Category: 3. Middle East

Who: Australia vs India
What: Second T20 international of five-game series
Where: Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in Melbourne, Australia
When: Friday, October 31, at 7:15pm (08:15 GMT)
How to follow: We’ll have all the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport…

Thick smog blanketed New Delhi on Thursday, a day after authorities failed in trying to clear the air and reduce pollution levels by cloud seeding. The trial is the latest in a series of attempts by officials to improve air quality for…

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has instructed the armed forces to confront any further Israeli incursion in the country’s south after Israeli forces crossed their shared border and killed a municipal worker during an overnight raid.

The pivotal…

Israeli forces have carried out air strikes on the areas of Mahmoudiyeh and Jarmak, in southern Lebanon. The strikes are the latest in near-daily Israeli violations of the US-brokered ceasefire involving Israel and the Lebanese armed…

Former DEA agent Michael Vigil says US President Donald Trump’s targeting of drug boats in the Caribbean does nothing to…

Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to resume talks in Istanbul at the request of mediator Turkiye after earlier rounds between Islamabad and Kabul failed to resolve spiralling tensions between the neighbours that have…

United States President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have agreed to a trade truce under which the US will ease tariffs and Beijing will restart imports of US soya beans, delay the introduction of export restrictions on some…

United States President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he had instructed the Department of Defense to “immediately” restart testing of US nuclear weapons.

If the US resumes nuclear testing now, it would be the first time it has conducted…

Hurricane Melissa slammed into Cuba destroying homes, flooding neighbourhoods and cutting off entire communities. Melissa is one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the Caribbean, with winds of 298kph (185mph) at its peak.

In the wake of the so-called Gaza Plan, both Israel and Hamas have once again crossed the boundaries they had vowed to respect. The plan, presented to the world as a humanitarian breakthrough, was supposed to mark the…