Category: 3. Middle East

For 18 months, civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher were trapped under siege as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces surrounded…

Istanbul, Turkiye – When investigations by Al Jazeera and other media outlets in 2024 revealed that Israeli-linked artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as Lavender and Gospel had helped generate thousands of military targets in Gaza,…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Saar instructed their staff on Thursday to prepare a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and one of its columnists, Nicholas Kristof, following a column in which

The FIFA World Cup 2026 will be one like never before.

Featuring 48 teams from across six confederations, the tournament will be the biggest in the competition’s 96-year history.

What once started as…

By Mohammad Yunus Yawar

KABUL, May 14 (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s Taliban government has detained at least three journalists on unspecified charges, the United Nations mission there said on Thursday in a statement that called for the protection of…

By Steven Scheer

JERUSALEM, May 14 (Reuters) – Israel plans to sue The New York Times and one of its journalists for defamation over an article that said Israeli soldiers, prison guards and settlers had used widespread sexual violence against…

BEIRUT — Lebanon reopened on Thursday the Cinematheque Libanaise, a national archive dedicated to preserving the country’s cinematic history, in a move that could provide a cultural haven as the country endures nearly three years of ongoing…

Spanish international Lamine Yamal criticised for waving Palestinian flag during bus parade celebrating La Liga title.

Israel’s defence minister has criticised Barcelona’s teenage star Lamine Yamal for waving…

United States President Donald Trump has discussed the Strait of Hormuz and the US-Israel war on Iran during his meeting with China’s Xi Jinping as negotiations to end the conflict and open the waterway are…