Category: 3. Middle East

I am a journalist; storytelling is my craft.

Words are the tools I turn to, again and again, to make sense of events and shape them into narratives that do them justice. And yet, when it comes to the genocide in Gaza, my birthplace, language feels…

Russia has held one of its most scaled-back Victory Day parades in years, citing the threat of attack from Ukraine, where a decisive victory for Moscow’s forces has remained elusive more than four years into the…

Under the bleachers of a West Bank stadium, a dozen men from Gaza live in a former changing room, blocked from returning home by the war that erupted more than two and a half years ago.

Among those stranded is Sameer Abu Salah, 54, who had been…

Football has gained a foothold in the US, and the country seems ready to host the World Cup this summer – which was not clear in 1994.

Back then, when the US last hosted the World Cup, the country had no professional league and the national team…

Who: Barcelona vs Real Madrid
What: La Liga
Where: Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain
When: Sunday at 9pm (19:00 GMT)
How to follow: We’ll have all the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport from 16:00 GMT in advance of our live text commentary stream.

With the…

The war against Iran that the United States and Israel launched on February 28, 2026, will likely end in an American retreat. The United States cannot continue the war without producing disastrous consequences. A renewed escalation would likely…

Pallegama Hemarathana, the chief prelate of Colombo, is accused of abusing an 11-year-old girl in a temple.

A prominent Buddhist monk has been arrested in Sri Lanka for allegedly sexually abusing an 11-year-old…

The hacker group, ShinyHunters, threatened to leak student data after breaching the educational platform Canvas.

An educational platform used by thousands of schools and universities…

Putin is set to speak at the World War II commemoration, which is scaled back this year due to security concerns.

Russia has kicked off its annual Victory Day military parade in…

140 passengers and crew on the MV Hondius vessel will be ‘completely isolated’ and evacuated, say Spanish authorities.

A cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak is en route to Spain’s Canary Islands, where…