Category: 3. Middle East

Israel has attacked the Haret Hreik area in the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, killing five people, including Hezbollah’s highest ranking military official.

Sunday’s attack, which took place amid an uptick in Israeli attacks…

Leading tech companies are in a race to release and improve artificial intelligence (AI) products, leaving users in the United States to puzzle out how much of their personal data could be extracted to train AI tools.

Meta (which owns Facebook,…

More rainfall is expected in the region over the coming days as thousands lose homes and crops.

Heavy rains continue to cause widespread flooding and landslides…

Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said: “We attacked a senior commander in Hezbollah. The goal was to prevent the group from increasing its strength and to stop anyone who tries to threaten Israel.”

Zamir added:…

Hezbollah will hold a funeral on Monday for its top military chief and other members of the militant group, a day after Israel killed them with a strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs.

Haytham Ali Tabatabai is the most senior Hezbollah commander to…

Hussein al-Sheikh, the Palestinian vice president, met in Ramallah on Sunday with former UK prime minister Tony Blair, who is being considered for a future administrative role in Gaza, along with a representative of…

Pauline Hanson’s provocation was part of a long-running campaign to ban the wearing of the traditional Muslim garment in public.

A far-right Australian lawmaker has…

When on October 10, a “ceasefire” was declared in Gaza, many Palestinians breathed a sigh of relief. They had just endured two years of constant bombardment estimated to equal roughly six times the explosive force of the atomic bomb dropped…

Former US Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker outlines his expectations for the peace framework talks between Washington and Kyiv on a proposal to stop Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan says UAE cannot be involved as it backs the RSF, signalling that fighting is to continue for now.

The head of the Sudanese Armed Forces has rejected a ceasefire plan presented by the United States and other mediators due to…