Category: 3. Middle East

Senegal coach Pape Thiaw cannot be accused of lacking ambition for the upcoming World Cup in North America.

“If, even for a second, I doubted that I could win the World Cup with Senegal, then I would step aside,” he said after a match in…

Iranian and US forces have continued to exchange strikes despite an April ceasefire, fuelling tensions across the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, while raising fears the fragile truce could unravel as mediation efforts continue in Doha.

On Monday,…

Muslim faithful ritually stoned the devil on Wednesday in the climactic ceremony of a hajj pilgrimage held in intense heat and against the backdrop of a war that has plunged the wealthy Gulf into crisis.

From dawn, crowds of pilgrims gathered in…

Dozens of attacks since September have killed at least 194 people in US operation dubbed ‘Southern Spear’.

A US military attack on what it called a drug trafficking boat in the Eastern Pacific has killed a…

ISTANBUL, May 27 (Reuters) – The reinstated chair of Turkey’s main opposition party Kemal Kilicdaroglu said on Wednesday the party will hold a congress once legal conditions are met, after a court ousted the previous leadership, triggering an…

Coach Ouahbi drew heavily on the country’s diaspora in Europe where majority of the 26 players he selected were born.

Paris Saint-Germain defender Achraf Hakimi was among nine players from Morocco’s…

The 2026 US squad is evenly split between 13 World Cup ⁠debutants and 13 players who featured at Qatar 2022.

Christian ‌Pulisic, Tyler Adams and Weston McKennie will lead the United States at the World Cup,…

The mountainous, landlocked Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan has historically been one of the region’s poorest economies, much of it reliant on remittances from migrant workers abroad. But four years ago, its fortunes got an unexpected…

By Gabriel Stargardter

PARIS, May 27 (Reuters) – Paris prosecutors have opened a probe to determine whether three hard-left mayoral candidates were targeted by a foreign state seeking to meddle in French elections, they said on Wednesday, in a…

By Heejin Kim and Joyce Lee

SEOUL, May 27 (Reuters) – South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that an attack on a cargo ship operated by local shipper HMM in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this month likely involved an Iranian anti-ship…