the national men’s football team after he published earlier this year a post deeply critical of then-supreme leader Ali Khamenei, his wife said.

The Mizan news agency of the Iranian judiciary confirmed that…

On the agenda at this week’s Russia-China summit between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping is the long-delayed Power of Siberia 2 (POS-2) project, a proposed 2,600km (1,616-mile) natural gas pipeline that would carry Russian gas from…

US Representative Thomas Massie lost his Republican primary on Tuesday after one of the most expensive and politically charged congressional campaigns in modern United States history. For the Israel lobby and its allies, the result marked a…

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, have signed a joint declaration following their meeting in Beijing, focusing on building a “multipolar world and a new type of international relations”. The two…

After US President Donald Trump’s summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the fate of Taiwan’s biggest ever arms deal is being questioned. So why does the US give them billions in weapons in the first place? Al Jazeera’s Yasmeen ElTahan…

George Deek, Israel’s ‘ambassador to Christians’ released a statement on X, to Christians in the region and globally, saying that they can practice faith alongside Israelis ‘in peace’. On the other hand, rising violent attacks…

Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has posted a video of himself taunting detained Gaza-bound activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla with the caption, ‘Welcome to Israel’. The activists, abducted by Israeli forces in international…