Category: 3. Middle East

DUBAI, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Tehran called on the ​United Nations to intervene in ​what it called the “tightening of restrictions on ⁠Iran’s diplomatic mission to the United Nations in New York”, according to a foreign ministry statement…

Israel has given final approval for 764 housing units to be built in three settlements in the occupied West Bank, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Wednesday, a move condemned by the Palestinian Authority as…

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian child before running him over with a tank in central Gaza on Wednesday, according to eyewitnesses.

Witnesses said that 16-year-old Zaher Nasser Shamia, from the Jabalia…

Turkey’s Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, said on Wednesday that Ankara will not permit Syria to return to a state of chaos, stressing that developments in the country directly affect Turkey’s own security and…

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ramadan Abed

CAIRO/GAZA, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Torrential rain swept across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, flooding hundreds of ​tents sheltering families displaced by two years of war, and leading ​to the death of a baby…

Iceland announced on Wednesday that it will boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, joining Spain, Ireland, Slovenia, and the Netherlands in protest against allowing Israeli inclusion, Anadolu reports.

“Given…

Israel said on Thursday Hamas “will be disarmed” as part of the US-sponsored peace plan for Gaza, after a top leader from the Palestinian Islamist movement suggested a weapons freeze.

The ceasefire, in effect since October 10, halted the war that…

Al Jazeera’s Barnaby Lo has been to a displacement camp in Cambodia where people have taken refuge from cross-border fighting with Thailand. Half a million people have been displaced by the fighting.