Category: 3. Middle East

A humanitarian aid convoy has reached Syria’s Druze-majority Suwayda province as the United Nations warns that the humanitarian situation remains critical after last week’s deadly clashes displaced thousands and left essential services in…

Dozens of ministers have gathered at a United Nations conference to urge the world to work towards a two-state solution between Israelis and the Palestinians, but the United States and Israel have boycotted the event.

The 193-member UN General…

CAIRO/ATHENS (Reuters) -Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday they had rescued 10 seafarers from the Greek-operated cargo ship Eternity C which they attacked and sank in the Red Sea earlier this month.

The Liberia-flagged Eternity C was the…

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is warning that an Israel-Palestinian two-state solution is “farther than ever”. Speaking at a high-level UN conference to promote a two-state solution, he said the destruction of…

President Donald Trump has claimed religious freedom under attack in US, as critics say he is eroding separation of church and state.

United States Federal workers – including supervisors – can attempt to persuade their colleagues to join…

The Tasis Alliance, a coalition of Sudanese armed groups formed in February, has unveiled a parallel ”transitional peace” government to rival Sudan’s wartime government in Port Sudan.

Tasis is based on a partnership between the Rapid Support…

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday said that Israel’s creeping annexation of the West Bank is illegal and the wholesale destruction of the Gaza Strip is intolerable and both must stop.

“Let’s be…

By Andrew MacAskill and Andrea Shalal

TURNBERRY, Scotland (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday the number one priority in Gaza was getting people fed, because “you have a lot of starving people”, adding that he was not going to…

By Lili Bayer

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union’s executive body recommended on Monday curbing Israeli access to its flagship research funding programme after calls from EU countries to increase pressure on Israel to alleviate the…

TURNBERRY, Scotland (Reuters) -President Donald Trump warned on Monday that he would order fresh U.S. attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities should Tehran try to restart facilities that the United States bombed last month.

Trump issued the threat as…