Category: 3. Middle East

Russia and Belarus say war games are meant to be a show of force designed to test combat readiness.

Russia has practised launching cruise missiles over the Barents…

Robert Redford, the Oscar-winning actor, director and godfather of independent cinema as the founder of the Sundance Film Festival, has died at the age of 89.

Redford died “at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah – the place he loved,…

For the first time, a British soldier has gone on trial for murder over the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre of Northern Irish protesters. Families have spent half a decade fighting to get the case to court, blaming authorities for…

Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili broke the news that his family members had been killed in the same Israeli attack he was reporting on. Residents of the neighbourhood say Israel gave no warning before striking, as it intensifies its…

Northern Ireland boxer Tyrone McKenna saluted the Aida refugee camp in the occupied West Bank after winning a fight in Belfast. Video shows fans cheering from the camp, where McKenna led boxing classes earlier this summer.

More than one million people in Gaza are facing renewed terror after receiving an emergency order to evacuate Gaza City. This morning, with hundreds of thousands of civilians still trapped inside, the Israeli military began its ground invasion….

Press reports revealed that Egypt has deployed Chinese HQ-9B long-range air defence systems at strategic sites in the Sinai Peninsula, a move that has triggered fresh concerns in Israel over possible escalation.

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Last month, the Israeli government launched a paid campaign on social media, claiming there is no famine in Gaza. It released a video showing food at restaurants and markets full of fruit and vegetables. “There is no famine in Gaza. Any other…

A second deadly US strike on a Venezuelan boat in international waters has raised concern over the legality of the attacks on alleged ‘narcoterrorists’.

Twenty years ago this week, driven by a sense of curiosity, Yossi Mekelberg, now a senior consulting fellow with Chatham House, talked his way into a restricted Gaza to see firsthand the impact of Israel’s decision to disengage from the…