Category: 3. Middle East

President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday urged his Iranian counterpart to let two French citizens return home, as they were released after over three years in prison on espionage charges their families vehemently denied.

Meanwhile an Iranian citizen…

Illegal Israeli settlers staged 27 intrusions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem last month, official data showed on Wednesday, Anadolu reports.

The Palestinian Ministry of Endowments and…

Tens of thousands of signatures have been collected in England for a petition demanding that Israel be banned from international football over its actions in Gaza and calling for the cancellation of a match between…

In 2019, a Sudanese team of jiu-jitsu athletes set out on an extraordinary quest: to travel by land from Sudan to Kenya, despite having no funding and limited resources, to compete in the LionHeart Nairobi Open.

Together members of the Muqatel…

Israel has conducted more than 1,000 air strikes and more than 400 ground incursions in Syria since al-Assad overthrow.

Israel’s army has renewed its incursions into…

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says Gaza should have a UN mandate for a peacekeeping force to ensure the ceasefire. Israel has opposed UN involvement. Guterres made the comments in an interview with Al Jazeera.

Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced on Tuesday that its subsidiary, the Arabian Gulf Oil Company, has discovered a new oil field in the western Ghadames Basin, with an estimated production of about…

The newly-formed Justice Fleet has suspended contact with Libya’s Joint Rescue Coordination Centre, which it says ‘coordinates’ the violent acts committed by the Libyan coastguard towards asylum seekers and refugees.

More than a dozen…

Conor Dowling, a professor of political science at the University at Buffalo, explains how Zohran Mamdani’s won the New York City mayoral race with the help of young voters.

And so another member of the old “war on terror” team has left the world. Dick Cheney, who served as the most powerful vice president in the history of the United States during the two-term administration of George W Bush (2001-2009), died on…