Category: 3. Middle East

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranian police arrested as many as 21,000 “suspects” during the country’s 12-day war with Israel in June, a law enforcement spokesperson said on Tuesday, according to state media.

Following Israeli air strikes that began on June…

By David Latona and Pietro Lombardi

MADRID/LISBON (Reuters) -Firefighters across Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey and the Balkans were battling wildfires on Tuesday with another heatwave pushing temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees…

Amnesty International condemned Israel’s “deliberate” killing of six journalists in the Gaza Strip on Monday, saying they were Gaza’s eyes and voices, Anadolu reported.

“Amnesty strongly condemns Israel’s deliberate killing of…

Lebanon President Joseph Aoun has affirmed his commitment to disarm all non- state actors including Hezbollah, by the end of 2025, MP Firas Hamdan said Monday.

Following his meeting with Aoun, MP Hamdan said the…

Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini has accused Israel of “deliberate” targeting of journalists to “silence voices” reporting…

An informed source told Sky News Arabia on Monday evening that Egyptian and Qatari mediators, with Turkish participation, are preparing a new proposal to be presented to Hamas leadership, aiming to remove what they…

The Council of Europe urged its member states on Tuesday to halt deliveries of weapons to Israel if they could be used for human rights violations.

Michael O’Flaherty, the Council’s commissioner for human rights, said member states should do…

US President Donald Trump has agreed on the “need” for an additional Israeli military operation in Gaza, following a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a report by Israeli…

Cambodia dismisses Thai army accusation that it breached truce and international law after incident near border.

A Thai soldier has been seriously injured by a landmine near the Cambodian border, days after both countries agreed to a ceasefire…

The Elders group of international stateswomen and statesmen for the first time on Tuesday called the situation in Gaza an “unfolding genocide”, saying that Israel’s obstruction of aid was causing a “famine”.

“Today we express our shock and…