Category: 3. Middle East

The Israeli army and the Shin Bet security service announced Wednesday that they had intercepted a “large and advanced” weapons shipment allegedly sent from Iran to armed groups in the West Bank, calling the cache…

Video shows emergency service crews celebrating the announcement of a ceasefire deal with chants and sirens. The U.S.-brokered agreement aims to end the two-year Gaza conflict, but residents reported ongoing Israeli attacks ahead of the…

Sanctions imposed on NIS in January as part of its crackdown on the Russian energy sector go into force.

US sanctions on Serbia’s majority-Russian-owned Petroleum…

Palestinians have flooded the streets of Khan Younis, Gaza, celebrating after United States President Donald Trump announced the initial phase of a ceasefire plan…

A hot discussion topic in Afghanistan these days is the extreme crime allegedly plaguing various cities in the United States, most of them Democratic-led ones.

This, at least, is one of the notions to have recently emerged from the brain of US…

Asamoah broke his neck in a freak accident as he collided with an advertising board during a club game in China.

Togolese international footballer Samuel Asamoah broke…

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has consistently sought to undermine negotiations on Gaza but warned that his options are now limited.

“Netanyahu…

Journalist and author Antony Loewenstein examines Israeli impunity for its war on Gaza and argues that the push for accountability…

Russian forces have continued their advance into Ukraine during the past week and claim to have seized eight villages along a battlefront now 1,250km (780 miles) long.

“At this time, the Russian armed forces fully hold the strategic…

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) strongly condemned the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Wednesday morning by hundreds of Israeli settlers, accompanied by Israel’s far-right National Security…