Category: 3. Middle East

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday linked the “future engagement” with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa to “cooperation on setting up a demilitarised zone in south-west Syria,” bordering the…

The US-imposed ceasefire of October 10 has not stopped Israel’s regular attacks on the Gaza Strip. Nor has it threatened to hold a parliament and society that largely cheered on the war, which has been deemed genocidal by multiple international…

The Union of Gaza Strip Municipalities warned Friday of the consequences of 700,000 tons of accumulated waste in random dumping sites, as municipalities are unable to provide even the minimum level of essential services due to severe shortages…

Samia Suluhu Hassan, whose re-election prompted protests and a deadly police crackdown, faces international calls for accountability.

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan says her government will launch an inquiry into the deadly unrest that…

Fears of crime

Yet not all Chileans are convinced. Virginia Peredo, a domestic worker, told Al Jazeera she “would never” vote for the left-wing candidate, offering a blunt explanation: “She is a communist.”

Peredo was one of the nearly 200…

A decision by Ahmed El-Meslemany, head of Egypt’s National Media Authority, to change the name and logo of the state television channel Nile TV International to Egypt News Network (ENN) has sparked widespread…

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Palestinians in a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank held weekly communal prayers on Friday after clearing insulting graffiti, broken glass and burn marks from a mosque they say was targeted by Jewish settlers amid a…

BERLIN (Reuters) -Cyprus said on Friday Turkey must drop its insistence on a two-state solution for the divided island if it hopes to make progress on its long-stalled bid to join the European Union.

Speaking in Berlin after talks with German…

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are facing an energy crisis as water levels have plummeted at the reservoirs powering their largests hydropower stations, officials said this week.

The two landlocked Central Asian countries are heavily reliant on…