Category: 3. Middle East

US President Donald Trump spoke by phone on April 30 with Iraqi businessman Ali al-Zaidi, congratulating him on his nomination as Iraq’s next prime minister and saying in a Truth Social post that he looked forward to the “beginning of a…

ANTALYA: Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday that both Iran and the United States had the ‌will ‌to continue ‌talks ⁠to end the ⁠war.

Speaking to reporters at a diplomacy forum in the ⁠southern province of…

JERUSALEM: Israel’s military said on Sunday that a soldier died during combat in southern Lebanon, where a temporary ceasefire had come into effect this week.
“Lidor Porat, aged 31, from Ashdod, a soldier in the 7106th Battalion, 769th…

AZ ZUBAYDIYAH, Iraq: On the banks of Iraq’s Tigris River, Haidar Kazem mourned 300 tons of the fish he had carefully raised in ponds wiped out by a flood of polluted water.
Water supplies in Iraq, the eastern half of what is known as the…

WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD: Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz was at a standstill on Sunday after Iran reasserted control over the strategic waterway that is key to global energy supply, days before a fragile ceasefire with the United States was…

NEW YORK CITY: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned on Saturday condemned the killing of a French peacekeeper in southern Lebanon, warning that repeated attacks on its forces may constitute war crimes.

In a statement issued by UN…

BEIRUT, Lebanon: Israeli forces on Saturday carried out demolitions in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, the scene of intense fighting with Hezbollah prior to the recently agreed 10-day truce, Lebanese state media reported.
“The…