Category: 3. Middle East

Venezuela has released a “large number” of high-profile political prisoners, including several foreigners, in an apparent concession to the United States less than a week after its forces abducted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

The…

Fierce fighting and global funding cuts have pushed more than 33 million people towards starvation.

Millions of people in Sudan are in urgent need of humanitarian help, aid organisations have warned, as the war in the east African state marked its…

Rescuers retrieve eight people alive and are searching for more missing in Binaliw, Cebu city.

An avalanche of rubbish buried workers at a waste segregation facility in…

These are the key developments from day 1,415 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is where things stand on Friday, January 9:

Fighting:

• Overnight into Friday, Russia…

For decades, the idea of a political alliance between Venezuela and the United States has seemed impossible with Caracas defining itself by Chavismo, a left-wing populist ideology rooted in anti-imperialism and confronting Washington’s…

Syria’s Defence Ministry has announced a ceasefire in Aleppo neighbourhoods after fighting since Tuesday killed 22 people.

Two meetings, held almost simultaneously towards the end of December, offered a stark illustration of the competing strategic visions now shaping the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.

In Damascus, Turkiye’s foreign, defence and intelligence…

For Hani Naim, the wait is not for a cure, but for permission to save his own life.

Living with cancer for six years, Naim had been approved for treatment abroad. But like thousands of others, he remains trapped in Gaza, barred from leaving by…

US president signals he is not ready to back the Israel-aligned opposition figure to lead Iran in case of regime change.

United States President Donald Trump has ruled out meeting with Iran’s self-proclaimed Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, suggesting…

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has vetoed a bill that would have reduced the prison sentence of his right-wing rival and predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, who was convicted of plotting a coup.

On Thursday, Lula followed through with his…