Category: 3. Middle East

Israel asked Greece, Cyprus, Italy and Croatia to help extinguish major wildfires that broke out Wednesday morning in several locations near Jerusalem and along Highway 1 leading to the city as communities along the road were instructed to…

Israel cannot be forced to allow the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA to operate in Gaza, the United States told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) today, Reuters reports.

Israel last year passed a law…

Syrian security forces have been sent to restore calm after fighting broke out near Damascus. More than 20 people were killed in gunfights in the predominantly Druze town of Jaramana. The fighting started after reports that an audio…

A coalition of hundreds of British Muslim organisations, coordinated by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), delivered a letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday, urging the UK government to recognise…

This month, Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf won the 2025 World Press Photo of the Year award for her image titled Mahmoud Ajjour, Aged Nine, taken last year for The New York Times.

Ajjour had both of his arms blown off by an Israeli…

A Turkish court has jailed, pending trial, 18 employees of the Istanbul municipality on corruption charges, state-owned Anadolu and other media reported on Wednesday. The arrests come amid a crackdown on the…

The Israeli occupation military today carried out what was described as a warning strike against “extremists” preparing to attack members of the Druze minority in the Syrian town of Sahnaya, Israeli Prime Minister…