Category: 3. Middle East

The controversial US-Israeli backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is closing operations, after five months of massacres, stampedes and chaos. Despite that, the GHF says it did its job “successfully.” Soraya Lennie explains the…

United States President Donald Trump is sending Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to Moscow next week, while Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll is expected to meet Ukrainian officials in the coming days, as Washington intensifies diplomatic efforts to end…

ANKARA — An Istanbul court on Wednesday sentenced prominent journalist Fatih Altayli to four years and two months in prison over comments deemed threatening to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Altayli will remain behind bars pending…

At least 13 people have been killed in a fire that has engulfed several high-rise apartment buildings in Hong Kong, authorities say, with some residents reported trapped inside.

Flames took hold in several apartment blocks of the Wang Fuk Court…

India and China are locked in a war of words after a months-long period of calm in their relationship over the alleged harassment of a woman from India’s eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh by Chinese authorities.

China claims the territory of…

Athens, Greece – Days before a new United States-led peace proposal diverted his attention, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens, where the two leaders announced plans to cooperate “on…

Legal action by Huda Ammori, the cofounder of Palestine Action, has begun in London’s High Court against the decision by the United Kingdom government to designate the activist group as a terrorist organisation.

The interior ministry, or Home…

In one afternoon, Amani Bazzi went from being a doting mother-of-four to a widow grieving three young children.

An Israeli strike in south Lebanon killed them as the family was returning home after having lunch with her parents.

“Our whole life was…

Somalia has declared a national drought emergency, after a lack of rainfall left more than two million people at risk of hunger and starvation. Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi has been speaking with displaced people struggling to survive as…

A devastating new study has found that more than 112,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Israel launched its assault in October 2023. This figure, drawn from the most extensive demographic…