Category: 3. Middle East

The Dutch captain of a Gaza-bound ship carrying activists including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg said Wednesday future missions could still be in the works as he returned to the Netherlands.

Mark van Rennes arrived back at Amsterdam’s…

As Iran and Israel trade strikes and the US weighs joining in, wealthy Gulf states on the conflict’s doorstep are engaged in frantic diplomacy to halt the war — but solutions remain elusive.

A spillover of the conflict or the Iranian government’s…

The Iran-Israel war has helped strengthen Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu domestically and overseas, just as his grip on power looked vulnerable.

On the eve of launching strikes on Iran, his government looked to be on the verge of…

The use of the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to distribute food in the Palestinian territory is “outrageous”, the head of a UN inquiry said Wednesday.

Navi Pillay, who chairs the UN’s Independent International Commission of…

Israel’s attacks on Iran initially targeted its nuclear programme but so-called ‘regime change’ is being openly discussed. France’s President Emanuel Macron has warned such action would unleash ‘chaos’, citing the aftermath of…

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has warned the United States that joining Israeli strikes on his country would “result in irreparable consequences” for the US as his and US President Donald Trump’s war of words accelerates and the

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Wednesday that any direct US involvement in the conflict with Israel will have “irreparable consequences,” Anadolu reports.

“The Zionist entity (Israel) has…

Elon Musk has emerged as one of the most powerful figures in American politics. After contributing more than $250m to…

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Wednesday condemned Israel’s military actions in the Gaza Strip, stressing that the country’s stated objective to take control over the entire territory and the forced…

Israel’s launch of air attacks against Iran on Friday prompted Tehran to fire a wave of retaliatory strikes on Israel, and some Iranian ballistic missiles have pierced through Israel’s missile defence systems and hit key targets.

Israel’s…