Category: 3. Middle East

Large crowds took to the streets in the capitals of Iran, Iraq and Yemen on Friday for the annual show of support for Palestinians and denunciation of Israel.

Quds (Jerusalem) Day commemorations were launched in 1979 by Ayatollah Ruhollah…

Israeli attack destroys a residential building in a Beirut suburb as France’s Macron decries ‘unacceptable’ strike.

Israel has carried out an air strike on Lebanon’s capital for the first time since a fragile truce between the Israeli army…

Twin earthquakes shook Myanmar causing extensive damage and killing at least a dozen people. The quakes, one a 7.7 magnitude, were also felt in Bangkok, Thailand where a tower block collapsed trapping dozens of construction workers.

US president appeals to Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ban on his use of an obscure wartime law.

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court for permission to resume deportations of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an…

US president says he and the Canadian PM ‘agree on many things’ and will meet after Canada’s elections next month.

President Donald Trump says he has had an “extremely productive call” with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney amid a…

With the jailing of Istanbul’s mayor on corruption charges, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan has got rid of his most powerful opponent. Now his sights are set on the main opposition CHP, analysts say.

“When the big fishes are exposed, they won’t dare…

Jamie Gaskarth, a professor of foreign policy & international Relations at Open University, analyses the Trump administration’s apparent lack of…

Turkey intensified its crackdown on anti-government protests on Friday, arresting the lawyer of the jailed Istanbul mayor and targeting more journalists, as the country faces its biggest wave of unrest in more than a decade.

Nine days after the…