Category: 3. Middle East

On April 1, Russia began a new conscription drive with the goal of enlisting 160,000 military-age men between 18 and 30.

It is the largest such call-up since 2011, aiming to fulfil last year’s presidential decree to boost the armed forces to…

Doctors Without Borders slams Israel for targeting humanitarian workers, blocking aid to Gaza and mass killings.

Palestinian lives are being systematically destroyed as Israel’s continued bombardment of the Gaza Strip shows a “blatant…

Iraq’s parliament has officially designated Halabja as the country’s 19th province, granting full administrative status to a region long defined by the trauma of Saddam Hussein’s chemical attack in 1988. The…

Israel said Wednesday it would keep blocking humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, where a relentless military offensive has turned the Palestinian territory into a “mass grave”, a medical charity reported.

Air and ground attacks resumed across the…

Israel announced Wednesday that it had converted 30 percent of Gaza’s territory into a buffer zone as it pressed its unrelenting military offensive, vowing to maintain its blockade on humanitarian aid to the war-ravaged territory.

Israel resumed…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed that “Whoever obstructs Syria’s path to permanent peace and stability will find us standing alongside the Syrian government.”

He made the statement during a press…

The Senegal Alliance for the Palestinian Cause announced yesterday that it will continue organising Senegalese protests this week against the genocidal war waged by Israel for over 560 consecutive days against the…

Anger has mounted in Tel Aviv as the United States informed Israel of its decision to begin a gradual withdrawal from Syria in the coming period, according to Israeli media reports yesterday.

The Israeli newspaper…

Officials from Algeria and Russia met recently to discuss areas of mutual interest, such as the Joint Committee on Military-Technical Cooperation, the Algerian Ministry of Defence announced.

Secretary-General of the…

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Wednesday that Iran’s enrichment of uranium as part of its nuclear programme was “non-negotiable” after US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff called for a halt.

“Iran’s enrichment is a real, accepted matter. We are…