Category: 3. Middle East

Global sports leaders ‌reached consensus on a new set of eligibility criteria for transgender athletes in February.

More than 80 human ⁠rights and sport advocacy groups ⁠have called on the International…

The European Union has called on Donald Trump and Iran to stop their conflict “so that all sides can save face”, while the French President Emmanuel Macron insisted France will not send naval forces to escort…

A unit known as “Rada” within Gaza’s security forces said it had ambushed a group it claims was linked to Israeli forces in the south of Khan Younis, leaving several people dead and wounded.

In a statement…

By John Irish

PARIS, March 18 (Reuters) – It is unreasonable to expect the Lebanese government to disarm Iran-backed Hezbollah while the country is being bombed by Israel, France’s special envoy for Lebanon said on Wednesday.

Jean-Yves Le Drian…

The Iranian women’s national football squad arrived in eastern Turkey and headed to the Iran border on their way home Wednesday, among them several players who withdrew an asylum bid in Australia.

The players, who landed in Istanbul on Tuesday…

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz claimed Wednesday that Iran’s intelligence minister, Esmaeil Khatib, was killed in an overnight airstrike in Tehran.

“The Iranian intelligence minister Khatib was also…

Iran has executed a man accused of spying for Israel, according to a statement from Iranian judicial authorities published by the Fars News Agency on Wednesday.

The death sentence handed down to Kurosh Keyvani, who…

MOSCOW, March 18 (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Wednesday condemned what it called “the murder” of Iran’s leaders in U.S.-Israeli airstrikes, a day after Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency confirmed that Ali Larijani, a senior adviser to Iran’s…

Defence Minister Israel Katz has claimed Israel has killed Iran’s intelligence minister, Esmaeil Khatib. Tehran has not commented on, nor confirmed the attack.

If the claim announced Wednesday is confirmed, it…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has spoken over the phone with UAE Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan amid the deadly attacks attributed to Iran, the State Department…