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
Don’t drink water only when you’re thirsty and other expert-backed hydration tips
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
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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
U.S. tariffs are an "evolving story" and it is too early to assess their impact on the world economy, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on
February 11, 2025
At least five people were killed when a suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his body detonated outside a bank in northeastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, police said.
February 11, 2025They line up by the hundreds to meet recruiters at schools in provincial towns and convention halls in large cities, some carrying advanced
February 11, 2025
Dubai-owned ports and logistics company DP World's CEO Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem said on Tuesday U.S. President Donald Trump expects other markets to be open if the United States is.
February 11, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to withdraw from the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and resume its war against Hamas if the militant group does not go ahead with the next scheduled release of hostages this weekend
February 11, 2025
The International Olympic Committee says the first Olympic Esports Games will be hosted in Riyadh in 2027
February 11, 2025
Hamas’ threat to delay the next planned release of Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip has jolted a fragile ceasefire that’s seen as having the potential to wind down the war
February 11, 2025
‘The right answer is not a real estate operation:’ French President Macron calls for respect for Palestinians in Gaza
February 11, 2025
Trump stands by his Gaza plan in meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah
February 11, 2025
What we know about the Super Bowl halftime show demonstrator
February 10, 2025
U.S.
February 05, 2025
An Israeli army reservist’s dream vacation in Brazil ended abruptly last month over an accusation that he committed war crimes in the Gaza Strip
February 11, 2025
Israeli police officers used trash bags to confiscate books from a renowned Palestinian bookstore in east Jerusalem. Two owners of the family-run bookstore, the Educational Bookshop, were arrested on suspicion of selling books inciting terrorism. Their arrests have sparked an outcry from the UN, foreign diplomats and protesters who gathered outside a Jerusalem courthouse on Monday to accuse Israeli authorities of censorship.
February 10, 2025
With its focus on war with its neighbor, Russia has taken its eyes off the ball elsewhere. As a result, its position is much weaker – but Putin remains dangerous.
February 10, 2025Israel fears for condition of remaining hostages, as intel suggests male captives treated worse than women
February 11, 2025
Woman who kept Yazidi women and children as slaves in Syria jailed by Swedish court
February 11, 2025
Israel has released 183 Palestinian prisoners in the latest exchange for Israeli hostages held in Gaza, part of a ceasefire that has paused the war but whose future is uncertain
February 08, 2025
Israeli police raid renowned Palestinian bookstores in East Jerusalem
February 10, 2025
The U.N. human rights office on Monday described images of both emaciated Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees released as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal as distressing,
February 10, 2025
Hamas postpones next hostage release, claiming Israel has broken terms of ceasefire deal
February 10, 2025
Israeli police have raided a long-established Palestinian-owned bookstore in east Jerusalem, detaining the owners and confiscating books about the decades-long conflict
February 10, 2025
The United Nations says it has suspended its humanitarian operations in the stronghold of Yemen’s Houthi rebels after they detained eight more U.N. staffers
February 10, 2025
Hamas says it will delay the further release of hostages in the Gaza Strip after accusing Israel of violating a fragile ceasefire that now faces its most serious crisis since it began three weeks ago
February 10, 2025
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty told U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday that Arab states rejected U.S.
February 10, 2025
Suspected Somali pirates have seized a Yemeni fishing boat off the Horn of Africa
February 11, 2025President Donald Trump says that a precarious ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas should be canceled if Hamas doesn’t release all the remaining hostages it is holding in Gaza by midday on Saturday — though he also acknowledged that such a decision would be up to Israel
February 10, 2025
A Saudi doctoral student at Leeds University in Britain has been freed after seeing her 34-year sentence for her activity on Twitter in Saudi Arabia drastically reduced
February 10, 2025Trump says ‘all hell is going to break out’ if Hamas doesn’t release hostages by Saturday at noon
February 10, 2025
President Donald Trump said Palestinians in Gaza would not have a right to return under his plan for U.S. “ownership” of the war-torn territory, contradicting other officials in his administration who’ve sought to argue Trump was only calling for the temporary relocation of its population
February 10, 2025
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February 10, 2025
U.S.
February 09, 2025
‘I fell on the floor and screamed’: Families of freed Israeli hostages on suffering loved ones endured in Hamas captivity
February 09, 2025
Hamas on Monday announced it would stop releasing Israeli hostages until further notice over what the Palestinian militant group called Israeli violations of a ceasefire agreement
February 10, 2025
U.S.
February 10, 2025
Watchdog warns Trump’s dismantling of vetting at USAID means US money could reach terror groups
February 10, 2025
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has issued a decree overturning a system of payments to the families of Palestinians imprisoned or killed by Israeli forces that has been a longstanding
February 10, 2025
U.S. semiconductor startup Groq said on Monday it has secured a $1.5 billion commitment from Saudi Arabia to expand the delivery of its advanced AI chips to the country.
February 10, 2025
A spokesperson for Hamas says it will delay the next hostage release after accusing Israel of violating a ceasefire agreement
February 10, 2025
THE HAGUE - Judges at the International Criminal Court are investigating whether Italy's release of a Libyan military officer wanted for war crimes by the tribunal breaches the court's statute, a
February 10, 2025
Israeli police have raided a well-known Palestinian bookshop in East Jerusalem, accusing its owners of selling books that incited terrorism, including a children's colouring book
February 10, 2025
Mediators fear a breakdown of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, two Egyptian security sources said on Monday, after Hamas said Israel was not serious about executing the deal and
February 10, 2025The United Nations has paused all operations in Yemen's Sa'ada region after more U.N. staff were detained by the Houthi authorities, deputy U.N. spokesperson Farhan Haq said
February 10, 2025Egypt's annual urban consumer price inflation rate inched down to 24% year-on-year in January from 24.1% in December, data from statistics agency CAPMAS showed on Monday.
February 10, 2025
Cloud software seller Salesforce said on Monday that it plans to invest $500 million in Saudi Arabia related to artificial intelligence, as countries compete to secure investments in the
February 10, 2025
New Orleans Police say they won't file charges against the cast member who displayed the Palestinian flag with the word “GAZA" in protest during Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show
February 10, 2025
Tens of thousands of Iranians are marking the anniversary of the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution
February 10, 2025
President Donald Trump has unleashed chaos by distraction around the world with a blitz of executive orders and ideas
February 10, 2025
Some of the bodies of migrants found in two mass graves in Libya bore gunshot wounds, the International Organization for Migration said on Monday, adding that one of the sites is
February 10, 2025
Records set for Arab artists at Sotheby’s debut Saudi Arabia auction
February 10, 2025Judges at the International Criminal Court have officially asked Italy on Monday to explain why the country released a Libyan man suspected of torture, murder and rape rather than sending him to The Hague
February 10, 2025The rival leaders of ethnically divided Cyprus say they’re ready to take part in a U.N.-led gathering next month that could pave the way to a resumption of formal talks after an eight-year hiatus
February 10, 2025
President Trump on Sunday said he was losing patience with the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas after seeing footage of the Palestinian
February 10, 2025
Israel's main government data supplier said on Monday it was adjusting its inflation basket by boosting the weighting of housing, telecommunications and transportation, while
February 10, 2025Holocaust becomes political bludgeon as Netanyahu returns to a country at crossroads
February 10, 2025Western sanctions on Syria's banking sector are preventing critical investments in the war-ravaged economy despite huge interest from Syrian and foreign investors
February 10, 2025
Why there’s a huge collection of vintage cars stored in the middle of the desert
February 10, 2025
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday questioned the United States' sincerity in seeking negotiations with Tehran as crowds of people, many chanting "Death to
February 10, 2025
Turkish Cypriot businessman Asil Nadir, once a fugitive from justice for stealing millions from his British Polly Peck conglomerate, has died, a social media post by his wife said.
February 10, 2025
A historic shake-up of the Middle East is starting to draw international investors, warming to the prospects of relative peace and economic
February 09, 2025
The Aga Khan IV has been laid to rest in Egypt in a private ceremony
February 09, 2025
Trump describes Gaza as a ‘big real estate site’ as he doubles down on plans to redevelop the enclave
February 09, 2025
Israel completes withdrawal from key road dividing Gaza as part of ceasefire deal
February 09, 2025
Egypt has announced it will host an emergency Arab summit on Feb. 27 to discuss “new and dangerous developments” after U.S. President Donald Trump proposed to resettle Palestinians from the Gaza Strip
February 09, 2025The United Nations humanitarian chief says famine has been mostly averted in Gaza as a surge of aid enters the territory during a fragile ceasefire, but he warns the threat could return quickly if the truce collapses
February 09, 2025
New details and growing shock over emaciated hostages are renewing pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to extend a fragile Gaza ceasefire beyond the first phase ending three weeks from now
February 09, 2025
A group representing U.S. veterans, service members and others is warning the Trump administration of severe impacts on U.S. security unless it exempts tens
February 09, 2025
Egypt disapproves of the statements made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in U.S. media describing them as "misleading accusations", the foreign ministry said late on
February 09, 2025
The formation of a new Sudanese government is expected to happen after the recapture of Khartoum is completed, military sources told Reuters on Sunday, a day
February 09, 2025
An Israel delegation arrived in Qatar on Sunday for more Gazatruce talks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's spokesperson said,
February 09, 2025
Thousands of Afghan refugees who worked alongside American soldiers in Afghanistan and underwent a yearslong vetting process to enter the United States are in limbo
February 09, 2025
Libya authorities uncovered nearly 50 bodies this week from two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert in the latest tragedy involving people seeking to reach Europe through the chaos-stricken North African country
February 09, 2025
Libya's security authorities recovered at least 28 bodies of migrants from a mass grave in the desert in southeast Libya, the country's attorney general said on its Facebook page
February 09, 2025Two Palestinian women, one of them pregnant, were killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, the Palestinian health ministry said, as Israel stepped
February 09, 2025
Li Haotong has holed a birdie putt from 15 feet at the last hole to secure a one-shot win at the Qatar Masters on Sunday for his fourth title on the European tour
February 09, 2025
Belinda Bencic celebrates ‘mini dream come true’ after winning first title as a mother
February 09, 2025
Freed Israeli hostages did not know their loved ones had died
February 09, 2025
When Surasak Rumnao, 31, left his home in Thailand's rural Udon Thani province three years ago to go across the world to
February 09, 2025
Egypt will host an emergency Arab summit on 27 February to discuss what it described as "serious" developments for Palestinians, according to a statement from the Egyptian foreign
February 09, 2025
Saudi Arabia affirmed its categorical rejection of remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about displacing Palestinians from their land, the foreign ministry said in a
February 09, 2025
As Gillian Brisley and her husband, Pete, watched their son-in-law’s release from captivity, she clutched a teddy bear to her chest
February 08, 2025
Five Thai workers released after being held hostage for over a year in Gaza arrived in Bangkok on Sunday
February 09, 2025
Pale, gaunt Israeli hostages freed from Gaza captivity as scores of Palestinian prisoners released under ceasefire deal
February 08, 2025
Five Thai nationals held hostage by Hamas since its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel have returned home after their release from captivity
January 30, 2025
Five Thai nationals held hostage by Hamas since its attack on Israel have returned home after their release from captivity last month
February 09, 2025Hamas-led militants have released three gaunt, frail-looking Israeli hostages and Israel has freed 183 Palestinian prisoners in the fifth exchange of a ceasefire that has paused the war in Gaza
February 08, 2025
Jake Paul punched back at Canelo Alvarez on Friday night, a day after the Mexican boxing icon passed up a speculated bout with the YouTube star and agreed to a four-fight deal with Riyadh Season
February 08, 2025
Palestinian militant group Hamas on Saturday handed over three Israeli hostages whose gaunt appearance shocked
February 08, 2025
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February 07, 2025
Iran's currency fell on Saturday to a new all-time low against the U.S. dollar after the country's supreme leader rejected talks with the United States and President Donald Trump
February 08, 2025
Thousands of opponents to Iran's authorities rallied in Paris on Saturday, joined by Ukrainians to call for the fall of the government in Tehran,
February 08, 2025
CNN political and national security analyst David Sanger joins Anderson Cooper to discuss President Trump’s stunning proposal to ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip.
February 08, 2025The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said on Saturday meetings he had with Syria's new leaders in Damascus were a first step towards ending years
February 08, 2025
Palestinians in Gaza say they are determined to rebuild their own seafront restaurants and hotels, dismissing U.S.
February 07, 2025
Lebanon’s new prime minister has formed the country’s first full-fledged government since 2022
February 08, 2025
Lebanon formed a new government on Saturday, following unusually direct U.S. intervention in the process and in a step intended to bring the country closer to accessing
February 08, 2025
Egypt condemned statements by Israeli officials suggesting the establishment of a Palestinian state on Saudi territory as "irresponsible" on Saturday.
February 08, 2025
President Donald Trump keeps cranking out executive orders designed to remake the government while his ally and adviser, billionaire Elon Musk, hunts for more ways to upend the federal workforce
February 08, 2025
A delegation from the global chemical weapons watchdog has arrived in Damascus to meet with Syria’s new leaders for the first time since the fall of former President Bashar Assad
February 08, 2025Hamas handed over on Saturday three Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in central Gaza's Deir Al-Balah, live television showed.
February 08, 2025
The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a global non-proliferation agency, will meet Syrian officials in Damascus on Saturday, three sources
February 07, 2025
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met with acting Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya and two other leaders of the Palestinian group in Tehran on Saturday, Iranian state TV reported.
February 08, 2025
One of the last things Oran Almog saw was broken glass, blood and bodies after a suicide bombing in Israel rendered him blind when he was just 10 years old and
February 07, 2025
The Associated Press has obtained audio of what military officials say is a broadcast from a Russian spy ship that suffered a fire and drifted uncontrolled off Syria's coast last month
February 07, 2025
Hamas to release three Israeli men Saturday in latest round of exchanges under ceasefire deal
February 07, 2025Donald Trump’s second administration has advanced an avalanche of policy action and political pronouncements that have jolted Washington and, in some cases, the world
February 08, 2025
Trump has put America’s allies in an impossible position. That might be where he likes them
February 08, 2025At least 29 bodies of migrants have been recovered in two locations in the southeast and west of Libya, a security directorate and the Libyan Red Crescent said on Thursday.
February 06, 2025
After the October 7th attack on Israel, 'Will & Grace' star Debra Messing spent the next year fighting against antisemitism, even traveling to Israel and Gaza. In her first television interview since then, Messing speaks out about the online abuse she's received for her activism, captured in her new documentary, "October 8."
February 07, 2025
The Pentagon will deploy roughly 1,500 more active duty soldiers to the southern border to support President Trump’s expanding crackdown on immigration, a U.S. official said Friday
February 07, 2025
State Department announces $7 billion arms sale to Israel, circumventing review process
February 08, 2025
The State Department has told Congress that it plans to sell more than $7 billion in weapons to Israel, including thousands of bombs and missiles, just two days after President Donald Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House
February 07, 2025
Hamas identified the three Israeli hostages that it plans to free in the next release mandated by the fragile ceasefire agreement, a sign the deal was moving forward Friday even as U.S. and Israeli officials continued calls to relocate Gaza’s population after the war
February 07, 2025
Hamas has named the next three Israeli hostages it plans to release as part of the ceasefire deal
February 07, 2025
U.S. credit card giant American Express identified and closed 30 consumer accounts in 2024 that it said could have had ties to the Government of Iran.
February 07, 2025
Canelo Alvarez has agreed to a four-fight deal with Riyadh Season
February 07, 2025
Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist
February 07, 2025
Hamas on Friday announced the names of three Israeli hostages to be released on Saturday in exchange for Palestinian prisoners
February 07, 2025
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court over investigations of Israel
February 06, 2025
The International Criminal Court has called on member states to stand up against sanctions imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump
February 07, 2025
Turkey has terminated the mission of diplomats appointed by Afghanistan's former pro-Western government
February 07, 2025
Egypt said on Friday it had been in contact with Arab partners including Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to firm up the region's rejection of any displacement of
February 07, 2025
‘Islands in the Sky’: High-rise bathing ponds and waterfalls design to transform Dubai’s skyline
February 07, 2025
Exchange operator Cboe Global Markets reported a rise in fourth-quarter adjusted profit on Friday, driven by increased options trading as investors
February 07, 2025
What is the ICC and why has Trump sanctioned it?
February 07, 2025
By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE - Israeli victims of the Hamas attack that triggered the Gaza war will still work with the International Criminal Court even after U.S.
February 07, 2025
More than 100 people have died from poisoning by bootleg alcohol in Ankara and Istanbul, NTV reported on Friday, after authorities warned about rising sales of illicit booze being
February 07, 2025How maps’ names and border territories − and what they omit - can project different political objectives.
February 07, 2025
Salim Karim Iskef managed to video-call his fiancée to tell her he loved her one last time
February 07, 2025
Iran’s supreme leader says that negotiations with America “are not intelligent, wise or honorable” after President Donald Trump floated nuclear talks with Tehran
February 07, 2025
Trump signs executive orders targeting ICC and ‘anti-Christian bias’
February 06, 2025
The United States has set a "red line" that Shi'ite armed group Hezbollah should not be a member of Lebanon's next government after itr military defeat by Israel last year, U.S
February 07, 2025
President Donald Trump's envoy is set to deliver a firm message to Lebanese leaders during a visit on Thursday: the U.S. will not tolerate
February 06, 2025
A Cyprus court has sentenced a Syrian national to three years in prison after finding him guilty of causing the death by negligence of a 3-year-old girl from dehydration aboard an overloaded boat that was adrift for six days without adequate supplies of food and water
February 07, 2025U.S.
February 07, 2025
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that talks with the United States were "not smart, wise, or honorable", days after U.S.
February 07, 2025
Turkey's central bank governor Fatih Karahan said on Friday the bank is "not on autopilot" after two straight interest rate cuts and its
February 07, 2025
Pakistan issues deadline for Afghan refugees after Trump blocks US resettlement pathway
February 06, 2025
President Donald Trump’s plan to seek U.S. ownership of the Gaza Strip and move out its population has found a sympathetic ear in Israel
February 06, 2025
Global wheat imports are likely to drop this year as slowing economic growth among top buyers, a stronger greenback and higher local
February 07, 2025
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday said it condemned the decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to impose sanctions on its staff.
February 07, 2025
Taliban raids and suspends Afghanistan’s only nationwide women’s radio station
February 05, 2025
Pakistan's external financing needs will remain significant in the coming year, despite progress in rebuilding its foreign exchange reserves, Fitch Ratings said on Thursday.
February 07, 2025
Forces from Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region have captured swathes of territory from Islamic State during a weeks-long offensive they hope will
February 07, 2025
Iran on Friday condemned Washington's move to impose shipping-related sanctions, saying it would prevent it from legitimate trading with partners, the official IRNA news agency reported.
February 07, 2025Cerebras Systems, an artificial intelligence chip firm backed by UAE tech conglomerate G42, said on Thursday it has partnered with France's Mistral and has helped the
February 07, 2025
Israel says it has begun preparations for the departure of Palestinians from Gaza
February 06, 2025
The U.N.
February 07, 2025
U.S.
February 06, 2025
A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to push out federal employees by offering them financial incentives
February 06, 2025
Two years on from a devastating earthquake that shattered Turkey's southern region, nearly half a million people remain in temporary “container cities.”
February 06, 2025
Israel says it has begun preparations for the departure of large numbers of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in line with President Donald Trump’s plan to empty the territory of its population
February 06, 2025
For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul until it was destroyed by the Islamic State group in 2017
February 06, 2025
A 78-year-old man in Michigan was charged with ethnic intimidation over alleged threats against a U.S.
February 06, 2025The Trump administration’s effort to slash and reshape American foreign aid is crippling the intricate global
February 06, 2025
Mullah Mohammed Omar Fast Facts
December 30, 2012The head of the U_N_ agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, says an Israeli ban on his institution has not forced it to halt its services so far but that in the long run, the agency faces an “existential threat.”
February 06, 2025
PGA Tour Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan is thanking President Donald Trump for helping the tour close in on a deal with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf
February 06, 2025
U.S.
February 06, 2025
Attorney General Bondi cuts back on programs that ran afoul of Trump
February 06, 2025
Oil prices settled lower on Thursday after U.S.
February 06, 2025
The U.S.
February 06, 2025President Donald Trump is hardly retreating from his Gaza remarks
February 06, 2025
There was a time when few people in the coastal Pakistani city of Gwadar understood what climate change was
February 05, 2025
Britain will oppose any efforts to move Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to neighbouring Arab states against their will, a foreign office minister said on Thursday.
February 06, 2025
Preparations for a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S.
February 06, 2025
U.S.
February 06, 2025
After Trump came the flood.
February 06, 2025
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories said on Thursday that Israel's decision to withdraw from the U.N.
February 06, 2025
"We are staying here and dying here."
February 06, 2025
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that U.S.
February 06, 2025
Yum Brands surpassed Wall Street estimates for fourth-quarter comparable sales on Thursday as value offerings from Taco Bell attracted budget-conscious U.S. consumers to the popular Tex-Mex
February 06, 2025
Israel has told the United Nations Human Rights Council that it is disengaging from the body, alleging it was biased, Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Thursday.
February 06, 2025
U.S.
February 06, 2025
The late Prince Karim Al-Hussaini Aga Khan IV, who died on Tuesday in Lisbon after nearly seven decades as the spiritual leader of the global Ismaili Muslim community, will be
February 06, 2025
Trump’s rapid dismantling of USAID leaves workers around world concerned for safety and futures
February 06, 2025
Trump veers toward the ‘madman theory’ while his aides are trying to sound sane
February 06, 2025Spain's Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares on Thursday rejected the suggestion by Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz that Spain should accept displaced Palestinians from Gaza.
February 06, 2025
Beijing opposes U.S.
February 06, 2025
Iran categorically rejects a proposal by U.S. President Donald Trump to relocate Palestinians from Gaza, foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said on Thursday.
February 06, 2025
President Donald Trump's plan for the United States to "take over" Gaza, permanently displacing Palestinians who live there and creating the "Riviera of the Middle East," has
February 05, 2025
Two years after the deadliest and most destructive earthquake in modern Turkish history, hundreds of thousands of people remain displaced, with many still living in
February 06, 2025
U.S.
February 05, 2025
The U.S. on Thursday imposed sanctions on a network of more than a dozen people and firms that are accused of facilitating the shipment of millions of barrels of Iranian oil to China
February 06, 2025
An Israeli soldier who was found to have struck Palestinian detainees while they were restrained and blindfolded has been sentenced to seven months in jail by an Israeli military
February 06, 2025Iran's Revolutionary Guards have taken delivery of the country's first ship capable of launching drones and helicopters at sea, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on
February 06, 2025
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said it would be easy to verify Iran was not developing atomic weapons, state TV reported on Thursday, a day after U.S.
February 06, 2025
Netanyahu gifted Trump a golden pager during their meeting in Washington
February 06, 2025
In a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump said he envisions that the US could take ownership of the Gaza strip.
February 05, 2025
Israel backs Trump plan and orders military to prepare for Palestinians to leave Gaza
February 06, 2025
A day after Trump said the US would take over Gaza (possibly with troops), Israel's Netanyahu is meeting with the DOD secretary.
February 05, 2025
U.S.
February 05, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday there was nothing wrong in Donald Trump's idea of displacing Palestinians from Gaza after the U.S.
February 06, 2025
Jordan's King Abdullah said on Wednesday he rejected any attempts to annex land and displace Palestinians after a shock proposal by President Donald Trump that the
February 05, 2025
A wave of antisemitic attacks has roiled Australia, with a dozen arrests for vandalizing or setting homes, schools, and synagogues on fire since October
February 06, 2025An American-Israeli hostage freed from Hamas captivity was forced to lie down at all times in a small room for weeks
February 06, 2025
Malaysia sees any proposal for the forced displacement of Palestinians as constituting ethnic cleansing and a violation of international law, the foreign ministry said on
February 06, 2025
Palestinians, their allies and other nations are reacting strongly to President Donald Trump’s proposal that the United States “take over” the Gaza Strip and permanently resettle its residents
February 05, 2025
President Donald Trump promised voters an administration that wouldn’t waste precious American lives and taxpayer treasure on far-off wars and nation building
February 05, 2025
Gaza has long been a powder keg
February 05, 2025
U.S. aid workers around the world scrambled Wednesday to pack up households or pull children from school after the Trump administration ordered employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development off the job and out of the field, all but shutting down the organization’s six-decade mission
February 05, 2025
For almost 80 years, Palestinians in Gaza have resisted proposals to resettle elsewhere.
February 06, 2025
How Trump arrived at his stunning idea to ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip
February 05, 2025
The group Arab Americans for Trump is renaming itself Arab Americans for Peace after President Donald Trump said the U.S. would “take over” the Gaza Strip
February 05, 2025
Stunned Palestinians rejected President Donald Trump's proposal to expel them from the Gaza Strip so that the U.S. could take over the territory and rebuild it for others
February 05, 2025
U.S.
February 05, 2025
The Tunisian president on Wednesday sacked Finance Minister Sihem Boughdiri and named Michkat Khaldi, a judge, as new finance minister.
February 05, 2025Arab Americans in Michigan are reacting more cautiously to President Donald Trump’s remarks on the Israel-Hamas war than they did to Democratic candidates during the 2024 presidential campaign
February 05, 2025
President Trump said the US "will take over" Gaza, possibly using US troops and describing his vision for Gaza as a new “Riviera." CNN spoke to Palestinians in Gaza to hear their thoughts on Trump's plans.
February 05, 2025
One of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first meetings in the United States this week was with American evangelicals on Monday
February 05, 2025
Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa received an invitation from French President Emmanuel Macron to visit France in the coming weeks, the Syrian president's office said in a statement
February 05, 2025
Canada's longstanding position on Gaza has not changed and it is committed to achieving a two-state solution, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said in a post on X on Wednesday.
February 05, 2025
U.S.
February 05, 2025
A federal judge in Manhattan said the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art must face a lawsuit claiming it did nothing to help Jewish students
February 05, 2025
U.S.
February 05, 2025
President Donald Trump has not committed to putting U.S. troops on the ground in the Gaza Strip as part of his proposal for a U.S. takeover of the Palestinian enclave, the White
February 05, 2025
Gaza should be an essential part of a future Palestinian state, said a European Union foreign policy spokesperson on Wednesday, adding that the EU was committed to a two-state
February 05, 2025
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told President Donald Trump on Wednesday to avoid ethnic cleansing in Gaza after the U.S. leader
February 05, 2025
President Donald Trump’s proposal to forcibly transfer hundreds of thousands of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip and develop faces some major obstacle
February 05, 2025
Saddam Hussein Trial Fast Facts
October 30, 2013Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities Fast Facts
November 07, 2013Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini was named the 50th hereditary Imam, or spiritual leader, of Ismaili Muslims on Wednesday after the will of his late father Prince Karim Aga
February 05, 2025An official from the Lebanese Hezbollah group on Wednesday described U.S. plans to move Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip as "criminal orders".
February 05, 2025
Why Trump’s Gaza plan spells trouble for his Arab allies
February 05, 2025Turkish prosecutors have issued a third indictment against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu - a potential challenger to President Tayyip Erdogan - for remarks criticising the city's
February 05, 2025
Republican U.S.
February 05, 2025
The United Arab Emirates categorically rejects any attempt to displace the Palestinians and deny them "inalienable rights", the UAE foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
February 05, 2025
U.S.
February 05, 2025
The U.S. Open is the first major to publish a pathway for players from Saudi-funded LIV Golf
February 05, 2025
Palestinians refuse to relive 1948 as Trump suggests leaving Gaza
February 05, 2025
Displacing Palestinians would be a moral abomination, Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine director said on Wednesday in response to a proposal from President Donald Trump for
February 05, 2025
A Tunisian court sentenced a number of top politicians, former officials and journalists to long prison terms on Wednesday, defence lawyers said, the latest move in what critics say
February 05, 2025
The Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, has died
February 04, 2025
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian urged OPEC members to unite against possible U.S. sanctions on the major oil producer, after U.S.
February 05, 2025
President Donald Trump has suggested that displaced Palestinians in Gaza be permanently resettled outside the war-torn territory and proposed the U.S. take “ownership” in redeveloping the area
February 04, 2025
CNN chief national correspondent John King reacts after President Donald Trump said Palestinians should not return to Gaza.
February 04, 2025
Two U.N. refugees and migration agencies have expressed their concern over Pakistan’s recent decision to forcibly deport thousands of Afghan refugees awaiting here for relocation to the United States and elsewhere
February 05, 2025
Italy's justice minister said on Wednesday Rome had no choice but to free a Libyan military officer wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court because
February 05, 2025
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to visit the United Arab Emirates this week to discuss raising funds with Abu Dhabi investment group MGX, two
February 05, 2025
President Donald Trump said the United States would take over the Gaza Strip after Palestinians are resettled elsewhere. Here are some global reactions to the proposal.
February 05, 2025
Iran is ready to give the United States a chance to resolve disputes between the arch foes, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Wednesday, a day after
February 05, 2025
President Donald Trump’s proposal that the United States “take over” the Gaza Strip and permanently resettle its Palestinian residents has been swiftly rejected and denounced by American allies and adversaries alike
February 05, 2025
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday rejected U.S.
February 05, 2025
Gazans criticised U.S.
February 05, 2025
Far-right Israeli politician Itamar Ben Gvir hailed U.S.
February 05, 2025
Syria's Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said on Wednesday the group had not received any plans from the U.S. forces in northern and eastern Syria to withdraw.
February 05, 2025Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are eager to leave miserable tent camps and return to their homes if a long-awaited ceasefire agreement halts the Israel-Hamas war
February 05, 2025
Iran’s government seems to be welcoming decisions by the United States — even though they happen to come from a man Iranian operatives have allegedly been plotting to assassinate
February 05, 2025
Russia believes a settlement in the Middle East is only possible on the basis of a two-state solution, the Kremlin said on Wednesday after U.S.
February 05, 2025
Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Jordan will take steps toward jointly combating Islamic State in the region and they aim to hold a first meeting on the issue in Jordan, Turkish Foreign
February 05, 2025
France rejected on Wednesday comments by U.S.
February 05, 2025
The U.S. Department of Defense is developing plans to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria, NBC News reported on Wednesday, citing two U.S. defense officials.
February 05, 2025
Key takeaways from Trump’s plan to ‘take over’ Gaza
February 05, 2025
Iran's foreign policy is driven by dignity, wisdom and interest, a government spokesperson said on Wednesday, in response to U.S.
February 05, 2025
U.S. concerns about Iran developing nuclear weapons are not a complicated issue and can be resolved given Tehran's opposition to weapons of mass destruction, Iran's Foreign Minister
February 05, 2025
President Donald Trump said the United States would take over war-ravaged Gaza and create a "Riviera of the Middle East" after resettling Palestinians elsewhere, shattering
February 05, 2025
Iran used Russian-made long-range air defence systems in a military exercise on Wednesday, following Israeli strikes last October which Israel said had seriously weakened Tehran's
February 05, 2025Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares on Wednesday rejected a proposal by U.S.
February 05, 2025
2-year-old Habiba has gangrene and a rare genetic condition that is threatening her life. Unable to get treatment inside Gaza, doctors say she has just days to live. Following a CNN report, international aid groups have sought permission from Israel to evacuate her to nearby Jordan. CNN's Jomana Karadsheh reports.
February 03, 2025
Ahmed al-Sheikh's excitement at returning to his homeland from neighbouring Turkey after the fall of Bashar al-Assad has turned to
February 05, 2025
President Donald Trump’s jaw-dropping statement that he would like the U.S. to take control of and redevelop the Gaza Strip might have sounded like it came
February 05, 2025
CNN's Fareed Zakaria discusses President Donald Trump's comments that the United States “will take over” Gaza — possibly with the help of American troops — while the Palestinians who live there should leave, a stunning proposal that would dramatically reorient the Middle East and subject a population of more than a million to further displacement.
February 05, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole.
February 05, 2025
Saudi Arabia said it would not establish ties with Israel without the creation of a Palestinian state, contradicting President Donald Trump's claim
February 05, 2025
U.S.
February 05, 2025
The UAE's non-oil private sector continued to expand robustly at the start of 2025, although capacity pressures and competitive challenges posed headwinds, a survey showed on
February 05, 2025
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he sees the United States having a "long-term ownership position" on the Gaza Strip.
February 05, 2025
President Donald Trump offered a jaw-dropping performance during his joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, suggesting that Palestinian refugees from the Gaza Strip could be permanently resettled elsewhere
February 05, 2025
Trump’s Gaza ‘Riviera’ plan is the most outlandish idea in the history of US Middle East peacemaking
February 05, 2025President Donald Trump has suggested that displaced Palestinians be permanently resettled outside Gaza and proposed the U.S. take “ownership” in redeveloping the area
February 04, 2025
President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed a U.S. takeover of Gaza where Israel's military assault in the last 16 months has killed tens of thousands, after he
February 05, 2025
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday the government supported a two-state solution in the Middle East, following U.S.
February 05, 2025
President Donald Trump said the U.S. would take over the war-ravaged Gaza Strip and develop it economically after Palestinians
February 04, 2025
Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip and doesn’t rule out using American troops
February 04, 2025
The Palestinian Hamas movement is ready to establish contact and hold talks with the administration of U.S.
February 05, 2025
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will come to Moscow in May to attend the commemorations of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, TASS state news agency reported late
February 05, 2025
Drama thriller "September 5" takes a new approach to tell the true story of the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre.
February 05, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he was committed to peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia and that he believed he would succeed in achieving that
February 05, 2025
President Donald Trump says he’s given his advisers instructions to obliterate Iran if it assassinates him
February 04, 2025
U.S.
February 04, 2025
U.S.
February 04, 2025
President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will withdraw from the U.N.’s top human rights body and will not resume funding for the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees
February 05, 2025
U.S.
February 04, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would support an effort to permanently resettle Palestinians from Gaza to places where they can live without fear of violence.
February 04, 2025
The New Jersey man charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack is standing trial in New York
February 04, 2025
U.S.
February 04, 2025
U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff says he will be meeting with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Florida on Thursday.
February 04, 2025
The Jewish population in the West Bank grew at twice the rate of the general Israeli population last year
February 04, 2025
Lebanon President Joseph Aoun on Tuesday told Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani that he hopes TotalEnergies will soon resume oil and gas exploration off
February 04, 2025
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he and Syria's newly appointed president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, had discussed in Ankara on Tuesday steps to be taken against Kurdish militants in
February 04, 2025
A U.N. aid official said on Tuesday that a U.S. funding pause would cut off millions of Afghans from sexual and reproductive health services, and the continued absence
February 04, 2025
The mayor of Santorini says that the hundreds of earthquakes that have rattled Greek islands on the Aegean Sea are a “seismic swarm” and could continue for weeks before eventually diminishing
February 04, 2025
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company's investments in the United States now sit within its new international investment arm XRG, ADNOC's CEO said on Tuesday, as the oil giant moves to
February 04, 2025
An Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed in December after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan had suffered external damage and was riddled with holes in its fuselage,
February 04, 2025
Oil major BP is expected to spend up to $25 billion over the lifetime of a project to redevelop four Kirkuk oil and gas fields, a senior Iraqi oil
February 04, 2025
Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa said his government aims to restore ties with the United States in the coming days but has not yet had any contact with the Trump
February 04, 2025
Syrian transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa was discussing economic ties on a visit to Turkey on Tuesday, as Turkish transport and manufacturing firms eye big
February 04, 2025
The U.N.
February 04, 2025U.S.
February 03, 2025
FBI releases ‘seeking information posters’ for two Iranian intelligence officers in case of abducted American
February 04, 2025
The trial of the man charged with attempting to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie at a New York lecture is due to begin on Tuesday with jury selection.
February 04, 2025
Syria's transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan are expected to discuss a
February 04, 2025
Two Israeli soldiers were killed and eight wounded when a gunman opened fire on troops in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, setting off a gunfight in which the shooter
February 04, 2025
Ukraine is studying the possibility of opening a logistics hub in Egypt for supplies of Ukrainian agricultural products to the region, agriculture minister Vitaliy Koval said on
February 04, 2025The Mohammed family sat up talking late into the night before their journey north to the ruins of their Gaza home, a trudge across a desolate
February 04, 2025
An Israeli military operation in Jenin has turned the West Bank refugee camp into what residents and some officials describe as a ghost town, causing
February 04, 2025
Precision airstrikes led by Iraqi security forces (ISF) killed five Islamic State (ISIS) operatives near Iraq's Kirkuk on Jan. 31, the U.S.
February 04, 2025Afghanistan's Taliban rulers will stay united despite enemies' efforts to create divisions among the movement's leaders and the people, a spokesman said, ruling out the prospect of
February 04, 2025The U.S.
February 03, 2025
Israel is preparing to send a high-level delegation to the Qatari capital Doha to discuss continued implementation of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, Prime Minister Benjamin
February 04, 2025
Toddler who has just days to live evacuated from Gaza for urgent medical care
February 03, 2025
Saudi Arabia's non-oil business sector expanded at its strongest pace in just over a decade in January, driven by a surge in new orders and robust business activity, a survey
February 04, 2025
Egypt's non-oil private sector expanded in January, marking its best performance in over four years and its first growth since August as output and sales volumes increased, a
February 04, 2025
Israel is turning to its citizens to help produce electricity and profit from it as demand grows rapidly by putting solar panels on their roofs to take advantage
February 04, 2025
The families of hostages freed from Gaza over the weekend described difficult conditions — including rarely seeing the sun — during their captivity
February 03, 2025
Liberian-flagged crude oil tanker Chrysalis, which was attacked by Yemen's Houthis last year, sailed through the Red Sea this week, the Suez Canal said on Monday, in one of the first
February 03, 2025
The Trump administration is opening new investigations into allegations of antisemitism at five U.S. universities including Columbia and the University of California, Berkeley
February 03, 2025
A senior Russian diplomat urged a top official of the Palestinian movement Hamas on Monday to keep to its commitment to release a Russian hostage held by the group since its raid on Israel
February 03, 2025
Five Arab foreign ministers and a senior Palestinian official sent a joint letter to U.S.
February 03, 2025
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the University of Michigan on behalf of five individuals who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations
February 03, 2025
U.S.
February 03, 2025Syria's Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Monday it would take between four and five years to hold presidential elections, the first time he has laid out a timeline for the vote since he was
February 03, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will extend his visit to Washington D.C. and will return to Israel on Saturday, an Axios reporter said on X on Monday.
February 03, 2025
The emotional reunion of twin brothers in Gaza after Israel allowed movement within the enclave as part of a ceasefire deal provided a visceral image of Palestinian survival after 15
February 03, 2025
OPEC+ agreed to stick to its policy of gradually raising oil output from April on Monday and removed the U.S. government's Energy
February 03, 2025
A hospital worker says at least 19 people are dead after the latest car bomb exploded on the outskirts of a northern Syrian city
February 03, 2025
Two weeks after the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel took effect, aid is flooding into the Gaza Strip
February 03, 2025
Jenin mayor likens Israeli military operation to war in Gaza
February 03, 2025
A recent change in Turkey's health regulations is expected to add 0.6 percentage points to inflation in February and push annual inflation up by 1.5 percentage points, economists
February 03, 2025Sweden's government on Monday accused a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Stockholm of being a platform for Iranian spying against Sweden and the Iranian diaspora.
February 03, 2025Weeks into the ceasefire in Gaza, thousands of Palestinians who left for neighbouring Egypt are grappling with the question of when they might go home, though they
February 03, 2025
U.S. companies will look to the Middle East and India for more aluminium and to Chile and Peru for copper as they seek to circumvent sweeping tariffs imposed by
February 03, 2025
With fighting in Gaza paused, Palestinians are appealing for billions of dollars in emergency aid - from heavy machinery to clear rubble
February 03, 2025
A car bomb killed at least 20 people in the northern Syrian city of Manbij on Monday, the Syrian presidency said, marking the second attack there in three days and the country's
February 03, 2025
The U.N. mission in Afghanistan says a Taliban fighter opened fire at the U.N. compound in Kabul, slightly injuring a security guard, and was later found dead
February 03, 2025A former British soldier who escaped from prison while awaiting trial and was later convicted of spying for Iran has been sentenced to more than 14 years behind bars
February 03, 2025The Suez Canal Authority's chairman, Osama Rabie, said on Monday that navigational maps for the planned 10km (6.2 mile) canal extension were issued.
February 03, 2025
Gunshots fired by a member of the Taliban's security forces at the United Nations' largest compound killed one person and injured another in Kabul, the United Nations Assistance
February 03, 2025Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are seen by Russia as possible venues for a summit between U.S.
February 03, 2025
Pope Francis on Monday decried the deaths of children in global conflicts, telling a Vatican summit that "nothing is worth the life of a child".
February 03, 2025
Start your week smart: Trump tariffs, DC air collision, hostages released, medevac jet crash, FAA system outage
February 02, 2025
Netanyahu blows past ceasefire talks deadline to confer with Trump
February 03, 2025
Pope Francis has convened a high-level summit to demand that children be protected from war, forced labor, trafficking and exploitation
February 03, 2025Turkey's manufacturing sector contracted at a sharper pace in January as output, new orders, and employment all fell, a business survey showed on Monday.
February 03, 2025
Turkey's monthly inflation rate climbed more than expected to 5.03% in January due to a minimum wage hike and several new-year price updates while annual inflation fell to 42.12%,
February 03, 2025
Turkey's monthly inflation rate is expected to rise sharply to 4.35% in January, driven by an annual hike in the minimum wage and various new year price adjustments, while the
January 29, 2025
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Jordan will come together to fight the remnants of the Islamic State group
February 02, 2025The commander of the main U.S.-backed force in Syria says that the recent ouster of the Assad family from power should be followed with building a secular, civil and decentralized state that treats all its citizens equally no matter their religion or ethnicity
February 02, 2025
Even in war, branding applies
February 02, 2025
The Lebanese Hezbollah group says the funeral of its longtime leader will take place on Feb. 23
February 02, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will discuss “victory over Hamas,” countering Iran and expanding diplomatic relations with Arab countries in his meeting with President Donald Trump
February 02, 2025
The Israeli military blew up buildings in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Sunday in an operation that the Palestinian state news agency said leveled
February 02, 2025
A drone attack targeted the Khor Mor gas field in Iraq's Kurdistan region on Sunday, two security sources told Reuters.
February 02, 2025Jordan's King Abdullah will meet with U.S.
February 02, 2025
Syria's transitional president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh on Sunday in his first foreign trip as Syrian leader, in a sign of the major
February 02, 2025
At least four Palestinians were wounded in an Israeli strike on Sunday on a vehicle on the coastal road west of the Nuseirat camp
February 02, 2025
Syria’s interim president has made his first trip abroad, traveling to Saudi Arabia in a move likely trying to signal Damascus’ shift away from Iran as its main regional ally
February 02, 2025
Qatar's prime minister on Sunday called on Israel and Hamas to immediately begin negotiating phase two of the Gaza ceasefire, adding that there is no clear plan for
February 02, 2025
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday he hoped President Donald Trump would end U.S. cooperation with the Syrian Kurdish YPG, as Turkey continued its military
February 02, 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Israel on Sunday for a meeting with U.S.
February 02, 2025
An Israeli aircraft fired on what the military described as a suspcious vehicle moving towards northern Gaza outside the inspection route laid down by the ceasefire agreement,
February 02, 2025Hamas has freed three hostages in the southern Gaza Strip and Israel has released 183 Palestinian prisoners in the fourth round of exchanges during the Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas
February 01, 2025
Sudan’s health authorities say a paramilitary group has attacked an open market in the city of Omdurman, killing 54 people and wounding scores
February 01, 2025
Cars and houses in Sydney were daubed in antisemitic graffiti, police said on Sunday, the latest in a string of incidents targeting Jews in Australia's biggest city.
February 02, 2025The ceasefire in Gaza has seen its smoothest exchange yet of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners along with the reopening of the crucial Rafah crossing
February 01, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will start negotiations on the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire when he meets with U.S.
February 01, 2025
A group of 50 sick and wounded Palestinian children began crossing through Gaza’s Rafah crossing into Egypt for treatment
February 01, 2025
Syria's transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa will visit Saudi Arabia on Sunday, the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV reported on Saturday, citing sources.
February 01, 2025
U.S. forces carried out airstrikes in Somalia on Saturday targeting a senior Islamic State attack planner and other members of the
February 01, 2025
A 16-year-old Palestinian boy was among five killed on Saturday in Israeli airstrikes on Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, as a large
February 01, 2025Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will depart on Sunday for the United States to meet with President Donald Trump, Netanyahu's office said on Saturday.
February 01, 2025
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and U.S.
February 01, 2025
Palestinian family in Colorado welcomes teen who lost leg in Israeli bombing of Gaza
February 01, 2025
Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over three Israeli hostages on Saturday, and dozens of Palestinian prisoners and detainees were
February 01, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet at the White House on Tuesday, a U.S. official said on Friday.
January 31, 2025
Powerful Arab nations have rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion to relocate Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring Egypt and Jordan
February 01, 2025
The family of Israeli hostage Yarden Bibas expressed relief on Saturday after he was released along with two other hostages by Hamas but said that the family's home remained
February 01, 2025
Arab nations reject Trump’s call to relocate Gazans to neighboring countries
February 01, 2025
‘It’s over, Dad’: Jubilant reunions as latest round of Israeli hostage releases passes smoothly
February 01, 2025
Arab foreign ministers on Saturday rejected the transfer of Palestinians from their land under any circumstances, presenting a unified stance against U.S.
February 01, 2025The European Union has restarted its civilian mission to monitor the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt at Rafah, a key entry and
January 31, 2025
Eighteen paramilitary soldiers and 24 militants were killed in fighting in south-western Pakistan, the military's media wing said in a statement on
February 01, 2025News that three high-profile hostages are expected to be released has brought excitement and trepidation to Israel on Friday
January 31, 2025
The Taliban are taking over the operations of Afghanistan's only luxury hotel, more than a decade after launching a deadly assault on it
January 31, 2025
American and father of youngest hostages among those due for release from Gaza Saturday
January 31, 2025
Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi congratulated Syria's new President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who was appointed on Wednesday by armed factions, and wished him success in achieving the
January 31, 2025
A pro-Palestinian group at the University of Michigan has been suspended for two years and will lose its funding in connection with protesters’ demands for divestiture from companies doing business with Israel
January 31, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been returning to the north of Gaza as part of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. Many residents found nothing but rubble where their homes used to stand. Some have decided to head back south again because there is “no sign of life" in the north. CNN’s Paula Hancocks reports on the devastating reality facing Palestinians.
January 31, 2025
An official with Meta Platforms' popular WhatsApp chat service said Israeli spyware company Paragon Solutions had targeted scores of its users, including
January 31, 2025
Hamas said on Friday it would free the father of the youngest hostages seized in its Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel and two others including a dual U.S. citizen
January 31, 2025
A Swedish prosecutor said on Friday he had decided to release from detention five suspects who were held over the killing on Wednesday of an anti-Islam campaigner.
January 31, 2025Iran will respond immediately and decisively if its nuclear sites are attacked which would lead to an "all-out war in the region," Tehran's foreign minister told Al Jazeera TV in an
January 31, 2025
Assad cousin notorious for role in suppressing protests in Syria arrested
January 31, 2025
The Israeli organization representing families of hostages in Gaza has celebrated the news that three high-profile men will be released next
January 31, 2025
The U.N.
January 31, 2025
Swedish prosecutors say they have ordered the release of five men who were arrested after the fatal shooting of an Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings
January 31, 2025Syrian authorities have arrested a former senior security officer and cousin of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad seen by some as responsible for sparking the country's 2011 uprising
January 31, 2025
The drone that tracked Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and filmed him as he lay dying in footage beamed around the world last October was made by Israeli startup Xtend,
January 31, 2025
Zakaria Zubeidi's last, fleeting, taste of freedom involved five days on the run after escaping from an Israeli maximum security prison in 2021, but on Thursday the Palestinian militant
January 30, 2025
Turkey's defense ministry says five military academy graduates and three of their immediate superiors have been dismissed from the armed forces for taking a pro-secular oath during their graduation ceremony
January 31, 2025
Thousands of people demonstrated at the Rafah border crossing on Friday, an eyewitness told Reuters, in a rare state-sanctioned protest against a proposal earlier this week by U.S.
January 31, 2025
Britain, France and Germany on Friday reiterated their "grave concern" over Israel implementing a law forbidding any contact between its officials and U.N.
January 31, 2025
Support from Americans has surged for the U.S. nonprofit that raises money for UNRWA, the U.N. agency that serves Palestinian refugees
January 31, 2025
The rats and dogs scavenging amid the ruins of her neighborhood in northern Gaza make Manal Al-Harsh's return to her wrecked home even more miserable.
January 31, 2025
‘We came back for nothing’: Returning home to northern Gaza, Palestinians find death and destruction
January 31, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will host German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday at his Chequers country residence, Starmer's spokesperson said on Friday, weeks before a
January 31, 2025
The volume of goods moving through Spanish ports rose by 6% in 2024 after they became the first point of call in Europe for many companies avoiding attacks by Houthi militia on
January 31, 2025
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a leading opposition figure and potential challenger to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, appeared in court on
January 31, 2025
A surge in the flow of aid into the Gaza Strip since the truce between Israel and Hamas took effect on Jan. 19 is likely to ease the acute food emergency
January 31, 2025
Suez Canal Authority Chairman Osama Rabie has told shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk there are signs of stability returning to the Red Sea, and urged the company to take that into
January 31, 2025
Two people were killed in an Israeli strike in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley area, the Lebanese health ministry said on Friday, after the Israeli military said it had struck several
January 31, 2025Washington is pressuring top Lebanese officials not to allow Hezbollah or its allies to nominate the country's next finance minister,
January 31, 2025
Syria is seeking to import oil via local intermediaries after its first post-Assad import tenders garnered little
January 31, 2025
Syria's new Islamist leaders are undertaking a radical overhaul of the country's broken economy, including plans to fire a third of all public sector workers and
January 31, 2025
Fifteen hostages have been released from more than 15 months of captivity in Gaza over the past two weeks
January 31, 2025
Chaotic scenes at Gaza hostage release bring condemnation from Israeli leaders
January 30, 2025
Jewish students in Sydney returned to school on Friday with a heightened security presence, days after police said they foiled a planned antisemitic
January 31, 2025
Five Thai hostages have been released after 15 months of captivity in the Gaza Strip
January 30, 2025
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday demanded that 2,500 children be immediately evacuated from Gaza for medical treatment after
January 30, 2025
Hamas has released eight hostages from Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel
January 30, 2025
Hamas-led militants freed eight more hostages from the Gaza Strip and another 110 Palestinian prisoners were released by Israel as part of a ceasefire that began earlier this month
January 30, 2025
The U.S. military said it killed a senior operative of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group in an airstrike in northwest Syria on Thursday.
January 31, 2025Israel has formally banned the main United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees from operating on its territory despite heavy diplomatic backlash
January 30, 2025
Syria's newly appointed president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, said on Thursday he will form an inclusive transitional government representing diverse communities that will build
January 30, 2025
There is "almost nothing left" of Gaza and rebuilding the war-ravaged enclave could take 10 to 15 years, U.S.
January 30, 2025
Hamas' armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, on Thursday confirmed the killing of its military leader Mohammed Deif and deputy military commander Marwan Issa in combat.
January 30, 2025
Hamas freed three Israeli and five Thai hostages in Gaza on Thursday and Israel released 110
January 30, 2025
A small U.S. security firm is hiring nearly 100 U.S. special forces veterans to help
January 30, 2025
United Arab Emirates billionaire Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor, who this week scrapped his investments in Lebanon, said the country was still not safe
January 30, 2025
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani visited Damascus on Thursday and met newly declared transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa, in the first visit by a head of state to
January 30, 2025
British broadcaster ITV has been holding early-stage talks with Abu Dhabi-backed group RedBird IMI about a possible merger
January 30, 2025
Swedish authorities say an Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden has been killed in a shooting near Stockholm
January 30, 2025
Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa was declared president for a transitional phase on Wednesday, tightening his hold on power less than two
January 29, 2025
The Swedish prime minister said the shooting of an anti-Islam campaigner just hours before a trial verdict was due on Thursday over his burning the Koran might
January 30, 2025
Using tea bags, mop strands and other camp detritus, detainees used art as a way of escape at the detention center.
January 30, 2025
‘We rely on God, then on UNRWA’: Palestinians fear drastic effects as Israeli ban on UN agency comes into force
January 30, 2025
Officials say Dubai International Airport saw a record 92.3 million passengers pass through its terminals in 2024
January 30, 2025
Man who staged Quran burning protests in Sweden shot dead, authorities say
January 30, 2025
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani will attend a conference in Paris on Feb. 13 aimed at coordinating regional and international action in support of his country's
January 30, 2025
The U.N. human rights chief appealed on Thursday for $500 million in funding for 2025 to support its work such as investigating human rights abuses around the world from Syria to
January 30, 2025
Turkey is waiting for a price proposal for the possible acquisition of Eurofighter jets after submitting a list outlining its technical needs to Britain's defence ministry, a
January 30, 2025Israel urged Australia to do more to halt an "epidemic of antisemitism" in the country as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government was
January 30, 2025
U.S.
January 29, 2025
President Donald Trump claimed during the Laken Riley Act signing that his administration had “identified and stopped $50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas.”
January 29, 2025
Former al Qaeda member named as Syria’s president for transitional period
January 29, 2025
Trump signs executive orders on school choice and school funding, and combatting antisemitism
January 29, 2025
U.S.
January 29, 2025
An Israeli airstrike on Wednesday killed at least 10 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, in an attack which the Israeli
January 29, 2025The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month have named an Islamist former rebel leader as the country‘s interim president in a push to project a united front as they face the monumental task of rebuilding Syria after nearly 14 years of civil war
January 29, 2025
Earleen Fisher, an editor and writer whose career across five decades with The Associated Press gave her a front-row seat to some of the late 20th century’s most chaotic and challenging news stories, has died
January 29, 2025
Palestinian health authorities say an Israeli airstrike in the northern West Bank has killed at least 10 people
January 29, 2025
A fire aboard the Hong Kong-flagged ASL Bauhinia on Tuesday was not linked to Houthi attacks, the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Joint Maritime Information Center said on Wednesday.
January 29, 2025Oil prices fell on Wednesday, with the U.S. benchmark settling at its lowest year to date, after domestic crude stockpiles in the world's top petroleum producer and consumer
January 29, 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed 15 months ago that Israel would achieve “total victory” in the war in Gaza — by eradicating Hamas and freeing all the hostages
January 29, 2025
Israel and Hamas say the militant group will release three Israelis, including two women and an 80-year-old man, along with five Thai nationals in the next hostage release on Thursday
January 29, 2025
Israeli troops will remain in the Palestinians' Jenin refugee camp once the large-scale raid they launched last week is
January 29, 2025
Fact check: $50 million for condoms in Gaza? Five big reasons to be skeptical Trump’s story is true
January 29, 2025
Israel says three Israeli and five Thai hostages to be released in Gaza Thursday
January 29, 2025
As humanitarian officials warn people could die as a result of Trump’s foreign aid halt, Rubio issues new waiver
January 29, 2025
An Israeli airstrike killed three Turkish citizens who attempted to cross illegally from Lebanon to Israel, Turkey's foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
January 29, 2025Germany's interior and foreign ministries are in consultations about sending a German contingent to the European Union's civilian mission to monitor the border crossing between Gaza
January 29, 2025
A passenger flight operated by the Russian airline Pobeda, en route from Dubai to Moscow, safely landed in Astrakhan, a city in southern Russia, after issuing a distress signal over
January 29, 2025The joy of thousands of Palestinian families who made it back home in north Gaza after a ceasefire with Israel is turning to despair as
January 29, 2025
Israel’s war inflicted ‘life-threatening danger’ on pregnant women and girls in Gaza, Human Rights Watch says
January 28, 2025
Egypt will not participate in the displacement of Palestinians, an "act of injustice" that would threaten Egyptian security, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said on Wednesday in his
January 29, 2025
The director of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon said on Wednesday that the agency had not been affected by U.S.
January 29, 2025
Karam Nawjaa, 17, was so badly injured when an Israeli strike hit his home in Gaza nearly a year ago that his own cousin, pulling him from the rubble, did not recognise him.
January 29, 2025
Five people were injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting the southern Lebanese town of Majdal Selm on Wednesday, the Lebanese health ministry said.
January 29, 2025
A cross-border conservation project centered on barn owls is fostering cooperation between Israeli and Arab scientists, offering a rare example of coexistence in the conflict-ridden Middle East
January 29, 2025
The Middle East’s first super-luxury train will gleam gold
January 29, 2025
Russia said on Wednesday it had held "frank" discussions with Syria's new de facto leader as it tries to retain its two military bases in the country, but it declined to comment on
January 29, 2025At least 14 civilians were killed and 29 wounded in attacks by Turkish-backed forces in northern Syria on Monday and Tuesday, the U.S.-backed Kurdish militia group said.
January 29, 2025Most Gulf stock markets opened lower on Wednesday due to lacklustre corporate earnings, although the Saudi index rose on strong gains by Al Rajhi Bank.
January 29, 2025
An explosion has struck a Hong Kong-flagged container ship traveling north through the Red Sea
January 28, 2025
Australian police said on Wednesday they had foiled a planned antisemitic attack after discovering a caravan containing explosives, in an
January 29, 2025Australia has been grappling with a spate of antisemitic attacks on synagogues, buildings and cars since the beginning of the Israel-Gaza war in late 2023.
January 21, 2025For more than 470 days, Eitan Gonen publicly pleaded with his daughter to stay alive while in Hamas captivity
January 29, 2025
Turkey removed another elected pro-Kurdish provincial mayor on Wednesday over convictions on terrorism-related offences, the interior ministry said, temporarily appointing a state
January 29, 2025U.S.
January 29, 2025
President Donald Trump has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet with him at the White House on Feb. 4
January 28, 2025
Patriot missiles from Israel sent to Ukraine through US, official says
January 28, 2025
Neymar has agreed to return to Santos nearly 12 years after he left the Brazilian team
January 28, 2025
The United States transferred some 90 Patriot air defense interceptors from Israel to Poland this week to then deliver them to Ukraine, Axios reported on Tuesday, citing three sources with
January 28, 2025
Crowds of displaced Palestinians made the arduous journey back to heavily destroyed northern Gaza for a second day, under a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas
January 28, 2025
‘I am finally at home’: Freed Israeli hostage Naama Levy shares message
January 28, 2025
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday called U.S. President Donald Trump's suggestion to relocate Palestinians from war-ravaged Gaza to Jordan and Egypt "unacceptable."
January 28, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 4, the two governments said on Tuesday.
January 28, 2025
U.S.
January 28, 2025
Senate Democrats block International Criminal Court sanctions bill in response to Netanyahu warrant
January 28, 2025
Jordan's air force launched on Tuesday the biggest air bridge so far to bring urgent medical supplies to Gaza under a U.S
January 28, 2025
Implementation of a ban on the U.N.
January 28, 2025
Israeli airstrikes in Nabatieh, a major town in southern Lebanon, injured 24 people on Tuesday, the Lebanese health ministry said.
January 28, 2025Syria’s Civil Defense has uncovered over two dozen charred bodies in two basements in rural Damascus, adding to the growing tally of mass graves discovered since the ousting of Bashar Assad
January 28, 2025
Displaced Palestinians returning to their homes in Gaza City this week found a city in ruins after 15 months of fighting, with many
January 28, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hoping to meet with President Donald Trump in Washington as early as next week
January 27, 2025
Israeli troops who seized strategic ground in southern Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad will remain on the summit of Mount Hermon indefinitely, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on
January 28, 2025
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni says that Rome prosecutors have opened an investigation against her and two government ministers for repatriating a Libyan warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court in the Hague
January 28, 2025Israeli mining magnate Beny Steinmetz has appealed a Greek court ruling ordering his extradition to Romania on an arrest warrant, his lawyer and sources said on Tuesday.
January 28, 2025
Thirdeye Systems, an Israeli military supplier, said it has sold a 30% stake to Emirati state-owned defense conglomerate EDGE for $10 million, in a rare public
January 28, 2025Qatar's prime minister and foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, took part in a phone call on Tuesday with U.S.
January 28, 2025
Islamist militants in an explosive-laden vehicle were thwarted in their attempt to overrun a Pakistani security post near the border with Afghanistan, the army said on
January 28, 2025‘When he wants something, it happens.’ Israel’s far right applauds Trump’s Gaza plan
January 28, 2025Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) will name its presidential candidate for the next election in coming months, its leader said on Tuesday
January 28, 2025
Hundreds of Pakistani journalists rallied on Tuesday against a proposed law to regulate social media content that they say is aimed at curbing press freedom and controlling the
January 28, 2025
China has prohibited imports of sheep, goat, poultry and even-toed ungulates from African, Asian and European countries due to outbreaks of livestock diseases such as sheep pox,
January 27, 2025Antony Blinken has a book deal, billed by his publisher as a “rare glimpse” into the “challenging and often controversial” responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the war in Gaza and other crises that broke out during his four years as secretary of state
January 28, 2025
Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor, the head of Dubai conglomerate Al Habtoor Group, said on X on Tuesday he had cancelled all planned investments in Lebanon due to continuing
January 28, 2025
Umm Ali Muheisen skipped across the road when she saw her daughter and grandchildren after 15 months separated by the war in Gaza, clutching them in a tight embrace as Palestinians
January 28, 2025
The crew of the Hong Kong-flagged ASL Bauhinia have abandoned the container ship in the Red Sea after it caught fire on Tuesday, two maritime sources said, adding the cause
January 28, 2025A Russian delegation has arrived in Damascus for the first time since Moscow's ally President Bashar al-Assad was toppled, Russia's TASS state news agency reported on Tuesday, as
January 28, 2025
Neymar and Al-Hilal agree to terminate player’s contract by mutual consent
January 28, 2025
‘Things are really changing for them’: Why explorer known as ‘Indiana Jones for girls’ is walking across Saudi Arabia
January 28, 2025
Some of the hostages released from Gaza so far during the ceasefire had been held in Hamas tunnels for up to eight months straight, deprived of daylight and with
January 27, 2025
Turkey said on Tuesday it had killed 13 Kurdish militants in northern Syria and two in Iraq, a sign that Ankara has pressed on with its campaign against fighters, some with
January 28, 2025Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov is set to meet Syria's new rulers this week in Damascus, two Syrian sources said on Tuesday, in the first visit by Russian
January 28, 2025
A Turkish court arrested a well-known talent manager over the charge of attempting to overthrow the government in an investigation connected to nationwide protests in 2013, a
January 28, 2025As Gaza residents return to what is left of their homes, they're facing new risks on top of monumental health challenges
January 27, 2025
U.S.
January 27, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have streamed into heavily destroyed northern Gaza in their first chance to return since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas
January 27, 2025
Israel says eight of the remaining hostages to be released by Hamas in phase one of deal are dead
January 27, 2025
Tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem were set to lose education, healthcare and other services provided by U.N. agency UNRWA as an Israeli
January 27, 2025
Tens of thousands of Palestinians streamed along the main roads leading north in Gaza on Monday, jubilant to be returning home after
January 26, 2025
Thousands of Afghans who helped the US lose access to critical resources following Trump directives
January 27, 2025
Crowds of Palestinians fill Gaza’s main coastal road as they stream north
January 27, 2025
Palestinians finally returning to devastated northern Gaza after ceasefire dispute delay
January 27, 2025
Israel is letting hundreds of thousands of Palestinians return to heavily destroyed northern Gaza as part of a fragile ceasefire
January 27, 2025
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has withdrawn a threat to quit the government if Israel does not return to fighting in Gaza, several Israeli news sites reported on
January 27, 2025
Lebanese Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said on Monday that the group would not accept any justifications to extend the period for Israeli troops' withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
January 27, 2025
While for some in Gaza there is joy at seeing what might remain of their homes in the north, for some Israelis their return evokes fears of another
January 27, 2025
European Union foreign ministers have agreed on a roadmap to ease sanctions on Syria, the bloc's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday.
January 27, 2025
Goldman Sachs on Monday tapped veteran banker Stefan Duffner to lead the investment bank's activism and shareholder advisory work in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at a
January 27, 2025
The European Union will restart a civilian mission to monitor the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt at Rafah, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday.
January 27, 2025
Trump wants to ‘clean out’ Gaza. Here’s what this could mean for the Middle East
January 27, 2025
An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinian militants in the city of Tulkarm on Monday, Hamas said, underscoring Israel's renewed focus on armed groups in the occupied West Bank
January 27, 2025After a week of whirlwind gains for the Sudanese army and allies in the capital Khartoum, leaders hailed a turning point in the civil war, speaking to reporters
January 27, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians returning to their homes in northern Gaza have passed through checkpoints in a central zone of the enclave where scanners check for
January 27, 2025
Iran has purchased Russian-made Sukhoi-35 fighter jets, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander said on Monday, amid Western concerns about Tehran and Moscow's growing military
January 27, 2025
Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas called on Monday for remembrance, rejection of antisemitism and the release of their loved ones ahead of the
January 27, 2025
An Istanbul prosecutor launched another judicial investigation into the city's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Monday for attempting to influence the judiciary after he criticised legal
January 27, 2025
The Palestinian population must not be expelled from Gaza, the German foreign ministry said on Monday after U.S.
January 27, 2025
Tens of thousands of Palestinians waited at roadblocks to return to their homes in northern Gaza on Sunday, voicing frustration after Israel accused Hamas of
January 26, 2025
Thirty-seven suspected terrorists, including suspected members of Islamic State, have been arrested across east Africa over the last two months, the global police body Interpol said
January 27, 2025
Israel has suspended Israeli commercial flights to the city of Paphos in Cyprus, Cypriot officials said on Monday, for unspecified security reasons.
January 27, 2025
Some European Union sanctions against Syria are being lifted, France's foreign minister said on Monday, as part of a broader EU move to help stabilise Damascus after the ousting
January 27, 2025
Italy is in favour of Saudi Arabia joining the GCAP fighter jet programme, which currently involves Italy, Britain and Japan, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Monday.
January 27, 2025
A Taliban ambassador is warning new U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio against making threats after he said he would place bounties on Afghanistan’s rulers for their continued detention of U.S. nationals
January 27, 2025President Donald Trump’s push to have Egypt and Jordan take in large numbers of Palestinian refugees from besieged Gaza has fallen flat with both countries' governments and perplexed a congressional ally
January 26, 2025
World leaders and business executives left the Swiss mountain resort of Davos after a week of discussions dominated from a distance by Donald Trump's return as U.S.
January 24, 2025
Israeli forces in southern Lebanon have opened fire on protesters demanding their withdrawal in line with a ceasefire agreement, killing at least 22 and injuring scores
January 26, 2025
The U.S. said on Sunday that the agreement between Lebanon and Israel would remain in effect until Feb. 18, after Israel said on Friday it would keep troops in the south beyond
January 26, 2025
U.S.
January 26, 2025
Trump suggests his plan for Gaza Strip is to ‘clean out the whole thing’
January 26, 2025
Mediator Qatar has announced that an agreement has been reached to release an Israeli civilian hostage and allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza
January 26, 2025
Qatar says an agreement has been reached to release an Israeli civilian hostage and allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza
January 26, 2025
Canadian veteran David Lavery has been freed following his arrest in Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Nov. 11 after mediation by Qatar, an official with knowledge of the release said on
January 26, 2025Sudanese army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan visited its strategic headquarters in central Khartoum on Sunday in his first appearance there since government forces claimed to
January 26, 2025
There will be a lot on the plate for new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth when he steps into his office on the Pentagon’s third floor E Ring
January 26, 2025
GENEVA -U.N. human rights experts and activists condemned on Sunday the arrest of an American, pro-Palestinian journalist in the Swiss city of Zurich, saying it raised concerns about freedom of speech
January 26, 2025Around 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan
January 26, 2025
A top Republican Senate ally says that President Donald Trump should rethink his decision to remove security details from three former senior national security officials, saying their protection is not just for them but also the public
January 26, 2025
Two senior Republican senators on Sunday urged U.S.
January 26, 2025
Iraq will not be negatively affected by the weakening of Iran's influence in the Middle East, Iraq's deputy parliament speaker said, with Baghdad looking to chart
January 26, 2025
Israeli forces killed 22 people in south Lebanon on Sunday as a deadline for their withdrawal passed and thousands of people tried to
January 26, 2025
22 killed as residents of southern Lebanon defy Israeli orders not to return home
January 26, 2025
President Donald Trump says he would like to see Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip, potentially moving out enough of the population to “clean out” the area to create a virtual clean slate
January 26, 2025
Thousands of Palestinians chanted praise of Hamas on Saturday as they welcomed prisoners freed under a ceasefire deal between the
January 25, 2025
U.S.
December 11, 2023Ali Amini was just days from starting a new life in the United States when President Donald Trump halted aid for resettling Afghan
January 26, 2025
Iran said it had arrested 13 adherents of the banned Baha’i faith accusing them of proselytising to children and adolescents, local media reported, drawing condemnation from an
January 26, 2025The first week of the ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas militant group is complete
January 25, 2025
Oświęcim’s sole Jewish resident reflects on modern antisemitism on 80th anniversary of Auschwitz camp’s liberation
January 26, 2025
Ben & Jerry’s parent company, Unilever, accused of censoring a statement on Trump
January 25, 2025
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday after talks in Baghdad that a joint battle using "all our resources" must be carried out to eliminate both Islamic State and
January 26, 2025
The release of four female soldiers from Hamas captivity on Saturday came at a great cost for Israel
January 25, 2025
Turkey has arrested 15 people as part of an investigation into a fire that killed 78 people and injured dozens at a ski resort in the Bolu mountains earlier this week, state media
January 26, 2025
The United Nation's Palestinian refugee agency said on Sunday it had been ordered by Israel to vacate premises and cease all of its operations in occupied East Jerusalem
January 26, 2025
The Israeli military has set up roadblocks across border towns and roads in a strategic valley in southern Lebanon
January 25, 2025
Republican President Donald Trump said on Saturday he has instructed the U.S. military to release a hold imposed by Democratic
January 25, 2025
A public teacher in Pennsylvania was put on leave after allegedly calling a Palestinian American middle school student an extremist, the school district and a
January 26, 2025
The U.S. may place a "very big bounty" on the top leaders of the Taliban, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday, adding he was hearing that the
January 25, 2025
The war in Gaza has been devastating for children
January 25, 2025
Israel’s military says it won’t complete its withdrawal from southern Lebanon by Sunday as outlined in its ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah militants
January 25, 2025
Almost 30% of the millions of Syrian refugees living in Middle Eastern countries want to return home in the next year, following the fall of
January 25, 2025
The U.S. government said on Saturday it was "critical" that implementation of the Gaza ceasefire continues, after four Israeli soldiers were freed by
January 25, 2025
President Donald Trump's foreign aid pause has forced a suspension of flights for more than 40,000 Afghans approved for special U.S. visas and at risk of
January 25, 2025
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have unilaterally released 153 war detainees
January 25, 2025
Israelis celebrated on Saturday the release of four Israeli soldiers held hostages in Gaza for the past 15 months, with scenes of jubilation in Tel Aviv where crowds gathered in a
January 25, 2025
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January 25, 2025
CNN's Nada Bashir reports from a refugee camp near Jenin in the occupied West Bank where Israel is stepping up their military operations that they say are targeting Iranian-backed militants.
January 24, 2025
Hamas freed four female Israeli soldiers on Saturday in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners, but a delay in
January 25, 2025
Four hostages freed but Israel blocks people in Gaza returning north
January 25, 2025
The United Nations refugee chief says some 200,000 refugees have returned to Syria from neighboring countries since the government of Bashar Assad was overthrown last month
January 25, 2025
Hamas and Israel trade blame over deal violations. Will the fragile ceasefire and hostage agreement hold?
January 25, 2025Four female Israeli soldiers who were taken in the attack that sparked the war in Gaza have returned to Israel after Hamas militants paraded them before a crowd of thousands and handed them over to the Red Cross
January 25, 2025
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins has the latest on how President Trump’s stripping security details from former aides Mike Pompeo and John Bolton is reverberating amongst his former staffers.
January 25, 2025
Fighting around Sudan’s largest oil refinery has set the sprawling complex ablaze, sending thick, black smoke over the country’s capital, Khartoum
January 25, 2025
The Red Cross said on Saturday it had completed the second phase of release operations as part of a Gaza ceasefire agreement, transferring four Israeli hostages from the enclave and
January 25, 2025The Israeli army ordered thousands of displaced Lebanese not to return to villages near the border until further notice, a day after it said its forces would remain in
January 25, 2025
Trump’s foreign business partners tout his presidency while promoting projects
January 25, 2025
Advocate groups ordered to stop aiding refugees who have already arrived in US
January 25, 2025
Yemen's Houthis released 153 prisoners on Saturday with support from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the ICRC said in a statement.
January 25, 2025
The Palestinian militant group Hamas on Saturday released four Israeli female soldiers, who were exchanged for 200 Palestinian prisoners incarcerated in Israeli jails.
January 25, 2025
Iran said on Saturday it had arrested 13 adherents of the banned Baha’i faith for proselytising to children and adolescents, local media reported.
January 25, 2025Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will visit Iraq on Sunday for talks with officials on the fight against Kurdish militants, security issues and bilateral ties, a Turkish
January 25, 2025Israeli operations in the West Bank have killed at least 12 Palestinians since Tuesday and could threaten the newly agreed ceasefire in Gaza, United Nations Human Rights office
January 24, 2025
A Pakistani court has sentenced four people to death for blasphemy
January 25, 2025The second batch of Israeli hostages set to be released by Hamas this weekend are four female soldiers
January 24, 2025
The United Nations on Friday suspended all travel into areas held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels after seven more of their staff were detained by the rebels
January 24, 2025
Ben & Jerry's ratcheted up its censorship lawsuit against Unilever on Friday, accusing its parent company of suppressing a social policy
January 24, 2025
Israel receives names of four female hostages Hamas is due to release Saturday
January 24, 2025
Denmark agreed on Friday to discuss the Arctic region with Washington, Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said, after his first phone
January 24, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince says the kingdom wants to invest $600 billion in the United States over the next four years, comments that came after President Donald Trump mused about returning to the kingdom as his first foreign trip
January 23, 2025
The State Department has frozen new funding for almost all U.S. aid programs worldwide, making exceptions to allow humanitarian food programs and military aid to Israel and Egypt to continue
January 24, 2025
Israel says it won’t withdraw from Lebanon by Sunday deadline
January 24, 2025
Residents say they were forced to flee Jenin refugee camp as Israel’s West Bank military operation intensifies
January 24, 2025
More than 4,200 aid trucks have entered the Gaza Strip in the six days since a ceasefire began between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas, the United
January 24, 2025
The United Nations said on Friday that the Houthis who control northern Yemen had detained seven U.N. personnel, and it was suspending all UN staff movement in Houthi-held areas while
January 24, 2025
The U.S.
January 24, 2025
Israeli forces will remain in southern Lebanon beyond a 60-day deadline stipulated in a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah because its terms have not been fully implemented, the
January 24, 2025
The Sudanese army has broken a siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of its command centre in central Khartoum, the army said on Friday, in what would be a major victory in
January 24, 2025
Hamas has announced it would release four female soldiers held hostage for 15 months in Gaza, as part of an exchange for dozens of Palestinian prisoners laid out in its ceasefire agreement with Israel
January 24, 2025
The Palestinian militant group Hamas has recruited between 10,000 and 15,000 members since the start of its war with Israel, according to two congressional sources
January 24, 2025
Palestinian militant group Hamas announced the names on Friday of four Israeli female soldier hostages to be released in exchange
January 24, 2025
An Israeli drone strike on a vehicle near the West Bank town of Qabatiya killed two people, the Palestinian health ministry said on Friday, the fourth day of a large-scale Israeli
January 24, 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested that Israel might not withdraw all of its forces from Lebanon by a deadline set in its ceasefire with Hezbollah
January 24, 2025
Kurdish-led authorities who run a sprawling camp for Islamic State-linked prisoners in northeast Syria are preparing the first-ever return of detainees to Syrian
January 24, 2025
Two U.S. lawmakers will keep trying to block arms sales to the United Arab Emirates, having determined that the UAE is providing weapons to the paramilitary
January 24, 2025
The Israeli military said on Friday that it remained deployed in southern Lebanon while maintaining the terms of the ceasefire deal.
January 24, 2025
By Stephanie van den Berg and Anthony Deutsch THE HAGUE - The International Criminal Court has taken measures to shield staff from possible U.S. sanctions, paying salaries three months in advance, as
January 24, 2025
One minute, they were celebrating Gaza’s ceasefire. The next, they were killed
January 24, 2025
Officials say Egypt and a consortium made up of energy companies Total of France and Italy’s Eni will sign a key agreement next month to transport natural gas from an undersea deposit inside Cypriot waters to Egypt, where it will be liquefied and processed for export
January 24, 2025
Syria's new ruling administration has cancelled a contract with a Russian firm to manage and operate the country's Tartous port that was signed under former President Bashar al-
January 24, 2025
There are three pending criminal cases and four people the US will not release but also cannot put on trial.
January 24, 2025
Palestinian militant group Hamas on Friday announced the names of four Israeli women soldiers to be released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in the second swap under the ceasefire
January 13, 2025
Man arrested for allegedly stabbing caseworker multiple times
January 24, 2025
Red Sea shipping remains risky despite the Gaza ceasefire and an announcement by Yemen’s Houthis to limit attacks, according to the CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company's
January 24, 2025
Foreign investors are flocking to Turkey's local debt markets, saying they are impressed by interest rate cuts and easing inflation and are
January 24, 2025
A fire at Iraq's Rumaila oilfield was brought under control on Friday, the country's oil ministry said in a statement, adding that there were no serious injuries.
January 24, 2025
Italy's interior minister said on Thursday a Libyan man detained under an international war crimes arrest warrant and then unexpectedly released had been swiftly
January 23, 2025
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the number of suspects detained in connection with the deadly hotel fire at a ski resort has increased to 14
January 24, 2025
US security contractor will take charge of key checkpoint in Gaza as Israeli forces withdraw
January 24, 2025
Naser Zazai, 29, had planned to reunite with his mother and brother in the United States this week after fleeing Afghanistan, where he says he was
January 24, 2025
Two Iraqi border guards were killed on Friday during a clash with fighters from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Iraq's interior ministry said.
January 24, 2025OPEC+ has yet to react to a call from U.S.
January 24, 2025
Israel said on Thursday the terms of a ceasefire with Hezbollah were not
January 23, 2025
Saudi Economy Minister Faisal Alibrahim said on Friday that the kingdom's $600 billion expanded package with the United States includes investments as well as procurement
January 24, 2025
United Nations officials say terrorism and the use of new technologies like weaponized drones against merchant shipping have superseded piracy as the top concerns for maritime security, and it’s up to private companies to employ specific countermeasures to neutralize such threats
January 24, 2025Maersk will continue to divert vessels away from the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea and toward the southern tip of Africa despite Yemen's Houthis announcing they will curb their
January 24, 2025
Investcorp could consider a public listing in the next three to five years, its vice chairman said on Friday, as the Middle
January 24, 2025
Survivor of Nova festival massacre to represent Israel at Eurovision Song Contest
January 24, 2025
A Holocaust survivor who lived through four concentration camps as a young boy will return to Auschwitz to mark 80 years since the liberation of one of the Nazi's most notorious concentration camps
January 24, 2025
Vessels in the northern Gulf have received multiple VHF radio challenges, including demands to alter course, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said on Friday, adding they
January 24, 2025Saudi Arabia's largest telecoms operator, STC Group, will seek a seat on Telefonica's board, it told the U.S. markets regulator in a filing, six days after the Spanish company
January 24, 2025
Afghanistan's Taliban foreign ministry said on Friday it "strongly condemns" and rejects the International Criminal Court's request for arrest warrants for two Taliban leaders.
January 24, 2025
The Taliban is rejecting a court move to arrest their leaders for persecuting Afghan women and girls
January 24, 2025
Columbia University suspends one student as it expedites investigation into Israeli history class disruption
January 23, 2025
Funding shortages may affect the U.N.'s ability to maintain aid flows at target levels throughout the Gaza ceasefire deal, a U.N. official told Reuters.
January 24, 2025
Even before it was signed, the Gaza ceasefire forced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into a tight spot - between a new U.S. president promising peace
January 23, 2025
Pakistan's central bank is expected to lower its key interest rate by at least 1 percentage point on Monday, analysts said, in its sixth straight cut as it attempts
January 24, 2025
Hamas said on Monday it would next release hostages held
January 20, 2025
Israeli troops have pulled back to the edges of Gaza, the first hostages have been released and many Palestinians have returned to what remains of their homes in the first few days of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal
January 23, 2025
Late at night in a Cairo public hospital, a young doctor treating a patient in severe pain found the CT scanner was broken, so relying on his clinical judgment alone,
January 24, 2025
Etihad Airways and flynas are gearing up to list on local stock markets this year, marking the first IPOs by Gulf
January 24, 2025
Dozens of Palestinian women and teenagers were released from Israeli prisons this week as part of a deal between Israel and Hamas to pause the war in Gaza
January 24, 2025
Despite Syrian President Bashar Assad's ouster last month in a lightning insurgency, the country’s dire economic conditions haven't changed
January 24, 2025Trump revokes security for his former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
January 23, 2025
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor says he has requested arrest warrants for two top Afghan Taliban officials over the repression of women
January 23, 2025
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have released the crew of the Galaxy Leader, a vehicle carrier seized in November 2023 at the start of their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea corridor over the Israel-Hamas war
January 22, 2025
Russia on Thursday reprimanded the head of the U.N. children's agency UNICEF for not providing a "weighty argument for her refusal" to brief the Security
January 23, 2025
The ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas stretched into a fifth day on Thursday
January 23, 2025
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said 653 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Thursday, the fifth day of a ceasefire between Israel
January 23, 2025
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud will visit Damascus on Friday and meet with top officials in the new Syrian administration, a Syrian official said on
January 23, 2025
President Donald Trump has revoked government security protection for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his top aide, Brian Hook
January 23, 2025
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January 22, 2025
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January 22, 2025
Two Bulgarian sailors and a Romanian crew member returned home after being held for 14 months by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis, receiving a warm welcome from their families and
January 23, 2025
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January 23, 2025
Syria's central bank has ordered commercial banks to freeze all accounts tied to people and companies linked to the ousted regime of former President Bashar al-Assad, according to
January 23, 2025
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January 23, 2025
Hundreds of Jenin residents left their homes on Thursday, prompted by messages from drones fitted with loudspeakers, witnesses said, as the military demolished a number of houses
January 23, 2025
Palestinians in northern Gaza prepared tent encampments for displaced families on Thursday, two days before they were
January 23, 2025
Yellow ribbons of solidarity with Israel's Gaza hostages featured alongside colourful performances at Tel Aviv's drag festival that opened this week, days after a
January 23, 2025
Outrage over alleged safety failures at a 12-storey hotel in Turkey has escalated into a political clash between the government and the opposition-run local
January 23, 2025
Germany is working intensively to deport more criminals to Afghanistan, said Interior Minister Nancy Faeser in Berlin on Thursday, a day after an Afghan asylum seeker was arrested
January 23, 2025
The Iraqi parliament has passed an amnesty law that could lead to the release of thousands of prisoners, including Iraqis convicted of attacks on U.S. soldiers and
January 23, 2025
Since seizing power in 2021, Afghanistan's Taliban administration has rolled back hard-fought rights won by Afghan women and girls during two decades of rule by American-backed
January 23, 2025
The Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Thursday accused each other of attacking the Khartoum refinery in Al-Jaili.
January 23, 2025
Iran on Thursday condemned as "baseless" a move by U.S. President Donald Trump to re-designate Yemen's Tehran-aligned Houthi movement as a "foreign terrorist organization (FTO)".
January 23, 2025
Saudi Arabia will continue supporting Lebanon and is optimistic about the country's future after a ceasefire brought an end to a war between Israel and the militant Iran-aligned
January 23, 2025
A decision by President Donald Trump's administration to halt visa processing for refugees has caused uncertainty and shock at an English school for
January 23, 2025
The International Criminal Court prosecutor said on Thursday he had applied for arrest warrants for two Taliban leaders in Afghanistan including supreme
January 23, 2025
Leading business and political figures attending the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, have discussed and debated topics such as technology, tariffs, climate change, Ukraine, Gaza and the global economy this week
January 23, 2025
The International Criminal Court's governing body said on Thursday it regretted any attempts to undermine the ICC's independence following U.S. moves to sanction it in protest at
January 23, 2025
The International Criminal Court prosecutor said on Thursday he had applied for arrest warrants for two Taliban leaders in Afghanistan.
January 23, 2025Palestinian journalist reunited with child after harrowing months in Israeli jail
January 23, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat has visited Lebanon for the first time in a decade following years of strained relations between the oil-rich kingdom and the tiny Mediterranean country
January 23, 2025
With Gaza quiet, Israel is turning its focus on the West Bank. Here’s why
January 23, 2025
Officials say a waitress who jumped out of a burning hotel at a popular ski resort has succumbed to her injuries
January 23, 2025
International Criminal Court seeks warrants for Taliban leaders for gender-based crimes
January 23, 2025
Pakistan's lower house of parliament has passed a bill with sweeping controls on social media that includes blocking platforms and sending users to prison for spreading disinformation
January 23, 2025
Turkey’s central bank has lowered its key interest rate by 2.5 percentage points to 45%
January 23, 2025
Syria's new authorities are using Islamic teachings to train a fledgling police force, a move officers say aims to instil a sense of morality as
January 23, 2025
Israel's economy minister said on Wednesday it seeks a peaceful Gaza but has not decided whether to help fund its reconstruction and
January 22, 2025
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the killing of a Chinese national in Afghanistan's northern Takhar province, in a post on its Telegram channel late on Wednesday.
January 23, 2025Two Iranian cargo vessels carrying an ingredient for missile propellant will sail from China to Iran in the next few weeks, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing
January 22, 2025Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told President Donald Trump that the kingdom wants to put $600 billion into expanded investment and trade with the United States over the next
January 22, 2025
U.S. civil rights groups are warning that an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Monday lays the groundwork for reinstatement of a ban on
January 23, 2025
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January 22, 2025
In the days since a fragile ceasefire took hold in the Gaza Strip, Israel has launched a major military operation in the occupied West Bank and suspected Jewish settlers have rampaged through two Palestinian towns
January 22, 2025
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have released the crew of the Galaxy Leader more than a year after they seized their Bahamas-flagged vessel off the Yemeni Red Sea coast,
January 22, 2025
Yemen’s Houthis free crew of Red Sea cargo ship after 14 months in captivity
January 22, 2025
Refugees who had been approved to come to the United States before America’s refugee resettlement program is suspended next week have had their travel plans canceled by the Trump administration
January 22, 2025
The International Criminal Court has reminded Italy it is obliged to fully cooperate with its prosecutions
January 22, 2025
Witnesses have described standing helplessly and paralyzed by the horror of people screaming for help or jumping out of windows as flames tore through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort
January 22, 2025
Israel has launched what it describes as an ‘extensive and significant’ operation in the West Bank camp, home to 25,000 refugees.
January 22, 2025West Bank mayor warns of ‘man-made disaster,’ as Israel says it took ‘lessons’ from Gaza war
January 22, 2025
Israel's defence minister said on Wednesday forces were applying lessons learned in Gaza as a major operation continued in Jenin, which
January 22, 2025
The Israeli military says its soldiers killed an alleged militant in Gaza whom it said posed a threat to its forces
January 22, 2025
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani said on Wednesday that the country will open its economy to foreign investment and that Damascus is also working on
January 22, 2025
In neighbourhoods levelled by 15 months of war with Israel, Hamas officials are overseeing the clearance of rubble in the wake of Sunday's ceasefire.
January 22, 2025
Iran hopes U.S.
January 22, 2025
Middlemen supplying Russian oil are not offering cargoes due to new U.S. sanctions targeting Russian producers, tankers and insurers, according to the finance
January 22, 2025
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister visits Lebanon on Thursday in the first trip to Beirut by Riyadh's top diplomat in 15 years, seeking a commitment to reform as the Gulf state
January 22, 2025
Iran delivered a conciliatory message to Western leaders in Davos on Wednesday, with a top official denying it wants nuclear
January 22, 2025
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Wednesday she hopes a political agreement on easing Syria sanctions can be reached at a gathering of European ministers
January 22, 2025
The International Criminal Court demanded answers from Italy on Wednesday over why it freed a Libyan man suspected of crimes against humanity and war crimes,
January 22, 2025
The Bank of Israel could reduce short-term interest rates one or two times in the second half of 2025 as long as inflation moves back below 3%, Governor Amir Yaron
January 22, 2025
An executive order by U.S.
January 22, 2025
Turkey has detained 11 people as part of an investigation into a fire that killed 79 people and injured dozens at a ski resort in the Bolu mountains, Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc
January 22, 2025
Afghans who fled after the Taliban seized power have appealed to President Donald Trump to exempt them from an order suspending the relocation of refugees to the United States, some saying they risked their lives to support U.S. troops
January 22, 2025
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January 22, 2025
Israel has launched a major military operation in the occupied West Bank, just days after a fragile ceasefire with Hamas took effect in Gaza
January 21, 2025
Citi on Wednesday raised its oil price outlook for 2025 due to geopolitical risks centred on Russia and Iran, but noted prices were likely to ease through the second half of the year.
January 22, 2025
Ships not linked to Israel could begin returning to the Red Sea in as little as two weeks, DP World's deputy chief executive said, adding that could
January 22, 2025
Iran is "pressing the gas pedal" on its enrichment of uranium to near weapons grade, U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Wednesday,
January 22, 2025
Iran must make a first step towards improving relations with countries in the region and the United States by making it clear it does not aim to develop nuclear weapons,
January 22, 2025
Guns may have fallen silent in Gaza, but for Mahmoud Abu Dalfa, the agony is not over.
January 22, 2025
A Chinese citizen was "murdered" in Afghanistan's northern Takhar province, the Taliban provincial police said on Wednesday, adding that a preliminary investigation had been launched
January 22, 2025The head of a major humanitarian organisation said U.S.
January 22, 2025
A Swiss national who Iranian authorities said took his own life while in an Iranian jail after being arrested on suspicion of espionage had taken pictures of military sites, Iran's
January 22, 2025More than 1.4 billion people traveled internationally in 2024 as tourism returns to pre-pandemic highs
January 22, 2025
CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports President Donald Trump terminated the Secret Service detail that was assigned to his former national security adviser John Bolton.
January 21, 2025
On foot or riding rickshaws, many Palestinians exhausted by war in Gaza began returning to the ruins of their homes on the
January 21, 2025
French investigating magistrates have issued an arrest warrant against ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for suspected complicity in war crimes, notably the launch of a deliberate
January 22, 2025
Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party said it will send a delegation to meet Abdullah Ocalan, head of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), in jail on Wednesday for a second time as
January 22, 2025
Palestinians in Gaza are confronting an apocalyptic landscape of devastation after more than 15 months of fighting between Israel and Hamas
January 21, 2025
Israel’s top general has resigned, citing the security and intelligence failures related to Hamas’ surprise attack that triggered the war in Gaza
January 21, 2025
Shortly after suspected Jewish settlers stormed Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank, U.S. President Donald Trump canceled sanctions against Israelis accused of violence in the territory
January 21, 2025
Australian detectives are investigating whether foreign actors are paying criminals to commit antisemitic attacks in the country
January 22, 2025
A Turkish court late on Tuesday ordered far-right Victory Party leader Umit Ozdag be held in custody pending trial on charges of inciting public hatred through social media,
January 22, 2025Harvard University will provide additional protections for Jewish students under a settlement announced on Tuesday that resolves two lawsuits accusing the Ivy League
January 21, 2025
Harvard University settles two antisemitism lawsuits one day after Trump takes office
January 21, 2025
A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban has freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and terrorism charges
January 21, 2025
As fighting in Gaza stops, Israel launches major military campaign in West Bank
January 21, 2025
Nearly 900 humanitarian aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the third day of a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas, as a
January 21, 2025
During his first term in office, U.S.
January 21, 2025
Rep. Elise Stefanik has pledged to push President Donald Trump’s “America First” stance if confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and roll out a review of U.S. funding critical for U.N. agencies
January 21, 2025
The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza reduces the risks to Israel's public finances and could
January 21, 2025
Israeli security forces backed by helicopters raided the volatile West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, killing at least nine
January 21, 2025
Operations at a Red Sea port in Yemen used for aid imports have fallen to about a quarter of its capacity, a UN official said on Tuesday, adding it was not certain that a Gaza
January 21, 2025
Italian state-run RAI says a court in Turin has freed a Libyan warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court
January 21, 2025Trump executive order threatens fate of Afghan refugees who helped the US, advocate warns
January 21, 2025
Qatar's Prime Minister said in Davos on Tuesday he hoped the Palestinian Authority would return to play a governing role in Gaza once
January 21, 2025
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said on Tuesday he did not see Donald Trump's new administration increasing the risk of an Israel-Iran
January 21, 2025
Israel's army chief Herzi Halevi said on Tuesday he would resign on March 6, taking responsibility for the massive security lapse on Oct. 7, 2023, when
January 21, 2025
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January 21, 2025
Israel’s top general on Tuesday became the highest-ranking official to resign over Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack, the worst security failure in the country’s history
January 21, 2025
Two Americans held in Afghanistan traded for Taliban prisoner in final Biden deal delayed until Trump took office
January 21, 2025
The vice president of Yemen's U.N.-recognised government on Tuesday welcomed Donald Trump's return as U.S. president, saying it was a
January 21, 2025
Turkish authorities have ramped up investigations and detentions of opposition figures, with three such actions on Monday alone, raising concerns about a widening crackdown on
January 21, 2025
The United States has freed an Afghan convicted by an American court on charges of drug smuggling and terrorism in exchange for two U.S. citizens held in Afghanistan, authorities in
January 21, 2025
Israeli military chief of staff resigns over failure to prevent October 7 attack
January 21, 2025
The Kurdish forces guarding Islamic State fighters at a jail in northern Syria say they are opposed to handing the facility to the new Islamist rulers in
January 21, 2025
Israel spent about 100 billion shekels ($28 billion) on military conflicts in 2024, the finance ministry said on Tuesday, a figure that has sharply pushed up
January 21, 2025
The new stretch of the Suez Canal near Egypt's Little Bitter Lake will be operational in the first quarter of this year, the chairman of the canal authority Osama Rabie said on
January 21, 2025
A military assessment team from the United States will be in Cyprus this week as part of defence upgrades, Cypriot officials said on Tuesday, following an announcement from
January 21, 2025
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich welcomed U.S.
January 21, 2025
Trump says he’s ‘not confident’ Gaza ceasefire will hold
January 21, 2025
Saudi oil giant Aramco's Chief Executive Amin Nasser said on Tuesday he sees the oil market as healthy and expects an additional 1.3 million barrels per
January 21, 2025
Turkey could restart trade with Israel "if peace is permanent", Nail Olpak, head of the Turkish Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK), said on Tuesday.
January 21, 2025Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active-duty U.S. military personnel, are having their
January 20, 2025
As a ceasefire brought calm to Gaza’s ruined cities, Hamas was quick to emerge from hiding
January 20, 2025
One of the Israeli hostages freed on the first day of the Gaza ceasefire said Monday in her first comments since being released that she has “returned to life.”
January 20, 2025
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January 21, 2025
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have signaled they will limit their attacks in the Red Sea corridor to only Israeli-affiliated ships as a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip takes hold
January 20, 2025
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January 20, 2025
Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa congratulated U.S.
January 20, 2025
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 915 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Monday, the second day of a
January 20, 2025
Emily Damari, Romi Gonen, and Doron Steinbrecher were the first three Israeli hostages released in phase one of the ceasefire-hostage deal between Israel and Hamas.
January 20, 2025The European Union is considering a step-by-step suspension of multiple economic sanctions targeting Syria as it seeks to support the country’s transition, while
January 20, 2025
The dollar dropped on Monday after news President Donald Trump's new administration will not immediately impose trade tariffs,
January 20, 2025
Rami Malek opens up about being profiled while growing up: ‘We definitely didn’t fit in’
January 20, 2025
Sunday's delayed start to the Gaza ceasefire and incidents on Monday in which Israeli troops shot at Palestinians approaching them
January 20, 2025
Oil prices settled lower on Monday after U.S.
January 20, 2025
Palestinians began searching on Monday for thousands of Gazans believed still buried under rubble, as residents expressed
January 20, 2025
President Donald Trump's transition team asked more than a dozen senior career diplomats to step down from their roles, two U.S. officials familiar with the
January 20, 2025
Hamas released three Israeli hostages and Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners on Sunday, the first day of
January 19, 2025
The first hostages freed from Gaza under a long-awaited ceasefire agreement are back in Israel at a hospital where they reunited with the rest of their families and will receive medical treatment. CNN’s Jim Sciutto reports.
January 14, 2025
The longest-serving Palestinian inmate in Israeli jail, revered by militants as the "dean" of their prisoners, is among more than 200 Palestinians set to
January 20, 2025
Yemen's Houthis will limit their attacks on commercial vessels to Israel-linked ships provided the Gaza ceasefire is fully implemented, the Humanitarian Operations
January 20, 2025
The flow of aid into Gaza could take time to ramp up, chief of the International Rescue Committee David Miliband said on Monday, as relief trucks conducted a
January 20, 2025
More than 630 humanitarian aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Sunday, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council, with at least 300 of those
January 20, 2025
An Australian journalist, who was once jailed for 400 days in Egypt, said he is staging a hunger strike in London to press the British government to help secure
January 20, 2025
In the early days of 2013, an
December 13, 2024
Israel's monetary policy committee urged lawmakers to approve the 2025 state budget without further changes to ensure confidence in financial markets, the Bank
January 20, 2025
Swedish prosecutors have requested the detention of a Swedish man on suspicion of war and terrorism crimes over the killing of a Jordanian air force pilot in Syria a decade ago,
January 20, 2025Leaders of war-divided Cyprus said on Monday they supported opening further crossing points along the 1974 ceasefire line splitting the island to meet popular demand, and would work
January 20, 2025
An Italian journalist detained in Iran whose fate became intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer wanted by the United States says she assumed she would have been held much longer
January 20, 2025
A meeting between the two leaders in ethnically divided Cyprus has ended without an agreement
January 20, 2025
Gaza ceasefire brings hope but aid workers warn of major hurdles ahead
January 20, 2025
Hamas gave the three hostages ‘gift bags’ upon their release. This is what was inside
January 20, 2025Israel's jobless rate slipped to 2.6% in December from 2.7% a month earlier, the Central Bureau of Statistics said on Monday, indicating that military conflict
January 20, 2025
The mother of American journalist Austin Tice said on Monday she was hopeful that the new administrations in the U.S. and Syria would help her find her missing son,
January 20, 2025
During the first six-week phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreed last week, Hamas is to release 33 hostages in total, with at least three hostages released each week.
January 18, 2025
As first Israeli hostages are released, Hamas sends a message: It is far from being destroyed
January 19, 2025A long-awaited ceasefire has finally begun in Gaza. Here’s what we know
January 14, 2025
France will keep fighting to obtain the release of the two French-Israeli nationals held by Hamas, foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot told BFM TV on Monday.
January 20, 2025
Dozens of Palestinian prisoners have been freed by Israel after three hostages left Hamas captivity in an exchange that took place after 15 months of collective grief and anxiety
January 19, 2025
The Taliban's acting deputy foreign minister called on his senior leadership to open schools for Afghan girls, among the strongest public rebukes of a policy that has contributed to
January 20, 2025
The mother of American journalist Austin Tice
January 18, 2025
Global investors are about to get a taste of what Donald Trump's return to the White House might mean for markets, global trade and international relations.
January 17, 2025
A senior Taliban figure says the group's leader should scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls
January 19, 2025
Israel has freed 90 Palestinian prisoners and detainees
January 19, 2025
Even before the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas was fully in place, Palestinians in the war-battered Gaza Strip began to return to the remains of the homes they had evacuated during the 15-month war
January 19, 2025
‘Everybody is crying’: Israelis rejoice as 3 hostages returned after more than 470 days in Gaza
January 19, 2025
Thousands of Israelis gathered in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, some cheering and some in tears, as a giant television screen broadcast
January 19, 2025
Thousands of Palestinians burst into the streets across Gaza as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began on Sunday, some in celebration,
January 19, 2025
U.S. President Joe Biden welcomed a ceasefire in Gaza on Sunday and said hundreds of trucks were entering the seaside enclave to help its civilians.
January 19, 2025
Hamas' armed wing said the group would abide by a ceasefire agreement that came into force in Gaza on Sunday but that any possible Israeli violations would endanger the process and put the
January 19, 2025
Turkey has emerged as one of the most influential power brokers in Syria after rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last month, ending his family's brutal five-decade rule.
January 19, 2025
Negotiators are zeroing in on a potential deal to resolve one of the most explosive questions looming over Syria's
January 19, 2025
President-elect Donald Trump's incoming national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said on Sunday that if Hamas reneges on the Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal, the United States
January 19, 2025
Under the Gaza ceasefire deal that came into force on Sunday, Israel has agreed to release Palestinians held in Israeli jails in return for freeing hostages taken by the militant
January 17, 2025
Palestinian militant group Hamas released three Israeli female hostages on Sunday as part of the first phase of its ceasefire deal with Israel.
January 19, 2025
Englishman Tyrrell Hatton has held off Daniel Hillier of New Zealand to win the Dubai Desert Classic by a stroke
January 19, 2025
Two far-right Israeli ministers publicly opposed a Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas on Sunday in another sign of widening cracks in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
January 19, 2025
Syria's new defence minister said on Sunday it would not be right for U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters based in the country's northeast to retain their own bloc within
January 19, 2025
Israel’s far-right national security minister resigned from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet to express his disapproval of the Gaza ceasefire deal
January 19, 2025
About 200 aid delivery trucks, including 20 carrying fuel, began arriving on Sunday at the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing ahead of entry into the Gaza Strip, two Egyptian
January 19, 2025
The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is set to begin on Sunday, pausing the devastating 15-month war between Israel and the militant Hamas group in the Gaza Strip
January 18, 2025
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