Category: 3. Middle East

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has announced the launch of an international fundraising campaign to support a new fund for the rehabilitation of amputees and the rebuilding of rehabilitation services in the Gaza…

Indonesia’s government has bestowed ‘national hero’ status on former president Soeharto. The award caused uproar amongst critics who say Soeharto’s legacy is one of mass murder, even genocide. They accuse the government of…

A Saudi doctor went on trial in Germany Monday accused of driving an SUV through a Christmas market, killing six people and wounding more than 300 in a rampage that shocked the nation.

Taleb Jawad al-Abdulmohsen, a 51-year-old psychiatrist, was…

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Sarkozy was found guilty of criminal conspiracy for his role in securing funding for his 2007 presidential campaign.

Former French…

(Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Canada’s Niagara region this week to join the Group of Seven foreign ministers’ meeting, his office said.

Rubio intends to discuss U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to bring peace…

ANKARA — Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan traveled to Washington on Monday in a surprise visit coinciding with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s landmark White House meeting with President Donald Trump and the ramping up of Gaza…

Thailand says ‘hostility … has not decreased’ and deal on hold until Cambodia meets unspecified demands.

Thailand has suspended the implementation of a United…

By Steven Scheer and Nidal al-Mughrabi

JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -U.S. mediators are meeting Israel’s prime minister on Monday with attention turning to the second, far more complex, phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal and the immediate problem of a…

US envoy Jared Kushner and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held talks Monday on the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire, as Washington intensified its efforts to ensure the fragile truce endures.

The truce, in effect for exactly a month…

The Israeli army has announced plans to recruit 12,000 additional soldiers, including 7,000 for combat units, as tensions with Hezbollah escalate along the Lebanese border.

The move comes as Israeli forces intensify…