Category: 3. Middle East

By Emma Farge

GENEVA (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of people who have fled the Sudanese city of al-Fashir are unaccounted for, the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday, raising concerns for their safety after reports of rape, killings and other…

The Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas has condemned the burning of a mosque in the Salfit governorate by Israeli settlers and said the arson attack “once again exposes the depth of Israeli racism and sadism…

Austrian authorities have charged two former officials from Syria’s ousted Assad regime with alleged serious crimes against civilians in detention, local media reported Wednesday.

The Vienna Public Prosecutor’s…

Former world heavyweight boxing champion failed test on the day of his loss to Fabio Wardley, promoter says.

New Zealand’s former heavyweight world champion Joseph…

The men arrested are linked to a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, who claimed responsibility for the bombing.

Pakistan has arrested four members of an Afghan cell over their alleged involvement in a deadly…

International NGOs Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have decried a sharp decline in civil liberties and a pervading “injustice” in Tunisia since President Kais Saied came to power in 2019, as authorities escalate their crackdown…

The much-anticipated Palestine Book Awards kicked off yesterday evening with a vibrant pre-launch event celebrating the authors and stories that continue to elevate Palestinian history, culture and resistance.

Held at…

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is heading for a sweep in the legislative assembly elections in the eastern state of Bihar.

The election in India’s third-most…

By Lili Bayer

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union foreign ministers will discuss next week a proposal for the bloc to take the lead in training 3,000 Palestinian police officers with the aim of later deploying them in Gaza, according to a document…

Russian forces pressed into Ukraine’s eastern towns of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad during the past week as Kyiv’s military mounted a stout defence.

On Tuesday, Ukraine’s commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskii said almost half of the battles on a…