Category: 3. Middle East

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -Israeli airstrikes killed four people and wounded 18 others in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, local health authorities said, as Hamas and Israel accused each other of violating a near…

(Reuters) -Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Israeli troops deployed in southern Syria, drawing strong condemnation from the government in Damascus, which denounced the trip as a violation of sovereignty.

Israel expanded its…

Bola Tinubu says he suspended the trip in light of the abductions and a separate church attack in which armed men killed two people.

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu…

European leaders are adamant that any plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine will need support from both the European Union and Ukraine amid speculation of a potential United States-backed plan that would heavily favour Moscow’s demands and…

Palestine has welcomed the decision of the Fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly to extend the mandate of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) until 30 June 2029.

In a statement, the…

Twenty-seven Palestinians were killed on Wednesday in several Israeli airstrikes across the besieged and destroyed Gaza Strip, according to the civil defence spokesperson.

Mahmoud Basal, the spokesperson for the…

The tourist boats that typically navigate Kenya’s renowned Lake Naivasha have recently taken on a new role: rescuing hundreds from inundated homes.

Though the lake’s water level has been increasing for more than a decade with repeated…

(Reuters) -The rival leaders of ethnically split Cyprus said they were ready to meet the United Nations Secretary-General to discuss the potential for relaunching long-stalled peace talks, the U.N. mission on the island said on Thursday.

Greek…

The Israeli doctors’ union has said that doctors are not allowed to take part in carrying out the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners. The statement was made during a meeting of the National Security Committee…

More than 3,350 people in Gaza have experienced major burns. Nine-year-old Elham Abu Hajjaj is among them.

The last thing Elham Abu Hajjaj remembers from the Israeli bombing of her Gaza City home is that her mother held her and prayed.

When Hajjaj…