Category: 3. Middle East

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Thursday that Israel has refused to engage in negotiations to end its occupation of Lebanese territory, Anadolu reports.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Salam said President Joseph Aoun has offered to…

TEL AVIV (Reuters) -Israel expects to maintain access to more advanced U.S. weaponry, a government spokesperson said on Thursday when asked about Washington’s plan to sell F-35 warplanes to Saudi Arabia.

Israel is the only Middle East country…

The “toxic and chaotic” culture at the centre of the United Kingdom’s government led to a delayed response to the COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in about 23,000 more deaths across the nation, a damning report from an inquiry into the…

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has described violence by illegal Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as “terrorism”, Anadolu reports.

“Israelis can carry out terrorism as…

Ten months after he was forced out of the occupied West Bank’s Tulkarem refugee camp, Hakam Irhil doesn’t know if he will ever be able to return.

Irhil was displaced and his home demolished after Israel launched a major military operation in…

Gaza needs a “security architecture” after the ceasefire and the EU can provide stronger support for implementing the plan, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said on Thursday, Anadolu reports.

Speaking to…

United States President Donald Trump has floated the possibility of the death penalty for a group of Democratic Congress members who called upon the military and intelligence community to refuse illegal orders.

He also suggested he would be in…

Aid to Gaza must never be politicized, EU Commissioner for Equality and for Preparedness and Crisis Management Hadja Lahbib said Thursday, Anadolu reports.

Speaking to reporters on her way into the EU foreign affairs…

By Parisa Hafezi

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran has asked Saudi Arabia to persuade the U.S. to revive stalled nuclear talks, underlining Tehran’s anxiety over a possible repeat of Israeli airstrikes and its deepening economic woes, two regional sources…

United States job growth accelerated in September despite a cooling job market as the unemployment rate rose.

Nonfarm payrolls grew by 119,000 jobs after a downwardly revised 4,000 drop in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)…