Category: 3. Middle East

Harare, Zimbabwe – On a sunny April afternoon, 41-year-old Tawanda Zvamaida sat with four friends at an outdoor bar. They were discussing recent antigovernment protests where police arrested about half of the 200 protesters.

On March 31,…

Beirut, Lebanon – Pressure on Hezbollah to disarm is intensifying, spearheaded by the United States and backed by some Lebanese factions.

An Israeli war on Lebanon that killed much of the group’s top leadership last year – as well as…

Akber Khan is seeing a brisk trade at his restaurant in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar. Staff fan skewers of grilled meats and dole out rice and salad.

As an Afghan, Khan ought to be leaving as part of a nationwide crackdown on…

Judges also order jailing of Nadine Heredia, Humala’s wife, in the same case but she flees to Brazil with her son.

A court in Peru has sentenced former President Ollanta Humala and his wife, Nadine Heredia, to 15 years in prison for laundering…

As US President Donald Trump hosted his El Salvador counterpart, Nayib Bukele, on Monday, much of the public part of their conversation and their media engagement revolved around shipping prisoners from the United States to the Central American…

Sudan has denied recent reports of alleged efforts to complete its normalisation process with Israel in order to gain support from Tel Aviv and its ally the United States.

According to an initial report by Sudanese…

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) has rejected any possibility of talks over the country’s defence capabilities, calling them a red line in any negotiations.

At a press conference yesterday marking…

The US Department of Defence (Pentagon) yesterday announced that it has approved the sale of FIM-92K Stinger Block I missiles to Morocco, in a deal valued at $825 million, Anadolu reported.

According to a statement…

The director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital who was detained by Israeli forces in December is being held in “inhumane” conditions by Israel and subjected to “physical and psychological intimidation”, his lawyer told AFP.

Hussam Abu Safiya, a…