Category: 3. Middle East

Qatar and Egypt, guarantors of the Gaza ceasefire, on Saturday called for the withdrawal of Israeli troops and the deployment of an international stabilisation force as the necessary next steps in fully implementing the fragile agreement.

The…

Turkiye is ready to “do whatever it takes” to contribute to the ongoing peace efforts regarding Gaza, the foreign minister said on Saturday, Anadolu reports.

Hakan Fidan’s remarks came during the 23rd edition of…

Arrests made after President Aoun met UNSC delegation, which will visit south to get ‘real picture’ of what is going on.

The Lebanese army arrested six people after…

By Samia Nakhoul

DOHA, Dec 6 (Reuters) – Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told Reuters on Saturday that he believed Turkey and the United States would find a way to remove U.S. CAATSA sanctions “very soon”, and added the NATO allies had…

An Israeli drone strike killed two Palestinians and wounded two others on Saturday morning in the Al-Atatra area of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza despite a ceasefire reached nearly two months, medical sources told…

Children were among at least 23 people reported killed in fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, just a day after the signing of a US-backed peace agreement between the leaders of the DRC and neighbouring Rwanda.

At the Doha Forum, Qatar’s PM said Gaza talks remain at a “critical moment,” stressing the current arrangement is only a pause, not a full ceasefire. He said key conditions including Israeli withdrawal, are still unmet, leaving the…

Colombia has signed a peace-building agreement in Qatar with the country’s largest drug-trafficking group, the Clan del Golfo or EGC, which is accused of shipping hundreds of tonnes of cocaine to the US and Europe each year.

It took Egyptian actor Mona Zaki more than a year’s preparation to take on the hardest role of her career — the iconic singer Umm Kulthum, a legend in the Arab world.

Marwan Hamed’s “El Sett” (“The Lady”) premiered this week at the Marrakech…

The Sudanese Foreign Ministry accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Friday of killing 79 civilians, including 43 children, in “a massacre” in the city of Kalogi in South Kordofan state, Anadolu reports.

A ministry statement…