Category: 3. Middle East

UN’s special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese on Wednesday warned that the “mysterious” chartered flight that brought 153 Palestinian refugees to South Africa is “extremely…

Video of a church service in Nigeria captured the first moments of a gun attack in which at least two people were killed, and the pastor and worshippers were kidnapped. Nigeria’s government has rejected recent US allegations of a…

BEIRUT (Reuters) -The Israeli military stepped up airstrikes in south Lebanon on Wednesday, killing at least one person as it pressed a campaign of near-daily attacks which it says is designed to block a military revival by Iran-backed Hezbollah…

Five new zones along Syria’s coast have been identified for natural gas exploration, an energy official said Wednesday, Anadolu reports.

The state-run Syrian Petroleum Co. is working to expand existing petroleum…

Tunisian experts have sounded the alarm over a sharp rise in drug addiction among young people, warning that the number of youth addicts has increased fivefold over the past decade. Researchers attribute the surge to…

Video showed the moment a pyroclastic cloud full of volcanic gases from Indonesia’s Mount Semeru hit a bridge in East Java. The country’s volcanology agency has raised the alert to its highest level, following Wednesday’s eruption…

The United States has informed mediating countries and states expected to contribute forces to an international security mission in Gaza that it will allow Israel to resume military operations if Hamas does not disarmContinue Reading

By Patrick Werr

CAIRO (Reuters) -Egyptian restorers are reconstructing a dilapidated neighbourhood in Cairo’s historic centre, dismantling houses and then rebuilding them with materials from the old structures in a model they hope can be…

Standing beside the mound of rubble that was once his home, Ahmed Salim cannot hold back the tears as he struggles to retrieve the bodies of loved ones trapped underneath tonnes of debris.

Over 30 people were killed when his home was struck, he…