Category: 3. Middle East

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Guler said on Monday it would take at least two months to reach initial findings and analyse the black box of a Turkish cargo plane that crashed in Georgia last week and left 20 soldiers dead.

The…

Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says that if the UN officially recognises a Palestinian state, then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should order targeted assassinations of senior Palestinian Authority officials.

Syria’s Asaad al-Shaibani meets with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi as Damascus pushes to bolster international ties.

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani has pledged to deepen collaboration on “counterterrorism” with China on his first…

Health authorities isolate more than 100 contacts as deadly hemorrhagic virus detected near South Sudan border.

Ethiopia has confirmed three deaths linked to Marburg…

The United States Supreme Court has agreed to review a legal challenge against a controversial tactic called “metering”, which the federal government has used to turn away asylum seekers who arrive at its borders but are prevented from…

Six members of the proscribed UK direct action group, Palestine Action, go on trial on Monday for allegedly damaging weapons at the UK base of Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems in August 2024.

The detainees, who are just some of a total of 24…

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain set out plans on Monday to toughen its asylum system, with measures such as making refugee status temporary and reinterpreting human rights laws to make it easier to deport migrants who arrive illegally.

The moves are a…

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Tim Cocks and Nellie Peyton

CAIRO (Reuters) -Gazans said they paid $2,000 per seat to fly their families to South Africa on a trip arranged by a group offering…

South Africa said Monday the surprise arrival of 153 Palestinians on a plane last week indicated “a clear agenda to cleanse Palestinians” out of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

The group landed in Johannesburg on a chartered flight on Thursday…

More than 288,000 families in Gaza are enduring a shelter crisis as Israeli restrictions on humanitarian supplies worsen conditions for Palestinians displaced by the war, the territory’s Government Media Office says.

Local authorities said in a…