Category: 3. Middle East

Iran, on Wednesday, condemned the fresh US sanctions, saying the penalties reflect Washington’s lack of goodwill for negotiations, Anadolu Agency reports.

The US Department of the Treasury imposed new sanctions on…

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, called on Hamas on Wednesday to lay down arms and hand the running of Gaza to his Palestinian Authority, part of efforts to answer international doubts over the Authority’s role…

Jordan announced on Wednesday it was banning the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Islamist movement, accusing it of manufacturing and stockpiling weapons and planning to destabilise the kingdom.

The move comes after…

Vatican City – Pope Francis’s funeral will be held in the Vatican on Saturday at 10am local time (8:00 GMT), with hundreds of thousands of guests and mourners expected to attend the late pontiff’s final ceremonies.

US President Donald Trump…

Iran and the United States are holding indirect nuclear talks, mediated by Oman, with the next round set for Saturday. Both…

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About a dozen Tunisian policemen came to her camp this morning to tell her and the other refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants living rough in the olive fields outside of Sfax, a coastal city in…

Nine people were killed in a Russian attack on a bus in southern Ukraine. It was one of dozens of drone strikes launched overnight. It comes as Russia-Ukraine peace talks falter and the US threatens to “walk away.”