Category: 3. Middle East

Israel’s Security Cabinet unanimously approved a plan early Monday to expand its ongoing military onslaught on the Gaza Strip and occupy territories inside the enclave, Anadolu reports.

In a statement, Prime…

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Monday urged India and Pakistan to de-escalate tensions during a visit to Islamabad, where he also sought to deepen political and economic ties with Pakistan amid growing regional instability.

Araghchi…

I am no stranger to political repression and censorship. I have lived in Germany for five years now, and as a Palestinian journalist involved in pro-Palestinian advocacy, I have experienced repeated harassment at the hands of the German…

Swedish Television announced on Sunday a humanitarian initiative to convert the late Pope Francis’s car—used during his 2014 visit to Bethlehem—into a mobile clinic for children in the Gaza Strip, fulfilling his…

French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are hosting a conference in Paris to attract United States-based academics and researchers in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s targeting of…

Each player on the Saudi football club Al-Ahli is set to receive a SR1 million ($266,000) reward following their historic victory in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League, a Saudi newspaper reported…

The Druze are a prominent religious community of more than a million people spread mainly across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, who for centuries have sought to preserve a distinct identity.

In Syria, Druze fighters recently clashed with forces loyal…

The top United Nations court on Monday threw out Sudan’s case against the United Arab Emirates over alleged complicity in genocide during the brutal Sudanese civil war.

Sudan had taken the UAE to the International Court of Justice, saying its…