Category: 3. Middle East

“They don’t know what the f*** they’re doing.” US President Donald Trump delivered an extraordinary four-letter outburst as he criticised breaches of the Israel-Iran ceasefire. Trump aimed the bulk of his anger at Israel, saying…

Donald Trump has painted Iran as a hateful nation, saying people even chant ‘death to America’. But are Iranians really lusting for American tragedy, or does it mean something else? Soraya Lennie breaks it down.

ANKARA — Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan held a phone call with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on Tuesday to discuss bilateral relations and the ongoing Iran-Israel conflict, a Turkish Foreign Ministry source said, as both countries…

The world has welcomed the ceasefire agreed by Israel and Iran but remains wary that the peace remains fragile.

Israel and Iran were reported to have agreed early on Tuesday to the phased ceasefire plan announced overnight by United States…

The sentence sees most opposition leaders behind bars as the ruling Georgian Dream squeezes critics and rivals.

A Georgian court has sentenced an opposition leader to seven months in prison, as a crackdown by the governing party on its rivals…

The United Nations on Tuesday condemned what it said was Israel’s “weaponisation of food” in Gaza and called it a war crime, urging its military to “stop shooting at people trying to get food”.

The head of the UN agency supporting Palestinian…

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