Category: 3. Middle East

People are relying on plastic sheets as makeshift shelters after devastating flooding flattened homes in Indonesia’s Sumatra island. Aid distribution has been slow in the scorching heat, as emergency teams struggle to reach everyone in…

Kyiv, Ukraine – United States President Donald Trump bristled at a question about his Ukrainian counterpart on Wednesday during an interview with media outlet Politico. Admonishing Volodymyr Zelenskyy for failing to hold a presidential…

A landmark public opinion study has revealed that a significant majority of people in Germany reject their government’s unconditional support for Israel and favour a foreign policy guided by international law and…

Recent fighting and attacks in Sudan’s Kordofan region have shifted the focus to a region which could be crucial to the outcome of the war and the future of Sudan. Virginia Pietromarchi explains.

The remarkable story of Deportivo Palestino, the Chilean football club founded more than a century ago by Palestinian migrants…

Syria is seeing major political changes, but security on the ground is still unstable. Israeli attacks continue in the south, while armed groups and internal tensions remain uncertain elements to Syria’s security. Al Jazeera’s Osama Bin…

Damascus, Syria – On the morning of December 5, 2025, a taxi drove me across the Lebanon-Syria border. This time was different from my first trip across, in the early hours of December 9, 2024, just a day after Bashar al-Assad fled Syria for…

A newly passed United States defence bill contains extraordinary provisions that would commit Washington to systematically identify, assess and ultimately compensate for any Israeli weapons shortfalls caused by…

No senior figure has been held accountable since the devastating explosion more than five years ago.

A Bulgarian court has rejected Lebanon’s request to extradite Igor Grechushkin, a Russian-Cypriot shipowner wanted in connection with the 2020…