Category: 3. Middle East

Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat held talks in Washington on Wednesday, laying the groundwork for a visit by US President Donald Trump, which would be the first foreign trip of his second term.

Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan met with US…

‘We must move towards recognition, and we will do so in the coming months,’ French president says.

President Emmanuel Macron says France could recognise a Palestinian state “in the coming months”.

Macron told France 5 television on…

Charles tells Italy’s parliament that peace is ‘never to be taken for granted’ before a surprise visit to Pope Francis.

Pope Francis met privately with King Charles III and Queen Camilla at the Vatican during the royal couple’s four-day…

“I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy.” Donald Trump added another twist to his trade war by announcing a 90-day ‘pause’ on individual tariffs for dozens of countries but drastically…

Houthi rebels claim to have shot down a US MQ-9 Reaper drone over Yemen’s Al-Jawf, with images showing flaming wreckage. Since March 15, the US has targeted the rebel group with near daily airstrikes to deter attacks on vital shipping…

At least 35 people have been killed and dozens of others were wounded in an Israeli attack on a residential block in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood, medical sources told Al Jazeera.

The Gaza Health Ministry said it expected the death toll…

Gaza medic Mundhir Abed feared for his life as Israeli forces opened fire on a convoy of rescuers near Rafah last month, killing 15 of his colleagues in a brazen assault.

Abed, 45, was the only survivor of the attack on March 23, in which medics…

The US Senate on Wednesday confirmed Mike Huckabee, an evangelical Christian who has said Israel enjoys a divine right to the West Bank, as ambassador to Israel.

Huckabee will head to the US embassy in Jerusalem as Israel seizes large areas of…