Category: 3. Middle East

The vast majority of Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced multiple times, and many are dying from Israeli-induced starvation. An unprecedented water crisis is also unfolding across the enclave, heaping further misery on its residents.

Gaza was…

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh said the Islamic republic is in no hurry to engage in indirect negotiations with the United States and does not even trust the US in any potential talks.

Khatibzadeh,…

A top United States official has accused India of financing Russia’s war in Ukraine by buying oil from Moscow, as the Trump administration ramps up pressure on New Delhi to cut off its energy imports from Russia.

“What he (Trump) said very…

The exercise coincided with President Ferdinand Marcos’s departure for a five-day trip to India, where he said he would look to deepen maritime ties.

India and the Philippines have staged their first joint sail and naval exercises in the…

When 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded in Beirut’s port on August 4, 2020, it ripped through the city, killing more than 218 people. Among them was three-year-old Alexandra Naggear.

Five years later, the investigation into who is at…

The stepmother of a Palestinian boy, whose killing was witnessed by an American contractor at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid site, has told Al Jazeera his body is still missing. She didn’t know what happened to Abdul Rahim after he…

LONDON: A UN expert who raised the alarm over deliberate mass starvation in Gaza a year and a half ago said governments and corporations “cannot act surprised” now at the escalating humanitarian catastrophe in the territory.

“Israel has…

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Monday vowed that “justice is coming”, five years after a catastrophic explosion at Beirut’s port for which nobody has been held to account.

The blast on August 4, 2020 was one of the world’s largest non-nuclear…

Israel says it will allow gradual and controlled entry of goods to Gaza through local merchants, an Israeli military agency that coordinates aid said on Tuesday, as global monitors say famine is unfolding in the enclave,…

Seoul removes propaganda loudspeakers to signal a shift in policy under President Lee’s administration.

South Korean authorities began removing loudspeakers blaring anti-North Korea broadcasts along the country’s border, Seoul’s Ministry of…