Category: 3. Middle East

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on Friday warmly welcomed the ruling made by Lebanon’s Cabinet to centralize weapons control exclusively under state institutions, Anadolu reports.

In a statement, GCC…

The British government has hired a US defence contractor to carry out surveillance flights over Gaza on behalf of Irael, The Times has reported.

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is reportedly paying Straight Flight…

President Donald Trump has secretly signed an order directing the military to take action against drug-smuggling cartels and other criminal groups from Latin America, according to a report in The New York Times.

The newspaper’s report on Friday…

By Daphne Psaledakis and Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday criticized Israel’s plan to take control of Gaza City, with the U.N. chief’s spokesperson saying the decision marked “a…

India is pausing plans to procure new weapons and aircraft from the United States in apparent retaliation for President Donald Trump’s tariff hike on its exports this week, according to news agency Reuters, citing three Indian officials.

Two of…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is worsening, with deaths caused by hunger and malnutrition increasing at a worrying rate. This comes amid the ongoing Israeli…

Putin ally Lukashenko has ruled Belarus with an iron fist for more than than three decades and is now on seventh term.

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has signalled he does not intend to seek another term in office, while rejecting…

Drone footage showed workers in India’s Uttarakhand state building a makeshift bridge across a gorge to reestablish ground access to communities cut off by deadly flash flooding and landslides earlier this week. Rescuers have been using…

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that Israel’s goal is not to take over Gaza, but to free Gaza from Hamas and enable a peaceful government to be established there, the prime…

An Israeli strike killed one person in southern Lebanon on Friday, the Lebanese health ministry said, with Israel accusing the slain man of being a Hezbollah intelligence operative.

The latest attack, despite a November ceasefire, comes a day…