Category: 3. Middle East

A German court has ruled that authorities in Berlin acted unlawfully when they barred British-Palestinian surgeon Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta from participating in a conference on Palestine held in the German capital in…

President Ahmed al-Sharaa will become Syria’s first leader to pay an official visit to the White House on Monday, a crowning achievement for the ex-jihadist who since taking power has ended his country’s isolation.

Sharaa, whose rebel forces…

The Palestinian Center for the Defence of Prisoners has accused Israeli authorities of carrying out a wave of severe abuses against thousands of Palestinian inmates in the wake of the recent prisoner exchange deal….

French police arrested four people on Thursday evening after protests broke out during a performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office announced…

Mass cancellations of flights in the United States are causing havoc for travellers after the government ordered a reduction in the flight schedule due to a lack of air traffic controllers.

The reduced flight schedule, set to begin on Friday,…

By Timour Azhari

(Reuters) -Turkey is preparing a law to let thousands of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters and civilians return home from hideouts in northern Iraq under negotiations to end generations of war.

A senior Middle East official…

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said that Iran seeks peace, but will not bow to coercion, adding that Tehran will not abandon its nuclear programme, state media reported on Friday.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday…

When Liberia announced late last month that it would temporarily host Salvadoran national Kilmar Armando Abrego García on “humanitarian grounds” if he were deported by the Trump administration for a second time, the West African country was…

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (Reuters) -Stinking mounds of fly-covered garbage lie strewn throughout Gaza amid the rubble from Israel’s devastating military campaign, spilling out along roadsides and between the tents where most of the shattered…

An end to fighting in Sudan still seems far off despite the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, fighting the army for more than two years, endorsing a truce proposal.

The government, backed by the army, has yet to respond to US-led international…