Category: 3. Middle East

The Israeli occupation continues to detain 24 doctors from the Gaza Strip in extremely dire humanitarian conditions, a prisoners’ rights group has said.

The Palestinian Center for Prisoners’ Advocacy said in a…

(Reuters) -More than a dozen House Democrats have signed a letter pressing the Trump administration to recognise a Palestinian state, with at least one lawmaker planning to introduce a pro-statehood resolution, Axios reported on Monday.

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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…

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…

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…

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…