Category: 3. Middle East

Government says 100km-long Texas National Defense Area runs east from the Texas-New Mexico border in El Paso.

The United States military has created a second military zone along the border with Mexico, adding an area in Texas where troops can…

These are the key events on day 1,164 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is where things stand on Saturday, May 3:

Fighting

• A resident was killed in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region when a fallen attack drone detonated as the victim was…

A United States district judge has struck down an executive order from President Donald Trump that targeted the law firm Perkins Coie over its representation of his Democratic election rival Hillary Clinton.

On Friday in Washington, DC, Judge…

An Illinois man was sentenced to 53 years in prison on Friday for the murder of a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy in an attack deemed an anti-Muslim hate crime linked to the Israel-Hamas war.

Joseph Czuba, 73, was convicted in February of…

Singapore – David Wee has lived in the same terrace house with his family in the east of Singapore his entire life.

But over more than 40 years, the Wee family have been a part of five different electoral constituencies.

Singaporean electoral…

Former Prime Minister Ali Larayedh and the opposition Ennahdha party have denounced the trial as politically motivated.

A Tunisian court has sentenced former Prime Minister Ali Larayedh to 34 years in prison over accusations he facilitated the…

The United States has labelled the Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif gangs in Haiti “foreign terrorist organisations”, a move that follows a trend under President Donald Trump of issuing terrorist designations against criminal groups in Latin…

UNICEF says children face ‘growing risk of starvation, illness and death’ as Israel bars food and other aid deliveries.

Thousands of Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip are facing an increased threat of starvation, the United Nations has…

The death of six-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi, a Palestinian American, has shone a light on instances of anti-Arab hate.

A United States man has been sentenced to 53 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of a six-year-old Palestinian American boy,…