Category: 3. Middle East

By Thomas Escritt

BERLIN (Reuters) -Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives slipped into second place behind Germany’s far right in a poll marking his hundredth day in office after a tough summer in which a botched judicial appointment and a…

“Stop the killing of our spouses.” The widow of slain Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Qreiqeh says he was a kind, loving father and husband before he was assassinated by Israeli forces to silence his coverage on the Gaza war.

Before his murder by Israeli forces in Gaza, Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif wrote a final message to be shared with the world in the event of his death. These are his words, narrated by a Palestinian colleague.

US President Donald Trump said he is deploying 800 National Guard soldiers to Washington, DC, and taking control of its police department after claiming that crime was “out of control” in the capital city.

The nation’s capital is “becoming…

US President Donald Trump announced a federal takeover of Washington, DC’s police and the deployment of 800 National Guard troops on Monday. He says it’s needed to “rescue” the capital from violence, but data shows crime levels…

Tensions are high in Mali’s capital, Bamako, after the arrests of dozens of soldiers in recent days, including two high-ranking generals. Although shops and offices stayed open on Tuesday, residents, including one journalist, told Al Jazeera…

LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached “unimaginable levels”, Britain, Canada, Australia and several of their European allies said on Tuesday, calling on Israel to allow unrestricted aid into the war-torn…

Nestled among shops in a bustling market in north Lebanon’s Tripoli, Mohammed al-Shaar is at his workshop making traditional tarboosh hats, keeping up a family craft despite dwindling demand.

With a thimble on one finger, Shaar, 38, cuts, sews and…

A six-year-old Palestinian boy and a 30-year-old man have died from malnutrition, the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza has said, as hunger-related deaths climb and Israeli bombardment continues across the besieged territory.

The deaths of Wissam…