Category: 3. Middle East

Saudi authorities urged worshippers on Tuesday to avoid direct exposure to the sun in an effort to mitigate deaths during the Hajj pilgrimage season. The kingdom is seeking a controversy-free holy season amid the conflict with Iran and following…

By Jana Choukeir

May 26 (Reuters) – The Israeli military has expanded its ground operations in southern Lebanon beyond a demarcation line that Israel set up several kilometres inside Lebanese territory after an April 16 ceasefire with Hezbollah,…

EU spokesperson Anitta Hipper says Russia’s threat to diplomats and foreign citizens is an ‘unacceptable escalation’.

Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the European Union have summoned Russian envoys a…

Iran’s foreign ministry says that US strikes in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province represent a “gross violation” ⁠of the fragile ceasefire in place since early April.

The commander of the Revolutionary Guard’s Aerospace Force, Seyed…

In the latest revelations about Israel’s brutal torture of Palestinian prisoners, which include rape and sexual violence, the world got yet another glimpse of the horrific reality of Palestinian life under unending Israeli settler colonial…

Huge numbers of Muslims prayed on Mount Arafat at the most important ritual of the Hajj pilgrimage, as a punishing desert sun sent temperatures soaring towards 40 degrees Celsius.

From daybreak on Tuesday,…

AMSTERDAM, May 26 (Reuters) – Syria’s transitional leadership has located remnants of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s clandestine chemical weapons program, including raw materials and munitions similar to those used to carry out deadly…

Russia has urged foreigners to leave in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, and warned of more strikes on the city, suggesting a major escalation in its more-than-four-year-long war on Ukraine.

In a statement issued on Monday, Russia’s Ministry of Foreign…

Iran’s internet connectivity was partially restored on Tuesday, one day after President Masoud Pezeshkian ordered the reopening of internet access following 88 days of a near-total digital blackout that had largely isolated the country from the…