Israel strikes a building in southern Beirut, killing at least 4 people
The Israeli military says it struck a building in Beirut's southern suburbs, killing at least four people
April 01, 2025The Israeli military says it struck a building in Beirut's southern suburbs, killing at least four people
April 01, 2025A new AP-NORC poll finds that while most Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the conflict is not weighing as heavily on his public perception as it did on President Joe Biden
April 01, 2025Israeli strike kills four in Beirut in test of fragile ceasefire with Hezbollah
April 01, 2025Relations between Iran and the United States - once strong allies - have often been mistrustful and sometimes openly hostile since Iran's 1979 revolution.
April 01, 2025An Israeli airstrike killed four people including a Hezbollah official in Beirut's southern suburbs on Tuesday, a
March 31, 2025Russia has warned that strikes against Iran's nuclear infrastructure would have "catastrophic" consequences, after U.S.
April 01, 2025A Cyprus court has acquitted and dropped all charges against five Israelis accused of gang-raping a British woman in a hotel room after ruling her testimony as not credible and replete with “fundamental contradictions.”
April 01, 2025Officials say a teenager from the West Bank who was held in an Israeli prison for six months without being charged died after collapsing in unclear circumstances
April 01, 2025Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim they have shot down another American MQ-9 Reaper drone
April 01, 2025The Trump administration sought to put the scandal over its use of the Signal messaging app behind it on Monday, calling it case
April 01, 2025The White House has said that U.S. strikes in Yemen earlier this month killed the Houthi top missile expert, but the U.S. military has so far
March 31, 2025Iran complained to the United Nations Security Council on Monday about "reckless and belligerent" remarks by U.S.
March 31, 2025Fifteen emergency and aid workers from the Red Crescent, Palestinian Civil Defense and the United Nations have been recovered from a grave in the sand in the south of the Gaza Strip, U.N.
March 31, 2025The Trump administration said on Monday it was reviewing $9 billion in federal contracts and grants awarded to Harvard University, part of a crackdown on
March 31, 2025Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich resigned from his post as minister on Monday in a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
March 31, 2025The Israeli military has issued sweeping evacuation orders covering Rafah
March 31, 2025The Israeli military has indicated it could soon launch another major offensive in Rafah and ordered most of the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip evacuated
March 31, 2025President Donald Trump said on Monday that U.S. attacks on the Iran-backed Houthis, an armed movement that has taken control of the most populous parts of Yemen, will continue until they
March 31, 2025Oil prices climbed about 2% to a five-week high on Monday on worries supplies could decline if U.S.
March 31, 2025U.S.
March 30, 2025A court in the United Arab Emirates has sentenced three people to death for the killing of Israeli-Moldovan Zvi Kogan
March 31, 2025Gold prices soared to record levels above $3,100 per ounce in a rally marking one of the most significant upswings in the precious metal's history,
March 31, 2025The United Arab Emirates on Monday sentenced three people to death for the murder of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who was killed in November in the Gulf
March 31, 2025South Jersey restaurant reopens after owners' arrest by ICE sparks community outpouring
March 31, 2025Israel has proposed an extended truce in Gaza in exchange for the return of about half the remaining hostages, Israeli officials said on Monday, as the
March 31, 2025Oil producer Saudi Aramco keeps its April official selling prices (OSPs) for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) unchanged from March, while Algeria's Sonatrach cut its OSPs by 2-7% due
March 31, 2025Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left his corruption trial abruptly on Monday to give evidence in a separate investigation into possible ties between his aides
March 31, 2025Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday the U.S. would receive a strong blow if it acts on President Donald Trump's threat to bomb unless Tehran reaches a new
March 31, 2025Cihan Sincar clings to hope that Turkey's bid to end a decades-old Kurdish insurgency brings the peace her lawmaker husband sought before his
March 31, 2025Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what reforms might follow the end of a 40-year conflict with Kurdish militants
March 31, 2025Pakistan says it plans to expel 3 million Afghans this year
March 31, 2025Israel again expands Gaza war as Netanyahu vows he’s changing the Middle East. The endgame is unclear as ever
March 31, 2025Suspected U.S. airstrikes have struck around Yemen’s rebel-held capital overnight into Monday morning
March 31, 2025Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have little to celebrate as they mark the normally festive Eid al-Fitr
March 30, 2025Trump criticizes Putin and threatens adversaries with new tariffs as he barrels toward April 2 deadline
March 30, 2025U.S.
March 30, 2025Iran’s president says Tehran has rejected direct negotiations with the United States in response to a letter from President Donald Trump over its rapidly advancing nuclear program
March 30, 2025Deadly Israeli strikes mar Gaza Eid celebrations as Netanyahu says pressure on Hamas is ‘working’
March 30, 2025Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated a demand on Sunday for Hamas to disarm and for its leaders to leave Gaza as he
March 30, 2025U.S. immigration officials are asking the public and federal agencies to comment on a proposal to collect social media handles from people applying to benefits such as green cards or citizenship, to comply with an executive order from President Donald Trump
March 29, 2025Hamas agrees to Egyptian ceasefire proposal, Israel counters
March 29, 2025The leader of Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, said on Sunday that his war against the army was not over and his forces would return to
March 30, 2025President Donald Trump is making his clearest commitment to not fire anyone over an embarrassing accidental leak of his administration’s plans for an airstrike against the Houthis in Yemen
March 29, 2025Syria’s new transitional government has been sworn in nearly four months after the Assad family was removed from power and as the new authorities in Damascus work to bring back stability to the war-ton country
March 29, 2025Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa announced a transitional government on Saturday, appointing 23 ministers in a broadened cabinet seen as a key milestone in the transition from decades of
March 29, 2025Hamas has agreed to a Gaza ceasefire proposal it received two days ago from mediators Egypt and Qatar, the Palestinian militant group's chief said
March 29, 2025The Hamas militant group says it has accepted a new Gaza ceasefire proposal from mediators Egypt and Qatar
March 29, 2025An American woman who was detained for weeks in Afghanistan by the Taliban has been released
March 29, 2025Hundreds of thousands of protesters again congregated in Istanbul Saturday to how their support for the city’s imprisoned mayor and demand his release
March 29, 2025The Red Cross said on Saturday it is gravely concerned about the fate of nine Palestine Red Crescent ambulance crew who have been missing for seven days in
March 29, 2025When Friday's powerful earthquake struck central Myanmar, Htet Min Oo was performing ritual ablutions before Ramadan prayers at a mosque next to his house in
March 29, 2025Aid workers reported killed and missing in Gaza as Israeli blockade nears one month
March 27, 2025Hundreds of thousands of Turks protested in Istanbul on Saturday against the jailing of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival,
March 29, 2025A federal judge in Massachusetts on Friday temporarily barred the deportation of a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, who voiced support
March 29, 2025Suspected U.S. airstrikes have pounded Yemen overnight
March 29, 2025As they spend their first Ramadan in their country in years, many Syrians who’ve recently returned from abroad to a homeland they were forced to flee have been celebrating the end of the Assad family’s rule
March 29, 2025A PhD student was snatched by masked officers in broad daylight. Then she was flown 1,500 miles away
March 29, 2025Columbia University's interim president, Katrina Armstrong, has stepped down - a departure that comes one week after it agreed to significant changes amid a
March 28, 2025Afghan pilots who fought in 20-year war against Taliban in limbo after Trump blocks US resettlement plans
March 29, 2025A federal judge in Massachusetts says a Tufts University doctoral student who was detained this week can’t be deported to Turkey without a court order
March 28, 2025The Atlantic published more messages from a group chat among top Cabinet members, in which the magazine’s editor-in-chief was inadvertently added. The messages reveal that specific sensitive information about strikes on Houthis in Yemen. Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel discussed the scandal with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
March 28, 2025The organization that bestows the Academy Awards has apologized to “No Other Land” co-director Hamdan Ballal after mounting criticism following its response to the violent attack on the Oscar winner
March 28, 2025Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian village in the southern Israeli-occupied West Bank
March 28, 2025What we know about the Tufts University PhD student detained by federal agents
March 27, 2025THE HAGUE -The World Court said on Friday it would hear a case brought by Sudan demanding emergency measures against the United Arab Emirates and accusing the Gulf state of violating obligations under
March 28, 2025Turmoil unleashed by the arrest of Turkey's leading opposition figure earlier this month has sent shockwaves through the private sector, forcing
March 28, 2025Somalia is prepared to offer the United States exclusive control of strategic air bases and ports, its president said in a letter to President Donald Trump seen by Reuters on
March 28, 2025By Luc Cohen and Jonathan Allen NEWARK, New Jersey - Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil will remain behind bars in Louisiana at least until a U.S. judge decides whether the Palestinian
March 28, 2025The U.S.
March 28, 2025Swedish journalist Kaj Joakim Medin, who was in Turkey to cover protests against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu's arrest, was jailed pending trial on terrorism charges, Turkey's
March 28, 2025Israel has launched an attack on the Lebanese capital Beirut for the first time since a ceasefire ended fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah in November
March 28, 2025Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyers appear in New Jersey court over jurisdiction of Columbia activist’s case
March 28, 2025Israeli actions in Gaza, including strikes on populated areas in which civilians have been killed, bear the hallmarks of atrocities, the agency that coordinates
March 28, 2025Israel's air force conducted a heavy strike on a building in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital on Friday, a Reuters witness said, the first heavy bombardment there since
March 28, 2025Cyprus has a "nimble and dynamic economy" that should grow about 2.5% this year, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday, while it added that the island should resist any
March 28, 2025The Red Sea, renowned for its coral reefs and marine life, is a major hub for Egypt's tourism industry, a pillar of the economy.
March 28, 2025Tehran would strike U.S. bases in the region if Washington follows through on its warning of military consequences for Iran in the absence of a new nuclear deal, the speaker of the Iranian
March 28, 2025Lebanese President Joseph Aoun began talks in Paris on Friday with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss economic reforms and efforts to stabilise the country, as
March 28, 2025Residents of Sudan's Tuti island at the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile have emerged from paramilitary control to speak of hardships suffered and
March 28, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron said there had been no activity justifying Israel's strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon on Friday and that he would call U.S.
March 28, 2025The U.N.
March 28, 2025AMSTERDAM - Chemical weapons inspectors have been taken by Syria's caretaker authorities to previously unseen production and storage locations dating from the rule of Bashar al-Assad, who was toppled
March 28, 2025Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student facing deportation for his role in pro-Palestinian campus protests, appeared before a judge in New Jersey to debate where Khalil’s fight to be released from federal custody should play out
March 28, 2025The U.N.
March 28, 2025Jared Kushner's investment company Affinity Partners saw assets under management jump 60% last year to $4.8 billion, according to a regulatory filing, after it received a cash
March 28, 2025An already fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah appeared to be on shakier ground after rockets fired from Lebanon into northern Israel triggered Israeli airstrikes in the suburbs of Beirut
March 28, 2025Israel on Friday carried out its first major airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs in months, retaliating for an earlier rocket launch
March 28, 2025Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed putting Ukraine under external governance under the auspices of the U.N. as part of efforts to reach a peaceful settlement
March 28, 2025CNN's Erin Burnett reports on the group chat among top members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet following news that Trump's national security adviser added a journalist to the text chat on highly sensitive Yemen strike plans. Burnett also weighs in on Trump's "change of tone" from past remarks.
March 28, 2025Olympic skier Berkin Usta, 24, and his father die in hotel fire in Turkey
March 28, 2025Israel has launched an attack on the Lebanese capital Beirut for the first time since a ceasefire ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war in November
March 28, 2025Israel strikes southern Beirut for the first time since November ceasefire
March 28, 2025Officials say texts sent by Waltz, Ratcliffe in Signal chat may have damaged US’ ongoing ability to gather intel on Houthis
March 28, 2025Turkish authorities released a lawyer for jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival, after
March 28, 2025‘It starts at the top’: Extremist views are all that many young Israelis have ever known
March 28, 2025Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a call on Friday that steps toward achieving navigational safety in the Black Sea would contribute to
March 28, 2025The Israeli parliament on Thursday approved final readings of a bill giving politicians a greater say in selecting judges, one of a series of issues that have fuelled a wave of
March 28, 2025U.S.
March 28, 2025Suspected U.S. airstrikes have pummeled sites across Yemen controlled by the country’s Houthi rebels, including neighborhoods in the capital, Sanaa
March 28, 2025A Turkish student detained by federal police as she walked on the streets of a Boston suburb is the latest supporter of Palestinian causes to be swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants who have expressed their political views
March 27, 2025U.S.
March 27, 2025Australia's competition regulator said on Friday it had granted authorisation to Virgin Australia and Qatar Airways to operate flights between Doha and Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth
March 27, 2025Six Russians died on Thursday and 39 foreign tourists were rescued when a viewing submarine sank off the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada, the
March 27, 2025A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to preserve messages sent on the Signal messaging app discussing attack plans against
March 27, 2025U.S.
March 27, 2025Judge orders Trump administration to keep Signal records amid Yemen attack chat controversy
March 27, 2025Auburn coach Bruce Pearl says he wasn’t mixing politics with sports last week when he called for the release of an American hostage in Gaza
March 27, 2025A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to preserve records of a text message chat in which senior national security officials discussed sensitive details of plans for a U.S. military strike against Yemen’s Houthis
March 27, 2025The Trump administration's use of a popular app to discuss sensitive military plans — with a journalist on the text chain — is raising questions about security and the importance of safeguarding the nation's secrets
March 27, 2025Separate Israeli strikes have killed a family of six and a Hamas spokesman in the northern Gaza Strip
March 27, 2025Iran has sent a response through Oman to U.S.
March 27, 2025Iran has sent a response through Oman to U.S.
March 27, 2025Police have used pepper spray, plastic pellets and water cannon against protesters in Turkey’s capital
March 27, 2025The top Republican and Democrat on the U.S.
March 27, 2025Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned against "the fires of antisemitism" in Western Europe at a conference on Thursday overshadowed by a boycott by several Jewish
March 27, 2025UC Davis Law Student Association suspended after calls to boycott Israeli-connected businesses
March 27, 2025As the war in Gaza continues, a group of Israeli teens are saying no to the draft, a requirement for most secular Jews and other minorities over the age of 18. Since the war began, a dozen of these so-called "refuseniks" have publicly refused to enlist in the Israeli army, citing conscientious grounds. Their protest comes at a price: Some have served over 100 days in prison for their beliefs. And more are planning to follow suit. CNN joined the group to a weekly Tel Aviv pro-democracy protest, where they hoped to draw attention to why they are refusing to fight.
March 24, 2025Concerns about Hegseth’s judgment come roaring back after group chat scandal
March 27, 2025Trump admin has terminated majority of its funding for key Syrian humanitarian organization
March 27, 2025Egypt, one of the mediators in the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, has received positive indications from Israel over a new ceasefire proposal that
March 27, 2025When Muhlenberg College learned in January 2024 - as pro-Palestinian protests were sweeping campuses across the United States - that it was under
March 27, 2025Palestinian militant groups threatened punishment on Thursday for "collaborators" furthering Israeli goals after the first substantial protests against the war
March 27, 2025A provincial governor in Egypt says that at least six Russian tourists are dead after a recreational submarine on an underwater cruise of coral reefs sank off the Egyptian Red Sea resort town of Hurghada
March 27, 2025The Atlantic published more messages from a group chat among top Cabinet members, in which the magazine’s editor in chief was inadvertently added. The messages reveal that specific sensitive information about strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen was shared in the Signal chat, rebutting claims from top Trump officials that strike plans were not discussed. CNN's Brian Stelter reports.
March 26, 2025Rare anti-Hamas protests broke out in northern Gaza a week after renewed Israeli attacks on the strip and a prolonged blockade on all humanitarian aid continues. Participants told CNN they blamed both Israel and Hamas, which controls Gaza, for the devastation they face.
March 25, 2025Six Russian tourists killed after submarine sinks off Egyptian coast
March 27, 2025The Sudanese army shelled parts of Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman from early morning on Thursday, residents said, after declaring victory over their Rapid
March 27, 2025Turkey said on Thursday it rejected "prejudiced" foreign statements over the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and protests it
March 27, 2025Israel’s parliament has passed a key part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the judiciary
March 27, 2025The Israeli military said on Thursday it had intercepted two missiles launched from Yemen before they crossed into Israeli territory, after sirens sounded in several
March 27, 2025Turkey's justice minister said on Thursday the decision to arrest Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was based on criminal reports and not linked to the timing of the opposition CHP
March 27, 2025Close to midnight on March 6, as a wave of sectarian killings began in western Syria, masked men stormed the homes of Alawite
March 27, 2025Trump administration officials are struggling to stem the fallout from revelations that top national security officials discussed sensitive attack plans over a messaging app and mistakenly added a journalist to the chain
March 26, 2025The United States has given an initial approval for the energy-rich Mideast nation of Qatar to buy eight armed MQ-9B Predator drones for its military, an estimated purchase worth nearly $2 billion
March 27, 2025A Turkish court on Thursday freed Agence France-Presse journalist Yasin Akgul, detained this week while covering mass protests over the jailing of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the
March 27, 2025‘No other land:’ Oscar-winning Palestinian director says settler assault won’t push him from his home
March 27, 2025The U.S. judge whom President Donald Trump has argued should be impeached for blocking him from using wartime powers to deport Venezuelan migrants is set to hear a new
March 26, 2025Democratic lawmakers in the U.S.
March 26, 2025The Atlantic magazine published on Wednesday details of plans for U.S. airstrikes in Yemen that were mistakenly shared by Trump administration officials with its editor-in-chief
March 26, 2025Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth texted about plans to kill a Houthi militant leader in Yemen two hours before a military operation meant to be
March 26, 2025U.S. immigration authorities have detained and revoked the visa of a Turkish doctoral
March 26, 2025Palestinians have chanted against Hamas during anti-war protests in the Gaza Strip
March 26, 2025A lawyer for a Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University says she has been detained by Department of Homeland Security agents without explanation
March 26, 2025Some military spouses and veterans are questioning the White House’s handling of security after a journalist was accidentally added to a group chat about military strikes in Yemen
March 26, 2025Sources say the details shared by Hegseth in Signal chat were classified as Atlantic publishes additional messages
March 26, 2025‘Enough war’: Why Gazans are protesting Hamas now
March 26, 2025The Israeli military has ordered the evacuation of parts of Gaza City as it steps up its renewed offensive against Hamas
March 26, 2025Sudan’s military says it has recaptured the international airport in the capital, Khartoum, after nearly two years of fighting against a rival paramilitary group
March 26, 2025The Atlantic has released the Signal chat among Trump senior national security officials
March 26, 2025President Donald Trump told reporters that there “was no classified information” shared on the Signal chain that The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg said he was added to, pushing back on Goldberg’s claim that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sent “operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen” during the conversation.
March 27, 2025Turkish inflation is expected to end the year a bit higher than previously expected, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday, reflecting fallout from a currency selloff after
March 26, 2025The Sudanese army drove its rival Rapid Support Forces from most of Khartoum city, residents said on Wednesday, as the army chief toured the presidential palace and airport, marking
March 26, 2025Hundreds of Palestinians have protested in northern Gaza to demand an end to war, chanting "Hamas out," social media posts showed, in a
March 26, 2025Tesla will start sales in Saudi Arabia next month, the electric carmaker said on its website, signalling CEO Elon Musk and the kingdom have healed a rift that dates
March 26, 2025Top intelligence officials have faced another round of tough questions about leaked military plans as they appeared before lawmakers on Capitol Hill
March 26, 2025Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of breaking the terms of a tentative U
March 26, 2025Turkey’s president has accused the political opposition of “sinking the economy” during the country’s largest protests in more than a decade
March 26, 2025Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated threats on Wednesday to seize territory in the Gaza strip if Hamas failed to release the remaining hostages it still holds.
March 26, 2025The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Moscow was continuing its intensive contacts with the U.S. and was pleased with how talks with Washington had gone so far after the United States
March 26, 2025Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa has a lot to prove to win over Western powers.
March 26, 2025The United States says it has reached a tentative agreement for Ukraine and Russia to stop fighting and ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea
March 25, 2025Turkey said on Wednesday that Chery Automobile's partners will invest $1 billion in a manufacturing facility in the country with an annual capacity to produce 200,000
March 26, 2025U.S.
March 26, 2025Programmes to help prevent malnourishment in children in Yemen, Afghanistan and Syria could be suspended within months if urgent funding is not found, the U.N.'
March 26, 2025Relations between Kyiv and Washington are "back on track", the chief of staff to Ukraine's president told Reuters, after a fraught Oval Office
March 26, 2025Educators’ unions sue Trump administration over revocation of $400 million in funding to Columbia University
March 25, 2025As Trump offers new nuclear talks, Iran weighs the cost of losing its final leverage
March 26, 2025Israel’s parliament has passed a state budget, a move that shores up Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition even as the embattled leader faces mounting public pressure over the war in Gaza and the hostage crisis
March 25, 2025Israel embraces France’s far-right, turning a blind eye to its Nazi past
March 26, 2025Tesla is bringing its electric cars to oil-rich Saudi Arabia amid falling global sales
March 26, 2025Palestinians take part in largest anti-Hamas protests in Gaza since start of war
March 25, 2025Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe deferred to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for sending potentially classified information that appeared in a group chat about US military strikes in Yemen that a journalist was included in.
March 25, 2025Allies of the United States see a group chat about attack plans by top U.S. officials that accidentally included a journalist as a jaw-dropping security breach
March 25, 2025Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet in Jerusalem on Sunday, two Greek sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
March 26, 2025White House says Russia and Ukraine agree to stop using force in Black Sea as Moscow sets conditions
March 25, 2025Oscar-winning Palestinian director of ‘No Other Land’ released from Israeli detention after being assaulted
March 24, 2025In the occupied West Bank, Israeli authorities have released an Oscar-winning Palestinian director, a day after he was beaten by Jewish settlers and detained by soldiers
March 25, 2025President Donald Trump is downplaying the texting of attack plans to a group chat that included a journalist as “the only glitch in two months” of his administration
March 25, 2025The Trump administration sought on Tuesday to contain the fallout after a magazine journalist disclosed he had been inadvertently included in a secret group
March 25, 2025The head of Turkey’s main opposition party has visited jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu after six nights of massive protests calling for his release
March 25, 2025Top intel officials shift responsibility on to Hegseth for sending potentially classified info to Yemen strike group chat
March 25, 2025Visa of Cornell University student fighting deportation is revoked by the State Department
March 26, 2025A magazine journalist’s account of being added to a group chat of U.S. national security officials coordinating plans for airstrikes has raised questions about how highly sensitive information is supposed to be handled
March 25, 2025Israeli authorities released an Oscar-winning Palestinian director who was detained by the army after being attacked by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank
March 25, 2025Trump administration accuses pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil of hiding info on his green card application
March 24, 2025Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will ask U.S. officials in Washington this week to remove U.S. sanctions on Turkey and let the
March 25, 2025A Korean American Columbia University student, who is a legal permanent U.S. resident and has participated in pro-Palestinian protests, cannot be detained by
March 25, 2025President Donald Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to Israel attempted to distance himself from past controversial statements about the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people
March 25, 2025America's top spies on Tuesday shifted the spotlight back to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to explain how highly sensitive details he posted in a
March 25, 2025Columbia University student sues Trump administration amid potential deportation proceedings
March 25, 2025The revelation that President Donald Trump’s most senior national security officials posted the specifics of a military attack to a chat group that included a journalist hours before the attack took place has raised many questions
March 25, 2025Top Trump administration officials used messaging app Signal to share war plans and mistakenly included a journalist in the encrypted chat, spurring calls by Democratic lawmakers for a
March 25, 2025A federal judge New York has ruled that a Columbia University student who is facing potential deportation for participating in a pro-Palestinian protest cannot be detained by immigration officials for now
March 25, 2025Britain urged Russia on Tuesday to agree to the "full, immediate and unconditional ceasefire" proposed by Ukraine after both countries reached a truce covering the Black Sea and
March 25, 2025United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and U.S.
March 25, 2025Dubai's Emirates NBD bank is teaming up with BlackRock to offer its wealth management clients opportunities to access alternative asset classes, with a focus on private markets, it
March 25, 2025Groups representing Columbia University professors on Tuesday sued the Trump administration over its effort to force the university to tighten rules on
March 25, 2025Anti-government protesters in Turkey said they planned to keep up a campaign of demonstrations triggered by the jailing of Istanbul's
March 25, 2025Turkey detains more than 1,400 protesters and multiple journalists after jailing of leading opposition figure
March 25, 2025The United States has imposed sanctions on three Iranian intelligence officers for their alleged involvement in the disappearance of former FBI Special Agent Robert
March 25, 2025In a messaging group that mistakenly disclosed plans by the U.S. to attack Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis to a journalist, senior Trump administration officials including persons
March 25, 2025Israel's eToro reported a 46% surge in commissions for 2024 as the retail trading platform filed for a U.S. initial public offering late on Monday,
March 25, 2025The president of Signal defended the messaging app's security on Wednesday after top Trump administration officials mistakenly included a journalist in an encrypted
March 25, 2025The Oscar-winning director of a documentary on the Israel-Palestinian conflict was released from detention on Tuesday, a
March 25, 2025Organizers and supporters of pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University were sued on Monday in Manhattan federal court for allegedly functioning as
March 24, 2025Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief at The Atlantic, joins CNN’s Kaitlan Collins to discuss being mistakenly included with top members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet in a group chat discussing detailed operational plans and other likely highly classified information about US military strikes on Yemen.
March 25, 2025Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 23 Palestinians on Tuesday, local health officials said, as the Israeli military expanded evacuation
March 25, 2025Iran's currency fell below the psychologically key level of 1,000,000 rial per U.S. dollar on Tuesday, as market participants saw no end in sight to sanctions under U.S.
March 25, 2025Western coastal areas of Yemen are on the verge of a catastrophe due to malnutrition, the United Nations children's agency (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
March 25, 2025Israel will take more territory in Gaza and fight until Hamas is wiped out if the Palestinian militant group keeps refusing to free remaining hostages, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz
March 25, 2025British security ties with the United States are as strong as ever, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said on Tuesday in response to the mistaken disclosure to a journalist of a
March 25, 2025Israel's parliament gave final approval to the long delayed 2025 state budget on Tuesday, in a turbulent session that showed how lawmakers and the country remain
March 25, 2025The United States has handed Syria a list of conditions that it wants Damascus to fulfill in exchange for partial sanctions relief, six
March 25, 2025President Donald Trump is downplaying the texting of attack plans to a group chat that included a journalist as “the only glitch in two months” of his administration
March 24, 2025Worker dies on Aramco Stadium construction site in Saudi Arabia, a 2034 World Cup host venue
March 25, 2025Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg says officials in the Trump administration accidentally added him to a group text chat about strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. National Security Council Spokesperson Brian Hughes says the text chain appears to be authentic.
March 24, 2025Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli strikes have killed more than 65 Palestinians including women and children
March 24, 2025The biggest scandal of Trump 2.0 is no scandal at all on MAGA media
March 25, 2025Tattoos, flyers and deleted photos: The limited evidence the Trump administration is using to try to deport migrants
March 25, 2025Ukrainian and U.S. delegations are scheduled to meet on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia following Russia-U.S. talks there a day earlier on a limited Black Sea ceasefire proposal that
March 25, 2025A Korean American Columbia University student, who is a legal permanent U.S. resident and has participated in pro-Palestinian protests, sued the administration
March 24, 2025Top Trump administration officials mistakenly disclosed war plans in a messaging group that included a journalist shortly before the U.S.
March 24, 2025Israeli settlers have beaten up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary film “No Other Land."
March 24, 2025For Syrians observing Ramadan, this Muslim holy month is their first in their homeland since the end of the Assad family's iron-fisted rule
March 25, 2025U.S. negotiators are working with Russian representatives on a proposed partial ceasefire in Ukraine
March 24, 2025Federal agencies say Columbia University’s new policies a ‘positive first step’ toward regaining aid
March 24, 2025Top Trump administration officials mistakenly disclosed war plans in a messaging group that included a journalist shortly before the U.S.
March 24, 2025Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that protests over the jailing of Istanbul's mayor had become a "
March 24, 2025Trump’s national security adviser added a journalist to text chat on highly sensitive Yemen strike plans
March 24, 2025The United Nations has said it will “reduce its footprint” in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli tank strike hit one of its compounds last week, killing one staffer and wounding five others
March 24, 2025U.S. and Russian officials wrapped up day-long talks on Monday focused on a narrow proposal for a ceasefire at sea between Kyiv and Moscow, part of a diplomatic effort that
March 23, 2025The United Nations said on Monday it is reducing its international staff numbers in Gaza by about a third after Israeli strikes in the enclave that have killed hundreds of civilians,
March 24, 2025Some U.S. embassies in European nations are taking to social media with pointed warnings to would-be visitors: Watch your step
March 24, 2025‘Imagine this is your son’: Family of hostage in new Hamas video plead with Netanyahu and Trump
March 24, 2025Russian strikes injure scores in Ukraine as US and Kremlin officials meet for ceasefire talks
March 24, 2025The Hamas militant group is responsible for the renewed fighting in Gaza after rejecting efforts to move forward with what had been an "acceptable deal," U.S. special envoy Steve
March 23, 2025U.S.
March 24, 2025Egypt has floated a new proposal aimed at restoring the Gaza ceasefire deal, security sources told Reuters on Monday,
March 24, 2025Turkey detains more than 1,000 protesters after jailing of Istanbul mayor
March 24, 2025A court has formally arrested the mayor of Istanbul and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's key rival and ordered him jailed pending trial on corruption charges
March 23, 2025Major rival to Turkey’s Erdogan vows to fight on as court jails him on corruption charges ahead of trial
March 21, 2025Here are some of the issues that Russia, the U.S. and Ukraine are discussing in talks aimed at paving the way for an end to the war in Ukraine: ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE President Vladimir
March 23, 2025The U.S. government has alleged that Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian demonstrator Mahmoud Khalil withheld that he worked for a United Nations Palestinian
March 24, 202550,000 killed in Gaza since start of Israel-Hamas war, health ministry says
March 23, 2025Credit rating firm S&P Global warned on Monday that the troubles triggered by the arrest of President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival could be a setback for
March 24, 2025One man was killed and another wounded in a combined ramming, stabbing and shooting attack by a lone assailant at a bus stop in northern Israel on Monday, emergency
March 24, 2025Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan about OPEC+ cooperation and Russia-U.S. talks on Ukraine, the Kremlin
March 24, 2025Israel considers massive new ground offensive in Gaza as it ramps up pressure on Hamas
March 24, 2025Turkey's opposition, galvanized by widescale protests over the jailing of Istanbul's mayor, is hoping to keep the momentum going in part
March 24, 2025Israel approves controversial proposal to facilitate emigration of Palestinians from Gaza
March 24, 2025Egypt made a new proposal last week aimed at restoring the Gaza ceasefire deal, security sources told Reuters on Monday.
March 24, 2025Russia and the United States will discuss resuming a deal to ensure the safety of merchant shipping in the Black Sea, the Kremlin said on Monday, noting that what Moscow saw as key
March 24, 2025‘I would prefer this over killing children:’ Why some Israeli teens are choosing jail over the army
March 24, 2025A veteran of Russia's FSB security service and a former long-serving diplomat are representing Russia at the latest round of talks with the United States over Ukraine, taking place on
March 24, 2025U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon says Columbia University is “on the right track” to recover federal funding frozen by the Trump administration
March 23, 2025Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israel’s military has struck the largest hospital in the territory's south, killing two people and wounding others
March 23, 2025An Israeli airstrike at a hospital in Gaza on Sunday killed five people, including a Hamas political leader, Palestinian medics and
March 22, 2025Israel has launched airstrikes on several locations in Lebanon in retaliation for a rocket attack
March 22, 2025Israel's parliamentary finance committee late on Sunday approved the 2025 state budget, setting up a final vote by lawmakers before its March 31 deadline to
March 23, 2025Israel strikes southern Gaza hospital as it targets Hamas operative in escalation of renewed offensive
March 23, 2025U.S.
March 23, 2025A Turkish court on Sunday jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival, pending trial on
March 22, 2025U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff expressed optimism on Sunday ahead of high-stakes talks in Saudi Arabia over the war in Ukraine and said he believed Russian
March 23, 2025Ukrainian and U.S. delegations discussed on Sunday proposals to protect energy facilities and critical infrastructure, Ukraine's defence
March 23, 2025The South African ambassador who was expelled from the United States and declared persona non grata by the Trump administration has been welcomed home at an airport by hundreds of supporters who sang songs praising him
March 23, 2025U.S.
March 23, 2025Political tensions are surging in Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has moved to fire top security and legal officials
March 23, 2025Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet approved a no confidence motion against the attorney general on Sunday, in its
March 23, 2025Iraq plans to raise oil production capacity to more than 6 million barrels per day (bpd) by 2029, the state news agency reported Iraq's oil ministry as saying on Sunday.
March 23, 202512-year-old accused of a hate crime after two Muslim students are attacked at their Connecticut middle school
March 23, 2025Turkish opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) members and others head to polling stations on Sunday for a primary election to endorse detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu
March 23, 2025Turkish Central Bank Governor Fatih Karahan will meet with board members of Turkey's Banks Association (TBB) on Sunday to discuss recent developments in the market, three banking
March 23, 2025Israel's security cabinet approved a plan to separate 13 Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank from their neighbouring communities, Finance
March 23, 2025The Taliban say the U.S. has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s former Western-backed government
March 23, 2025Talks with the U.S. are impossible unless Washington changes its pressure policy, the Iranian foreign minister said on Sunday, as Iran prepares to respond to President Donald Trump's
March 23, 2025Prosecutors have requested that detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the top challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, be formally arrested over allegations of corruption and terror links
March 22, 2025Israel strikes Hezbollah in response to rocket fire in most significant flare-up of tensions since ceasefire
March 22, 2025Auburn basketball coach Bruce Pearl began his postgame NCAA Tournament news conference on Saturday night by advocating for the release of Edan Alexander, the last living American being held hostage in Gaza by Hamas
March 23, 2025Israeli artillery and airstrikes hit south Lebanon on Saturday after Israel said it had intercepted rockets fired from across the border,
March 22, 2025U.S. immigration officials on Friday sent an email to the legal team of Momodou Taal, a Cornell University student who has participated in pro-Palestinian
March 21, 2025Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a potential challenger to longtime President Tayyip Erdogan, appeared in a Turkish court on Saturday for the first time since his
March 22, 2025Thousands of Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Saturday against the decision by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to dismiss the head of the Shin Bet
March 22, 2025The United States has lifted a $10 million reward offer for information leading to the arrest of a major Taliban leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani, an Afghan interior ministry spokesperson
March 22, 2025The father of the last living American hostage being held by Hamas in Gaza is hoping that the Trump administration's negotiators can help bring his son home safely
March 22, 2025Cornell student protester told to surrender to ICE as he asks judge to block deportation
March 21, 2025Turkish authorities have detained 343 people during overnight protests in several cities against the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the Interior Ministry said on
March 22, 2025George Glezmann, an American detained in Afghanistan for more than two years before being released by the Taliban, arrived in the United
March 21, 2025The governments of Germany, France and Britain called for an immediate return to a ceasefire in Gaza in a joint statement on Friday that also called on Israel to restore humanitarian access
March 21, 2025Protests erupted across multiple Turkish cities denouncing the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul even as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a stern warning that demonstrations would not be tolerated
March 21, 2025In what has become a Ramadan tradition, a group of volunteers in Dearborn, Michigan, gathers excess food prepared for the nightly fast-breaking iftar meal and distributes it to those in need in neighboring Detroit
March 22, 2025The United States told the U.N.
March 21, 2025Oil prices settled higher on Friday and recorded a second consecutive weekly gain as fresh U.S. sanctions on Iran and the latest output plan from the OPEC+ producer
March 20, 2025The Sudanese army seized full control of the presidential palace in downtown Khartoum on Friday, it said in a statement, in
March 21, 2025The administration of President Donald Trump is monitoring the actions of Syria's interim leaders as Washington determines future policy, the U.S.
March 21, 2025Hamas said on Friday it was reviewing a U.S. proposal to restore the Gaza ceasefire as Israel intensified a military onslaught to press
March 21, 2025By Luc Cohen NEW YORK - Two men who U.S. prosecutors say belong to a Russian organized crime group were convicted of involvement in an unsuccessful Iran-backed plot to kill a prominent New York-based
March 21, 2025Less than half of emergency vehicles run by the Palestinian Red Crescent are operational in Gaza due to fuel shortages, the IFRC humanitarian network said on
March 21, 2025Iran has the right to peaceful atomic energy and is acting in line with international law, the Kremlin said on Friday as the United States and Israel prepare for
March 21, 2025The detention of Istanbul's popular mayor risks undermining Turkey's move to end the PKK militant group's 40-year-old insurgency - a plan relying heavily
March 21, 2025Israel inflicted serious damage on Hamas with airstrikes this week that killed its Gaza government chief and other top officials, but
March 21, 2025Columbia University agreed to implement a host of policy changes, including overhauling its rules for protests and conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department
March 21, 2025Protests against the detention of Istanbul's mayor grew on Friday and turned increasingly tense, Turkey's
March 21, 2025Israel says it will maintain ‘permanent’ presence in Gaza unless hostages are freed
March 21, 2025Israeli forces have destroyed Gaza's only specialized cancer hospital as ground forces advance deeper into the Gaza Strip
March 21, 2025Airline staff ‘were as shocked as we were.’ The passengers caught up in the flight chaos
March 21, 2025The United Arab Emirates has committed to a 10-year, $1.4 trillion investment framework in the United States after top UAE officials
March 21, 2025Israel's Supreme Court issued an injunction on Friday temporarily freezing the dismissal of the head of the domestic intelligence service as protestors
March 21, 2025Gold fell 1% on Friday due to a stronger dollar and profit-taking, although lingering geopolitical and economic uncertainties, and U.S.
March 21, 2025Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has denied corruption charges brought against him, according to a court document seen by Reuters on Friday, after he was detained on Wednesday for
March 21, 2025‘It’s not what he expected’: Rubio has competition for the role of America’s top diplomat
March 21, 2025Sudan’s military says it retook the Republican Palace in Khartoum, the last heavily guarded bastion in the capital of rival paramilitary forces, after nearly two years of fighting
March 21, 2025A U.S. official says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is beefing up the Navy warship presence in the Middle East, ordering two aircraft carriers to be there next month as the U.S. increases strikes on Yemen-based Houthi rebels
March 21, 2025A group of eight Democratic Senators on Friday accused the Trump administration of abusing the country's immigration laws in arresting Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil over his
March 21, 2025Israel has warned that its latest onslaught in Gaza is "just the beginning" as its forces pound the enclave with deadly airstrikes and launch new ground
March 20, 2025Iranian oil shipments into China are set to fall in the near-term after new U.S. sanctions on a refiner and tankers, driving up shipping costs, but
March 21, 2025Sudan, which has been in the grip of a two-year-old war between the army and a paramilitary group, has a history of civil wars, military takeovers and rebellions.
March 21, 2025One of the largest providers of food aid in Gaza warned on Friday it only has enough flour to distribute for the next six days.
March 21, 2025The U.S. on Thursday issued new sanctions intended to hit Iran's oil exports, including what the State Department said were the first U.S. measures targeting a
March 20, 2025Israeli Supreme Court freezes Netanyahu government’s dismissal of head of internal security agency
March 20, 2025Turkish stocks were set for their worst week since the aftermath of 2008's Lehman Brothers collapse on Friday as concerns about this week's
March 21, 2025What we know about the Georgetown scholar facing deportation for alleged terror ties and ‘Hamas propaganda’
March 21, 2025Ukraine port city ‘on fire’ after ‘massive’ Russian attack as Trump projects optimism ahead of peace talks
March 21, 2025The University of California, Los Angeles, was sued on Thursday over a 2024 mob attack on pro-Palestinian protesters at the height of the U.S. campus protest
March 21, 2025Greece has extended by a year a visa scheme for Turkish nationals wishing to visit 12 islands in the Aegean Sea for up to a week, diplomatic sources said, continuing a programme
March 21, 2025UK-based gas producer Energean said on Friday it was terminating a deal with private equity fund Carlyle for the sale of some of its assets due to
March 21, 2025Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that Tehran does not need proxies in the region and that Yemen's Houthis, who are among the groups in the Middle East that Iran
March 21, 2025Anduril Industries has been selected by the U.S.
March 21, 2025Israel’s renewed military offensive in the Gaza Strip threatens to be even deadlier and more destructive than the last, as it pursues wider aims with far fewer constraints
March 21, 2025A federal judge has ordered immigration officials not to deport a Georgetown University scholar that the government detained until the court has had a chance to rule
March 20, 2025The Israeli government unanimously approved early on Friday a proposal from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to dismiss Shin Bet head Ronen Bar, the prime
March 21, 2025Lawmakers clash with constituents following more angry town halls
March 20, 2025Judge says Trump administration can’t deport Georgetown University fellow
March 20, 2025A deadline is looming for Columbia University to respond to nine demands on tightening restrictions on campus protests that U.S.
March 20, 2025A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump's administration not to deport Badar Khan Suri, an Indian man studying at Washington's Georgetown University
March 20, 2025Israeli strikes have killed at least 85 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip overnight and into Thursday
March 20, 2025Freed Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi has expressed his anger during an appearance at the U.N. Security Council for having to suffer for so long and worry every day about being killed
March 20, 2025The Israeli cabinet voted early on Friday to dismiss the head of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence service effective April 10, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said,
March 20, 2025Israel's military said it intercepted two missiles launched from Yemen on Thursday, days after U.S.
March 20, 2025Cyprus and the United Nations agency for refugees are clashing over allegations that the east Mediterranean island nation continues to engage in so-called pushbacks against migrant boats departing from neighboring Syria or Lebanon
March 20, 2025Three hospitals in the Gaza Strip say at least 85 Palestinians were killed by Israeli airstrikes on several homes across the war torn territory
March 20, 2025Elite universities feel targeted as Trump administration expands immigration crackdown
March 20, 2025The U.S.
March 20, 2025Thousands of Turks ramped up protests on Thursday despite a ban on street gatherings over what they called the undemocratic
March 20, 2025A federal judge has ordered Columbia University and Barnard College to refrain from complying with a Republican-led House committee’s demand for student disciplinary records, at least until he holds a hearing next week on a request by Mahmoud Khalil and other students for a temporary restraining order
March 20, 2025An American man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist has been released by the Taliban
March 20, 2025Thousands of people have gathered outside Istanbul’s city hall for a second consecutive night to rally against the arrest of the city’s popular mayor
March 20, 2025The United Nations said on Thursday that each day of renewed violence in Gaza makes the return of the remaining hostages held there a more distant objective. U.N.
March 20, 2025Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday the main opposition party was seeking to cover up its own mistakes and deceive people with "theatrics", in his first comments on
March 20, 2025Oil prices rose on Thursday after the United States issued new Iran-related sanctions and renewed tensions in the Middle East countered strength in the dollar.
March 20, 2025Detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu appeared to address Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in a social media post on Thursday, accusing him of corruption and calling on members of his
March 20, 2025Hamas fires rockets at Israel for first time since truce collapses as toll mounts in Gaza
March 20, 2025American detained by Taliban in Afghanistan is freed in deal mediated by Qatar
March 20, 2025Gold touched an all-time high on Thursday as the U.S.
March 20, 2025Five staff members of the United Nations Palestinian relief agency, UNRWA, have been killed in the past few days, the agency's Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said on
March 20, 2025At least 91 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in airstrikes across Gaza on Thursday after Israel resumed bombing and ground
March 20, 2025The Taliban on Thursday freed an American citizen detained in Afghanistan for over two years following direct talks between U.S. hostage
March 20, 2025Confronted with huge cuts to its federal funding, Columbia University’s leaders face a grim decision: They can yield to the Trump administration’s demands over allegations of antisemitism — ceding extraordinary control to the federal government — or they can fight back, potentially risking even more debilitating cuts in an escalating clash
March 19, 2025Khader Junaid clambered onto a donkey cart with his family and their belongings and set off through Gaza's rubble, embarking on all-too-familiar escape to safety
March 20, 2025Germany reopened its embassy in Syria on Thursday, establishing official diplomatic ties with the new leadership in Damascus as it faces deep humanitarian and security problems in
March 20, 2025Germany’s foreign minister has reopened its embassy in Damascus, 13 years after it was shut in the early days of Syria’s civil war
March 20, 2025Rescuers have pulled a 25-day old baby girl alive from the rubble of her home in Gaza's Khan Younis after an airstrike killed her parents and brother
March 20, 2025Russian and U.S. experts will discuss ways to ensure the safety of shipping in the Black Sea at talks on a possible Ukrainian peace settlement in Riyadh on Monday, the Kremlin said.
March 20, 2025The ADL says Wikipedia contains antisemitic bias, amid dispute over how the Israel-Hamas conflict is represented on the site
March 20, 2025A French citizen imprisoned in Iran for over 880 days has been freed
March 20, 2025U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened Yemen’s Houthi rebels that they’ll be “completely annihilated” as American airstrikes pounded locations under their control, while further pressuring the group’s main benefactor Iran
March 19, 2025Sudan's army is close to taking control of the Presidential Palace in Khartoum from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, state TV reported on Thursday, in a significant milestone in a two
March 20, 2025President Vladimir Putin sent a message to Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa backing efforts to ensure Syria's territorial integrity and offering Russia's "practical cooperation" on a
March 20, 2025Iran will consider the "opportunities" as well as the threats in a letter from U.S.
March 20, 2025Israeli strikes kill dozens as military launches first ground campaign since ceasefire collapsed
March 19, 2025Afnan al-Ghanam of Gaza had given birth to her first child during war, 13 months ago, while the family was still living in their home
March 20, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he spoke with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the two leaders condemned the resumption of Israeli strikes on Gaza.
March 19, 2025Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner said on Wednesday he dropped his threat to evict an art house cinema from city property for screening Oscar-winning "No Other
March 19, 2025U.S.
March 20, 2025Israeli outposts have proliferated in the West Bank since Oct. 7, analysis shows. Palestinians fear annexation could be next.
March 20, 2025Israel intercepts missile launched by Houthi rebels as US airstrikes hit Yemen
March 20, 2025A U.S. judge on Wednesday said Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil must remain in the United States for now, but moved his challenge to the legality of his
March 19, 2025Ukrainian and U.S. teams could meet in Saudi Arabia in the coming days to discuss technicalities of partial ceasefire, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said after what he described as "very
March 19, 2025The United States struck targets in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa on Wednesday, Houthi-run Al Masirah TV reported, the latest in a wave of strikes carried out in retaliation for attacks
March 19, 2025The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen early Thursday before it reached Israeli airspace, as air raid sirens and exploding interceptors were heard in Jerusalem
March 20, 2025Turkish police have arrested Istanbul’s mayor — a popular opposition leader and key rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — and several other prominent figures as part of investigations into alleged corruption and terror links
March 19, 2025The Israeli military says it launched a “limited ground operation” to retake part of a key corridor that bisects northern Gaza from the south
March 19, 2025Israel says its troops retook part of a corridor that bisects Gaza, and its defense minister warned that attacks would intensify until Hamas frees dozens of hostages and gives up control of the territory
March 19, 2025Federal judge orders Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil’s case to be moved to New Jersey
March 19, 2025Trump gives Iran two-month deadline to reach new nuclear deal
March 19, 2025The U.S. hit targets across Yemen in airstrikes overnight, including Saada province, which Yemeni sources say is a long-time hideout for Iran-aligned Houthi
March 18, 2025The U.S.
March 19, 2025Ben & Jerry’s says its CEO was unlawfully removed by its parent company, Unilever, in retaliation for the ice cream maker’s social and political activism
March 19, 2025Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump talked about the fighting in Ukraine, of course
March 19, 2025Turkey detained Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the main rival of President Tayyip Erdogan, on charges of corruption and aiding a terrorist group in
March 19, 2025The United Nations' Secretary-General condemned on Wednesday attacks on UN personnel and added in a statement from his spokesperson that all parties in Israel's attack on Gaza knew
March 19, 2025Oil prices edged up on Wednesday after U.S. government data showed a draw in fuel inventories, but the Federal Reserve's decision to hold interest rates steady capped gains.
March 18, 2025The dollar pared gains against the euro after the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady as expected on Wednesday, but indicated policymakers anticipate reducing borrowing
March 19, 2025U.S. stocks bounced on Wednesday after the U.S.
March 19, 2025The Israeli military said on Wednesday its forces resumed ground operations in the central and southern Gaza Strip, as a second day
March 19, 2025Gold prices soared to an all-time high on Wednesday, following remarks from Fed Chair Jerome Powell and as the U.S.
March 19, 2025A federal judge says a Columbia University student activist's legal challenge of his detention by the U.S. government will be heard in New Jersey rather than New York or Louisiana
March 19, 2025Two years of hard work to build international investor confidence in Turkey's economic turnaround story has been dealt a major setback by a long-feared detention of
March 19, 2025The mayor of Miami Beach, Florida, is backing off a proposal to terminate an independent theater's lease and financial support after it screened an Oscar-winning documentary about the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis
March 19, 2025Malnutrition is growing in Yemen with needs outpacing current treatment capacity, medical charity MSF said on Wednesday, in a statement appealing for greater
March 19, 2025Netanyahu faces fury as renewed war deepens Israeli divisions
March 19, 2025Israel has resumed the war in Gaza. Why now?
March 18, 2025A resumption of fighting in the war between Israel and Hamas threatens the peace efforts of Arab states, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Wednesday ahead of her
March 19, 2025Palestinian FA reveals World Cup qualifying team with stark video from war-torn Gaza
March 19, 2025A coalition of hostage families and protesters against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's moves against the judiciary and parts of the security
March 19, 2025Protesters near Istanbul's main police headquarters on Wednesday said the detention of President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival and the city's mayor
March 19, 2025A foreign national was killed and four others were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the site of a United Nations headquarters in central Gaza City on Wednesday, Gaza's health
March 19, 2025Hours after Israel pummeled Gaza with bombs, killing more than 400 people and ending the fragile ceasefire, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised, "from now on, Israel will fight against Hamas with more and more power," until Gaza "will no longer be a threat."
March 18, 2025The fragile ceasefire in Gaza ended on Tuesday as Israel launched “extensive strikes” across the enclave. The operation ended a nearly two month pause in fighting which had allowed some sense of normalcy for Gaza residents after over a year of war.
March 18, 2025Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Tuesday that fresh Israeli strikes that have killed hundreds of Palestinians were not a "one-day attack" and that the military
March 18, 2025Israel has been fighting wars on several fronts in the Middle East since the Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked communities in the country in
March 18, 2025Turkey detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Wednesday on charges such as graft and aiding a terrorist group, a step the main opposition party criticised as a "
March 19, 2025Human Rights Watch Turkey Director Emma Sinclair-Webb condemned the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and others from the Istanbul municipality on Wednesday, calling it a "
March 19, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook Investors' attention looks set to switch, briefly, to monetary policy for the rest of the week, from its usual recent fixation
March 19, 2025After call with Trump, Putin agrees to pause attacks on Ukraine’s energy and infrastructure targets
March 18, 2025Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University Palestinian graduate student who the Trump administration is seeking to deport for his role in pro-Palestinian protests
March 18, 2025The presidents of Congo and Rwanda have met in Qatar for their first direct talks since Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seized two major cities in mineral-rich eastern Congo earlier this year
March 18, 2025Israel has launched airstrikes across the Gaza Strip that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says are “only the beginning” and “a necessary condition for freeing hostages.”
March 18, 2025The White House says a lengthy phone call between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had achieved “movement to peace” in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
March 18, 2025Families whose relatives remain hostages in Gaza are terrified their loved ones might not return after Israel launched a wave of strikes on the territory
March 18, 2025A Columbia University student arrested and threatened with deportation for his role in campus protests against Israel gave his first public statement, saying that his detention is indicative of “anti-Palestinian racism” demonstrated by both the Trump and Biden administrations
March 18, 2025‘Mama, I’m tired - I want to die:’ Israel’s strikes in Gaza leave a generation of Palestinian children traumatized
March 18, 2025Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday defended the resumption of airstrikes in Gaza, saying that negotiations on restoring the ceasefire would continue "only
March 18, 2025Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame called for a ceasefire in eastern Congo on Tuesday during
March 18, 2025Israeli airstrikes pounded Gaza and killed more than 400 people on Tuesday, Palestinian health authorities said,
March 17, 2025Israel has launched a wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, saying it is hitting Hamas targets in its heaviest assault in the territory since a ceasefire took effect in January
March 18, 2025Gaza truce shatters as Israel carries out wave of deadly strikes and says it has ‘returned to fighting’
March 18, 2025The wave of Israeli strikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday was the culmination of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to get out of the ceasefire with Hamas that he agreed to in January
March 18, 2025Turkey will ramp up diplomatic efforts to reinstate a ceasefire in Gaza and halt the killing of innocent people there, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.
March 18, 2025United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday talks on the future of Cyprus had made progress for the first time in years, with both sides agreeing a series of
March 18, 2025Oil prices eased about 1% on Tuesday as U.S.
March 18, 2025Yemen's Houthis said on Tuesday they would expand their range of targets in Israel in the next hours and days unless the "aggression" on Gaza stops.
March 18, 2025Itamar Ben-Gvir's planned return to Israel's government brings back a West Bank settler who has pressed for an intensification of the war in the Gaza Strip, even as the
March 18, 2025Responsibility for the resumption of hostilities in Gaza lies solely with Hamas, and the United States supports Israel in its next steps, the acting U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
March 18, 2025Istanbul University said on Tuesday it had annulled the degree of President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival over irregularities, dealing a blow to the opposition days before
March 18, 2025The Turkish Cypriot leader said on Tuesday that talks in Geneva on Cyprus were positive, and that he hopes to open a new page on a sustainable future for the island.
March 18, 2025What we know about a Rhode Island doctor and professor who was deported to Lebanon
March 18, 2025Syria's foreign ministry on Tuesday condemned Israeli strikes on the southwestern city of Daraa, which it said killed and injured civilians.
March 18, 2025As Israel resumes heavy strikes in the Gaza Strip, escalating Israeli attacks in south Lebanon have killed five Hezbollah members in the last few days, according to security sources
March 18, 2025One of Israel's most divisive domestic issues has reared itself again to challenge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after a group in the ruling
March 18, 2025Israel's sudden onslaught of air strikes overnight overwhelmed Gaza hospitals already reeling from weeks of an aid blockade, medics
March 18, 2025Israel's currency fell alongside its bonds and stock market on Tuesday as a wave of deadly airstrikes by its military in Gaza threatened the
March 18, 2025An Afghan father of two is among thousands of newly arrived refugees who lost financial assistance when the Trump administration cut off funding for the federal refugee program in January
March 18, 2025The return to hostilities in Gaza must cease and humanitarian aid and commercial essentials be allowed to enter the embattled territory, the emergency relief coordinator for the United
March 18, 2025The relative calm of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has come to an abrupt end with Israel launching dozens of attacks on targets across the Gaza Strip
March 18, 2025Israeli startup REE Automotive said on Tuesday it expects revenue of up to $770 million by 2030 from a licensing deal with an undisclosed company to which it will provide
March 18, 2025Russia expressed "deep regret" on Tuesday over Israel's latest airstrikes on Gaza and said it condemned any actions that led to civilian deaths.
March 18, 2025The U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday he was horrified by Israeli strikes on Gaza which Palestinian authorities say have killed hundreds of people, threatening the complete
March 18, 2025Turkey's pro-Kurdish party said that President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling alliance had offered no clear steps during closed-door talks on Monday
March 18, 2025Homeland Security officials say a doctor from Lebanon who was deported over the weekend despite having a U.S. visa “openly admitted” to supporting a Hezbollah leader and attending his funeral
March 17, 2025An Afghan father of two is among thousands of newly arrived refugees who lost financial assistance when the Trump administration cut off funding for the federal refugee program in January
March 18, 2025Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired or forced out a string of top officials since the deadly Hamas attack on Israel in 2023 that triggered the war in Gaza
March 17, 2025Why there’s a piece of Venice on the edge of the desert
March 18, 2025Yemen's Houthis will not "dial down" their action against Israeli shipping in the Red Sea in response to U.S. military pressure
March 18, 2025Israel has expanded and consolidated settlements in the occupied West Bank as part of the steady integration of these territories into the State of Israel, in breach of international
March 18, 2025Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan is working to secure a meeting with U.S.
March 18, 2025North Korea condemned recent U.S. strikes on Yemen as an act violating international law and a country's sovereignty and said such a move could never be justified in any way, the
March 18, 2025The administration of President Donald Trump was consulted on Monday by Israel on its deadly strikes in Gaza, a White House spokesperson told Fox News' "Hannity
March 18, 2025U.S. authorities on Monday said they deported a Rhode Island doctor to Lebanon last week after discovering "sympathetic photos and videos" of the former longtime
March 17, 2025Israel launched a wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, striking dozens of Hamas targets in its heaviest assault in the territory since a ceasefire took effect in January
March 17, 2025A U.S. spy drone retreated from near Iranian airspace after encountering Iranian F-14 fighter jets and reconnaissance drones, Iran’s Nournews quoted the country's Army Air Force as
March 17, 2025Iran told the United Nations Security Council on Monday that U.S.
March 17, 2025The European Union and its partners have pledged 5.8 billion euros ($6.3 billion) for Syria and its neighbours, said the EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Monday.
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March 17, 2025An organization of American veterans, Afghans who fled their country and other volunteers has stepped up to help Afghans at risk of being stranded overseas
March 17, 2025Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday that the monthly losses of the Suez Canal revenues reached around $800 million due to the regional "situation", as Yemen's
March 17, 2025The cost of shipping goods through the Red Sea is expected to remain firm after the United States carried out further airstrikes on Yemen on Monday, adding to fears
March 17, 2025The bodies of seven people were recovered off Cyprus on Monday after authorities mounted a search and rescue operation following the capsize of a boat carrying migrants, Cyprus's
March 17, 2025Israel spent 112 billion shekels ($31 billion) on its military conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon in 2024, the Finance Ministry said in a report on Monday.
March 17, 2025Israel awarded licences to BP, Azeri national oil firm Socar and local company NewMed Energy on Monday to explore for natural gas in Israeli waters as the
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