Category: 3. Middle East

The United Nations on Tuesday strongly opposed a new Israeli law allowing the death penalty for Palestinians, calling it “particularly cruel and discriminatory,” Anadolu reports.

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric…

More than 113,000 civilian places, including homes, schools and commercial facilities, were damaged in attacks by the US and Israel, the Iranian Red Crescent Society said on Tuesday, Anadolu reports.

In a statement,…

Dozens of activists and families of Palestinian prisoners protested in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank after Israeli lawmakers approved a bill allowing the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks.

By Ali Sawafta and Pesha Magid

RAMALLAH/JERUSALEM, March 31 (Reuters) – Palestinians in the occupied West Bank voiced fears on Tuesday that their jailed relatives could be hanged without due process after Israel adopted a new law making the death…

Israel has canceled a planned visit by French Armed Forces Minister Alice Rouffo to Tel Aviv after France refused to allow US aircraft carrying weapons to Israel to fly over its territory, according to Israeli media…

Even if conflict is ‘short but intense’, countries like Sudan, Yemen and Lebanon will see significant increases in poverty rates.

The US-Israel war on Iran and its ripple effect throughout the Middle East…

We are deeply alarmed by the kidnapping of Al-Monitor contributor Shelly Kittleson in Iraq on Tuesday. We call for her safe and immediate release. 

We stand by her vital reporting from the region and call for her swift return to continue her…

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he believes the Iran war will not last “much longer” and that the Strait of Hormuz will reopen “automatically” when US leaves, according to a New York Post, Anadolu…

Here are the latest developments in the Middle East war:

– Tehran blasts –

An AFP journalist heard a series of explosions in central Tehran, as US-Israeli strikes wore on into their fifth week.

AFP journalists also confirmed that air defences had…