Category: 3. Middle East

Dec 8 (Reuters) – Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said on Monday it had taken control of the strategic Heglig oilfield in the South Kordofan province.

Heglig, which lies along Sudan’s southern border, houses the main processing…

Dec 8 (Reuters) – Global leaders pledged $1.9 billion to advance polio eradication on Monday, accelerating efforts to protect 370 million children from polio each year amid significant funding cuts.

The budget of the Global Polio Eradication…

Kuwait has revoked the citizenship of 24 individuals, including the prominent Islamic preacher Tariq al-Suwaidan, according to a decree published in the Kuwait Today official gazette.

Decree No. 227 of 2025 states…

Damascus, Syria – In the basement of a nondescript building in Damascus is the Syrian Identification Centre’s forensic laboratory with storage units full of human bones.

One cabinet is entirely dedicated to ribs. Another contains skulls.

The Israeli Defense Ministry said Monday that it has treated nearly 22,000 wounded soldiers since the Gaza war in October 2023, Anadolu reports.

About 22,000 injured soldiers were added to the Rehabilitation…

Sudan’s Minister of Justice, Abdullah Darf, said the silence of the international community is paving the way for “continued suffering and repeated crimes” in the country.

He made the remarks during the seminar…

Israeli media, citing Palestinian sources, reported that dozens of armed members of groups collaborating with the occupation against Hamas have voluntarily handed themselves over to Hamas security forces in the Gaza…

Google and Apple have issued a new round of cybersecurity warnings to users in more than 150 countries, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia, after detecting attempts to hack phones using advanced spyware linked to the…

Syrians are celebrating the anniversary of the overthrow of the al-Assad dynasty’s repressive 50-year rule.

The country heralded the end of Bashar al-Assad’s reign…

Chinese exports climb as exporters reroute shipments to other markets amid slump in shipments to the US.

China’s annual trade surplus in goods has topped $1 trillion…