Category: 3. Middle East

United Nations special rapporteurs called Tuesday for the Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to be immediately dismantled, saying aid was being “exploited for covert military and geopolitical agendas”.

An exceptionally-large group…

Late last month, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the courts to unseal grand jury transcripts in the case against Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned former girlfriend and associate of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The…

Shurina is a 15-year-old high school student in Hita in southwestern Japan. Her world shifts when she’s cast as a kamikaze pilot in a play about World War II directed by her piano teacher and performed alongside her best friend, Yua.

Tasked with…

By Huseyin Hayatsever

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey’s parliament launched a commission on Tuesday to oversee the disarmament of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group following its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan’s call for it to end…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened the current Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, with dismissal if he refuses a proposed plan for a full military occupation of the Gaza Strip, according to sources…

The floods in the Himalayas were caused by a cloudburst, which is common during the country’s June-September monsoon season.

Flash floods have swept through a Himalayan village in northern India, killing at least four people and leaving more…

At least 61,020 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since October 2023, including 188 who have died from hunger, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday, Anadolu reports.

A ministry…

ANKARA — Turkey on Tuesday replaced Army Chief of Staff Metin Gurak before the end of his four year-term, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency.

Gurak has been succeeded by Selcuk Bayraktaroglu, the current ground forces commander.

Gurak, who…

A hospital in eastern Germany issued an apology on Monday after publishing a list of newborns that included the name Yahya Sinwar, the former leader of the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza.

The maternity clinic at…