Category: 3. Middle East

“Every single government shutdown, typically, the party in power is the party that gets blamed for the shutdown.”

US Republican commentator Chet Love explains what’s behind the latest federal government shutdown and how voters could change…

At least two people were killed when Israeli warplanes bombed several sites in Baalbek in eastern Lebanon on Thursday, Lebanese authorities said, Anadolu reports.

Fighter jets struck the outskirts of Janta on the…

Authorities say Russia conducting increasingly bold campaign of espionage, sabotage and cyber-interference against the UK.

Police in the United Kingdom have arrested…

China’s Communist Party refrains from direct mention of the US trade war, but stresses ‘consolidating national security’.

China’s ruling Communist Party has…

Israeli airstrikes have targeted multiple areas in eastern and southern Lebanon, claiming to hit Hezbollah targets. Israel has been carrying out regular attacks on Lebanon despite a nearly year-old ceasefire between it and Hezbollah.

Washington has announced new sanctions against Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, in an effort to pressure Moscow to agree to a peace deal in Ukraine. This marks the first time the current Trump administration has imposed…

Voters in Ireland will head to the polls on Friday to elect a new president for a seven-year term.

While the Irish presidency is a mostly ceremonial role, this election takes place amid a historic shift towards a more polarised political system,…

Israel’s parliament has given preliminary approval to a bill to impose Israeli sovereignty on the occupied West Bank, and to effectively annex the Palestinian territory. The US Vice-President JD Vance, who was visiting Israel, called it…

US President Donald Trump has imposed sanctions on Russia’s top oil firms, Rosneft and Lukoil, to pressure Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on a ceasefire in Ukraine. The EU has also approved a 19th round of sanctions, with Russian…