Category: 3. Middle East

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said Palestinian militant group Hamas did not want to make a deal on a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza.

Trump made the comments to reporters at the White House one day after his…

JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump appeared on Friday to abandon Gaza ceasefire negotiations with Palestinian militant group Hamas, a day after withdrawing their delegations…

PARIS (Reuters) -France’s Cour de Cassation, the country’s highest court, ruled on Friday that a warrant issued for former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was invalid.

(Reporting by Benoit Van Overstraeten, Charlotte Van Campenhout, Writing by…

DUBAI (Reuters) -Syria’s foreign minister held frank and productive talks with the United States and France at which they said on Friday they underlined the importance of ensuring the success of Syria’s political transition, unity and territorial…

DUBAI (Reuters) -Israel will allow foreign countries to parachute aid into Gaza starting on Friday, Israeli army radio quoted a military official as saying.

An Israeli military spokesperson did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for…

Iranian diplomats met counterparts from Germany, Britain and France on Friday for renewed nuclear talks, amid warnings that the three European powers could trigger “snapback” sanctions outlined under the 2015 deal.

The meeting in Istanbul was the…

In an unprecedented joint appeal, four of the world’s leading news agencies have warned that their Palestinian journalists in Gaza are now facing death by Israel’s policy of mass starvation.

The BBC, Agence…

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany is not planning to recognise a Palestinian state in the short term and said its priority now is to make “long-overdue progress” towards a two-state solution, a German government spokesperson said on Friday.

“Israel’s…