Oil 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, 2025
The Sudanese army seized full control of the presidential palace in downtown Khartoum on Friday, it said in a statement, in
March 21, 2025
The administration of President Donald Trump is monitoring the actions of Syria's interim leaders as Washington determines future policy, the U.S.
March 21, 2025
Hamas 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, 2025
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March 21, 2025
Less 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, 2025
Iran 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, 2025
The 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, 2025
Israel inflicted serious damage on Hamas with airstrikes this week that killed its Gaza government chief and other top officials, but
March 21, 2025
Columbia 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, 2025
Protests against the detention of Istanbul's mayor grew on Friday and turned increasingly tense, Turkey's
March 21, 2025
Israel says it will maintain ‘permanent’ presence in Gaza unless hostages are freed
March 21, 2025
Israeli forces have destroyed Gaza's only specialized cancer hospital as ground forces advance deeper into the Gaza Strip
March 21, 2025
Airline staff ‘were as shocked as we were.’ The passengers caught up in the flight chaos
March 21, 2025
The United Arab Emirates has committed to a 10-year, $1.4 trillion investment framework in the United States after top UAE officials
March 21, 2025
Israel's Supreme Court issued an injunction on Friday temporarily freezing the dismissal of the head of the domestic intelligence service as protestors
March 21, 2025
Gold fell 1% on Friday due to a stronger dollar and profit-taking, although lingering geopolitical and economic uncertainties, and U.S.
March 21, 2025
Istanbul 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, 2025
Sudan’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, 2025
A 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, 2025
A 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, 2025
Israel 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, 2025
Iranian 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, 2025
Sudan, 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, 2025
One 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, 2025
The 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, 2025
Israeli Supreme Court freezes Netanyahu government’s dismissal of head of internal security agency
March 20, 2025
Turkish 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, 2025
What we know about the Georgetown scholar facing deportation for alleged terror ties and ‘Hamas propaganda’
March 21, 2025
Ukraine port city ‘on fire’ after ‘massive’ Russian attack as Trump projects optimism ahead of peace talks
March 21, 2025
The 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, 2025
Greece 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, 2025
UK-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, 2025
Iran'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, 2025
Anduril Industries has been selected by the U.S.
March 21, 2025
Israel’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, 2025
A 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, 2025
The 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, 2025
Lawmakers clash with constituents following more angry town halls
March 20, 2025
Judge says Trump administration can’t deport Georgetown University fellow
March 20, 2025
A deadline is looming for Columbia University to respond to nine demands on tightening restrictions on campus protests that U.S.
March 20, 2025
A 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, 2025
Israeli strikes have killed at least 85 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip overnight and into Thursday
March 20, 2025
Freed 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, 2025
The 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, 2025
Israel's military said it intercepted two missiles launched from Yemen on Thursday, days after U.S.
March 20, 2025
Cyprus 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, 2025
Three 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, 2025
Elite universities feel targeted as Trump administration expands immigration crackdown
March 20, 2025
The U.S.
March 20, 2025
Thousands of Turks ramped up protests on Thursday despite a ban on street gatherings over what they called the undemocratic
March 20, 2025
A 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, 2025
An 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, 2025
Thousands 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, 2025
The 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, 2025
Turkish 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, 2025
Oil 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, 2025
Detained 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, 2025
Hamas fires rockets at Israel for first time since truce collapses as toll mounts in Gaza
March 20, 2025
American detained by Taliban in Afghanistan is freed in deal mediated by Qatar
March 20, 2025
Five 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, 2025
At least 91 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in airstrikes across Gaza on Thursday after Israel resumed bombing and ground
March 20, 2025
The Taliban on Thursday freed an American citizen detained in Afghanistan for over two years following direct talks between U.S. hostage
March 20, 2025
Confronted 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, 2025
Khader 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, 2025
Germany 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, 2025
Germany’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, 2025
Rescuers 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, 2025
Russian 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, 2025
The ADL says Wikipedia contains antisemitic bias, amid dispute over how the Israel-Hamas conflict is represented on the site
March 20, 2025
A French citizen imprisoned in Iran for over 880 days has been freed
March 20, 2025
U.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, 2025
Sudan'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, 2025
President 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, 2025
Iran will consider the "opportunities" as well as the threats in a letter from U.S.
March 20, 2025
Israeli strikes kill dozens as military launches first ground campaign since ceasefire collapsed
March 19, 2025
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March 20, 2021
Afnan 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, 2025
French 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, 2025
Miami 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, 2025
U.S.
March 20, 2025
Israeli outposts have proliferated in the West Bank since Oct. 7, analysis shows. Palestinians fear annexation could be next.
March 20, 2025
Israel intercepts missile launched by Houthi rebels as US airstrikes hit Yemen
March 20, 2025
A 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, 2025
Ukrainian 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, 2025
The 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, 2025
Gold touched an all-time high on Thursday as the U.S.
March 20, 2025
The 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, 2025
Turkish 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, 2025
The 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, 2025
Israel 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, 2025
Federal judge orders Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil’s case to be moved to New Jersey
March 19, 2025
Trump gives Iran two-month deadline to reach new nuclear deal
March 19, 2025
The 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, 2025
The U.S.
March 19, 2025
Ben & 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, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump talked about the fighting in Ukraine, of course
March 19, 2025
Turkey detained Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the main rival of President Tayyip Erdogan, on charges of corruption and aiding a terrorist group in
March 19, 2025
The 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, 2025
Oil 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, 2025
The 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, 2025
U.S. stocks bounced on Wednesday after the U.S.
March 19, 2025
The Israeli military said on Wednesday its forces resumed ground operations in the central and southern Gaza Strip, as a second day
March 19, 2025
Gold prices soared to an all-time high on Wednesday, following remarks from Fed Chair Jerome Powell and as the U.S.
March 19, 2025
A 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, 2025
Two 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, 2025
The 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, 2025
Malnutrition is growing in Yemen with needs outpacing current treatment capacity, medical charity MSF said on Wednesday, in a statement appealing for greater
March 19, 2025
Netanyahu faces fury as renewed war deepens Israeli divisions
March 19, 2025
Israel has resumed the war in Gaza. Why now?
March 18, 2025
A 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, 2025
Palestinian FA reveals World Cup qualifying team with stark video from war-torn Gaza
March 19, 2025
A coalition of hostage families and protesters against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's moves against the judiciary and parts of the security
March 19, 2025
Protesters 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, 2025
A 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, 2025
Hours 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, 2025
The 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, 2025
Israel'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, 2025
Israel 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, 2025
Turkey 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, 2025
Human 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, 2025
A 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, 2025
After call with Trump, Putin agrees to pause attacks on Ukraine’s energy and infrastructure targets
March 18, 2025
Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University Palestinian graduate student who the Trump administration is seeking to deport for his role in pro-Palestinian protests
March 18, 2025
The 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, 2025
Israel 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, 2025
The 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, 2025
Families 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, 2025
A 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, 2025
Israel'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, 2025
Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame called for a ceasefire in eastern Congo on Tuesday during
March 18, 2025
Israeli airstrikes pounded Gaza and killed more than 400 people on Tuesday, Palestinian health authorities said,
March 17, 2025
Israel 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, 2025
Gaza truce shatters as Israel carries out wave of deadly strikes and says it has ‘returned to fighting’
March 18, 2025
The 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, 2025
Turkey 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, 2025
United 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, 2025
Oil prices eased about 1% on Tuesday as U.S.
March 18, 2025
Yemen'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, 2025
Itamar 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, 2025
Responsibility 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, 2025
Istanbul 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, 2025
The 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, 2025
What we know about a Rhode Island doctor and professor who was deported to Lebanon
March 18, 2025
Syria's foreign ministry on Tuesday condemned Israeli strikes on the southwestern city of Daraa, which it said killed and injured civilians.
March 18, 2025
As 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, 2025
One 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, 2025
Israel's sudden onslaught of air strikes overnight overwhelmed Gaza hospitals already reeling from weeks of an aid blockade, medics
March 18, 2025
Israel'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, 2025
An 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, 2025
The 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, 2025
The 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, 2025
Israeli 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, 2025
Russia 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, 2025
The 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, 2025
Turkey'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, 2025
Homeland 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, 2025
An 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, 2025
Prime 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, 2025
Why there’s a piece of Venice on the edge of the desert
March 18, 2025
Yemen's Houthis will not "dial down" their action against Israeli shipping in the Red Sea in response to U.S. military pressure
March 18, 2025
Israel hit Gaza with heavy airstrikes on Tuesday, shattering nearly two months of ceasefire without formally declaring an end to a January truce agreement with Hamas.
February 27, 2024
An Israeli air strike killed three Palestinian men in Gaza on Monday as they tried to gather firewood, medics said, with no sign of progress in renewed talks on
March 17, 2025
Israel 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, 2025
Israel unleashed a new wave of strikes on Gaza, ending a break in fighting during which 33 Israeli hostages were returned in return for the release of nearly 1,800 Palestinian prisoners
February 27, 2025
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan is working to secure a meeting with U.S.
March 18, 2025
North 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, 2025
The 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, 2025
Israeli military strikes have killed at least 15 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the enclave's health ministry said on Sunday, as Arab and
March 16, 2025
U.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, 2025
Israel 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, 2025
The Justice Department has announced the creation of a task force to investigate Hamas for its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel as well as potential civil rights violations and acts of antisemitism by anyone supporting the militant group
March 17, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump has explicitly linked the actions of Yemen’s Houthi rebels to the group’s main benefactor, Iran
March 17, 2025
A 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, 2025
Donors at a European Union-led conference on Monday pledged 5.8 billion euros ($6.3 billion) to help Syria's new authorities as they struggle with humanitarian and
March 16, 2025
Lebanon and Syria agree to ceasefire after cross-border attacks kill 10
March 17, 2025
Iran told the United Nations Security Council on Monday that U.S.
March 17, 2025
Lebanon's Defence Minister Michel Menassa and his Syrian counterpart Murhaf Abu Qasra agreed on a ceasefire, the Lebanese and Syrian defence ministries said in statements on Monday,
March 17, 2025
The 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.
March 17, 2025
U.S.
March 17, 2025
An 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, 2025
Egypt'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, 2025
U.S.
March 17, 2025
Wall Street stocks ended higher and gold held near $3,000 per ounce on Monday after mixed economic data and ahead of talks between U.S.
March 17, 2025
International donors have pledged almost $6.5 billion in aid for Syria
March 17, 2025
The 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, 2025
Oil prices rose slightly on Monday after the United States vowed to keep attacking Yemen's Houthis until the Iran-aligned group ends its assaults on shipping,
March 16, 2025
The 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, 2025
‘Ethnic cleansing!’ Videos show Syrian government-aligned forces reveling in massacre of minorities in coastal town
March 17, 2025
Israel 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, 2025
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Monday that he had proposed at a European Union meeting for sanctions to be placed on those behind attacks against Syria's
March 17, 2025
Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi will be released from house arrest on Monday, state media reported, 14 years after he was detained for calling for a rally in support of
March 17, 2025
Israel 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
March 17, 2025
Pavel Durov, the Russian-born founder and CEO of Telegram, said on Monday that he had returned to Dubai.
March 17, 2025
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says that he has travelled from France to Dubai, even as the French authorities continue to investigate criminal activity on his messaging app
March 17, 2025
Another Columbia student targeted by ICE says she wasn’t involved in protests on the night of her arrest
March 17, 2025
Iran will respond to U.S.
March 17, 2025
The United States and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen are both vowing escalation after the U.S. launched airstrikes to deter the rebels from attacking military and commercial vessels in one of the world’s busiest shipping corridors
March 16, 2025
The cries for revenge reached fever pitch on March 6.
March 16, 2025
Germany is pledging a further 300 million euros ($326 million) in aid for Syrians through the United Nations and select organisations, said Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on
March 17, 2025
The United States will keep attacking Yemen's Houthis until they end attacks on shipping, the U.S. defense
March 16, 2025
Dozens reported killed after Trump orders ‘decisive’ strikes against Yemen’s Houthis
March 15, 2025
A Rhode Island doctor who is an assistant professor at Brown University's medical school has been deported to Lebanon even though a judge had issued an order blocking
March 16, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will seek to dismiss the head of the internal security service
March 16, 2025
The Syrian Civil Defense says ordnance from Syria’s 13-year conflict exploded in the coastal city of Latakia, collapsing a building and killing at least 16 people
March 16, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the head of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence service that he will ask the government to approve his dismissal
March 16, 2025
Netanyahu moves to fire the head of Israel’s internal security service
March 16, 2025
Family members of Syrians who disappeared in the 14-year civil war have called on the newly installed interim government to not give up on efforts to find them
March 16, 2025
Iraq's security forces have seized an estimated 1.1 tonne of captagon pills hidden inside a truck that entered Iraq from Syria via Turkey, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
March 16, 2025
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan spoke by phone with U.S.
March 16, 2025
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a lawsuit challenging as unconstitutional the Trump administration’s actions to deport international
March 16, 2025
Nine killed in Israeli attack in northern Gaza, officials say, in deadliest strike since ceasefire began
March 15, 2025
US forces working with Iraqi security services killed ISIS chief of global operations in a "precision airstrike," US President Donald Trump and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani confirmed. Abu Khadijah was considered "one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world."
March 15, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump says he has ordered airstrikes against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen, and issued a warning to Tehran
March 15, 2025
The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen say a series of airstrikes have hit the capital, Sanaa, on Saturday evening
March 15, 2025
‘Rules aren’t clear anymore’: Trump crackdown on student protesters sends shock waves across US universities
March 16, 2025
The U.S. is weighing in with Lebanon's government on the selection of the country's next central bank governor in a bid to
March 16, 2025
A Columbia University student detained over his pro-Palestinian activism is not a flight risk and should be allowed to return home for the birth of his first
March 15, 2025
U.S.
March 15, 2025
At least nine Palestinians including three local journalists were killed on Saturday in an Israeli air strike on Gaza's northern Beit Lahiya town, the local
March 15, 2025
Hamas says it will only release an American-Israeli and the bodies of four other hostages if Israel implements their ceasefire agreement
March 15, 2025
Yemen's Houthi rebels, who were threatened with an air and naval blockade by Israel on Tuesday, are one of Iran's few allies still standing since the
January 12, 2024
The Trump administration is considering issuing sweeping travel restrictions for the citizens of dozens of countries as part of a new ban, according to sources
March 14, 2025
Amid bursts of resistance, Trump administration squeezes colleges over pro-Palestinian protests as activist remains detained
March 14, 2025
A top U.S. Justice Department official says the department is investigating whether Columbia University concealed “illegal aliens” on its campus
March 14, 2025
Adam Boehler, President Donald Trump’s nominee to become special envoy for hostage affairs, has withdrawn his nomination to avoid a requirement that he divest from his investment business
March 15, 2025
The Trump administration has withdrawn the nomination of Adam Boehler to serve as special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, the White House said on
March 15, 2025
The United States will likely revoke visas of more students in the coming days, U.S.
March 14, 2025
‘We are in no man’s land:’ Families of Gaza hostages pin their hopes on Trump
March 15, 2025
US and Iraqi forces kill ISIS chief of global operations, officials say
March 15, 2025
Hamas says it is prepared to release American-Israeli hostage and bodies of four dual nationals
March 14, 2025
A delegation of Druze religious elders from Syria crossed into Israel on Friday for the first such visit in more than 50 years, underscoring Israel's
March 14, 2025
International students and foreign faculty have watched the crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University with apprehension
March 15, 2025
Iraqi Prime Minister Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has said that the head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was killed in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or “Abu Khadija,” was “one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world,” the statement said
March 14, 2025
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday there was a "disturbing rise in anti-Muslim bigotry" around the world while urging online tech platforms
March 15, 2025
The Trump administration has delivered an extraordinary ultimatum to Columbia University, threatening to permanently end federal funding to the school unless it cedes control of an international studies department and implements sweeping changes to other policies
March 14, 2025
Iran is using drones and apps to catch women who aren’t wearing hijabs, says UN report
March 14, 2025
Global ratings agency S&P raised Saudi Arabia's rating to 'A+' from 'A' with a stable outlook on Friday, underpinned by the ongoing social and economic transformation in the country.
March 14, 2025
A newly released video shows the moment federal immigration agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Palestinian activist whose detention has sparked waves of protest across the country
March 14, 2025
The U.S.
March 14, 2025
The Trump administration official overseeing the dismantling of the main U.S. foreign aid agency proposed phasing out help for crisis-torn Lebanon and the
March 14, 2025
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says Russian President Vladimir Putin met with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff to discuss details of the American proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in the war with Ukraine
March 14, 2025
Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to free an American-Israeli dual national if Israel begins the next phase of ceasefire talks towards
March 14, 2025
The United States is proposing a "bridge" plan to extend the ceasefire in Gaza into April beyond Ramadan and Passover and allow time to negotiate a permanent cessation of hostilities, the
March 14, 2025
Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-nationals who had died in captivity
March 14, 2025
Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual nationals who had died in captivity
March 14, 2025
Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an inclusive society in a country with
March 14, 2025
Syria's foreign minister made his first visit to Iraq since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, and called on Baghdad to reopen the border between the two countries that it had shut in
March 14, 2025
The Trump administration’s policy of deporting some foreign nationals who participate in pro-Palestinian protests is unconstitutional, lawyers for a detained Columbia
March 14, 2025
Somalia and its breakaway region of Somaliland have not received any proposal from the United States or Israel to resettle Palestinians from Gaza, their foreign ministers said on Friday,
March 14, 2025
CNN Poll: Most Americans disapprove of Trump’s approach to Ukraine war, doubt it will yield peace
March 14, 2025
Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Khirbet al-Marjam in the occupied West Bank on Thursday night, burning three houses and a number of cars in the latest
March 14, 2025
A landmine warning sign in Yemen's Marib province reminds camel herders that their next step could be their last.
March 14, 2025
For Iran's clerical leaders, engaging with the "Great Satan" to hammer out a nuclear deal and ease crippling sanctions may for once be the lesser of two evils.
March 14, 2025
Debra Messing says she will never stop fighting against antisemitism: ‘I don’t think I’ve ever felt as proud of being a Jew’
February 07, 2025
Iran increasingly relies on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country's mandatory headscarf in public, even as hard-liners push for harsher penalties for those protesting the law
March 14, 2025
The Kurdish-led group which governs northeast Syria on Friday rejected a constitutional declaration issued by the new Islamist leadership in
March 14, 2025
Some of the Syrians who sought sanctuary at a Russian air base from sectarian killings are trickling home to devastated villages.
March 14, 2025
The U.S. and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as potential destinations to move Palestinians from the Gaza Strip
March 14, 2025
Dozens of clerics and others from Syria’s minority Druze community have crossed into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan Heights Friday for the first time in decades
March 14, 2025
In Netanyahu’s new Middle East, Syria could become Israel’s biggest strategic gain
March 14, 2025
Dubai's index declined on Friday, driven by losses in heavyweight real estate sector stocks as U.S.
March 14, 2025
Columbia University on Thursday said it had doled out a range of punishments to students who occupied a campus building last spring during pro-Palestinian protests.
March 13, 2025
Representatives of China, Russia and Iran have called for an end to U.S. sanctions on Iran over its rapidly advancing nuclear program and a restart to multinational talks on the issue
March 14, 2025
Pulling a train by the strength of your teeth is no easy task
March 13, 2025
Air Canada apologizes after Israel erased from the map on some of its planes
March 14, 2025
The United Nations' special envoy for Syria said on Friday that now is the time for a "genuine, credible and inclusive transitional government" after noting the constitutional
March 14, 2025
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres is hosting talks next week in Geneva to discuss the future of Cyprus, with Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders, and representatives
March 14, 2025
China and Russia stood by Iran on Friday after the United States demanded nuclear talks with Tehran, with senior Chinese and Russian
March 14, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman agreed on the importance of upholding their OPEC+ commitments and discussed moves to
March 14, 2025
China hits out at ‘threats of force’ on Iran as Trump pushes for new nuclear deal
March 14, 2025
Police have arrested dozens of demonstrators from a Jewish group who filled the lobby of Trump Tower to denounce the immigration arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist who helped lead protests against Israel at Columbia University
March 13, 2025
Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner has sought to evict an art house cinema from city property for screening Oscar-winning "No Other Land," a film about the
March 14, 2025
United Nations-backed human rights experts allege Israel has caused “disproportionate violence against women and children” during the war against Hamas in Gaza,
March 13, 2025
Detained pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil asked a federal court on Thursday to block Columbia University from sharing student disciplinary records from campus
March 13, 2025
The United Nations Security Council has agreed to a statement condemning widespread violence in Syria's coastal region and calling on Syria's interim
March 13, 2025
Trump says ‘nobody is expelling Palestinians,’ weeks after saying they should be moved to Arab states
March 13, 2025
Protesters arrested after storming Trump Tower to demand release of Mahmoud Khalil
March 13, 2025
Lawful permanent residents hold many of the same rights that US citizens have, but the government can deport them on certain, often vague, security grounds.
March 12, 2025
United Nations-backed human rights experts have accused Israel of “the systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other gender-based violence” in its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip
March 13, 2025
The mayor of Miami Beach, Florida, wants to terminate a lease and cut financial support for an independent film theater that screened “No Other Land,” describing the Oscar-winning documentary about the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis as antisemitic
March 13, 2025
Columbia University says it has expelled or suspended some students who took over a campus building during pro-Palestinian protests last spring and temporarily revoked the diplomas of some students who have since graduated
March 13, 2025
Top diplomats from Group of 7 have held a first day of talks in Canada as U.S. President Donald Trump's trade and foreign policies have thrown the bloc's once solid unity into disarray
March 13, 2025
Syria’s interim president has signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years during a transitional phase
March 13, 2025
US envoy gives Israel and Hamas new proposal to extend Gaza ceasefire, says source
March 13, 2025
Armenia and Azerbaijan agree to peace treaty after nearly four decades of war
March 13, 2025
Kuwait has released 10 American prisoners, including veterans and military contractors jailed for years on drug-related charges, in a move seen as a gesture of goodwill between two allies
March 12, 2025
A top United Arab Emirates official plans to visit Washington to press for easier access to American technology and discuss investment in the U.S., Bloomberg News reported on Thursday,
March 13, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he agrees in principle with a U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine
March 13, 2025
Scores of people poured into the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City on Thursday to protest the arrest and detention of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, whom the
March 13, 2025
Armenia and Azerbaijan were locked in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for nearly four decades after the Soviet Union they were both members of collapsed.
March 13, 2025
Russia castigated Syria's new leaders in a closed United Nations briefing this week, two sources briefed on the meeting told Reuters, warning
March 13, 2025
The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday on Iran's Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad and some Hong Kong-flagged vessels that are part of a
March 13, 2025
Over the past week, Panama's government has released dozens of migrants from around the world who were deported from the U.S. The migrants fled conflict, religious persecution, poverty and government crackdowns in countries such as Afghanistan, Somalia, Cameroon, China, Pakistan and Iran
March 12, 2025
Greece has pledged that a major underwater electricity cable project connecting Greece with Cyprus and Israel by the end of the decade will overcome a series of setbacks and move forward as scheduled
March 13, 2025
Iran's foreign ministry on Thursday summoned the envoys of Britain, France and Germany over what it called a "misuse of the U.N.
March 13, 2025
Armenia and Azerbaijan will not deploy third-country forces along their border after the two sides sign a peace agreement, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Thursday.
March 13, 2025
United Arab Emirates exports of aluminium to the U.S. jumped in the first 11 days of March, data from the U.S.
March 13, 2025
The head of the Druze community in Israel on Thursday hailed plans for the first visit by a Druze religious delegation from Syria in
March 13, 2025
Turkey's foreign minister, defence minister and the head of the MIT intelligence agency are in Damascus on a working visit, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, without
March 13, 2025
After a procedural hearing in New York, prominent Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil's attorney read a statement from his wife. Khalil was ordered to remain in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana, days after he was arrested by federal officials at his Columbia University residence in an attempt by the Trump administration to deport him.
March 12, 2025
OPEC+ has exported a record amount of refined products, blunting the impact of the group's crude output curbs, as members including Saudi Arabia, seek to boost
March 13, 2025
Israel carried out "genocidal acts" against Palestinians by systematically destroying women's healthcare facilities during the conflict in Gaza, and used sexual
March 13, 2025
Syria kept a central role for Islamic law in a constitutional declaration issued on Thursday which guarantees women's rights and freedom of expression during a five-year
March 13, 2025
Israel has sent humanitarian aid to Druze communities in its neighbour Syria over the past few weeks, its foreign ministry said on Thursday, in a further sign of backing for the
March 13, 2025
Israel carried out an airstrike on the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, targeting what the military said was a command centre belonging to Palestinian militant group Islamic
March 13, 2025
Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araqchi has not ruled out talks with Washington, but says they can only take place if both countries are on "equal terms," an Iranian state-run
March 13, 2025
Most stock markets in the Gulf ended higher on Thursday, helped by a cooler-than-expected U.S. inflation print, although uncertainty remained over tariffs, which continue
March 13, 2025
Arab foreign ministers said on Wednesday they would continue consultations with U.S.
March 12, 2025
U.S.
March 12, 2025
Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff has arrived in Moscow for high-level talks
March 13, 2025
State-run Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) reported a 55% rise in profit for 2024, saying it was its best year ever and citing sales gains to both Israel's military and to
March 13, 2025
Turkey expects to spend an additional 50.4 billion lira ($1.38 billion) on higher retirees' allowances and maternity benefits this year, an impact analysis report showed on Thursday
March 13, 2025
The plane of U.S.
March 13, 2025
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Russia was ready to talk to the United States about a peace initiative discussed between the U.S. and Ukraine, and contacts
March 13, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will pay an official visit to Hungary in the next few weeks, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff said on Thursday, in
March 13, 2025
Russia has presented the U.S. with a list of demands for a deal to end its war against Ukraine and reset relations with Washington,
March 12, 2025
Egypt said on Thursday it appreciated U.S.
March 13, 2025
Two days before U.S. agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student and Palestinian activist asked his wife if she knew what to do if immigration
March 12, 2025
The Canadian government on Wednesday announced plans to ease sanctions on Syria during what it called a period of transition.
March 13, 2025
Turkey's central bank will do "whatever needed" to reach its year-end inflation target of 24% including maintaining a "tight" policy stance, Governor Fatih Karahan told state-run
March 13, 2025
Turkey has emerged as a key potential partner in restructuring European security, diplomats and analysts say, as Europe scrambles to bolster its defence and find
March 13, 2025
Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil will remain in ICE detention in Louisiana after first court hearing
March 12, 2025
A government lawyer has asked a federal judge to move the legal fight over the detention of Mahmoud Khalil to either New Jersey or Louisiana
March 12, 2025
An Emirati diplomat earlier identified by Tehran as carrying a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump seeking to jump-start talks over Iran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program has met with Iran’s foreign minister
March 12, 2025
A U.S. judge on Wednesday extended his order blocking federal authorities from deporting a detained Columbia University student, in a case
March 12, 2025
Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem welcomed on Wednesday U.S.
March 12, 2025
U.S.
March 12, 2025
Britain warned on Wednesday that it would trigger a return of U.N. sanctions on Iran, if needed, to prevent it from getting a nuclear weapon as the
March 12, 2025
Turkish national oil company TPAO has signed a joint venture agreement with U.S. oil producer Continental Resources to develop shale fields in the country’s
March 12, 2025
President Donald Trump campaigned as a champion of free speech, but First Amendment advocates say they’ve never seen freedom of speech under attack the way it has been in his second term
March 12, 2025
A group of around 100 senior figures from Syria's Druze are expected to visit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Friday, members of the community said, in a further sign of
March 12, 2025
Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa issued a decree on Wednesday to form the country's national security council, according to a statement by the Syrian president's office.
March 12, 2025
Again and again, the Trump White House has turned to a 73-year-old legal statute to defend its immigration crackdown
March 12, 2025
When protests over the Israel-Hamas war took root on Columbia University’s campus last spring, Mahmoud Khalil became a familiar, outspoken figure in a student movement that soon spread to other U.S. colleges
March 12, 2025
Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin on Wednesday said aid needed to be surged into Gaza while also calling for a ceasefire and the release of all remaining hostages as he
March 12, 2025
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday rejected holding negotiations with the United States over a nuclear deal, as a letter was
March 12, 2025
The United States encouraged its Syrian Kurdish allies to reach Monday's landmark deal with the Islamist-led
March 12, 2025
Ukraine has accepted a 30-day ceasefire proposed by the United States, following critical peace talks between US and Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio now says the proposal will head to Russia where the US hopes the Kremlin will agree to it.
March 11, 2025
Brazilian egg exports, including fresh and processed products, increased by 57.5% in February, the Brazilian Animal Protein Association (ABPA) said on Wednesday,
March 12, 2025
A Russian military court fined veteran war correspondent Nadezhda Kevorkova 600,000 roubles ($6,900) on Wednesday after finding her guilty of "justifying terrorism".
March 12, 2025
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he urged Turkey to play a key role in any peace process for Ukraine during talks with President Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Wednesday.
March 12, 2025
Discovery of ritual bath sheds light on Jewish life in ancient Rome
March 12, 2025
Stock markets in the Gulf ended mixed on Wednesday, buoyed by Ukraine's readiness to support a proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with Russia, but investor optimism was
March 12, 2025
The leader of a Turkish nationalist party has said he was arrested and detained on political grounds as part of an opposition crackdown that contradicts the
March 12, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday hailed a meeting between the U.S. and Ukraine this week aimed at ending Russia's invasion and said a proposed ceasefire could be
March 12, 2025
Israel acknowledges possible forced use of civilians in Gaza military operations, launches investigation
March 12, 2025
Entire families killed in Syria sectarian violence, UN says
March 12, 2025
Ukraine agrees to proposal for ceasefire with Russia as US restores aid and intel sharing
March 11, 2025
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that it needed to be briefed by the United States on the outcome of U.S.-Ukrainian talks in Saudi Arabia before commenting on whether
March 12, 2025
Here follows the full text of the joint U.S.-Ukrainian statement that was published after bilateral talks in Saudi Arabia's Jeddah on Tuesday: Today in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – under
March 11, 2025
Syria's foreign minister Asaad al-Shibani is set to attend a donor summit for his country in Brussels on March 17, a European official told Reuters on Wednesday, the first time
March 12, 2025
Ukraine said it would support Washington's proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with Russia after what Kyiv said were 'milestone' talks during which the United States agreed to resume military
March 12, 2025
Fearing for their lives, Syrian men, women and children waded through a river to safety in Lebanon on Tuesday, among hundreds of people who have fled to
March 11, 2025
What we know about the deadly violence in Syria
March 10, 2025
The United States agreed on Tuesday to resume military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine after Kyiv said it was ready to support
March 11, 2025
China will hold a meeting on Friday in Beijing with Russia and Iran on the Iranian "nuclear issue", its foreign ministry said, with both nations sending their deputy foreign
March 12, 2025
The Iraqi prime minister's foreign affairs adviser, Farhad Alaaeldin, told a local Iraqi TV channel on Wednesday that the waiver guaranteed by the United States on importing Iranian
March 12, 2025
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have warned shippers that “any Israeli vessel” traveling through nearby Mideast waters is now a target as Israel continues to block aid to the Gaza Strip
March 12, 2025
U.S.
March 12, 2025
White House says DHS is using intelligence to identify student protesters following Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest
March 11, 2025
A legal battle over a detained Columbia University student that has become a flashpoint of the Trump administration's immigration policy
March 11, 2025
A Ukrainian presidential official said on Tuesday the U.S. has resumed military assistance to Ukraine following talks in Saudi Arabia.
March 11, 2025
A self-professed member of a Russian organized crime group said on Tuesday he once tried to kill an Iranian-American female journalist and activist, making the
March 11, 2025
The International Monetary Fund approved the disbursement of $1.2 billion to Egypt following completion of the fourth review of the country's $8 billion economic reform programme,
March 11, 2025
Israeli fire has killed eight people in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours even as a fragile ceasefire with Hamas has largely held
March 11, 2025
The White House complained that Columbia University is refusing to help federal agents find people being sought as part of the government’s effort to deport participants in pro-Palestinian demonstrations
March 11, 2025
A U.S. green card holder faces deportation after helping lead student protests at Columbia University in New York last spring over the war in Gaza
March 11, 2025
A prosecutor has told jurors that two defendants were hired guns for the government of Iran in a plot to assassinate an Iran-born journalist at her Brooklyn residence three years ago
March 11, 2025
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan welcomed an agreement between the Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and Syria's new government, saying all Syrians stood to gain
March 11, 2025
President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran would not negotiate with the U.S. while being threatened, telling President Donald Trump to "do whatever the hell you want", Iranian
March 11, 2025
U.S.
March 11, 2025
A Syrian fact-finding committee investigating sectarian killings during clashes by rival groups during an insurgency by Bashar al-Assad loyalists said on Tuesday that no one was
March 11, 2025
Who is Mahmoud Khalil? Palestinian activist detained by ICE over Columbia University protests
March 11, 2025
Entire families including women and children were killed in Syria's coastal region as part of a series of sectarian killings by rival groups, the U.N human rights office said on
March 11, 2025
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan welcomed an agreement between the Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Syria’s new government, saying its full
March 11, 2025
Five Palestinians, including a 60-year-old woman, were killed by Israeli forces in Jenin over the past 24 hours, the Palestinian Authority said on Tuesday, adding
March 11, 2025
An Israeli air strike killed four Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, the territory's civil emergency service said, as Arab mediators and the United States tried to
March 11, 2025
Below are highlights from a Reuters interview with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa conducted on Monday.
March 11, 2025
Most stock markets in the Gulf ended lower on Tuesday due to fears of a U.S. economic downturn amid escalating trade tensions, although the stocks trimmed some of their
March 11, 2025
Armed Israeli settlers stole hundreds of sheep from a Bedouin community in the Jordan Valley, local residents say, in one of the
March 11, 2025
Syria’s new government strikes deal to integrate powerful Kurdish rival in landmark agreement
March 10, 2025
Israel’s pivot to the right brings unprecedented crackdown on freedom of speech
March 10, 2025
The U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday it has received termination notices from the U.S. government for five of its projects, forcing it to shut some programmes
March 11, 2025
Russia wants to see a united and friendly Syria because instability there could affect the whole of the Middle East, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
March 11, 2025
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy discussed efforts to achieve "sustainable fair, and comprehensive" peace in Ukraine, according to a
March 11, 2025
Judge temporarily blocks effort to deport Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia student protests
March 10, 2025
Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ on Tuesday said it now owns a 58% stake in logistics firm Aramex after completing a tender offer.
March 11, 2025
A U.S. judge on Monday ordered that Palestinian Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil not be deported for now as part of U.S.
March 10, 2025
Discrimination and attacks against American Muslims and Arabs rose by 7.4% in 2024 due to heightened Islamophobia caused by U.S. ally Israel's war in Gaza and
March 11, 2025
Syria’s interim government has reached a deal with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country’s northeast
March 10, 2025
Two senior Ukrainian officials say a Kyiv delegation that will meet with America’s top diplomat in Saudi Arabia will propose a ceasefire with Russia covering the Black Sea and long-range missile strikes
March 10, 2025
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ahead of talks between Ukrainian and U.S. officials that Washington
March 10, 2025
U.S.
March 10, 2025
The U.S. opposes language that could harm its efforts to bring Russia and Ukraine to the negotiating table, Secretary of State Marco
March 10, 2025
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that Ukraine's position in Tuesday's talks in Saudi Arabia with U.S. officials will be "fully constructive" and that he hopes for practical outcomes from
March 10, 2025
The United Nations Security Council will meet behind closed doors on Wednesday over Iran's expansion of its stock of
March 10, 2025
As President Donald Trump seeks to end wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, his approach to both seems to boil down to giving the stronger party what it wants and pushing the weaker to accept it
March 10, 2025
President Donald Trump is warning that the arrest and possible deportation of a Palestinian activist who helped lead protests at Columbia University will be the first “of many to come” as his administration cracks down on protests against the war in Gaza
March 10, 2025
The Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which controls much of Syria's oil-rich northeast, signed a deal with the Damascus government
March 10, 2025
The arrest of a Palestinian activist who helped organize campus protests of the war in Gaza has sparked questions about whether foreign students and green card holders are protected against being deported from the U.S. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested Saturday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents
March 10, 2025
U.S.
March 10, 2025
Rubio says the US wants to hear what concessions Ukraine is willing to make at Saudi meeting
March 10, 2025
After the U.S. moved to block Iraq's imports of electricity from Iran, Baghdad is looking to Qatar and Oman as possible options should Washington do the same
March 10, 2025
President Donald Trump's hostage envoy Adam Boehler's direct meetings with Palestinian militant group Hamas on the release of hostages in Gaza was a "one-off
March 10, 2025
There is a risk that Gaza experiences another hunger crisis if Israel continues to block aid, the head of the U.N.
March 10, 2025
Israel said on Monday that it was willing to defend Syria's Druze community following days of violence in Syria that a war monitor said led to mass killings of another religious
March 10, 2025
Syria's Islamist-led government on Monday said it had completed a military operation against a nascent insurgency by Bashar al-Assad loyalists, as it faced Western demands for
March 10, 2025
Bank of Israel policymakers are cautiously optimistic that inflation will ease later in 2025 in the wake of uncertainty stemming from the effects of Israel's war
March 10, 2025
A man who climbed part way up the 'Big Ben' clock tower at London's Palace of Westminster early on Saturday and stayed there all day as part of a pro-Palestinian protest, appeared
March 10, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told U.S.
March 10, 2025
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that Turkey was advising Syrian authorities to help ease tensions and welcomed interim Syrian President Ahmed Sharaa's commitment
March 10, 2025
U.S. immigration agents arrested a Palestinian graduate student who has played a prominent role in pro-Palestinian protests at New York's Columbia University as
March 09, 2025
Israel's suspension of goods entering Gaza is taking a toll on the Palestinian enclave, with some bakeries closing and food prices rising, while a cut in the
March 10, 2025
A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents
March 09, 2025
Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported killed in violence that has swept the coastal region since
March 10, 2025
Syria's interim President Ahmed Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect were a threat to
March 10, 2025
Israel cuts electricity to last facility in Gaza receiving Israeli power
March 09, 2025
Israel is actively encouraging U.N. agencies and other aid groups to take over the work of the U.N.
March 10, 2025
The U.S. expects substantial progress in talks with Ukraine this week and hopes that a deal on critical minerals can be signed, President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve
March 10, 2025
Policymakers and energy executives need to rethink energy transition plans and stop doubling down on elements of the transition that have
March 10, 2025
The Kremlin, asked on Monday if Russia had held consultations with Iran before or after Tehran responded to a letter from U.S.
March 10, 2025
Pakistan's central bank unexpectedly halted its easing cycle on Monday, keeping its key policy rate at 12%, saying there could still be price risks including from an
March 10, 2025
Iran would consider negotiations with the U.S. if the aim of the talks was to address concerns regarding any potential militarization of its nuclear program, Iran's U.N. mission said
March 09, 2025
Meetings between Hamas leaders and U.S. hostage negotiator Adam Boehler in recent days focused on the release of an American-Israeli dual national being held by
March 09, 2025
Two men accused of being members of a Russian organized crime group will face trial in the United States on Monday over what prosecutors call an unsuccessful Tehran-
March 10, 2025
Iran, China and Russia launch annual joint naval drills as Trump upends Western alliances
March 10, 2025
Major stock markets in the Gulf fell in early trade on Monday as U.S. import tariffs sparked concerns over global economic growth, causing investors to shy away from
March 10, 2025
U.S.
March 09, 2025
An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days
March 09, 2025
U.S. officials are planning to use Tuesday's meeting with a Ukrainian delegation in Saudi Arabia in part to determine
March 09, 2025
Syria’s top diplomat and his counterparts from neighboring countries have called for the lifting of Western-led sanctions and post-war reconciliation
March 09, 2025
Israel has cut off the electricity supply to Gaza
March 09, 2025
Syrian government loyalists accused of executing civilians as violence erupts
March 09, 2025
Syria's leader vowed on Sunday to hunt down the perpetrators of violent clashes pitting loyalists of deposed President Bashar al-Assad
March 09, 2025
India has won another global cricket tournament with a four-wicket victory over New Zealand in the Champions Trophy final
March 09, 2025
Man arrested after scaling London’s Big Ben with Palestinian flag
March 08, 2025
Iraq has no immediate alternatives to compensate for the energy imported from Iran, which will cause a significant problem in providing enough electricity to meet domestic
March 09, 2025
Israel's Defence Ministry said on Sunday it would let Syrian Druze workers enter the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from Syrian territory, without saying when the government
March 09, 2025
Panama has released dozens of migrants deported from the United States who were held for weeks in a remote camp on the condition that they would leave the Central American nation in 30 days
March 09, 2025
Syria’s interim president calls clashes ‘expected challenges’ as death toll tops 600
March 09, 2025
President Donald Trump's hostage envoy Adam Boehler said on Sunday that U.S. meetings with Hamas on the release of hostages held in Gaza were very helpful and he did not rule out
March 09, 2025
The commander of a Kurdish-led force in Syria said on Sunday the country's interim president must hold the perpetrators of communal violence in Syria's
March 09, 2025
Qatar's prime minister has warned that an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would "entirely contaminate" the waters of the Gulf and threaten life in Qatar, the UAE
March 09, 2025
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Saudi Arabia over March 10-12 for talks with Ukrainian counterparts, a statement from the U.S. Department of State said.
March 09, 2025
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that Iran will not be bullied into negotiations, a day after U.S.
March 08, 2025
A man has been arrested after climbing the Big Ben tower at the Palace of Westminster in central London while barefoot and holding a Palestinian flag
March 09, 2025
The Trump administration rescinded a waiver on Saturday that had allowed Iraq to pay Iran for electricity, as part of President Donald Trump's "maximum pressure"
March 09, 2025
Israel says it will send a delegation to Qatar on Monday “in an effort to advance the negotiations” around the ceasefire in Gaza
March 08, 2025
A war monitoring group says the death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, including nearly 750 civilians, making it one of the deadliest outbreaks of violence since Syria’s conflict began 14 years ago
March 08, 2025
Israel and Hamas signaled on Saturday they were preparing for the next phase of ceasefire negotiations, as mediators pushed ahead with talks to extend
March 08, 2025
A man who scaled the lower sections of Big Ben's Elizabeth Tower at London's Palace of Westminster early on Saturday has come down after 16 hours and was subsequently arrested, the
March 08, 2025
Columbia University's interim president said the school is working to address the "legitimate concerns" of U.S.
March 08, 2025
More than 1,000 people have been killed in two days of clashes between gunmen and security forces linked to Syria's new Islamist rulers and fighters from Bashar al-Assad's
March 08, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump's Turnberry golf resort in Scotland has been daubed with pro-Palestinian graffiti, with a protest group claiming responsibility.
March 08, 2025
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says he rejects a U.S. push for talks between the two countries because they would be aimed at imposing restrictions on Iranian missile range and its regional influence
March 08, 2025
Syria clashes have killed more than 300 people since Thursday, monitoring group says
March 08, 2025
Iran’s Supreme Leader rejects nuclear talks with ‘bully’ US
March 08, 2025
Authorities in two Russian regions have blocked the Telegram messenger because of concerns that the app could be used by enemies, a regional digital development minister was quoted as
March 08, 2025
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Ukraine is "fully committed" to having a constructive dialogue with U.S. representatives in Saudi Arabia next week over ways to end
March 08, 2025
American Jews who fled their Syrian homeland decades ago went to the White House this week to appeal to the Trump administration to lift sanctions on the country
March 07, 2025
High-level delegations from Turkey, Jordan, Syria and Iraq will meet in Amman on Sunday to discuss security cooperation and regional developments, a Turkish diplomatic source said
March 08, 2025
The foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Britain said on Saturday they supported an Arab-backed plan for the reconstruction of Gaza that would cost $53 billion and avoid
March 08, 2025
U.S.
March 07, 2025
Hundreds reported killed in Syria clashes in worst violence since ouster of Assad regime
March 07, 2025
Panama offers temporary reprieve for 112 migrants deported by US
March 08, 2025
President Donald Trump says he sent a letter to Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a development that was not immediately confirmed by the supreme leader
March 07, 2025
US reviewing visa programs as official says Afghanistan could be included in Trump travel ban
March 07, 2025
Syrian security forces battled for a second day on Friday to crush a nascent insurgency by fighters from Bashar al-Assad's Alawite
March 07, 2025
Some 90,000 Palestinians have prayed at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City under tight security by Israeli forces
March 07, 2025
Ukrainian officials said Russia had targeted energy facilities with dozens of missiles and drones in a nighttime attack
March 07, 2025
The Trump administration says it’s pulling $400 million from Columbia University
March 07, 2025
U.S.
March 07, 2025
An Israeli drone strike killed two people in Gaza on Friday, local Palestinian medical authorities said, underscoring the
March 07, 2025
Israel's chief military spokesperson, one of the main public faces of the war in Gaza who faced criticism from Defence Minister Israel Katz, will step down from his post and
March 07, 2025
Pakistan's interior ministry on Friday asked all "illegal foreigners" and Afghan Citizen Card holders to leave the country before March 31, warning they would otherwise be
March 07, 2025
Jordan supports Syria in every measure it takes to protect its security and rejects any foreign meddling and efforts to push its neighbour towards chaos, Jordan's foreign ministry said on
March 07, 2025
Hamas says ready to maintain direct talks with US but accuses Trump of double standards
March 07, 2025
By Mohamed Ezz FAYOUM, Egypt - Nine Egyptians freed after being held for 19 months by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces arrived in Egypt to celebrations on Thursday morning as the Sudanese
March 07, 2025
The United Nations migration agency says four migrant boats have capsized in waters off Yemen and Djibouti, leaving two people dead and 186 missing
March 07, 2025
Officials from USAID say the the Trump administration’s cuts to the U.S. humanitarian agency have frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in contractual payments to aid groups
March 07, 2025
Russia and the U.S. both see draft accords discussed by Moscow and Kyiv in the early weeks of the war as a possible basis for a Ukraine peace
March 07, 2025
Fighting in the western Syrian city of Latakia threatens to undermine efforts to achieve unity and solidarity in Syria, Turkey's foreign ministry said on Friday, adding that "such
March 07, 2025
Saudi Arabia welcomed on Friday the chance to host a meeting between the U.S. and Ukraine next week, its foreign ministry said, adding that the kingdom would continue to do its utmost to
March 07, 2025
Stock markets in United Arab Emirates closed lower on Friday, in line with global equities as the uncertainty around U.S. tariff policy creates nervousness among investors.
March 07, 2025
Wall Street is having another tough day amid anxiety over President Donald Trump’s often-changing tariff proposals
March 06, 2025
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov discussed international efforts to resolve the situation around Iran's nuclear programme with Iranian ambassador Kazem Jalali, the
March 07, 2025
Israel will permit some Muslims over 50 and their children from the occupied West Bank to enter Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Fridays during Islam's holy month of
March 06, 2025
Iranian officials have flogged a popular singer who posted a song online urging women to remove their mandatory headscarves over a conviction for possessing and consuming alcohol
March 07, 2025
Gunmen have ambushed a Syrian police patrol in a coastal town leaving at least 13 security members dead and many wounded, a war monitor said
March 06, 2025
Rights advocates raised alarm, including free speech concerns, on Thursday after it was reported that the U.S.
March 06, 2025
A new travel ban by President Donald Trump could
March 06, 2025
The U.S. is reviewing all existing sanctions waivers that provide Iran any degree of economic relief, and urging the Iraqi government to eliminate its
March 06, 2025
Hamas said on Thursday U.S.
March 06, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday he would travel to Saudi Arabia on Monday for a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman ahead of talks later in the
March 06, 2025
President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff said that direct U.S. discussions with Hamas militants were in recent days and the message to the Palestinian militant group
March 06, 2025
U.S.
March 06, 2025
Switzerland has cancelled a conference on the application of the Geneva Conventions to the occupied Palestinian territories for want of participants, its Foreign
March 06, 2025
The foreign minister of breakaway northern Cyprus said on Thursday an informal meeting of Greek and Turkish Cypriots called by the United
March 06, 2025
Informa, a British events and academic publishing group, said on Thursday 2025 would be another year of double-digit percentage growth, after reporting an 11.6% rise in 2024 underlying
March 06, 2025
‘They are fighting us through our food’: Gazans face new Israeli aid blockade
March 06, 2025
‘It’s just the beginning’: Victoria Azarenka hails ‘life-changing’ first maternity fund for professional tennis players
March 06, 2025
Sudan has filed a case against the United Arab Emirates at the World Court for allegedly violating its
March 06, 2025
Hamas has brushed off President Donald Trump’s latest threat and reiterated that it will only free the remaining Israeli hostages in exchange for a lasting ceasefire in the Gaza Strip
March 06, 2025
A new Columbia University disciplinary committee is investigating students who have criticized Israel
March 06, 2025
Egypt and the European Commission have signed a 90 million euro ($93.9 million) soft funding agreement to enhance food security, the Egyptian ministry of international cooperation said on
March 03, 2025
Turkey, with the second largest army in NATO after the United States, could contribute to a potential peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, a Turkish defence ministry source said on
March 06, 2025
Russia shipped a diesel cargo to Syria onboard a tanker under U.S. sanctions, the first known such direct supply to the Middle Eastern country in more than a decade, LSEG
March 06, 2025
Most stock markets in the Gulf ended lower on Thursday amid U.S. tariff uncertainties, although First Abu Dhabi Bank drove the Abu Dhabi index higher.
March 06, 2025
A Reuters story about a Palestinian mother's wait for the release of her long-jailed son, who was convicted of killing an Israeli, is withdrawn.
February 25, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration is considering a plan to stop and inspect Iranian oil tankers at sea under an international accord
March 06, 2025
Syria received a new shipment of its local currency printed in Russia on Wednesday and more shipments were expected in the future, a Syrian government official said
March 06, 2025
Turkey’s central bank has lowered its key interest rate by a further 2.5 percentage points days after official figures indicated a slowdown in inflation that has eroded households’ purchasing power
March 06, 2025
Airlines are turning to a network of third parties to pay fees to Afghan authorities as
March 06, 2025
White House press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that U.S. officials have had “ongoing talks and discussions” with Hamas officials, as the ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas hangs in the balance
March 05, 2025
A charity kitchen in the occupied West Bank has expanded its usual operations to help displaced Palestinians trying to mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan
March 06, 2025
Iranian singer flogged 74 times after singing about hijab removal, lawyer says
March 06, 2025
President Donald Trump has issued what he calls a “last warning” to Hamas to release all remaining hostages held in Gaza
March 05, 2025
The United States broke a longstanding diplomatic taboo by holding secret talks with Hamas on securing the release of U.S. hostages held in
March 05, 2025
Trump issues ‘last warning’ to Hamas to release all hostages, as US holds direct talks with Hamas
March 06, 2025
U.S.
March 06, 2025
U.S.
March 05, 2025
The U.S.
March 05, 2025
President Donald Trump's one-hour and 40-minute address to Congress highlighted many of his initiatives, from an immigration crackdown to tariffs and energy policy
March 04, 2025
Israel’s justice minister moves to oust attorney general amid allegations of political bias, opposition decries move
March 05, 2025
Just metres from the last houses in Bardala, a Palestinian village at the northern end of the occupied West Bank, Israel's army has been
March 05, 2025
A suspected participant in the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed 13 American service members and roughly 170 Afghan civilians during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan has arrived in the U.S. to face criminal charges in connection with the attack
March 05, 2025
Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Tuesday Israel was ready to proceed to the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal, as long as Hamas was ready to release
March 04, 2025
Trump says US has apprehended ‘top terrorist’ responsible for 2021 Kabul airport bombing
March 05, 2025
Syria's foreign minister vowed on Wednesday to swiftly rid the country of chemical weapons remaining after the downfall of the Bashar al-Assad's government, and appealed to the
March 05, 2025
The government of Azerbaijan has told the local office of the International Committee of the Red Cross that it will close its operations there, a spokesperson for the Geneva-based
March 05, 2025
Israel must meet international obligations regarding the provision of humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza, the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany said in a joint
March 05, 2025
The United States imposed sanctions on Wednesday on seven senior members of Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement, the Treasury Department said.
March 05, 2025
Iran refutes what it called 'accusations' made by Britain that it was trying to threaten the security of the UK, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Wednesday.
March 05, 2025
Pakistan highlighted its counterterrorism cooperation with Washington after the arrest of Mohammad Sharifullah, whom it blames for a 2021 attack on U.S. troops at
March 05, 2025
Saudi Aramco is in the early stages of considering a potential bid for BP's lubricant business Castrol, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
March 05, 2025
Cyprus's president on Wednesday said he was committed to resuming reunification talks with Turkish Cypriots, and said any deal should be based on U.N. resolutions.
March 05, 2025
Israel swore in a new commander of its military on Wednesday as a standoff over the fragile ceasefire in Gaza increased the risk of a resumption of fighting
March 05, 2025
Israel’s cutoff of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to Gaza’s 2 million people has sent prices soaring and humanitarian groups into overdrive as they try to distribute dwindling stocks to the most vulnerable
March 05, 2025
Thousands of people poured on to the streets of Bannu in northwestern Pakistan for the funerals on Wednesday of 18 people, including six children,
March 04, 2025
Most stock markets in the Gulf ended lower on Wednesday after the latest round of U.S. tariffs and countermeasures from Canada and China fuelled global trade war concerns.
March 05, 2025
Israel’s Shin Bet says October 7 attack could have been prevented as it admits fault and casts blame
March 04, 2025
President Donald Trump has vowed to keep up his campaign of “swift and unrelenting action” in reorienting the nation’s economy, immigration and foreign policy in his address to Congress
March 04, 2025
What it’s like to travel as a woman in Saudi Arabia
March 05, 2025
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that future talks between Russia and the United States would include discussions on Iran's nuclear programme, a subject it said had been "touched upon"
March 05, 2025
US rejects alternative Gaza reconstruction plan proposed by Arab leaders
March 05, 2025
The UAE's non-oil private sector growth in activity held steady in February driven by strong demand and output, a survey showed on Wednesday.
March 05, 2025
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the person responsible for killing 13 U.S. service members during the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 had been arrested with the help
March 05, 2025
A summit of Arab leaders in Cairo have approved Egypt’s plan to rebuild Gaza without expelling the Palestinians
March 04, 2025
Arab leaders have endorsed Egypt's postwar plan for the Gaza Strip that would allow its roughly 2 million Palestinians to remain in the territory
March 04, 2025
Arab leaders adopted an Egyptian reconstruction plan for Gaza on Tuesday that would cost $53 billion and avoid
March 04, 2025
Officials and a local hospital in Pakistan says that an attack launched by suicide bombers at a military base has killed at least 12 people and wounded 30 others
March 04, 2025
Democratic and Republican lawmakers aim to put the spotlight on their view of America's main issues with the guests they invite to President Donald Trump's Tuesday night address to a joint
March 03, 2025
Israel's top security agency ignored signs Hamas would attack in October 2023 and was fooled into believing the militant group did not want all-out war, the agency
March 04, 2025
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met Syria's new president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, for the first time on the sidelines of the summit held to discuss Gaza's reconstruction in Cairo on
March 04, 2025
Israel criticized a plan put forward by Arab states for Gaza's reconstruction on Tuesday, while Palestinian militant group Hamas welcomed it.
March 04, 2025
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and Austria's OMV will merge their polyolefin businesses to create a chemicals powerhouse
March 03, 2025
Russia has offered to mediate between the United States and Iran, a source briefed on discussions told Reuters on Tuesday, as the
March 04, 2025
The trial of prominent opposition figures in Tunisia who have been accused of conspiring against the state was postponed on Tuesday until April 11 by the judge, who
March 04, 2025
Columbia University has become the first target in President Donald Trump’s campaign to cut federal money to colleges accused of tolerating antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war
March 04, 2025
As OPEC+ debated whether to keep oil output steady due to weak global demand or pump more in response to internal
March 04, 2025
An Arab summit convened in Cairo on Tuesday adopted an Egyptian plan for the reconstruction of Gaza, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said during a closing statement.
March 04, 2025
CNN's Jeremy Diamond meets Oran Almog, who lost five members of his family and was blinded in a suicide bombing in Haifa in 2003. Two decades later, the man who ordered the attack was freed from Israeli prison in exchange for Israeli hostages held in Gaza. But most Palestinian prisoners being freed are not convicted murderers.
March 04, 2025
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied groups signed a transitional constitution on Tuesday that takes them a step closer to setting up a parallel government during a two-year
March 04, 2025
Israeli forces killed a Hamas commander in the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday as they pushed ahead with a weeks-long operation against militant groups in the area that has
March 04, 2025
Iraqi immigrant hailed as hero for preventing armed robbery at juice shop
March 04, 2025
A Pakistani official says residents have fled a border area with Afghanistan after forces from both sides clashed into the early hours of the morning
March 04, 2025
President Donald Trump’s nominee for the top policy job at the Pentagon is acknowledging that Russia invaded Ukraine and poses a significant military threat to the U.S. and Europe
March 04, 2025
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday he welcomed an Egyptian plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip and urged U.S.
March 04, 2025
A French Reaper drone on a surveillance mission in international airspace over the eastern Mediterranean was the target of intimidation by a Russian SU-35 fighter jet, France's
March 04, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil giant Aramco has reported a $106.25 billion profit in 2024, down 12% from the prior year on lower energy prices
March 04, 2025
Saudi oil giant Aramco signalled on Tuesday it will slash its dividend payouts by nearly a third this year, meaning fewer funds for the kingdom as it races to complete
March 04, 2025
The State Department has reinstated the “foreign terrorist organization” designation for Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi group, fulfilling an order announced by President Donald Trump
March 04, 2025
Israeli survivor of deadly suicide bombing grapples with the release of the man who ordered the attack
March 04, 2025
Egypt’s Gaza plan excludes Hamas from future governance
March 04, 2025
An Arab summit draft communique on Tuesday adopted an Egyptian plan for Gaza's future and called on the international community and financial institutions to provide support for the
March 04, 2025
Israel's block on deliveries into the war-stricken Gaza Strip has led to price increases and fears of food shortages, prompting punitive
March 04, 2025
Talks to speed a resumption in oil exports from Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region have been delayed until Thursday
March 04, 2025
Syrian security forces searched for suspects in the city of Latakia on Tuesday, residents said, after two defence ministry members
March 04, 2025
Russia has agreed to assist U.S.
March 04, 2025
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich left for high-level talks in the U.S. on Tuesday, leaving behind a growing coalition crisis with ultra-Orthodox parties
March 04, 2025
Children under five, including babies, are among victims of sexual violence in the war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support
March 04, 2025
Pakistan was "well positioned" for the first review of its $7 billion International Monetary Fund bailout programme, the finance minister told Reuters, as talks
March 04, 2025
The United Arab Emirates’ Federal Supreme Court has rejected appeals on behalf of dozens of dissidents convicted in a mass trial that faced widespread international criticism
March 04, 2025
Overnight clashes between Pakistani and Afghan security forces at the main border crossing between the countries caused thousands of people to flee their
March 04, 2025
Gaza truce hangs by a thread as Israel sets new conditions. Here’s what to know
March 03, 2025
Several senior Russian missile specialists have visited Iran over the past year as the Islamic Republic has
March 04, 2025
Gum arabic, a vital ingredient used in everything from Coca-Cola to M&M's sweets, is increasingly being trafficked from rebel-held areas of
March 04, 2025
Saudi Arabia's non-oil private sector continued its robust expansion in February, driven by strong customer sales and increased activity levels, a survey showed on Tuesday, although
March 04, 2025
The Kremlin said in remarks published on Tuesday that the next round of Russia-U.S. talks on ending the war in Ukraine is unlikely to happen before the embassies of both countries resume
March 04, 2025
Nearly a decade after Pope Francis plucked them from a refugee camp in Greece, a Syrian couple and their child have carved out a quiet life in suburban Rome
March 04, 2025
The administration of President Donald Trump said on Monday it will review Columbia University's federal contracts and grants over allegations of antisemitism,
March 04, 2025
Trump administration announces review of Columbia’s federal contracts over ‘harassment of Jewish students’
March 04, 2025
Israel has introduced what it said was a new U.S. ceasefire plan and is trying to force Hamas to accept it by imposing a siege on the Gaza Strip
March 03, 2025
Palestinians cheered the Oscar win of the Palestinian-Israeli documentary “No Other Land,” documenting the struggle of West Bank villagers facing possible expulsion by the Israeli military
March 03, 2025
U.S.
March 03, 2025
Israel has cut off the entry of all food and other goods into Gaza in an echo of the siege it imposed in the earliest days of its war with Hamas
March 02, 2025
Israeli fire killed at least two people in Rafah and wounded three others in Khan Younis in the south of Gaza, raising fears among Palestinians that the ceasefire
March 03, 2025
Arab foreign ministers are meeting in Cairo for talks focusing on an Egyptian plan to rebuild the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, which is meant to counter President Donald Trump’s proposal to expel Palestinians from the coastal enclave and take it over
March 03, 2025
OPEC+ has decided to proceed with a planned April oil output increase, the group said on Monday, a move that follows U.S.
March 03, 2025
A plan for Gaza drawn up by Egypt as a counter to U.S.
March 03, 2025
Food, medicine and shelter stockpiles in Gaza are limited and aid intended for Palestinians in desperate need may spoil following Israel's
March 03, 2025
With Gaza tensions high, Egyptians and Israelis warn of a new war
March 03, 2025
An Iranian official who was key to the country's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers has reportedly tendered his resignation from the government of reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian
March 03, 2025
The International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, said on Monday that Judge Yuji Iwasawa had been elected as its new president to complete former president Nawaf
March 03, 2025
In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on "State of the Union," National Security Adviser Mike Waltz says there need to be "territory concessions" in exchange for security guarantees.
March 02, 2025
Pakistani and Afghan security forces clashed on Monday at the recently shuttered main border crossing between the two
March 03, 2025
Israeli troops demolished houses and cleared a wide roadway through the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, in a weeks-long
March 03, 2025
Despite winning awards at festival after festival, the film has been unable to find a company to distribute it in the US.
February 21, 2025
The eradication of polio as a global health threat may be delayed unless U.S. funding cuts – potentially totaling hundreds of millions of dollars over several years
March 03, 2025
Saudi Aramco and Algeria's Sonatrach have cut March's official selling prices (OSPs) for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by 0.9-3.2% from the previous month because of lower oil prices and
March 03, 2025
Pakistan's annual inflation rate slowed to 1.5% in February, the lowest in nearly a decade and below the finance ministry's estimates, data from the statistics
March 03, 2025
One person was killed and four were wounded in a stabbing attack at a bus station in the city of Haifa, Israel's ambulance service said, in what police described as a
March 03, 2025
Israel says it will block Gaza humanitarian aid until Hamas agrees to new conditions
March 02, 2025
Turkish annual consumer price inflation slowed to 39.05% in February, official data showed on Monday, lower than a Reuters poll forecast and sustaining a downtrend since it peaked
March 03, 2025
An Illinois jury on Friday found a man guilty of murder and hate crime charges for an October 2023 stabbing that killed a 6-year-old Palestinian American
February 28, 2025
Turkey's manufacturing sector showed signs of continued struggle in February, reflecting ongoing challenges with new orders, output and employment all hurt by muted market demand,
March 03, 2025
"No Other Land," a film about Israeli displacement of a Palestinian community, won the documentary feature film Oscar on Sunday, and its directors appealed to
March 03, 2025
Israel faces sharp criticism after barring the entry of all food and other supplies into Gaza
March 02, 2025
“No Other Land” has won the Oscar for best documentary
March 03, 2025
Palestinians were living under occupation before the war. A Palestinian and an Israeli united to show the world their reality
November 03, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday he had signed a declaration to expedite delivery of approximately $4 billion in military assistance to Israel.
March 02, 2025
Israel blocked the entry of aid trucks into Gaza on Sunday as a standoff over the truce that has halted fighting for the
March 01, 2025
Residents in Diyarbakir, Turkey's largest Kurdish-majority city, said on Sunday that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party's (PKK) decision to heed its
March 02, 2025
Saudi Arabia's stock market ended lower on Sunday, extending losses for a fourth session, amid disappointing corporate earnings, while Egypt's stock index was buoyed by
March 02, 2025
Turkish and British officials will discuss Syria's future during a meeting in Ankara on Monday, with security, sanctions and economic development on the agenda, a Turkish foreign
March 02, 2025
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said on Sunday that Egypt's Gaza reconstruction plan, which ensures Palestinians remain in their land,
March 02, 2025
Israel’s defense ministry says the military has been instructed to prepare to defend a Druze settlement in the suburbs of Damascus in neighboring Syria
March 01, 2025
Iran's parliament voted on Sunday to remove the country's Economy Minister Abdolnaser Hemmati from office over mismanagement of the economy and a plunging national currency, state
March 02, 2025
For years, soldiers from Russia's Hmeimim Air Base in Syria roamed freely through coastal cities.
March 02, 2025
An Israeli delegation in Cairo is negotiating to extend the first phase of the
February 28, 2025
Some restaurants and coffee shops in Syria were closed during the day as observant Muslims began fasting during the holy month of Ramadan
March 01, 2025
Gaza ceasefire hits expiration date with Israel and Hamas split on way forward
March 01, 2025
Israel’s government says it supports a proposal to extend the first phase of the ceasefire in Gaza through Ramadan and Passover, though Hamas has insisted on negotiating the truce’s second phase instead
March 01, 2025
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group declared an immediate ceasefire on Saturday, a news agency close to it said, heeding jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan's disarmament
March 01, 2025
Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey have declared a ceasefire, just two days after their imprisoned leader called for the group to disarm
March 01, 2025
A momentous ceasefire declaration has stirred a mix of emotions in southeast Turkey and northern Iraq, where people bore the brunt of the 40-year conflict between Kurdish militants and the Turkish state
March 01, 2025
Hamas said on Saturday that it rejected Israel's "formulation" of extending the first phase of the ceasefire in Gaza, on the day the first stage of the deal was set to expire.
March 01, 2025
Kurdish militia declares ceasefire following leader’s call to end five-decade insurgency with Turkey
March 01, 2025
President Donald Trump’s Oval Office thrashing of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy has laid bare the limits of a full-court press by America’s allies aimed at reshaping Trump’s determination to end Russia’s invasion even if the terms are not to Ukraine’s liking
March 01, 2025
Turkey's foreign minister will reiterate at Sunday's meeting of European leaders in London an offer from Ankara to host peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, a Turkish diplomatic
March 01, 2025
Negotiations on the second phase of the ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas are taking place in Cairo
February 28, 2025
Iraq's Ministry of Oil said on Saturday it had invited global foreign companies operating under the Association of the Petroleum Industry of Kurdistan (APIKUR) umbrella, along with
March 01, 2025
A Ramadan etiquette guide for non-Muslims
February 28, 2025
A jury has found a 73-year-old Illinois landlord guilty in a hate crime attack that left a Palestinian American boy dead and injured his mother
February 28, 2025
New York’s governor ordered a state school to remove a job posting for a Palestinian studies teaching position this week, saying she wanted to ensure “antisemitic theories” would not be taught
February 28, 2025
The Trump administration has approved a major nearly $3 billion arms sale to Israel, bypassing a normal congressional review to provide the country with more of the 2,000-pound bombs that it has used in the war against Hamas in Gaza
February 28, 2025
‘Where are we supposed to go?’ Israel’s West Bank campaign leaves families with nowhere to call home
February 28, 2025
Switzerland has invited 196 states who are parties to the Geneva Conventions to participate in a conference next week on the situation of civilians living in the Israeli occupied
February 28, 2025
The first phase of the ceasefire that paused 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas militants is set to end on Saturday
February 24, 2025
Mourners buried the remains of one of the last hostages released in the first phase of the ceasefire between Hamas militants and Israel
February 28, 2025
Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party wants immediate steps towards democratisation from President Tayyip Erdogan's government after the peace call by the jailed leader of
February 28, 2025
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday he will join an emergency meeting of the Arab League in Cairo next week to discuss the reconstruction of Gaza, as Arab states weigh a
February 28, 2025
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that a disarmament call from the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, started a new phase in
February 28, 2025
Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun will ask Saudi Arabia to reactivate a $3-billion aid package to the Lebanese army in his visit to the kingdom next week, Aoun said in an interview
February 28, 2025
Officials say the bodies of 12 out of at least 16 Pakistanis who died this month when a boat carrying dozens of Europe-bound migrants sank off Libya’s coast have been repatriated to Pakistan
February 28, 2025
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February 28, 2025
The British government called an urgent meeting with the BBC on Friday over the making of a documentary about children's lives in Gaza that was narrated by the 13-
February 28, 2025
Israel is lobbying the United States to keep Syria weak and decentralised, including by letting Russia keep its military bases there to
February 28, 2025
Police in northwestern Pakistan say a suicide bomb attack on a mosque at a pro-Taliban seminary has killed a senior cleric and five other worshippers and wounded many other people ahead of the fasting month of Ramadan
February 28, 2025
Israeli former hostage recounts hearing, on his release, of wife and daughters’ deaths
February 28, 2025
Fenerbahce manager Jose Mourinho has been given a four-match ban and fined by the Turkish Football Federation following his comments about Turkish referees after a match at Galatasaray on Monday
February 28, 2025
Lebanon seized $2.5 million in cash from a man arriving from Turkey on Friday, the finance ministry said, with three sources saying the money was destined for militant group
February 28, 2025
Forces fighting alongside Sudan's army said on Friday they had intercepted a substantial quantity of military supplies from a convoy destined for the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF)
February 28, 2025
Lebanon's Finance Minister Yassine Jaber told Reuters on Friday that the World Bank is working to create a $1 billion fund for reconstruction efforts in the country.
February 28, 2025
A suicide bomber killed six worshippers during Friday prayers at an Islamic seminary in northwestern Pakistan known as a historic training ground for the
February 28, 2025
Tayyip Erdogan's long-held goal of ending Turkey's conflict with Kurdish militants is a step closer after their jailed chief's peace call, giving
February 28, 2025
British international development minister Anneliese Dodds resigned on Friday in a surprise move triggered by Prime Minister Keir Starmer's
February 28, 2025
A half-century insurgency in the Middle East may be ending. Here’s why
February 28, 2025
“This is a notable improvement from where we were a couple of months ago” says the head of the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration. But Amy Pope tells Becky Anderson there is a dire need for durable housing for displaced Palestinians.
February 27, 2025
Russia’s Foreign Ministry says it has suggested restoring direct air links between Russia and the United States during the latest round of consultations with Washington
February 28, 2025
A parallel government being set up by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) aims to grab diplomatic legitimacy from its army-led rival and ease access to advanced weaponry
February 28, 2025
8th grader who sat for Pledge of Allegiance says teacher told her, 'you should go back to your country.'
February 28, 2025
U.S. aid cuts have forced the U.N. children's agency UNICEF to suspend or scale back many programmes in Lebanon, with more than half of children under the age
February 28, 2025
Nael Barghouti, the longest serving Palestinian inmate in an Israeli prison, had no chance to see his wife when he was freed on Thursday so he
February 28, 2025
President Donald Trump signed executive orders in January targeting foreigners who espoused hateful ideology and antisemitism, specifically international
February 28, 2025
An Israeli delegation in Cairo aims to negotiate to extend the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal by an additional 42 days, two Egyptian security sources said on Friday.
February 28, 2025
Some of U.S.
February 28, 2025
Former Navy sailor pleads guilty to federal charge in 2022 plot to attack Illinois naval station
February 28, 2025
Nearly 40,000 Palestinians driven from their homes by Israel's month-long offensive in the West Bank have scattered across nearby villages and towns, trying to find shelter
February 28, 2025
Turkey's economy grew 3.0% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2024, bringing full-year growth to 3.2%, official data showed on Friday, exceeding forecasts
February 28, 2025
With Morocco’s sheep herds dwindling at an alarming rate, King Mohammed VI made a rare break with tradition by urging families to forgo buying sheep to sacrifice during the upcoming Eid Al-Adha
February 27, 2025
Turkey's unemployment rate slipped by 0.1 percentage points month-on-month to 8.4% in January, official data showed on Friday.
February 28, 2025
An investigation by Israel's military has determined that Hamas was able to carry out the deadliest attack in Israeli history on Oct. 7, 2023, because the much more powerful Israeli army misjudged the militant group’s intentions and underestimated its capabilities
February 27, 2025
Pro-Palestinian student protesters clash with Barnard College staff during sit-in to protest student expulsions
February 27, 2025
Russian and U.S. diplomats have held talks in Istanbul to discuss ways to normalize the operation of their respective embassies after rounds of diplomatic expulsions in recent years
February 27, 2025
Egypt says negotiations between Israel and Hamas on the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire have begun in Cairo
February 27, 2025
Major refugee aid groups say President Donald Trump’s administration appears to be trying to circumvent a federal court ruling this week that blocked his efforts to suspend the nation’s refugee admissions program
February 28, 2025
The militant Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, announced its resolve to dissolve itself in a historic declaration that could end one of the Middle East's longest-running insurgencies and bring stability to the region
January 13, 2025
Egypt says negotiations between Israel and Hamas on the next phase of the ceasefire in Gaza have begun in Cairo
February 27, 2025
Ramadan begins with the crescent moon. Here’s why the official start time can still vary around the world
February 27, 2025
Rights group says Israel has systematically abused Palestinian health workers for their profession
February 27, 2025
Investigation highlights Israeli intelligence failures in lead-up to Hamas’ October 7 attack
February 27, 2025
Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call from prison for his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down arms sparked both hope and scepticism in Turkey on Thursday,
February 27, 2025
Turkey's jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to disarm and disband on Thursday, a move that could end its 40-year conflict with Ankara and
February 27, 2025
More than 1,000 Syrians died in detention at a military airport on the outskirts of
February 27, 2025
Kurdish separatist leader calls on followers to disarm, potentially ending a five-decade insurgency with Turkey
February 27, 2025
Israel says it won’t withdraw from Gaza-Egypt border as it sends team to ceasefire talks
February 27, 2025
Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on his militant group to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives
February 27, 2025
The commander of the Kurdish-led forces that control northeastern Syria said that a call by the leader of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey for the PKK to dissolve did
February 27, 2025
The Israeli military drastically underestimated the capabilities of Hamas before its attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, and "failed in its mission to protect
February 27, 2025
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a right-winger kept at arms length by Washington under former President Joe Biden, will meet U.S.
February 27, 2025
A ramming attack at a bus stop in northern Israel on Thursday injured seven people, one of them critically, Israeli medics said.
February 27, 2025
OPEC+ is debating whether to raise oil output in April as planned or freeze it as its members struggle to read the global
February 27, 2025
Israel announced on Thursday it was sending negotiators to Cairo for talks, seeking to extend a first phase of a ceasefire due to expire in two days, in the
February 27, 2025
An Australian couple says they were on a flight from Melbourne to Doha when the cabin crew put the body of a passenger who had died next to them. CNN's Marc Stewart reports about the incident and what the couple told CNN affiliate Nine News. CNN has reached out to Qatar Airways for comment.
February 26, 2025
Turkey's 40-year battle against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) could be nearing an end after its jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan, called on the militant group
February 27, 2025
By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE - The International Criminal Court will urgently continue its investigation into crimes committed in Palestinian territories, or by Palestinians, the prosecutor's
February 27, 2025
Turkey's jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to disarm and disband on Thursday, a move that could end its 40-year
February 27, 2025
The FBI has accused North Korean-linked hackers of conducting one of the largest known thefts of cryptocurrency — worth some $1.5 billion — from a Dubai-based firm
February 27, 2025
The jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdish militant group PKK called on Thursday for the group to lay down its arms and dissolve itself, in a letter read by Turkey's pro-Kurdish
February 27, 2025
The jailed founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, appealed on Thursday to his militant group to disarm and to dissolve itself.
February 27, 2025
Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish militant leader jailed by Turkey who called on Thursday for his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to dissolve and all groups to lay down arms, is an influential
February 27, 2025
The 75-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of a century in jail after leading his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to take up arms against
February 27, 2025
As Ramadan approaches, keeping healthy fasting practices in mind can make the month more meaningful
February 27, 2025
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will head to Washington in the coming days to meet with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and discuss economic and political cooperation
February 27, 2025
The humanitarian toll of more than a year of conflict will be augmented by the risk of further health issues due to poor hygiene facilities and air quality.
February 27, 2025
Cleopatra’s birthplace sees ‘dramatic surge’ in building collapses as sea level rises, study shows
February 27, 2025
Weak external demand and the impact of conflicts slowed economic growth again in countries covered by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD),
February 27, 2025
Israel’s refusal to withdraw from a narrow strip of desert on Gaza's border with Egypt, as called for in the ceasefire with Hamas, could threaten the truce
February 27, 2025
Two young Indonesian men convicted of having a same-sex relationship were publicly caned on Thursday in Aceh province, prompting calls by Amnesty International for the
February 27, 2025
Pakistan's consumer inflation was expected to remain stable in February and maintain a downward trajectory compared to the previous year, the finance ministry said in its monthly
February 27, 2025
Hamas handed over the remains of four more Israeli hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners as part of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip
February 20, 2025
Coffins said to contain hostages’ bodies arrive in Israel and Palestinian prisoners freed as Gaza truce nears expiry
February 26, 2025
An Israeli security official says Hamas has handed to the Red Cross the bodies of four Israelis who were held hostage in Gaza
February 26, 2025
Hamas handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages while it waited for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners to be released by Israel in return, in an overnight
February 26, 2025
Tens of thousands of Israelis have lined highways holding flags, orange balloons and signs saying “forgive us” in an outpouring of grief as the bodies of a mother and her two small sons who were killed in captivity in the Gaza Strip were taken for burial
February 26, 2025
The UN Human Rights Chief accused Israel on Wednesday of showing an unprecedented disregard for human rights in its military actions in Gaza and said Hamas had
February 26, 2025
King Mohammed VI of Morocco asked Moroccans on Wednesday to abstain from performing the rite of slaughtering sheep on Eid al-Adha this year due to a drop in the
February 26, 2025
Hamas has handed over the bodies of four hostages in exchange for Israel’s release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, days before the first phase of their ceasefire will end
February 26, 2025
Qatar is holding off providing Syria's new rulers with funds to increase public sector pay due to uncertainty over whether the transfers would
February 26, 2025
Photos of a child’s bloody body, a black knife holder and other crime scene evidence are taking center stage at the hate crime and murder trial for an Illinois landlord accused of killing a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy
February 26, 2025
Michael Levy, the brother of Or Levy — an Israeli hostage recently released from Gaza — speaks to CNN's Jeremy Diamond about his brother's experience being held hostage by Hamas for 491 days. In a statement to CNN, Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said the group “dealt with the prisoners in accordance with international law” and had “provided them with food at a time when there was a famine in the Strip.”
February 26, 2025
Back together again: Afghan father and children reunited after years apart
February 26, 2025
Lebanon's new government won a confidence vote in parliament on Wednesday, following a speech by Prime Minister Nawaf Salam promising to push for economic and financial reforms and
February 26, 2025
‘Trump Gaza is finally here!’: US president promotes Gaza plan in AI video
February 26, 2025
The United States imposed sanctions on six entities based in Hong Kong and China on Wednesday that it accused of being involved in an Iranian drone procurement network, as the
February 26, 2025
Satellite images show at least three drones and the construction of hangars at an airport in South Darfur held by Sudan's Rapid
February 26, 2025
Brother of freed Israeli hostage says Hamas captors ate full meals and laughed as he was starved
February 26, 2025
Israel's banking regulator on Wednesday asked commercial banks to allocate up to 3 billion shekels ($841 million) through 2026 to fund relief for retail
February 26, 2025
Iran's stock of uranium close to weapons grade has jumped since it announced a dramatic acceleration in enrichment in December and there has been no progress on
February 26, 2025
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party will hold a press conference on Thursday to discuss talks with jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan and share
February 26, 2025
Seven babies die of hypothermia in Gaza, health officials say
February 26, 2025
A report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog says Iran has accelerated its production of near weapons-grade uranium as tensions between Tehran and Washington rise after the election of U.S. President Donald Trump
February 26, 2025
Following delay, Israel agrees to release Palestinian detainees in new exchange as fragile Gaza ceasefire appears intact
February 26, 2025
A mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will arrive in Pakistan next week, finance minister Muhammad Aurangzeb said on Wednesday, with a first review of a $7 billion
February 26, 2025
Jordan's King Abdullah and Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa agreed on Wednesday to work together to secure their common border against arms and drug trafficking, officials
February 26, 2025
Pakistan's unilateral renegotiation of clean power contracts will undermine investor confidence and be detrimental to the long-term future of the sector, a group of
February 26, 2025
Palestinian group Hamas said on Wednesday an exchange of Palestinian prisoners for the bodies of Israeli hostages would take place through "a new mechanism" that guaranteed Israel's
February 26, 2025
A few hours after Hamas said it would return the bodies of Israeli hostages Shiri Bibas and her two little children on Thursday, her sister-
February 20, 2025
Israeli and Hamas officials say they have reached an agreement to exchange the bodies of dead hostages for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
February 25, 2025
Anwar Gargash, the diplomatic adviser to UAE's president, said on Wednesday a Gaza reconstruction plan cannot happen without a clear path to a two-state solution for Israel and
February 26, 2025
Syria’s new rulers have held a long-awaited national dialogue conference to rebuild the country after nearly 14 years of civil war and the fall of former President Bashar Assad
February 25, 2025
The families of hostages still in Gaza are struggling to maintain hope they'll see their loved ones soon as uncertainty swirls over the future of the fragile ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas
February 26, 2025
The mother of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy killed in October 2023 in Illinois in a stabbing that authorities called a hate crime testified on Tuesday
February 26, 2025
U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff could travel to the Middle East on Sunday if negotiations on the next stage of the Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas go well, Axios reporter Barak Ravid
February 26, 2025
Prosecutors say a suburban Chicago landlord took a knife from a belt holder and attacked a Palestinian American woman before fatally stabbing her young son 26 times in 2023
February 25, 2025
Israeli and Hamas officials say they have reached an agreement to exchange the bodies of dead hostages for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
February 25, 2025
Palestinian medics say at least six infants have died from hypothermia in the last two weeks in the Gaza Strip
February 25, 2025
Syria condemned on Tuesday Israel's incursion into its territories and called for Israel to withdraw, according to a the closing statement of a national dialogue summit organised
February 25, 2025
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Iran's top leaders aligned positions on issues around Iran's nuclear programme at talks in Tehran on Tuesday, Russia's Foreign Ministry
February 25, 2025
The World Health Organization is deeply concerned about violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the impact of what it called "starkly rising" attacks on
February 25, 2025
An Israeli woman kidnapped by Hamas Palestinian militants recounted her ordeal at the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, telling the 15-member
February 25, 2025
Oil prices fell about 2% to a two-month low on Tuesday on weak economic news from the U.S. and Germany that fed fears of slower energy demand, along with signs
February 25, 2025
Egypt rejects proposals to displace the Palestinian people in order to not "liquidate" the Palestinian cause and to avoid threatening the national security of countries in the region
February 25, 2025
Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways aims to announce the launch of a $1 billion initial public offering this week, two sources told Reuters, in what would
February 25, 2025
Four Hamas members suspected of plotting attacks on Jewish institutions in Europe went on trial in Berlin on Tuesday, in what prosecutors described as the first court case
February 25, 2025
One-fifth of Israelis who were forced to evacuate their homes after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack have lost their jobs, the Israel Democracy Institute said on
February 25, 2025
Afghanistan's cricketers know things are not right at home, their coach said on Tuesday, over calls for opponents to boycott Champions Trophy matches in response to the Taliban
February 25, 2025
The mother of jailed Egyptian-British dissident Alaa Abd el-Fattah was taken to hospital on Monday night as she neared the 150th day of a hunger strike in
February 25, 2025
Israel is considering an extension of the 42-day truce in Gaza as it seeks to bring home the remaining 63 hostages, while putting off
February 25, 2025
Iran will not succumb to pressure and sanctions imposed by Washington, the Islamic Republic's top diplomat said on Tuesday after meeting his Russian counterpart,
February 25, 2025
Syrians agreed on Tuesday to form a committee to draft a constitution that enshrines justice, freedom and equality for all, according to the closing statement of
February 25, 2025
Israeli bulldozers have demolished large areas of the now virtually empty Jenin refugee camp and appear to be carving wide roadways through its once-crowded
February 24, 2025
Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman discussed on Monday with U.S.
February 25, 2025
A trial has begun in Germany for four alleged Hamas members suspected of organizing weapons caches across Europe
February 25, 2025
Galatasaray plans to start criminal proceedings against Jose Mourinho and file complaints with soccer’s governing body after accusing the Fenerbahce coach of making racist comments after a Turkish league game
February 25, 2025
Palestinians who returned to their homes in northern Gaza after the ceasefire began on Jan. 19 are still struggling to find shelter, food, water and other necessities
February 25, 2025
Hundreds of Syrians will gather in Damascus on Tuesday for a one-day national dialogue conference, billed by the country's Islamist
February 24, 2025
The caramel brown liquid, red-and-white soda cans and splashy big font bear remarkable resemblance to an iconic American soft drink
February 25, 2025
Syria's new authorities will hold a national dialogue conference starting on February 25 to discuss a new path for the nation after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in December,
February 23, 2025
The final results of Iraq’s first census in nearly 40 years show the population has reached 46.1 million
February 24, 2025
The Trump administration has rescinded a Biden-era order that required it to report potential violations of international law involving U.S.-
February 24, 2025
A swarm of small submersibles will be used to monitor and provide data on offshore artificial reefs that are intended to attract marine life in otherwise barren sections of sea
February 24, 2025
A long-awaited national dialogue conference intended to help chart Syria’s political future after the fall of former President Bashar Assad is set to begin
February 24, 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he is replacing the top lawyers for the military services because he doesn't think they are “well-suited” to provide recommendations when lawful orders are given
February 25, 2025
Oil prices settled higher on Monday as fresh U.S. sanctions on Iran and a commitment to compensate for overproduction by Iraq added to concerns of near-term supply tightness,
February 24, 2025
Hamas freed six Israelis on Saturday in the last scheduled release of living hostages by the militant group under the current stage of a ceasefire agreement with Israel
February 07, 2025
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Monday he does not want his country's relationship with Europe to be "held hostage" by views on the conflict with
February 24, 2025
European Union countries suspended a range of sanctions against Syria with immediate effect on Monday, including restrictions related to energy, banking, transport and
February 24, 2025
The United States imposed a fresh round of sanctions targeting Iran's oil industry on Monday, hitting more than 30 brokers, tanker operators, and shipping companies for their
February 24, 2025
The Bank of Israel kept short-term interest rates unchanged for a ninth straight meeting on Monday, but held out the prospect for further easing this year should
February 24, 2025
Morocco's counterterrorism agency said on Monday it had foiled attacks against national and international targets in the country by a 12-member cell loyal to
February 24, 2025
Israel sends tanks to the West Bank for the first time in 20 years. Here’s why that’s significant
February 24, 2025
The U.S. on Monday imposed sanctions on dozens of people and oil tankers across China, the United Arab Emirates, India and other jurisdictions for allegedly helping to finance Iran and its support for militant groups that launch attacks against the U.S. and its allies
February 24, 2025
Turkey said on Monday it was ready to host possible talks between Ukraine and Russia and would support any initiative leading to peace, following a visit to Ankara by Russian
February 24, 2025
Syrian transitional leader Ahmed al-Sharaa will visit Jordan on Wednesday and meet King Abdullah to discuss boosting ties between the neighbouring countries, two Jordanian officials
February 24, 2025
The United Arab Emirates plans to invest $40 billion in Italy, the two countries said at a bilateral summit in Rome, without providing any time
February 24, 2025
Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday he had invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit and would find a way for him to do so without
February 24, 2025
Israel deploys tanks to occupied West Bank for first time in more than 20 years
February 23, 2025
Qatar's sovereign wealth fund is evaluating eight venture capital firms to add to its "fund of funds" venture capital programme, which has already invested nearly $500
February 24, 2025
Somali pirates have used the Red Sea Crisis and war in Gaza to stage a return
February 22, 2025
Qatar's government has signed a five-year deal with AI data company Scale AI to deploy AI-powered tools and training in a push to improve government services in the
February 23, 2025
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday that countries must work to bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, calling for
February 24, 2025
Tens of thousands join mass funeral for slain Hezbollah leader Nasrallah
February 23, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of people bid farewell to Hezbollah's slain leader Hassan Nasrallah at a mass funeral in Beirut on Sunday, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli
February 23, 2025
Russia wants a long-term peace deal over Ukraine that tackles what it regards as the root causes of the conflict and not a quick U.S.-backed ceasefire followed by a swift restart of
February 24, 2025
The White House said on Sunday that it supports Israel's decision to delay releasing 600 Palestinian prisoners, citing the "barbaric treatment" of Israeli hostages by Hamas.
February 23, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of people have packed into a stadium in Beirut and nearby streets for the funeral of Hezbollah’s leader, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a southern suburb of the capital
February 23, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not allow Syria’s new army or the insurgent group that led the ouster of former President Bashar Assad to “enter the area south of Damascus” as his government made clear Israeli forces would stay in parts of southern Syria for an indefinite period
February 23, 2025
Israeli tanks have moved into the occupied West Bank for the first time in decades in what Palestinian authorities call a “dangerous escalation.”
February 23, 2025
Talks with Israel through mediators on further steps in a ceasefire agreement are conditional on Palestinian prisoners being released as agreed, Hamas official Basem Naim said on
February 23, 2025
President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to the Middle East this week, he said on Sunday, to push for the extension of a fragile
February 23, 2025
Israel on Sunday said it will not tolerate presence of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in southern Syria, nor any other forces affiliated with the country's new rulers, and demanded
February 23, 2025
Israel sent tanks into the occupied West Bank for the first time in more than 20 years on Sunday as it ordered the military
February 23, 2025
Sudan's army said on Sunday it had seized back control of the town of el-Gitaina, just south of the capital, from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and broken the paramilitary group's
February 23, 2025
Dmitry Bivol claims undisputed light heavyweight champion crown by getting revenge over Russian compatriot Artur Beterbiev
February 23, 2025
Egypt's Suez Canal Authority chairman Osama Rabei said on Sunday that 47 ships have been rerouted from Cape of Good Hope to Suez Canal since the start of February.
February 23, 2025
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Turkey on Monday to discuss his country's recent talks with U.S. officials on ending the war in Ukraine, and how Ankara can
February 23, 2025
Hamas on Sunday condemned Israel's decision to postpone the release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees, saying its claim that the hostages' handover ceremonies are "humiliating"
February 23, 2025
The Taliban say an Afghan women’s radio station will resume broadcasts after its operations were suspended over alleged cooperation with an overseas TV channel
February 23, 2025
Lebanon's Hezbollah will bury its former leader Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike, in a mass
February 21, 2025
Israel said on Sunday it was delaying the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners it had planned to free the day before until militant
February 23, 2025
Israel delays release of hundreds of Palestinian detainees following recovery of six Israeli hostages from Gaza
February 22, 2025
Israel says the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners is delayed “until the release of the next hostages has been assured, and without the humiliating ceremonies” at handovers of Israeli captives in Gaza
February 22, 2025
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces signed a charter with allied political and armed groups late on Saturday to establish a "government of peace and unity", signatories al-
February 22, 2025
Israel delayed the release of over 600 Palestinian prisoners it had agreed to free on Saturday, after Hamas handed over six Israeli hostages,
February 22, 2025
Dan Caine may not have been on Washington's radar before Friday night.
February 22, 2025
Palestinian teen awaits prosthetic leg in Colorado after losing leg in Israeli bombing of Gaza
February 22, 2025
Among the six hostages freed by Hamas on Saturday in return for Palestinian prisoners were an Israeli Bedouin and an Ethiopian-born man who had been in Gaza for years before the
February 22, 2025
Tunisian President Kais Saied on Saturday called for the law governing the central bank to be amended, raising concerns the lender will lose its independence and of
February 22, 2025
President Donald Trump’s Envoy for Hostages Adam Boehler called on Hamas to release the body of Shiri Bibas and all other hostages or “face total annihilation” after Israel said one of the bodies it received was not the mother
February 20, 2025
On a wintry night in Damascus, hundreds of people packed into a courtyard in the Old City, dancing and singing during
February 22, 2025
A second meeting between representatives of Russia and the United States is planned for the next two weeks, the RIA state news agency reported on Saturday, citing Russian Deputy Foreign
February 22, 2025
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February 21, 2025
Human remains returned by Hamas to Israel confirmed as those of former hostage Shiri Bibas
February 21, 2025
As Ukraine approached the three-year mark of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the country’s hoped-for path to a favorable and lasting peace has been upended in a matter of days by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump
February 22, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed revenge for what he described as a “cruel and malicious violation” of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas
February 21, 2025
Hamas has released the names of six living Israeli hostages who the militants plan to release from Gaza this weekend under the terms of the ceasefire deal
February 21, 2025
Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed and partially blinded the novelist Salman Rushdie onstage at a New York arts institute, was
February 21, 2025
Arab leaders discussed on Friday the joint efforts supporting "the Palestinian cause" and Gaza developments, during an informal meeting in Riyadh attended by Gulf states, Egypt and
February 21, 2025
A New Jersey man accused of repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage has been convicted of attempted murder
February 21, 2025
Hamas released a body on Friday it claimed to be that of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas, whose misidentification in a handover this week
February 21, 2025
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani has received an invitation to visit Iraq with the date to be determined later after consultations on the agenda, Syria's state news
February 21, 2025
Israel says Shiri Bibas is not among bodies returned from Gaza, Hamas pledges to investigate
February 20, 2025
Thousands of supporters of the longtime leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group have flown into Beirut for Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral this weekend
February 21, 2025
Sinn Féin’s leaders say they will not attend a traditional St. Patrick’s Day event next month at the White House as a protest against President Donald Trump’s stance on Gaza
February 21, 2025
Syria's new President Ahmed al-Sharaa met China's ambassador to Damascus in the first public engagement between the two countries since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in
February 21, 2025
The bodies of the youngest Israelis held hostage by the militant Hamas group have been returned to Israel, dashing the hopes of a nation hoping for a happier ending
February 20, 2025
Saudi Aramco is forecast to have no performance-linked dividend this year after a more balanced 2024 cash cycle following earlier bumper results that backed the
February 21, 2025
Flows of crude oil through a pipeline from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq to Turkey could restart soon
February 21, 2025
Arab leaders gather to discuss postwar Gaza proposal to counter Trump’s ‘Riviera’ plan
February 21, 2025
Mystery and anguish over the fate of missing Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas
February 21, 2025
Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O'Neill said on Friday she would not attend St Patrick's Day events at the White House in protest over President Donald
February 21, 2025
Arab states who were swift to reject President Donald Trump's plan for the U.S. to take control of Gaza and resettle its
February 21, 2025
The Kremlin said on Friday that there was a mutual understanding about the need for a meeting between U.S.
February 21, 2025
Supply chains for major planemakers Boeing and Airbus are showing signs of moderate improvement, the chief executive of Saudi start-up Riyadh Air said on Thursday.
February 20, 2025
Emma Raducanu says she ‘will be okay’ after a man was ejected from her Dubai Tennis Championships match
February 20, 2025
Hamas has released four bodies they said were Israeli hostages, including two young children who were long feared dead and have symbolized the nation’s agony following the Oct. 7, 2023, attack
February 20, 2025
The Israeli military said on Friday that one of the bodies released by Hamas did not belong to any of the hostages held
February 20, 2025
The Israeli military says the remains of two child hostages have been identified but another body released by Hamas was not the boys’ mother
February 20, 2025
The Israeli military said on Friday that two bodies released by Hamas had been identified as infant Kfir Bibas and his 4-year-old brother, Ariel Bibas.
February 20, 2025
Netanyahu orders West Bank military operation after Israel bus blasts
February 21, 2025
Israeli police have reported a series of explosions on three buses in central Israel in what they said appeared to be a militant attack
February 20, 2025
Navy relieves commander of aircraft carrier that collided with ship near Suez Canal
February 20, 2025
Oil prices settled higher on Thursday, marking a three-day streak of gains, after data showed gasoline and distillate drawdowns in the U.S., while worries about
February 20, 2025
Hamas stages macabre ceremony to release bodies of four Israeli hostages, said to include Bibas children and their mother
February 20, 2025
A Tunisian judge on Thursday released prominent journalist Mohamed Boughalleb, a critic of President Kais Saied, his lawyer told Reuters, a move the opposition hopes will lead to the
February 20, 2025
Dubai police detained a man who caused Emma Raducanu distress by exhibiting “fixated behavior” toward the British star at a tennis tournament
February 20, 2025
The Bank of Israel is expected to leave short-term interest rates unchanged at a policy meeting next week after inflation spiked in January, although analysts
February 20, 2025
The United Nations rights chief said on Thursday the parading of the bodies of hostages in Gaza was abhorrent and flew in the face of international law.
February 20, 2025
The US has largely managed its empire in a more ‘gentlemanly manner’ than many historical empires, says a US foreign policy expert. Trump is turning back the clock.
February 20, 2025
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has invited the leaders of Gulf Arab countries, Egypt, and Jordan for a meeting in Riyadh on Friday, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported
February 20, 2025
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February 19, 2025
President Tayyip Erdogan has escalated Turkey's battle with its top business group, expanding a broad political crackdown on dissent and
February 20, 2025
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has met with the leader of the United Arab Emirates, wrapping up an overseas trip that saw the highest-level outreach between the United States and Russia since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022
February 19, 2025
Israeli hostage families forum receives ‘heart-shattering’ news of Bibas deaths
February 19, 2025
An Israeli official says the bodies of the youngest and one of the oldest captives seized by Hamas during the attack that ignited the war in Gaza are expected to be returned on Thursday
February 19, 2025
Yemeni Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani called on Wednesday for the arrest of a group of leaders from Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis who he said will attend Lebanese Hezbollah
February 19, 2025
Turkey has begun exporting around 15,000 tonnes of eggs to the United States as a devastating outbreak of bird flu is slashing U.S.
February 19, 2025
When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine nearly three years ago, then-U.S.
February 19, 2025
Tomb of ancient Egyptian king unearthed in ‘remarkable’ discovery
February 19, 2025
The U.S. and Russia agreed on Tuesday to restore the normal functioning of each other's diplomatic missions, Secretary of State Marco
February 18, 2025
An Israeli official said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed a close confidant to lead negotiations for the second stage of the ceasefire with Hamas
February 19, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Ukraine would not be excluded from negotiations to end the war, but success would depend on raising the level of trust between
February 19, 2025
Pakistani authorities have stepped up arrests of Afghan citizens in Islamabad and the nearby city of Rawalpindi and are forcing them to move elsewhere in Pakistan
February 19, 2025
Emma Raducanu says she will be OK after what she called a “difficult experience” related to the presence of a man who had exhibited “fixated behavior” toward her at the Dubai Championships
February 19, 2025
One person was killed in an Israeli drone strike on the southern Lebanese border town of Aita al-Shaab, the Lebanese Ministry of Health said on Wednesday, a day after the deadline
February 19, 2025The armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad said on Wednesday that it would release the body of Israeli hostage Oded Lifshitz on Thursday.
February 19, 2025
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called on Wednesday for the country to change its constitution, a move demanded by Azerbaijan that could facilitate a peace treaty between the
February 19, 2025
The Red Cross on Wednesday called for privacy and dignity ahead of the expected release of hostages' bodies from Gaza under the terms of a ceasefire.
February 19, 2025
Three oil tankers have been damaged by blasts in the last month in separate incidents around the Mediterranean, with the causes unknown, shipping and security sources said on
February 19, 2025Israel has received the list of the deceased hostages who will be released from Gaza on Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Wednesday, without naming
February 19, 2025A Jewish American organization, long supported by the U.S. government to assist those escaping conflict and oppressive regimes, is set to scale back
February 19, 2025
How Trump friend Steve Witkoff ended up at the center of high-stakes Ukraine, Israel negotiations
February 19, 2025
‘Everything is better than before’: How Syria is reopening to tourists
February 11, 2025
Afghan refugees are facing arrests and harassment in Pakistan as part of a mass expulsion campaign, Kabul's embassy in Islamabad said on Wednesday, after the U.N.
February 19, 2025
For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the heart of Syria's capital
February 19, 2025
Ruben Vardanyan, a former top official in the ethnic Armenian administration of Nagorno-Karabakh which Azerbaijan retook in 2023, announced a second hunger strike on Wednesday in protest
February 19, 2025The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that a mass campaign to vaccinate children against polio in Gaza would resume on Saturday, with over half a million children targeted.
February 19, 2025
Israel demolishes West Bank apartment buildings as military campaign displaces tens of thousands of Palestinians
February 19, 2025
Egypt's president called on the international community on Wednesday to adopt a plan to rebuild war-torn Gaza without displacing Palestinians, after a proposal by U.S.
February 19, 2025
Suez Canal Authority Chairman Osama Rabie said on Wednesday that the Red Sea crisis did not create a sustainable route to replace the canal, adding that there were positive indicators
February 19, 2025
Etihad Airways more than tripled its net profit last year to $476 million, the carrier, which sources say is set for an initial public
February 19, 2025
The United Arab Emirates leader told the United States' secretary of state on Wednesday that his country rejects a proposal to displace Palestinians from their land, the Emirati
February 19, 2025
Russia is planning to hold high-level contacts with Syria in the near future, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
February 19, 2025
‘Fixated’ spectator ejected from Emma Raducanu’s Dubai Tennis Championships match
February 19, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S.
February 19, 2025
Suspected Somali pirates have seized another Yemeni fishing boat off the Horn of Africa
February 19, 2025The Israeli military prosecutor has filed indictments against five reservists, alleging severe abuse and injury of a Palestinian prisoner at Sde Teiman prison, that included
February 19, 2025President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was quoted on Wednesday as saying a U.S. proposal for a critical minerals deal was unfair as it did not include security guarantees, and he did not want
February 19, 2025
Russia's sovereign wealth fund expects a number of U.S. companies to return to Russia as early as the second quarter of 2025, its chief said on Wednesday, after the most senior U.S.
February 19, 2025
A Florida man has been charged with two counts of attempted murder after opening fire on two men in Miami Beach who he thought were Palestinians
February 18, 2025Emma Raducanu lost to Karolina Muchova after an emotional first set in which a spectator was ejected at the Dubai Championships
February 18, 2025
Local prosecutors in Florida said on Tuesday their hate crimes unit was probing a shooting by a male suspect who, according to police, fired on two men he thought were
February 19, 2025Panama is detaining in a hotel nearly 300 people from various countries deported by the United States, not allowing them to leave while waiting for international authorities to organize a return to their countries
February 19, 2025
Gaza ceasefire’s future uncertain as Netanyahu sidelines security chiefs in negotiations
February 18, 2025Top U.S. and Russian officials have had their most extensive high-level engagement since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine almost three years ago
February 18, 2025
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February 18, 2025
A federal judge has refused to immediately block billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing government data systems or participating in worker layoffs
February 18, 2025A senior Hamas leader says the militant group will release six living Israeli hostages on Saturday and the bodies of four others on Thursday
February 18, 2025
Solidarity with Palestine holds "Stronger Together" walk in Rochester skyways
February 18, 2025
Russia and the U.S. have agreed to start working toward ending the war in Ukraine and improving their diplomatic and economic ties
February 18, 2025
Florida man charged with attempted murder, accused of shooting tourists he thought were Palestinian
February 17, 2025
US and Russia to appoint teams to negotiate end of Ukraine war in talks that excluded Kyiv
February 18, 2025
Sister of freed Hamas hostage Keith Siegel shares emotional reunion: 'All I have is my voice'
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October 30, 2013Two British nationals detained in Iran have been charged with espionage after they allegedly gathered information in different parts of the country, the Iranian judiciary's Mizan news
February 18, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy postponed his visit to Saudi Arabia in order to not give "legitimacy" to Tuesday's meeting between U.S. and Russian
February 18, 2025
The State Department office overseeing the resettlement of Afghans in the United States has been told to develop plans to close by April, according to a U.S.
February 18, 2025
China supports all efforts conducive to peace talks in Ukraine, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, and
February 18, 2025
According to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the US and Russia agreed on four principles following talks that lasted over four hours in Saudi Arabia. Puck News correspondent Julia Ioffe explains how these talks, which excluded Ukraine and Europe, are a big win for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
February 18, 2025Families of some Israeli hostages in Gaza have received signs of life from their loved ones for the first time in more than a year via captives who have been
February 17, 2025
Iranian state media say authorities have accused a British couple detained in the country since January of spying
February 18, 2025Israel and Hamas will begin indirect negotiations on a second stage of the Gaza ceasefire deal, officials said on Tuesday, as the
February 18, 2025
HSBC on Tuesday agreed to sell its retail banking operations in Bahrain to Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait (BBK) amid a global restructuring at the bank.
February 18, 2025
Oman's Asyad Shipping said on Tuesday that its forthcoming IPO will be backed by a subsidiary of the Qatar Investment Authority and a local investment firm owned by the Omani
February 18, 2025US-Russia summit ends in a partial victory for Moscow – and a reversal on Europe
February 18, 2025Hamas says it will release bodies of four hostages, including Bibas children, on Thursday and six living hostages on Saturday
February 18, 2025
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December 28, 2012Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he had postponed his visit to Saudi Arabia planned for Wednesday and that talks on how to end the war with Russia could not be
February 18, 2025
The Russian government released a U.S. citizen detained on charges of possession of a small amount of marijuana ahead of talks between Russian and U.S. officials in Saudi Arabia, a
February 18, 2025
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to travel to Riyadh on Thursday, two Egyptian security sources said, where he is due to
February 18, 2025
Jordan's King Abdullah left hospital on Tuesday after undergoing minor surgery, the royal palace said.
February 18, 2025
The United States and Russia agreed on Tuesday to address "irritants" to the U.S.-Russia relationship and begin working on a path to end Russia's war in Ukraine, the State
February 18, 2025
Sudanese officials and rights groups say attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Force have killed hundreds of civilians, including infants, in White Nile state
February 18, 2025
Tens of thousands of Palestinians living in refugee camps in the occupied West Bank have left their homes as a weeks-long Israeli offensive has demolished houses
February 18, 2025
Senior U.S. officials said on Tuesday after talks with a Russian delegation in Saudi Arabia that all sides will need to make concessions in order to bring about an
February 18, 2025
Lebanon's new government will negotiate with the International Monetary Fund for a new programme and will work to deal with the country's financial
February 18, 2025
Israeli forces have withdrawn from border villages in southern Lebanon under a deadline spelled out in a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement that ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war
February 18, 2025
Egypt has postponed an emergency Arab summit to counter U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to remove the Palestinian population from the Gaza Strip and take over the territory
February 18, 2025
An agreement has been reached with Hamas to release on Saturday the six remaining hostages who are alive, Axios reported on Tuesday, citing an unnamed senior Israeli official.
February 18, 2025Turkish police have detained 282 suspects accused of ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, militant group, the government said on Tuesday, among them journalists,
February 18, 2025
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was serious about negotiating a settlement to end the war in Ukraine as high-level talks began in Saudi Arabia, and
February 18, 2025
Israel keeps some troops in southern Lebanon in defiance of withdrawal deadline
February 18, 2025
Britain has a genuine intent to strengthen trade with Saudi Arabia, Investment Minister Poppy Gustafsson said on Tuesday at the Capital Markets Forum taking place in Riyadh.
February 18, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a delegation to meet with senior officials from U.S.
February 18, 2025
Turkish police have detained 282 suspects in a large-scale operation targeting the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK
February 18, 2025
The head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund on Tuesday described U.S.
February 18, 2025
Syrian security forces have arrested three men linked to the 2013 Tadamon massacre, when government forces executed hundreds of blindfolded detainees, shooting them into a trench before setting their bodies on fire
February 17, 2025Residents of a south Lebanon town are waiting to rebuild and fix their damaged homes as Israel is supposed to end its military presence north of its border under a U.S.-brokered deal
February 17, 2025
Australia's competition watchdog on Tuesday backed a planned alliance between Virgin Australia and Qatar Airways, saying it would provide air
February 17, 2025Why is Saudi Arabia hosting talks to end the Ukraine war?
February 18, 2025A Florida man was arrested and charged with two counts of attempted murder after shooting at a vehicle with two men who he thought were Palestinians but turned
February 17, 2025Israel prepares to receive the remains of several hostages
February 17, 2025
Egypt is developing a plan to rebuild Gaza without forcing Palestinians out of the strip in a counter to President Donald Trump’s proposal to depopulate the territory so the U.S. can take it over
February 17, 2025
The Kremlin says senior American and Russian officials will hold talks on improving their ties and negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine
February 17, 2025
Israel’s military says its forces will remain in five strategic locations in southern Lebanon after Tuesday’s deadline for their withdrawal under a ceasefire with the Hezbollah militant group
February 17, 2025
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February 17, 2025
Israelis have marked 500 days of war in Gaza with protests demanding further progress on a ceasefire so all remaining hostages can be returned
February 17, 2025
Trump leans on close ties to Saudi prince as he looks for a deal on Ukraine
February 17, 2025
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman discussed plans for Gaza during a meeting on Monday, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said.
February 17, 2025
Israel is preparing to receive the bodies of four hostages from Gaza on Thursday and is working on bringing back six living captives on Saturday, an Israeli security official
February 17, 2025
A U.S. official says Secretary of State Marco Rubio is leading a delegation to Saudi Arabia for direct talks with Russian officials in the coming days to seek an end to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine
February 16, 2025
Marco Rubio, in his first joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as US Secretary of State, made clear that the Trump administration’s Middle East strategy is strikingly focused on the Iran regime.
February 16, 2025
The 23-year-old Syrian refugee believed to have killed a teenager and injured five other people in a weekend stabbing rampage in the Austrian town of Villach
February 17, 2025
Yuri Ushakov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy adviser, said on Monday that Moscow and Washington had yet to agree on how to embark on Ukraine peace talks as the
February 17, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Palestinians should be given the choice to leave Gaza.
February 16, 2025
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to the United Arab Emirates as momentum grows for potential peace talks ending Russia's war
February 17, 2025
The president of Cyprus says a pair of agreements outlining how sizeable natural gas deposits inside Cypriot waters will get to market via processing facilities in Egypt are a milestone for energy cooperation
February 17, 2025Dubai-based Huda Beauty will sell its popular fragrance brand KAYALI to its co-founder and General Atlantic in a move that allows the beauty company's owners to
February 17, 2025
Sudan's government said on Monday it would allow aid agencies to use the Adre border crossing for a further three months as of February 16.
February 17, 2025OPEC+ producers are not considering delaying a series of monthly oil supply increases that is scheduled to begin in April, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on
February 17, 2025
Israel will keep troops in several posts in southern Lebanon past a February 18 deadline for them to withdraw, a military spokesperson
February 17, 2025
Palestinian medic and ambulance worker Tarek Rabie Safi, freed from an Israeli jail as part of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, said he was underfed and abused
February 17, 2025
Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov visited Saudi Arabia on Sunday ahead talks between Russia and the United States in the Kingdom scheduled for next week.
February 16, 2025
Man accused of opening fire on vehicle in Miami Beach after he saw 2 men in it he thought were Palestinians, arrest documents say
February 17, 2025Hamas rejects disarmament, vows to fight ‘Israel’s agents’ in Gaza after the war
February 17, 2025
The Israeli military on Monday killed a Hamas leader in southern Lebanon's Sidon area, it said in a statement.
February 17, 2025
The EU plans to tell Israel next week that Palestinians uprooted from their Gaza homes should be ensured a dignified return and that Europe will contribute to
February 17, 2025
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday he had discussed bringing back Ukrainians from Russian captivity with UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at
February 17, 2025
Iran said on Monday that U.S. and Israeli threats against it were a blatant violation of international law and that they could not "do a damn thing
February 17, 2025
Russia said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov would hold talks with top U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on Tuesday that will focus on ending
February 17, 2025
Pro-Palestinian NGO seeks ICC arrest warrant for Israel’s foreign minister
February 16, 2025
Saudi Arabia to host US-Russia talks on Ukraine, as UK says it’s ‘ready and willing’ to put troops on ground
February 17, 2025
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday ruled out territorial concessions to Ukraine, setting out a tough opening stance on the eve
February 17, 2025
Russia has freed a U.S. citizen arrested this month on drug smuggling charges, according to Russian media reports and a U.S. official
February 17, 2025New photos show damage to US aircraft carrier after collision
February 17, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump has quickly plunged into Mideast diplomacy since returning to office last month
February 17, 2025
Russia's sovereign wealth fund chief Kirill Dmitriev will meet a U.S. delegation in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to focus on strengthening ties and increased economic cooperation, a
February 17, 2025
The Russian rouble weakened slightly against the U.S. dollar on Monday ahead of Russia-U.S. talks scheduled to take place in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh on February 18.
February 17, 2025
Top Trump administration officials are set to meet with senior Russian officials to begin talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, according to multiple sources. CNN contributor and former CNN Moscow bureau chief Jill Dougherty weighs in on what she says is the most important issue for the US to raise during these talks.
February 17, 2025Monday is the 500th day of the war triggered by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack into southern Israel
February 17, 2025
For traders, it's a case of which way to look next with their screens flooded by headlines from tariffs and shaky Middle East ceasefire deals, to Russia and Ukraine.
February 14, 2025
Netanyahu vows to ‘finish the job’ against Iran with support from Trump
February 16, 2025
Trump offers key concessions to Putin ahead of Ukraine peace talks in Saudi Arabia
February 17, 2025Russia's air defence units intercepted and destroyed 90 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Russian defence ministry said on Monday.
February 17, 2025Lebanese media say a woman has been killed and several other people wounded after Israeli forces opened fire on a group of residents attempting to return to the village of Houla in the south
February 16, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he believes he could meet "very soon" with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.
February 16, 2025
Israel has received a shipment of heavy MK-84 bombs from the United States, after U.S.
February 16, 2025
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February 16, 2025
The U.S. military said on Sunday that it killed a senior official of an al Qaeda affiliate during an airstrike in northwest Syria the day before. U.S.
February 16, 2025Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signaled that he's moving ahead with U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to transfer the Palestinian population out of Gaza
February 16, 2025
The head of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said on Sunday that Israeli troops must withdraw from Lebanese territory in full by a February 18 deadline, saying it had "no pretext" to
February 16, 2025
The outgoing head of the Israeli military, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, will travel to the United States on an official visit from Feb. 17-20, the Israeli military said on
February 16, 2025
White House Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff on Sunday said he would travel to Saudi Arabia later in the day with National Security Advisor
February 16, 2025
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February 16, 2025
Israel and the United States are determined to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions and its influence in the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister
February 16, 2025
Saudi Arabia seeks to mediate between Trump and Iran on new nuclear deal
February 16, 2025
Iraq's central bank will ban five more local banks from engaging in U.S. dollar transactions, a move that comes after meetings with U.S.
February 16, 2025
An Israeli airstrike killed three Palestinian police officers east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, the Hamas-run Interior Ministry said, calling it
February 16, 2025
Three Israeli hostages and hundreds of Palestinian detainees freed after dispute threatened Gaza ceasefire
February 15, 2025
Turkey's central bank stands "ready to act" against risks in the current rate-cutting cycle, Turkish Central Bank Governor Fatih Karahan told a conference for emerging market
February 16, 2025
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February 16, 2025Islamic State, the militant group that imposed hardline Islamist rule over millions of people in Syria and Iraq for years, has been trying to stage a
January 02, 2025
U.S. and Russian officials will meet in Saudi Arabia in the coming days to start talks aimed at ending Moscow's nearly three-year war
February 15, 2025
Gone are the crowded arenas, the pulsing playlists, the off-the-cuff 90-minute campaign speeches.
February 16, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told a mother who has been on hunger strike for 140 days that he will press the Egyptian government to release her son
February 16, 2025
Iranian authorities have ordered an investigation into the fatal stabbing of a university student during a robbery, state media reported on Saturday, as the incident sparked protests
February 15, 2025
China's central bank governor said on Sunday a stable yuan currency has been key to global financial and economic stability and Beijing will continue to let the market play a
February 16, 2025
Hezbollah on Sunday condemned an attack on a United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL) convoy in Beirut on Friday which the U.S.
February 16, 2025
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February 15, 2025
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S.
February 15, 2025
Hamas-led militants have freed three more hostages from the Gaza Strip after more than 16 months in captivity
January 19, 2025
British couple motorbiking around the world detained in Iran
February 15, 2025Top Trump officials set to meet with senior Russian officials to begin Ukraine talks
February 15, 2025
Israel and Hamas have completed the sixth exchange of hostages and Palestinian prisoners with just over two weeks remaining in the initial phase of their fragile Gaza ceasefire
February 15, 2025
Israel and Hamas have completed their sixth exchange of hostages and prisoners after their ceasefire survived its latest crisis
February 15, 2025
The Lebanese army fired tear gas on Saturday at Hezbollah supporters protesting around Beirut airport against Lebanon blocking an Iranian flight to Beirut this week after the
February 15, 2025
Hamas released Israeli hostages Iair Horn, Sagui Dekel Chen and Sasha (Alexander) Troufanov in Gaza on Saturday
February 15, 2025
The family of two British nationals detained in the Iranian city of Kerman said on Saturday they were engaging with relevant authorities to ensure their well-being and safe return
February 15, 2025The outgoing deputy force commander of the United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL) in Lebanon was injured on Friday after a convoy taking peacekeepers to Beirut airport was "violently
February 14, 2025
Britain said on Saturday it had tracked in recent days six Russian naval and merchant ships carrying ammunition used in Syria as they sailed through the Channel.
February 15, 2025Iran’s vice-president, Mohammad Reza Aref, has ordered a probe into the killing of a university student during a robbery, after a protest gathering by students at Tehran University
February 15, 2025Hamas named three more Israeli hostages it will release in a weekend trade for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, the latest sign that the shaky Gaza ceasefire deal appears to be holding in spite of a tense dispute that has threatened to renew fighting
February 14, 2025
Turkey on Saturday removed another elected pro-Kurdish provincial mayor over convictions on terrorism-related charges and appointed a state official in his place, the interior
February 15, 2025North Korea said on Saturday that the United States should abandon military threats if it has concerns about its mainland safety, state media KCNA reported, citing an official at
February 15, 2025
President Donald Trump on Friday advocated taking a "hard stance" on Gaza, the Palestinian enclave for which he has proposed a U.S.
February 14, 2025
Iran barred Lebanese planes from repatriating dozens of Lebanese nationals stranded in Iran on Friday, in a standoff after Lebanon blocked an Iranian civilian flight following what
February 14, 2025As Israel anxiously awaits the possible release of more hostages held by Hamas on Saturday, Niva Wenkert recalls a video of her son Omer half
February 14, 2025
Syria's central bank said a batch of Syrian currency had arrived at Damascus airport from Russia, where banknotes were printed under the rule of toppled President Bashar al-Assad,
February 14, 2025
Moves by President Donald Trump's administration to cut U.S. foreign aid funding risk destabilising two camps in northeastern Syria holding tens of thousands of people accused of
February 14, 2025
Saudi Arabia said on Friday it commended the phone call between U.S.
February 14, 2025
A ceasefire has enabled some Gazans to go back to their ruined homes without fear of Israeli airstrikes, but they have returned
February 14, 2025
A world-renowned U.S. program for international disaster and crisis assistance can no longer deploy in the event of a major emergency due to the Trump administration's
February 14, 2025
Palestinian militant groups in Gaza said they would release hostages Iair Horn, U.S.-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen and Russian-Israeli
February 14, 2025
For Tom Shoval, making the film "A Letter to David" was a way to ensure that his friend David Cunio was not just a face on a kidnapped poster after the Hamas-led
February 15, 2025Arab countries are putting together a plan that would rebuild Gaza without displacing its people, guarantee security and governance, Jordan's foreign minister said on
February 14, 2025
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November 05, 2013A court in Tajikistan has handed down prison sentences of between eight and 20 years to more than 30 people it convicted of trying to poison attendees of a festival last year, the
February 14, 2025The families of Israeli hostages still held by the Hamas militant group have welcomed the “joyous news” that three men, all taken from the same kibbutz on Oct. 7, 2023, are expected to be freed on Saturday
February 14, 2025
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said the administration of U.S.
February 14, 2025
After nearly 500 days in captivity in Gaza, with little access to media, recently freed hostages have many questions
February 14, 2025
The World Bank's private investment arm is increasing equity investments and eyeing large-scale infrastructure financing in Pakistan, in an investment plan that
February 14, 2025
Saudi Arabia is spearheading urgent Arab efforts to develop a plan for Gaza's future
February 14, 2025
Researchers who sniffed mummified remains in the name of science were greeted more with a blessing than a curse
February 14, 2025
Groups that refuse to lay down their arms and submit to the defence ministry's authority will play no part in a national dialogue on Syria's future, a committee set up to prepare
February 13, 2025
War-torn countries, those with high levels of debt and U.S. allies such as Jordan have the most to lose if the United States Agency for
February 14, 2025
France has put together a proposal for United Nations peacekeepers, including French troops, replace Israeli forces at key points to ensure those forces leave Lebanon by a February
February 13, 2025
Tightened U.S. sanctions on Moscow have disrupted a roaring trade in discounted Russian oil to China and India, reviving demand for
February 14, 2025
The Navy says the aircraft carrier USS Harry S
February 13, 2025
Israel announces names of three hostages set for Saturday release from Gaza
February 14, 2025
Elon Musk's The Boring Company and Dubai's Road and Transport Authority (RTA) have signed an initial agreement to build the Dubai Loop, an
February 14, 2025
The Vatican's lead diplomat on Thursday criticised President Donald Trump's plan for the U.S. to displace Palestinians from Gaza and "take over" the
February 14, 2025
Arab states are scrambling to develop a realistic plan for Gaza's future as a counter to U.S.
February 14, 2025
Trump hosts four foreign leaders in two weeks as the world navigates his return to power
February 14, 2025
US Navy aircraft carrier collides with merchant ship near Suez Canal
February 14, 2025
Two girls have been brought back to Russia from Ukraine thanks to mediation by Qatar after being separated from their mother because of the war, Russian children's commissioner
February 14, 2025The United States has warned U.N. organizations UNICEF and UN Women against any focus on diversity, equity, inclusion and gender
February 14, 2025
Iran is rearming its missile program and a ship of supplies just arrived from China, Western sources say
February 13, 2025
A European naval force in the Mideast helped free a Yemeni fishing boat seized by suspected Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa
February 14, 2025Libyan security authorities have recovered at least 11 more bodies of migrants a mass grave in the southeast of the country, a security official told Reuters on Thursday.
February 13, 2025
Hamas says it will release the next group of three Israeli hostages as planned
February 13, 2025
US intelligence agencies believe Israel is likely to strike Iranian nuclear facilities this year
February 13, 2025
The U.S. has sanctioned the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor
February 13, 2025
The United Arab Emirates has told the United States it wants to host talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine that could
February 13, 2025
The militant group Hamas says it will free three Israeli hostages as planned this weekend
February 13, 2025
Elon Musk said on Thursday his AI chatbot, and ChatGPT challenger, Grok 3, is in the final stages of development and will be released in about a week or two.
February 13, 2025
Hamas does not want the Gaza ceasefire agreement to collapse, the Palestinian militant group said on Thursday, ahead of a Saturday deadline for it to release more Israeli
February 13, 2025
Azerbaijan has filed a lawsuit against Armenia in the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague over what it says is evidence of extensive environmental destruction in areas of
February 13, 2025
Syria's new rulers are combing through the billion-dollar corporate empires of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's allies, and have held talks with some of these tycoons, in what they say
February 13, 2025
Russia said on Thursday that Ukraine would "of course" be involved in talks to end the war, but there would be a separate U.S.-Russian strand
February 13, 2025
Hamas signalled on Thursday that a crisis threatening to unravel an already fragile ceasefire in Gaza could be avoided even after
February 13, 2025
Twenty regional and Western powers agreed in a joint statement on Thursday to do their utmost to help Syria's new authorities and shield the country during its fragile
February 13, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron offers to back Syria’s interim government in potential partnership with the U.S.-led international coalition fighting against extremist groups in Syria and Iraq at a conference in Paris to discuss the country’s future after the fall of former Syrian president Bashar Assad
February 13, 2025
U.S. intelligence warns that Israel is likely to launch a preemptive attack on Iran's nuclear program by midyear, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing multiple intelligence
February 13, 2025
A suicide bomber killed one person and wounded three in an attack near government offices in Kabul on Thursday, an official spokesman said, the second explosion in Afghanistan this
February 13, 2025Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will not travel to
February 12, 2025
2024 was the deadliest year for journalists in over three decades. Nearly 70% were killed by Israel, report says
February 13, 2025
A U.S.
February 13, 2025Elon Musk has called for the United States to “delete entire agencies” from the federal government
February 13, 2025
Hamas says it will release hostages as planned, potentially resolving ceasefire spat with Israel
February 13, 2025
Hundreds of thousands have been killed in civil war-torn Syria.
February 13, 2025
A Saudi educator known for his charity work and instructing prisoners has won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize
February 13, 2025
The Taliban leader has made a rare visit to a university in Afghanistan in his first known trip to a modern education institution
February 13, 2025An Afghan government spokesperson says a blast at a ministry compound in Kabul has killed one person and injured three
February 13, 2025
Israel’s defense minister says “all hell will break loose” if Hamas does not release three hostages as planned this weekend
February 12, 2025
Trump’s Gaza ‘Riviera’ vision needed an Arab reality check. This royal visit only encouraged it
February 13, 2025An Australian hospital is examining its patient records after a nurse claimed online to have killed Israelis
February 12, 2025
Two British nationals, a man and a woman, are in custody in Iran's southeastern city of Kerman on security-related charges, state media reported on Thursday.
February 12, 2025Jordan's King Abdullah discussed on Wednesday "dangerous developments" in Gaza and the West Bank during a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, according to a post on X
February 12, 2025
An agreement signed years ago for the creation of a Russian naval base in Sudan remains on the table following talks in Moscow, Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Yusef Sharif said in an
February 12, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S.
February 12, 2025
Oil prices settled down more than 2% on Wednesday after U.S.
February 12, 2025
Egyptian and Qatari mediators are working to salvage the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, which risks being derailed because of a dispute between the two sides
February 12, 2025
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Russia's sovereign wealth fund chief Kirill Dmitriev were involved in negotiations for the release of U.S. teacher Marc Fogel from a
February 12, 2025
Global marine fuel sales jumped in 2024 after attacks by Yemen's Houthis starting in late 2023 prompted most shipping companies to divert vessels around southern
February 12, 2025
Russia's President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with Syria's interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, the Kremlin said on Wednesday, the first direct communication between the two since
February 12, 2025
Israel has called up military reservists to brace for a possible re-eruption of war in Gaza if Hamas fails to meet a
February 12, 2025
U.S. assistance for managing and securing camps in northeastern Syria with Islamic State-linked prisoners "cannot last forever," the acting U.S.
February 12, 2025
Syria’s relations with Iran and Russia remain an open wound for its people after the nations backed autocratic President Bashar Assad during its long war
February 12, 2025
A record number of journalists was killed around the world last year, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Wednesday, adding that Israel was
February 12, 2025
U.S.
February 12, 2025
Three weeks into the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the number of tents and temporary homes entering Gaza risks falling short of the goals set for the deal’s first phase
February 12, 2025
The United Arab Emirates' ambassador to the United States, Yousef Al Otaiba, said on Wednesday that the U.S. approach to Gaza was "difficult".
February 12, 2025
President Donald Trump made no attempt to soften his proposal to relocate Palestinians in Gaza and redevelop the land into premium housing, even as his guest in the Oval Office, King Abdullah II of Jordan, suggested the Arab world was opposed. Arab American Institute member Omar Baddar gives his reaction to Trump's comments.
February 11, 2025
‘Some of the things that I say will be incorrect’: Musk backs away from false claim of $50 million for Gaza condoms
February 12, 2025
Exchange operator CME Group reported a higher fourth-quarter profit on Wednesday, helped by increased hedging activity by investors looking to mitigate risks from geopolitical and economic
February 12, 2025
A British-Lebanese securities trader wanted in the United States for alleged insider dealing on Wednesday won his fight against extradition at the United Kingdom's Supreme Court.
February 12, 2025
A Libyan state minister survived an assassination attempt when gunmen opened fire on his car in the capital Tripoli on Wednesday, a government statement said.
February 12, 2025Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said Chinese startup DeepSeek has done very good work that showed how global artificial intelligence is.
February 12, 2025
The amount of Russian and Iranian oil held on ships has hit multi-month highs as harsher U.S. sanctions reduced the number of buyers, leaving fewer
February 12, 2025
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday Iran should further develop its military, including its missiles, after U.S.
February 12, 2025
How the fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal could unravel
February 11, 2025
Wrongfully detained American teacher Marc Fogel meets with Trump after being released from Russia in an ‘exchange’
February 11, 2025
Families of the hostages in Gaza are struggling to maintain hope as the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas seems increasingly at risk of falling apart
February 12, 2025
North Korean state media on Wednesday denounced U.S.
February 12, 2025
Jordan’s King Abdullah II has once again rejected any mass displacement of Palestinians after meeting with President Donald Trump, who has called for the Gaza Strip’s roughly 2 million residents to be removed from the war-ravaged territory
January 26, 2025
The first phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is supposed to last six weeks
February 11, 2025
Two nurses in a Sydney hospital have been suspended from work for threatening to kill Jewish patients and refusing to treat them in a video on TikTok, triggering an investigation by
February 12, 2025Palestinians say the fatal shooting of a pregnant 23-year-old in a refugee camp in the northern West Bank signals a worrying trend toward more lethal, warlike tactics by Israel in the occupied territory
February 11, 2025
The U.N. food agency says one of its staffers detained last month by Houthi rebels in Yemen has died in prison
February 11, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Tuesday the ceasefire in Gaza would end and the military would resume
February 11, 2025
Egypt said on Tuesday it plans to offer a "comprehensive proposal" to rebuild Gaza while ensuring Palestinians remain on their land, according to a foreign ministry statement.
February 11, 2025
Egypt rejected any proposal to allocate land to Gaza residents, the state-affiliated Al Qahera News TV reported on Tuesday, citing Egyptian sources. U.S.
February 11, 2025A U.S. judge on Tuesday ruled that a Turkish author and her son can be extradited to Turkey to face charges that he caused a reckless, fatal car crash in Istanbul
February 11, 2025
Donald Trump on Tuesday pressed Jordan's King Abdullah to take in Palestinians who would be permanently displaced under the president's plan for
February 11, 2025
Iran alerted the United Nations on Tuesday to what it described as "reckless and inflammatory statements" by U.S.
February 11, 2025
Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2017, has been renovated in a boost
February 11, 2025
Iraq’s top court has thrown out a legal challenge that had temporarily halted three controversial laws passed last month by the country’s parliament
February 11, 2025
The United Nations said on Tuesday aid flows into Gaza had risen significantly since a ceasefire took effect last month including for items such as tents that
February 11, 2025
The United Arab Emirates called on Tuesday for a ceasefire in Sudan during the coming holy month of Ramadan, a UAE official said, a call rejected by the Sudanese army, as the
February 11, 2025
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis, who control most of western Yemen including the capital, are ready to mount attacks on Israel if it resumes its assault on Gaza and does not commit to
February 11, 2025On the outskirts of Cairo, a cutting-edge space lab was supposed to be the first in Africa to
February 11, 2025
With his Gaza home destroyed in Israel's military offensive, Shaban Shaqaleh had intended to take his family on a
February 11, 2025
The Islamic State armed group attacked military bases in Somalia's northeastern Puntland state overnight with suicide car and motorbike bombs, but government forces repelled the
February 11, 2025President Mahmoud Abbas faced criticism from allies and foes alike on Tuesday over a decree overhauling payments to families of Palestinians killed or
February 11, 2025
Syria's new president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, said in remarks broadcast on Monday he believes U.S.
February 11, 2025
Nearly 500 days after Hamas gunmen seized him from a roadside bomb shelter in southern Israel, Alon Ohel managed to get a message out
February 11, 2025
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Hamas to continue with the planned release of hostages on Tuesday, a day after the Palestinian militant group announced its intention to
February 11, 2025
Iran's top judicial authority has pardoned two journalists who uncovered the death of a young woman in police custody that triggered nationwide protests in 2022, the judiciary's news
February 11, 2025The United Nations said on Tuesday that one of its staff members had died in detention in northern Yemen, where the U.N. has repeatedly called for the Houthi movement to free detained
February 11, 2025
A court in Stockholm on Tuesday convicted a Swedish woman of genocide, crimes against humanity and gross war crimes committed in Syria in 2015 against women and children of the
February 11, 2025President Donald Trump has hosted Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House and has renewed his insistence that Gaza could somehow be emptied of all residents, controlled by the U.S. and redeveloped as a tourist area
February 11, 2025
Investment in data centres and cloud infrastructure is still needed despite DeepSeek challenging the cost efficiency of large AI models, Baidu CEO Robin Li said on Tuesday.
February 11, 2025
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