Category: 3. Middle East

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Timour Azhari

AMMAN/DAMASCUS (Reuters) -The United States is preparing to establish a military presence at an airbase in Damascus to help enable a security pact that Washington is brokering between Syria and Israel, six…

Hezbollah lashed out on Thursday against the prospect of any political negotiations between Lebanon and Israel, and insisted that it has a right to defend itself.

A source close to Hezbollah’s political leadership told AFP the declaration followed…

In his workshop near the Syrian capital, Ghassan Aama is at a loss following a recent decision to massively hike electricity prices, even as much of the country continues to face extensive outages.

Last month, the energy ministry raised prices by…

Israel struck Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon on Thursday as the group rejected the prospect of direct political talks between the countries and vowed to defend itself.

The Israeli military confirmed a new series of strikes had begun after…

UN says the area devoted to opium poppies has dropped to a fraction of that cultivated before the Taliban’s narcotics ban in 2022.

Afghanistan’s once-booming opium industry has shrunk dramatically with cultivation falling by 20 percent in…

The United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act was meant to keep children safe. Instead, it is keeping the public uninformed. Within days of the law taking effect in late July 2025, X (formerly Twitter) started hiding videos of Israel’s atrocities in…

Sudanese Prime Minister Kamil Idris has called for the international community to designate the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as a “terrorist” organisation and warned that violence could spill over to the wider region as evidence of atrocities…

By Asif Shahzad

ISLAMABAD/KABUL (Reuters) -Afghanistan and Pakistan will resume peace talks in Istanbul on Thursday, both nations said, after a previous round ended without agreeing a lasting truce.

Militaries from the South Asian neighbours…

The head of Egypt’s State Information Service, Diaa Rashwan, said that the plan proposed by US President Donald Trump regarding the Gaza Strip separates the administration of Gaza from the international stability…