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Israeli forces have withdrawn from border villages in southern Lebanon under a deadline spelled out in a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement that ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war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
U.S.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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February 07, 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON - The U.S.
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
Gaza is a nightmare after 15 months of war. A visual guide to life on the ground now
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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July 27, 2013Pakistan has agreed terms for a $1 billion loan with two Middle Eastern banks at a 6%-7% interest rate, its Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb told
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
Here are the main elements of a Gaza ceasefire deal that went into effect on Sunday after 15 months of conflict that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and inflamed the Middle
January 15, 2025
Preparations have been made for the Gaza ceasefire between Israel and Hamas
January 18, 2025
Israel approved a ceasefire deal with Palestinian militant group Hamas on Saturday that involves releasing hostages in the Gaza
January 17, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military not to begin the ceasefire in Gaza, scheduled to start at 8:30 a.m.
January 19, 2025
Two high-profile Iranian judges killed in ‘planned assassination’
January 18, 2025
Qatar says the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas will go into effect at 8:30 a.m. local time (0630 GMT) on Sunday
January 18, 2025
Trump says mass deportations will happen quickly, stresses importance of Israel-Hamas deal in wide-ranging NBC News interview
January 18, 2025
Two senior Iranian Supreme Court judges involved in handling espionage and terrorism cases were shot dead in the capital Tehran on Saturday, Iran's judiciary said.
January 18, 2025
Iranian officials say a man fatally shot two prominent hard-line judges in Tehran, both of whom allegedly took part in the mass execution of dissidents in 1988
January 18, 2025
Iran unveiled an underground naval missile base at an undisclosed Gulf location on Saturday, state TV said, two days before the start of Donald Trump's second term as president.
January 18, 2025Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal to begin Sunday, bringing rare halt to months of fighting
January 18, 2025
Most army-controlled areas in Sudan have been plunged into blackouts following drone attacks on power generation facilities by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, government officials
January 18, 2025
Lebanon's new president Joseph Aoun stressed to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday the urgency of an Israeli military withdrawal as stipulated by a
January 18, 2025
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem congratulated Palestinians on Saturday over the Gaza ceasefire deal, saying in a speech that it proved the "persistence
January 18, 2025
Israel’s Cabinet has approved a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of dozens of hostages that will pause the 15-month war with Hamas for six weeks
January 17, 2025
U.S. officials will visit Cyprus soon to discuss upgrading military infrastructure, Cyprus' president said on Saturday, days after a landmark decision by Washington to bolster
January 18, 2025Israel’s approval of the Gaza deal unmasks deep schisms that could threaten the ceasefire and Netanyahu’s political future
January 18, 2025The Israeli government ratified the Gaza ceasefire and hostage return deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said, after a cabinet meeting that lasted more than six
January 17, 2025
Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam said on Friday the formation of a new government would not be delayed, indicating a very positive atmosphere in discussions over its
January 17, 2025
The U.S. on Friday imposed sanctions on a Yemen-based financial institution that Washington accused of financially supporting the Houthis, as President Joe Biden's
January 17, 2025
Attacks on aid convoys in the Gaza Strip by looters and armed gangs could decline as humanitarian relief floods the area after the
January 17, 2025
A billionaire former banker and 15 other ex-officials in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region which Azerbaijan retook in 2023 went on trial
January 17, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday signed a 20-year strategic partnership treaty that includes closer defence cooperation,
January 17, 2025
Russia signed a strategic partnership treaty with Iran on Friday that follows similar pacts with China and North Korea.
January 17, 2025
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday named former Dutch Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag as the new U.N. Middle East envoy, a U.N. spokesperson said.
January 17, 2025
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January 17, 2025
The United Nations has announced new actions to counter the surge in antisemitism, including encouraging governments to enforce laws against hate crimes and discrimination
January 18, 2025
Oil prices settled lower on Friday but notched their fourth straight weekly gain, as the latest U.S. sanctions on Russian energy trade added to worries about
January 17, 2025
The Israeli security cabinet approved a ceasefire deal on Friday, paving the way for the return of the first hostages from Gaza as
January 17, 2025
A team of doctors in Israel is preparing for the return of the hostages from Gaza with the expectation that many are likely to have severe, life-threatening complications from spending more than a year in captivity
January 17, 2025
Israel’s Cabinet has approved the Gaza ceasefire deal that would pause the fighting and release dozens of hostages held by Hamas and other militants in the Gaza Strip, along with Palestinian prisoners held by Israel
January 17, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron has met with Lebanon’s newly elected President Joseph Aoun and vowed to support the small nation as it attempts to recover from the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war and an economic crisis
January 17, 2025
Former CIA analyst pleads guilty to leaking classified documents on Israel’s plans to attack Iran
January 17, 2025
As one of the oldest hostages taken by Hamas, Oded Lifshitz would be among the first to be released under a ceasefire deal
January 17, 2025
A former CIA analyst has pleaded guilty to leaking information on a planned Israeli attack on Iran
January 17, 2025
The Gaza ceasefire and hostage release agreement is expected to take effect as soon as Sunday
January 17, 2025
International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan held discussions on Friday with Syrian authorities on how the war crimes tribunal could help in their efforts to prosecute
January 17, 2025
The presidents of Russia and Iran have signed a broad cooperation pact to deepen their partnership amid stinging Western sanctions
January 17, 2025
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan has made an unannounced visit to Damascus, meeting with the leader of Syria’s de facto government
January 17, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted his Iranian counterpart, President Masoud Pezeshkian, to sign a broad partnership pact
January 17, 2025
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is bidding farewell to the forces and personnel he's led through a tumultuous term
January 17, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron called on Israel on Friday to accelerate its troop withdrawal from southern Lebanon, as a deadline nears for the pullout under the terms of a
January 17, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian deepened military ties between their countries on Friday by
January 17, 2025
Palestinians 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
January 16, 2025
Russia’s growing ties with Iran have shaped the war in Ukraine. A new treaty raises the stakes for Trump’s administration
January 17, 2025
The Israeli security cabinet has recommended approving the Gaza ceasefire and hostage return deal, ahead of a full cabinet meeting expected later on Friday, a statement from the
January 17, 2025
The European Union is in talks to revive a civilian mission to monitor the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt at Rafah following the announcement of the ceasefire deal between
January 17, 2025
Companies transporting their products around the world are not ready to return to the Red Sea trade route in the wake of a Gaza ceasefire deal
January 17, 2025
Reinsurers, including Swiss Re, have become more willing to provide cover for the Middle East in the industry's January policy renewal season, removing a clause
January 17, 2025
Elon Musk played no role in negotiations between Italy and Iran for the release of a journalist who was held in a Tehran prison, Italy's foreign minister said on Friday, dismissing a
January 17, 2025
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday he believed their two countries could finalise agreements on the construction of a nuclear
January 17, 2025
Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump are taking credit for the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. It is expected to take effect one day before Biden leaves office.
January 16, 2025
The Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal is expected to begin as originally scheduled on Sunday, the Israeli prime minister's office said, after hours of uncertainty over the
January 17, 2025
Chile's Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, is in talks with Saudi Arabia over potential joint investments in the metal, the company's chairman told Reuters
January 17, 2025
North Africa's largest economy and second-largest natural gas producer has stepped up the production and export of several highly energy-intensive
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January 17, 2025The final disputes holding up a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas have been resolved, Axios reported on Thursday, citing an unnamed U.S. official. Axios did not provide details.
January 16, 2025
News that Israel and Hamas have reached a hostage release deal after 15 months of war in Gaza is bittersweet for Ruth Strum --
January 16, 2025
Egypt’s chief diplomat is calling on Israel and Hamas to implement a Gaza ceasefire plan “without any delay.”
January 16, 2025
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan has defended his decision to bring war crimes allegations against Israel's prime minister, saying Israel had
January 17, 2025
Authorities in Turkey arrested a mayor from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) early on Friday, after prosecutors accused him of rigging public tenders, an
January 17, 2025Global diesel prices and refining margins spiked following the latest round of U.S. sanctions on Russia's oil trade on
January 17, 2025
Outgoing Democratic U.S.
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Germany's Lufthansa Group is set to resume flights to and from Tel Aviv in Israel from Feb. 1 and Wizz Air restarted its London to Tel Aviv route on Thursday, the
January 16, 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a deal to return hostages held in the Gaza Strip has been reached
January 16, 2025
A home in Sydney previously owned by a senior Jewish community leader was vandalised on Friday morning and two cars were set on fire, with one spray painted with an antisemitic slur
January 17, 2025Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a deal to return hostages held in the Gaza Strip has been reached
January 16, 2025
The U.S.
January 16, 2025
Egypt's current account deficit more than doubled to $5.9 billion in July-September 2024, compared with $2.8 billion in the year-ago quarter, as Suez Canal revenues remain depressed,
January 16, 2025
Negotiators reached a phased ceasefire deal on Wednesday to
January 15, 2025
The Gaza Strip ceasefire should begin on Sunday as planned, despite the need for negotiators to tie up a "loose
January 16, 2025
The leader of Yemen's Houthis said on Thursday that the Iran-aligned group would monitor the implementation of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas aimed at ending the war in Gaza
January 16, 2025
An official with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said on Thursday the militant group would agree to leave northeastern Syria if the U.S.-allied Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
January 16, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian may discuss the situation in Syria, the Middle East, and Iran's nuclear programme on Friday, during
January 16, 2025
Police closed off the Adidas Arena ahead of a Euroleague basketball game between Paris and Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv on Thursday because of a suspicious package
January 16, 2025
The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on Sudan's leader, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, accusing him of choosing war
January 16, 2025
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January 16, 2025
Israel's hardline National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Thursday he would resign from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government if it
January 16, 2025
Rome's chief Jewish rabbi on Thursday sharply criticised Pope Francis over the pontiff's recent ramping up of criticism against Israel's military campaign in Gaza,
January 16, 2025
The leader of Yemen's Houthis, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, said the Iran-aligned group will monitor the implementation of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas and will continue its attacks
January 16, 2025
Oil prices settled lower on Thursday with Yemen's Houthi militia expected to halt attacks on ships in the Red Sea, and investors weighing strong U.S. retail
January 16, 2025
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has defended Biden administration policies on Israel's war with Hamas after a ceasefire agreement in Gaza was reached
January 16, 2025
The World Health Organization called for the international community to step up and fund a scaled-up aid response in Gaza after Israel and Hamas
January 16, 2025
Iraq is trying to convince powerful armed factions in the country that have fought U.S. forces and fired rockets and drones at Israel to lay down their weapons or
January 16, 2025
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May 03, 2017Mediators say Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in fighting in Gaza and to begin releasing the hostages held there
January 15, 2025
Nearly all of the new film “September 5” takes place in the darkened, smokey control room from which ABC Sports broadcast the hostage crisis of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich
January 16, 2025
Maritime security officials said on Thursday they were expecting Yemen's Houthi militia to announce a halt in attacks on ships in the Red Sea, after a ceasefire deal in the war in
January 16, 2025
Azerbaijan has refused to renew its cooperation agreement with The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said on Thursday,
January 16, 2025
A last-minute glitch surfaced on Thursday in the details of the Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal and U.S. envoys are working to resolve it, a U.S. official said.
January 16, 2025
France plans to hold a conference on Syria in Paris on Feb. 13, the French presidency said in a statement on Thursday.
January 16, 2025
A former top official in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh protested on the eve of his trial before an Azerbaijani military court on Friday that he had not been
January 16, 2025Cyprus on Thursday hailed U.S.
January 16, 2025Many colleges accused of tolerating antisemitism on their campuses have been settling with federal civil rights investigators in the weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who urged a tougher response to campus protests against the war in Gaza
January 16, 2025
Israel and Hamas have agreed to a deal that will pause fighting in Gaza. President Joe Biden said the deal will happen in phases and described measures to ensure the release of hostages.
January 15, 2025
How the ‘Trump factor’ now looms over international affairs
January 16, 2025
U.S.
January 16, 2025
Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Thursday his country is ready to welcome UN forces into the UN established buffer zone with Israel.
January 16, 2025
The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups have met in northern Iraq in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a time when the political upheaval in Syria has left Kurds in the region facing an uncertain future
January 16, 2025
A ceasefire in the war in Gaza should be positive for Israel's under-pressure credit rating, Fitch's top sovereign rating analyst said on Thursday.
January 16, 2025
Turkey's state-run news agency says at least 30 people have died in Istanbul in the past three days after drinking bootleg alcohol
January 16, 2025Israel’s divided education system – based on nationality and religious observance – serves as a test case for exploring controversial education policies in America.
January 16, 2025
A ceasefire agreement in Gaza has been reached between Israel and Hamas after more than 15 months of war
January 15, 2025
Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani on Thursday arrived at Damascus' International Airport, footage run by Al Jazeera Live showed.
January 16, 2025
A strategic cooperation agreement that Russia and Iran are poised to sign will not include a mutual defence clause like pacts that Moscow has signed with Pyongyang and Minsk, the
January 16, 2025
Russia welcomes any settlement that leads to security in Gaza after a ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas was announced, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said
January 16, 2025
Three-phased deal will start with the release of 33 hostages held by Hamas since Oct. 7, 2023. If fully implemented, the agreement will see the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Palestinian enclave.
January 16, 2025
Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said he was cutting his visit to Europe short on Wednesday so that he could take part in security cabinet and government votes on a Gaza
January 15, 2025
Significant progress was made on a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal once the administrations of Joe Biden and Donald Trump began
January 16, 2025
The ceasefire in Gaza represents a "great victory" for the Palestinian resistance, Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday, warning against any possible breach by Israel.
January 16, 2025
Negotiators reached a phased ceasefire deal on Wednesday in the war in Gaza between Israel and the militant group Hamas. Here is some reaction to the deal. U.S.
January 15, 2025
U.S.
January 15, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the ceasefire agreement with Hamas is still not complete and the final details are being worked out
January 15, 2025
President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump are both claiming credit for Israel and Hamas agreeing to a ceasefire deal in Gaza after the White House brought Trump’s Middle East envoy into negotiations that have dragged on for months
January 15, 2025
The U.S.
January 15, 2025
A long-sought Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal emerged at the end of an intense 96 hours of negotiations in Doha brokered by U.S., Egyptian and Qatari diplomats
January 15, 2025
Families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza gathered on Wednesday in the Tel Aviv square where they have held rallies for more than a year, as news trickled out of
January 15, 2025
Senator Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for secretary of state, warned on Wednesday that
January 15, 2025
Mediators say Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire deal to pause the devastating 15-month war in the Gaza Strip, raising the possibility of winding down the deadliest and most destructive fighting between the bitter enemies
January 15, 2025
The United Nations says it’s ready to ramp up the delivery of desperately needed humanitarian aid to Gaza after a ceasefire agreement and urged the removal of major security and political obstacles so it can reach all those in need
January 16, 2025
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday the priority now "must be to ease the tremendous suffering" caused by the war in Gaza
January 15, 2025
Hamas and Israel reached a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza that mediators said would take effect on Sunday and include
January 14, 2025
Palestinians burst into celebration across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday at news of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, with some shedding years of joy and
January 15, 2025
How the Biden and Trump teams worked together to get the Gaza ceasefire and hostages deal done
January 15, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday described a ceasefire deal ending the war in Gaza as "long overdue" and said focus should turn to humanitarian aid and securing a
January 15, 2025
U.S.
January 15, 2025
Negotiators reached a phased deal on Wednesday to end the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, the U.S. and Qatar said, after 15 months of bloodshed that has killed tens of
January 15, 2025
Two Americans held in Gaza are on the list of hostages to be released in first six-week phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal that was announced Wednesday, a source familiar with the
January 15, 2025
The ceasefire announced between Israel and Hamas gives hope to families of hostages and war-weary Palestinians — but their nightmare is far from over
January 15, 2025
Three Palestinians were killed and scores more injured by an Israeli air strike in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said.
January 15, 2025
Turkey is ready to provide support to the new Syrian administration for the management of Islamic State camps in the country, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Wednesday.
January 15, 2025
A small minority of Israeli hostage families don’t want a Gaza deal. Here’s why
January 15, 2025
President Joe Biden is set to deliver a farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office
January 15, 2025
Israel's inflation eased more than expected in December to end 2024 at a rate of 3.2% versus 3.0% in 2023, according to data on Wednesday from the Central Bureau of Statistics
January 15, 2025
A Gaza deal between Israel and Hamas, still not officially announced yet on Wednesday, outlines a six-week initial ceasefire phase and includes the gradual withdrawal of Israeli
January 15, 2025
Israel and Hamas agreed to a deal to halt fighting in Gaza and exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, an official briefed on the deal told Reuters on Wednesday
January 15, 2025
Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would use the Gaza ceasefire deal as momentum to expand the Abraham Accords, U.S.-backed agreements struck during the president-elect's first
January 15, 2025
Qatar's Foreign Ministry will hold a news conference on Wednesday in Doha where the country has been hosting talks towards a Gaza ceasefire deal, a senior Qatari official said.
January 15, 2025
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 25 prisoners of war each after negotiations mediated by the United Arab Emirates, according to statements from both sides.
January 15, 2025
U.N.
January 15, 2025
Henk Lategan and Yazeed Al-Rajhi will duel in the Saudi sand for their first Dakar Rally title after swapping the lead for a second straight day
January 15, 2025
The ceasefire deal that is close to being agreed in Gaza has left families of the 98 hostages still held in the enclave facing a mix of hope, apprehension, and, in
January 14, 2025
The Libyan state agency mandated to oversee government performance has called for suspension of public sector appointments and contracts due to an excessive wage bill.
January 15, 2025Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office denied on Wednesday that Hamas had agreed to the Gaza ceasefire proposal from Qatari mediators, after an Israeli official said
January 15, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office denied on Wednesday that Hamas had agreed to the Gaza ceasefire proposal from Qatari mediators, after an Israeli official said
January 15, 2025
Syria's new authorities have detained an Egyptian Islamist militant who fought against Bashar al-Assad's rule over threats he made to the government in Cairo, a Syrian interior
January 15, 2025
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama presented a gift of a scarf to his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni and serenaded her as she celebrated her 48th birthday on Wednesday.
January 15, 2025
The Palestinian Authority must be the sole governing power in Gaza after the war, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa said on Wednesday, as expectations grew that a deal
January 15, 2025
President Tayyip Erdogan warned on Wednesday that Turkey had the power and ability to "crush" all terrorists in Syria, including Islamic State and Kurdish militants, while urging all
January 15, 2025
A high-ranking member of the Islamic State militant group in Syria has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Germany, partly for alleged involvement in the
January 15, 2025Israel supplied Iran with centrifuge platforms containing explosives for its nuclear enrichment program in an act of sabotage
January 15, 2025
The outgoing acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center says the U.S. is facing an elevated threat of terrorism
January 15, 2025
The CEO of fast-growing aircraft lessor AviLease on Wednesday said he expects Boeing and Airbus to get their supply issues under control in the next four years and said he will be
January 15, 2025Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband Jared Kushner enjoyed largely unfettered access to Trump in his first term and were influential on a vast
January 15, 2025
Italy, Albania and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed on Wednesday a deal worth at least 1 billion euros ($1 billion) to build a subsea interconnection to
January 15, 2025
Qatari mediators have sent Israel and Hamas a draft proposal for an agreement to halt the fighting in the Gaza Strip and exchange hostages for Palestinian prisoners as a first step towards
January 13, 2025
Iran never plotted to kill Republican U.S.
January 15, 2025
Iran's navy received its first signals intelligence ship on Wednesday, semi-official Tasnim news organisation reported, a few days after the country's army took delivery of 1,000 new
January 15, 2025Blinken offers most detailed picture to date of post-war Gaza plans
January 14, 2025
Top advisers to U.S.
January 15, 2025
The U.N.
January 14, 2025Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes on homes in the Gaza Strip have killed at least 17 people
January 14, 2025
If the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal goes according to the current draft, then fighting will stop in Gaza for 42 days, and dozens of Israeli hostages and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners will be freed
January 14, 2025
Officials say Hamas has accepted a draft agreement for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of dozens of hostages
January 14, 2025
U.S.
January 14, 2025
The United Nations said on Tuesday it was busy preparing to expand humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip under a potential ceasefire but uncertainty
January 14, 2025
At least six Palestinians were killed and several were injured on Tuesday in an Israeli strike on Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a statement by the Palestinian health ministry
January 14, 2025
U.S. prosecutors argued on Tuesday that an engineer could flee to Iran if he was granted bail while awaiting trial on charges related to a deadly drone attack on a
January 14, 2025
Talks held in Geneva among Iran, Britain, France and Germany aimed to find a way to resume nuclear talks, Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Tuesday in an interview with
January 14, 2025
Nearly half of people across the globe harbor antisemitic beliefs, ADL says
January 14, 2025
Nawaf Salam, who has been designated as the new Prime Minister of Lebanon, has resigned as a member of the International Court of Justice, said the ICJ on Tuesday.
January 14, 2025
The Sudanese army on Tuesday condemned what it called "individual violations" in Sudan's El Gezira in recent days after rights groups blamed the army and its allies for
January 14, 2025Negotiators were trying to clinch agreement on Tuesday on the final details of a ceasefire in Gaza after marathon
January 13, 2025
Hopes of a ceasefire deal to end the war in Gaza lifted the region's government bond markets and Israel's shekel on Tuesday as investors sensed relief after 15 months
January 14, 2025
U.S.
January 14, 2025
Hamas is “very close to an agreement” with Israel on a ceasefire and prisoner exchange in Gaza, according to an official from the militant group. As a deal looms, people in Gaza share their hopes for what it might mean for them.
January 14, 2025
Lebanon’s prime minister-designate has vowed to rebuild the country following years of economic meltdown and a 14-month war between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group
January 14, 2025
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has made a last-minute case for a plan for the post-war reconstruction and governance of Gaza as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas appears tantalizingly close to completion
January 14, 2025
Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam said on Tuesday his hands were "extended to everyone", in a gesture to the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group that
January 14, 2025
When governments denounce terrorist attacks, backlash follows – typically within a few days, research found.
January 14, 2025
Lebanon’s Hady Habib enjoys ‘biggest achievement’ of tennis career after making history at the Australian Open
January 14, 2025
A strategic partnership treaty that Russia and Iran are poised to sign will govern the two countries' relations for the next two decades, the TASS state news agency reported on
January 14, 2025
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk arrived in Syria's capital, Damascus, on Tuesday for the first ever visit of the global body's rights chief to the
January 14, 2025
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's nationalist ally on Tuesday urged jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan to announce the group's disbandment after his next meeting with
January 14, 2025
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has told judges that Israeli objections to the investigation into the 13-month war in Gaza should be rejected
January 14, 2025
Israeli far-right police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir threatened on Tuesday to quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government if he agrees to a Gaza ceasefire and hostage
January 14, 2025
Syria's new central bank governor, Maysaa Sabreen, said she wants to boost the institution's independence over monetary policy decisions, in what would be a sea
January 14, 2025
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun summoned Nawaf Salam, head of the International Court of Justice, to designate him prime minister after most lawmakers
January 13, 2025
The head of an American organisation focused on hostage releases said
January 13, 2025
Hamas expected to release 33 hostages in first phase of emerging ceasefire deal, Israeli officials say
January 13, 2025
Officials say Israel and Hamas appear to be inching closer to a phased ceasefire agreement
January 13, 2025
Outgoing President Joe Biden sought to burnish his foreign policy record on Monday and said U.S. adversaries are weaker than
January 13, 2025
A growing number of Israeli soldiers are speaking out against the Israel-Hamas war
January 13, 2025
Lebanon’s new president has asked prominent diplomat and jurist Nawaf Salam to form the country’s new government after Salam was named prime minister by a large number of legislators
January 13, 2025
As President Joe Biden prepares to leave office next week, he's insistent that his one-term presidency has made strides in restoring American credibility on the world stage and has proved that the U.S. remains an indispensable partner around the globe
January 13, 2025
Turkey's intelligence chief discussed efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza in a phone call on Monday with officials from the political wing of Palestinian militant group Hamas, a
January 13, 2025
Paving the way for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to run for a fourth term in office is "on our agenda", the spokesman for the president's ruling party said on Monday, adding that
January 13, 2025
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said on Monday he would sign a bilateral security deal with Britain as well as a strategic partnership accord as he headed to
January 13, 2025
Cryptocurrency firm Tether plans to move its headquarters to El Salvador, its chief executive said, as the founders of the world's biggest stablecoin look to
January 13, 2025
President Joseph Aoun summoned jurist Nawaf Salam on Monday to designate him as Lebanon's prime minister, after a majority of Lebanese lawmakers nominated him for the post.
January 13, 2025
Officials say U.S. and Arab mediators made significant progress overnight toward brokering a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and the release of scores of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, but a deal has not been reached yet
January 13, 2025
The Biden administration sees a possible Gaza truce as soon as this week, White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan told Bloomberg News on Monday, adding that there
January 13, 2025
Lebanon's Hezbollah is trying "to regain strength and rearm with the assistance of Iran," Israel's U.N. ambassador told the Security Council on Monday,
January 13, 2025
Mediators gave Israel and Hamas a final draft of a deal on Monday to end the war in Gaza, an official briefed on the negotiations said,
January 13, 2025
US officials say Gaza ceasefire deal is in sight, the first sign of serious optimism in months
January 13, 2025
Russia said on Monday it had downed nine Ukrainian drones that tried to attack part of the infrastructure of the TurkStream gas pipeline, through which Russian gas flows to Turkey
January 13, 2025
Top ICJ judge Nawaf Salam named Lebanon’s next prime minister
January 13, 2025
The head of the International Court of Justice, Nawaf Salam, secured the support of enough lawmakers to be designated Lebanon's next prime minister on Monday, political sources said
January 13, 2025
Hamas said on Monday that talks over some core issues for a ceasefire deal in Gaza have made progress, an official in the Palestinian group told Reuters.
January 13, 2025
Senior Hezbollah lawmaker Mohammed Raad said on Monday the Iran-backed group's opponents were seeking its fragmentation and exclusion from power in Lebanon.
January 13, 2025
Israel's budget deficit could near 5% of gross domestic product in 2025, above the government's target but below last year's 6.9% and a level that could boost its
January 13, 2025
The Iran-backed Hezbollah group postponed an appointment with President Joseph Aoun on Monday at which it was due to communicate its preference for the post of prime minister,
January 13, 2025
While overall atrocities declined last year, they came down from one of the worst years on record. Meanwhile, a number of areas actually got worse in 2024.
January 13, 2025
Six member states of the European Union have called for the bloc to temporarily suspend sanctions on Syria in areas such as transport, energy and banking, according to a paper seen by
January 13, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will hold talks in Russia on Jan. 17 after which they will sign a long-awaited comprehensive strategic
January 13, 2025
Angry members of some of the families of Israeli hostages still held in Gaza harangued Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday over his opposition to a deal being negotiated
January 13, 2025
Israel and Hamas have been holding indirect talks for more than a year aimed at ending the war in Gaza and returning scores of militant-held hostages in exchange for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel
January 13, 2025
A risky operation to salvage an oil tanker attacked by Houthi militants in the Red Sea and avert what could have been one of the largest oil spills in recorded history has been
January 13, 2025
Turkey's intelligence agency conducted a cross-border operation inside Syria and seized a man suspected of perpetrating a 2013 bomb attack near the Syrian border that killed dozens
January 13, 2025
Israel has not received a draft proposal for a deal to halt the fighting in Gaza and return its hostages, an Israeli official said on Monday.
January 13, 2025
Nahid Taghavi, an Iranian-German women's rights activist, has been released from prison and is back in Germany after more than four years incarceration in Iran, Amnesty
January 13, 2025Denmark recognises that the United States has security interests in the Arctic and is ready to discuss these with the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump,
January 13, 2025
Azerbaijani human rights activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev was sentenced by a Baku court to 10 years in prison on Monday on an array of corruption and other charges that he denied, his
January 13, 2025A young gorilla rescued from a plane’s cargo hold is recovering at an Istanbul zoo while wildlife officers consider returning him to his natural habitat
January 12, 2025
U.S.
January 13, 2025
A high-level United Arab Emirates delegation was in Lebanon on Monday to make arrangements for the reopening of the Gulf Arab state's embassy
January 13, 2025A thousand new drones were delivered to Iran's army on Monday, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, as the country braces for more friction with arch-enemy Israel and the
January 13, 2025
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday to back efforts to make gender apartheid a crime under international law, and
January 12, 2025
President Joe Biden has spoken with relatives of three Americans the U.S. government is looking to bring home from Afghanistan, but no agreement has been reached on a deal to get them back
January 12, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Joe Biden have spoken in a phone call on the latest efforts to reach a ceasefire and hostage release in the Israel-Hamas war
January 12, 2025
The European Union's foreign policy chief says the bloc's foreign ministers will discuss easing sanctions imposed on Syria at a Jan. 27 meeting in Brussels
January 12, 2025
Chinese and Indian refiners will source more oil from the Middle East, Africa and the Americas, boosting prices and
January 12, 2025
U.S.
January 12, 2025
Netanyahu and Biden discuss progress in Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal talks
January 12, 2025
Italy releases Iranian businessman wanted by US over drone attack that killed Americans
January 12, 2025
U.S.
January 12, 2025
Israel plans to use tax revenue it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority to pay the PA's nearly 2 billion shekel ($544 million) debt to state-run Israel
January 12, 2025
Iranian businessman Mohammad Abedini, who had been detained in Italy on a U.S. warrant, on Sunday left jail and returned to Iran after Rome's justice
January 12, 2025
Italy has released an Iranian citizen wanted by the U.S. over a drone attack in Jordan that killed three Americans a year ago, after the Italian justice minister asked a court to revoke his arrest
January 12, 2025A top level Israeli security delegation arrived in Qatar on Sunday for talks on a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister
January 12, 2025
European foreign ministers will meet at the end of January to discuss the lifting of sanctions on Syria, the EU foreign policy chief said on Sunday in Riyadh ahead of
January 12, 2025
The world must return to a policy of "maximum pressure" against Iran to turn it into a more democratic country, U.S.
January 11, 2025
Health officials in central Yemen say at least 15 have been killed in an explosion and fire at a gas station
January 12, 2025
Hady Habib’s history-making run at the Australian Open will continue
January 12, 2025
‘Cautious optimism’ as Mossad chief arrives in Qatar for ceasefire-for-hostages talks
January 11, 2025
U.S.
January 11, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sending the director of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency to ceasefire negotiations in Qatar in a sign of progress in talks on the war in Gaza
January 11, 2025
Sudan's army said on Saturday it had entered the central city of Wad Madani and was pushing out its paramilitary rivals the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a step which if completed
January 11, 2025
Iran was holding air defence exercises on Saturday, state media reported, as the country braces for more friction with arch-enemy Israel and the United States under incoming U.S.
January 11, 2025Intelligence officials in Syria’s new de facto government say they have thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a Shiite shrine in the Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab
January 11, 2025
Four members of the Islamic State, including two senior leaders, were killed in an airstrike carried out by Iraqi aircraft in the Hamrin Mountains in eastern Iraq, security
January 11, 2025Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa met Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati in Damascus on Saturday in a bid to improve long-fraught ties, with the pair
January 11, 2025
A delegation from one of Turkey’s biggest pro-Kurdish political parties has met a leading figure of the Kurdish movement in prison, the latest step in a tentative process to end the country’s 40-year conflict
January 11, 2025
Syria's Intelligence Directorate foiled an attack by the Islamic State group on the Sayeda Zeinab shrine in a Damascus suburb, a site of mass pilgrimage for Shi'ites, state news agency
January 11, 2025Newly elected Lebanese President Joseph Aoun will hold consultations with members of parliament from Jan. 13 to nominate a prime minister, the presidency said on Friday.
January 10, 2025
Watershed moment for the Middle East after Lebanon elects new president - with a Saudi push
January 11, 2025‘Everyone was surprised by his arrival’: Former Sde Teiman detainees reject claims against Palestinian doctor
January 10, 2025
A synagogue in Sydney was daubed in antisemitic graffiti, police said on Saturday, a day after the antisemitic vandalism of a separate synagogue in the New South Wales state capital
January 11, 2025Israel identifies body of hostage recovered from Gaza, days after father’s remains were found
January 10, 2025
Iran unveils underground storage facility, claims development of ‘new special missiles’
January 10, 2025Israel’s military says it has carried out new airstrikes on Yemen against what it said were Houthi rebel targets
January 10, 2025
The United Nations and Israel are arguing over who must fill the gap if U.N.
January 10, 2025
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Friday that he had called for a moratorium on EU sanctions on Syria for six months or one year, but that a final
January 10, 2025
France summoned Iran’s ambassador on Friday to protest over the case of three of its citizens whose detention conditions the foreign ministry said were akin to torture.
January 10, 2025U.S., French and German envoys have warned Syria's new Islamist rulers that their appointment of foreign jihadists to senior military posts
January 10, 2025
Five people were killed and four wounded in an Israeli strike on the town of Tayr Debba in southern Lebanon on Friday, the Lebanese health ministry said.
January 10, 2025Israel confirmed on Friday that the remains of a hostage found killed in Gaza were of Hamza Ziyadne, the son of deceased hostage Youssef Ziyadne, whose body was
January 10, 2025
Israeli warplanes bombed a power station and two ports in Houthi-controlled Yemen on Friday in retaliation for Houthi drone and missile strikes
January 10, 2025Switzerland has demanded more information from authorities in Iran after a Swiss citizen died in prison in the Islamic Republic.
January 10, 2025Lebanon’s new president and former army commander Joseph Aoun has maintained a low profile
January 10, 2025
An oil tanker that burned for weeks in the Red Sea and threatened a major oil spill has been “successfully” salvaged, according private security firm Ambrey
January 10, 2025
Four people were killed and 16 injured in a stampede in the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Friday, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) said.
January 10, 2025Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati will meet Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus on Saturday, two Lebanese sources said, becoming the first head of
January 10, 2025
The U.S.
January 09, 2025
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Friday that the new Syrian administration should be given an opportunity to address the presence of Kurdish militants in the country,
January 10, 2025
An official Palestinian tally of direct deaths in the Israel-Hamas war likely
January 09, 2025
The wives of two Mallorca players say they were harassed by local fans after a Spanish Super Cup game played in Saudi Arabia that ended in a victory for Real Madrid
January 10, 2025
Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani said on Friday he expects more investments from the oil-rich Gulf into the U.S. as President-elect Donald J.
January 10, 2025
Lebanon's parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Thursday, filling the vacant presidency with a general who has
January 09, 2025
$1-billion Dubai skyscrapers to be linked by daring rooftop pool
January 10, 2025
Turkish police in the southern province of Mersin said they had detained a pro-Kurdish mayor on Friday, along with five other managers of the municipality, as part of a terrorism-
January 10, 2025Medical aid agency MSF said on Friday it has been forced to suspend its activities at one of the few remaining hospitals in southern Khartoum due to repeated attacks, cutting
January 10, 2025
Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict have fostered peace hopes in Turkey but the precarious situation of
January 10, 2025
A move by the Sudanese government to introduce new banknotes and compel people to open bank accounts has boosted bank deposits and with them the army's war effort, finance
January 10, 2025Leaders of rival communities in Cyprus will meet on Jan. 20 to discuss opening new crossing points on the ethnically-split island, diplomats and officials said on Friday.
January 10, 2025Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani is heading to Syria to encourage the transition in the country following the ouster of President Bashar Assad by Islamist insurgents
January 09, 2025
Lebanon’s parliament has voted to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as the head of state, filling a more than two-year-long presidential vacuum
January 09, 2025
U.S.
January 10, 2025
The Biden administration has succeeded in temporarily blocking accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed from entering a guilty plea that would spare him the risk of execution for al-Qaida’s Sept. 11, 2001, attacks
January 09, 2025
Sept. 11 survivors and victims’ relatives have mixed feelings about a planned plea deal for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
January 09, 2025
U.S. and Arab mediators have made some progress in their efforts to reach a ceasefire accord between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, but not enough to seal a deal,
January 09, 2025
Gaza death toll has been significantly underreported, study finds
January 09, 2025
Jude Bellingham has scored again to lead Real Madrid into the Spanish Super Cup final after leading a 3-0 win over Mallorca in Saudi Arabia
January 09, 2025
After 23 years, the fate of the last remaining Guantanamo detainees swept up worldwide after al-Qaida’s shattering attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, is reaching a pivotal moment this month
January 08, 2025
Gaza’s Health Ministry says more than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, with no end in sight to the 15-month conflict
January 09, 2025
The Lebanon-Israel ceasefire agreement that ended a major war between the two countries last November is on a knife’s edge. CNN joins the United Nations’ Indian peacekeeping contingent in south Lebanon where the threat of conflict re-erupting looms large.
January 09, 2025
Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides held meetings with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed on Thursday, the Cypriot presidency said,
January 09, 2025
Talks are taking place on whether U.S. and French troops could secure a border zone in
January 08, 2025
Gaza's Health Ministry says the death toll from the Israel-Hamas war has climbed above 46,000
January 09, 2025
Swiss national accused of spying died by suicide in Iranian prison, Iran’s judiciary says
January 09, 2025
House passes International Criminal Court sanctions bill in response to Netanyahu warrant
January 09, 2025
A senior Israeli official says the government is working with allies in a renewed push to win the freedom of an Israeli-Russian researcher who is believed to have been kidnapped in Iraq nearly two years ago
January 09, 2025Palestinian Authority security forces are struggling to win the trust of residents of Jenin as they try to assert control over the city, a historic centre
January 09, 2025
The Polish government said on Thursday it would ensure free and safe participation in the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp for the highest
January 09, 2025
NATO needs a stronger focus on the south and Africa, Italy's prime minister told a news conference on Thursday, saying Russia might boost its presence in eastern Libya after the
January 09, 2025
A Swiss national arrested in Iran and accused of spying took their own life in prison on Thursday, the chief justice of Iran's Semnan province was quoted as saying by the judiciary
January 09, 2025A Swiss national detained in Iran on espionage charges has killed himself at a prison in rural Semnan province
January 09, 2025The Polish government has adopted a resolution vowing to ensure the free and safe participation of Israeli leaders who choose to attend commemorations for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau later this month
January 09, 2025
Lebanon's parliament will attempt to elect elect a new head of state on Thursday, with officials seeing better odds of success in a political landscape shaken by Israel's assault on
January 08, 2025
General Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese army commander who was elected president on Thursday, kept his military on the sidelines of a recent war between Israel and armed group Hezbollah,
January 09, 2025
US-backed army chief elected Lebanon’s president, ending years-long stalemate
January 09, 2025
The U.S.
January 09, 2025
Oil producer Saudi Aramco and Algeria's Sonatrach lowered January's official selling prices (OSPs) for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by between 1.6% and 6% from December because of
January 09, 2025
Pope Francis on Thursday stepped up his recent criticism of Israel's military campaign in Gaza, calling the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian enclave
January 09, 2025
Turkish officials will tell U.S.
January 09, 2025Turkey is planning to start flights to Syria's Damascus in the coming days, Turkish Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said on Thursday.
January 09, 2025
Singapore said on Thursday it had detained three men since October last year who were preparing to travel to the Middle East to fight against Israel, and one had expressed
January 09, 2025The Taliban's foreign office said they saw India as a "significant regional and economic partner" after meeting with its most senior foreign ministry official, the highest level
January 09, 2025
The United States has not submitted any formal request of extradition for an Iranian businessman Mohammad Abedini detained in Milan, Italy's justice minister said in an interview
January 09, 2025A boycott against Unilever and other multinationals operating in Israel has worsened the global consumer company's loss of market share
January 09, 2025
Israel’s military says troops have recovered the body of another hostage from Gaza
January 08, 2025
Israel's military said its forces have recovered the body of a hostage held in Gaza
January 08, 2025
An Italian journalist detained in Iran for three weeks has been freed and has returned home, after her fate had become intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer arrested in Italy and wanted by the United States
January 08, 2025
As winter deepens, so does the suffering of dozens of hostages in Gaza, and their families are pressing for a ceasefire that will secure their release
January 08, 2025
Israel to conceal soldiers’ identities after Brazilian probe into war crimes allegations
January 09, 2025
The Israeli military placed new restrictions on media coverage of soldiers on active combat duty amid growing concern at the risk of legal action against reservists travelling
January 08, 2025
Israeli military says hostage found dead in Gaza tunnel, ‘grave concerns’ for second captive
January 08, 2025
Lebanon's parliament looks set to elect army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Thursday, three senior political sources said, ending a presidential
January 08, 2025
Three Palestinians, including two children, were killed on Wednesday in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian news agency WAFA said, as Israeli strikes persisted following
January 08, 2025
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told The Associated Press that the U.S. needs to keep troops deployed in Syria to prevent the Islamic State group from reconstituting as a major threat
January 08, 2025
The body of Youssef Ziyadne, an Israeli Bedouin taken hostage by Hamas-led fighters on Oct. 7, 2023, has been found in a tunnel in Gaza, along with evidence suggesting his son
January 08, 2025A U.S. sanctions exemption for transactions with governing institutions in Syria is welcome, but "much more significant work ... will inevitably be
January 08, 2025
Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was freed by Iran on Wednesday and returned home, three weeks after she was detained in Tehran during a reporting trip.
January 08, 2025
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January 07, 2025
Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party will hold face-to-face talks with imprisoned Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan for a second time, possibly as early as next week, two DEM
January 08, 2025
European Union sanctions in Syria that obstruct the delivery of humanitarian aid and hinder the country's recovery could be lifted swiftly,
January 08, 2025
Israeli strikes killed dozens of people across Gaza on Wednesday, Palestinian medics said, as talks to halt the fighting continued in Qatar and Israeli troops
January 08, 2025
Italian journalist Cecilia Sala lands back in Rome after being freed from detention in Iran
January 08, 2025
Archaeologists have uncovered intact portions of the foundation wall of pharaonic Queen Hatshepsut's valley temple in Luxor and the nearby tomb of Queen Teti Sheri, grandmother of
January 08, 2025
Israel’s military releases interrogation video in bid to defend assault on Gaza hospitals
January 08, 2025
Libya's eastern-based parliament has approved a national reconciliation and transitional justice law, three lawmakers said, a measure aimed at reunifying the oil-
January 08, 2025
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has accused neighbouring Armenia of posing a "fascist" threat that needs to be destroyed, in comments that Armenia's leader called a possible attempt to
January 08, 2025
U.S. stocks look set to extend their outperformance this year driven by the financial firepower of big tech firms and investor friendly policies under a second
January 08, 2025
India will consider engaging in development projects in Afghanistan in the near future, India's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, despite the lack of diplomatic relations.
January 08, 2025A renowned Israeli TV journalist who lost his ability to speak clearly because of ALS is returning to the air using artificial-intelligence software that recreates his widely recognized gravelly voice
January 08, 2025
‘Barça is the club of my life’: In CNN exclusive Lamine Yamal pledges long-term future to Barcelona after historic 2024
January 08, 2025
Egypt has unveiled several discoveries near the famed city of Luxor including ancient rock-cut tombs and burial shafts dating back 3,600 years
January 08, 2025
Egyptian inflation is expected to have eased to 24.2% in December as food prices continued to cool, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
January 08, 2025
Lebanon is set to extradite the son of late senior Muslim cleric Youssef al-Qaradawi to the United Arab Emirates after the country's caretaker cabinet approved the move on Tuesday,
January 07, 2025UAE says it has discussed a potential role in postwar Gaza, but conditions remain unmet
January 07, 2025
Iran's foreign ministry called upon Paris to review its "unconstructive" approach, a few days before Tehran is set to hold a new round of talks about its nuclear programme with major
January 08, 2025
The first international commercial flight since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad has landed at Damascus airport
January 07, 2025
The Biden administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that would spare him the risk of the death penalty
January 07, 2025
Ireland joins genocide case against Israel at International Court of Justice
January 07, 2025
U.S.
January 06, 2025
Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 17 Palestinians, nearly all of them women or children
January 07, 2025
The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, has held talks with his Israeli counterpart Gideon Saar in the Gulf nation, the UAE state news agency (WAM)
January 07, 2025
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Europe, the Middle East and Asia from Jan. 13 through Jan. 17, the White House said on Tuesday.
January 07, 2025
Germany is leading European Union discussions on easing sanctions imposed on the Syrian government of toppled President Bashar al-Assad and aiding the country's
January 07, 2025
The Biden administration in its final days is shifting more than $100 million in military aid from Israel and Egypt to Lebanon as it tries to bolster a ceasefire agreement it helped mediate between Israel and Hezbollah
January 07, 2025
Hamas stood by its demand on Tuesday that Israel fully end its assault on Gaza under any deal to release hostages, and said U.S.
January 07, 2025
U.S.
January 06, 2025
President-elect Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said on Tuesday he hopes to have good things to report about hostages held by Hamas in Gaza by the time
January 07, 2025
Turkey will carry out a cross-border offensive into northeastern Syria against the Kurdish YPG militia if the group does not meet Ankara's demands, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said
January 07, 2025President-elect Donald Trump is expected to announce a $20 billion investment into building data centers in the United States by the Emirati company led by a billionaire who is a close business partner of the Trump family
January 07, 2025
Walt Disney has named Tony Chambers president of Disney in Europe, Middle East and Africa, as part of a restructuring of its entertainment businesses in the region, the company said
January 07, 2025
Israel said on Tuesday pressure groups were pushing foreign courts to take action against Israelis over alleged war crimes in Gaza but described the actions as "propaganda
January 07, 2025Syria will take its time to organise a landmark national dialogue conference to ensure that the preparations include all segments of Syrian society, Foreign Minister Asaad al-
January 07, 2025
Vice President Kamala Harris plans to close out her term with an around-the-world trip
January 07, 2025
Trump warns ‘all hell will break out’ if Gaza hostages aren’t released before his inauguration
January 07, 2025
Qatar is planning to help finance a massive boost in public sector wages promised by Syria's new government, a U.S. official and a senior
January 07, 2025
The Biden administration is negotiating with Afghanistan to exchange Americans detained in the country for at least one high-profile prisoner held in Guantanamo Bay with alleged
January 07, 2025
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January 07, 202511 Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay transferred to Oman
January 07, 2025
Israeli forces killed at least three Palestinian militants in stepped-up operations across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday following the killing of three Israelis near a Jewish
January 07, 2025
At the heart of the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal stands the Litani River in Lebanon, just a few kilometers from Israel's northern border. CNN's Tamara Qiblawi visited the banks of the river to break down why this geographic landmark is so significant.
January 05, 2025
Turkey is working to ensure that Syria's transformation over the last month will not bring new instabilities to the region, President Tayyip Erdogan told the Iraqi Kurdish prime
January 07, 2025
Israeli cybersecurity firms raised $4 billion in 2024, more than double that of 2023, led by firms seeking to protect the cloud along with a surge in artificial
January 07, 2025
The number of people executed in Iran rose to 901 last year, including 31 women, some of whom were convicted of murdering their husbands to fend off rape or after being
January 07, 2025
The U.S. has transferred 11 Yemeni men to Oman after holding them for more than two decades without charge at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
January 06, 2025
Jordan and Syria have agreed to form a joint security committee to secure their border, combat arms and drug smuggling and work to prevent the resurgence of Islamic State militants,
January 07, 2025
‘MSN reunion? Football is full of surprises’: Neymar hints at revival of famed trio in CNN exclusive as he targets World Cup
January 07, 2025
Violence surges in West Bank as three Israelis killed and reprisals reported
January 06, 2025
Syria will receive two electricity-generating ships from Turkey and Qatar to boost energy supplies hit by damage to infrastructure during President Bashar al-Assad's rule, state news
January 07, 2025
The United Arab Emirates has agreed to roll over the payment of $2 billion due by Pakistan this month, the South Asian nation's Prime Minister Shehbaz
January 07, 2025The United Arab Emirates has discussed with Israel and the United States participating in a provisional administration of post-war Gaza until a reformed
January 07, 2025
The situation of three French citizens held in Iran is worsening with some being detained in conditions similar to torture, France's foreign minister said on Tuesday,
January 07, 2025
The volume of global crude exports in 2024 declined 2%, the first fall since the COVID-19 pandemic, shipping data showed, due to weak demand growth and as
January 07, 2025
The system of detention, torture and death run by Syria’s former ruler, Bashar Assad, is starting to come out into the open
January 07, 2025The son of a Florida retiree says Saudi Arabia has forced his father to take steps to renounce his American citizenship after jailing him over social media posts critical of the kingdom’s crown prince
January 07, 2025
Gunmen attacked a bus carrying Israelis in the occupied West Bank, killing at least three people and wounding eight others, Israel’s rescue service said
January 06, 2025
Palestinian militant group Hamas has approved a list of 34 hostages presented by Israel to be exchanged in a possible ceasefire deal, a group official told Reuters on Sunday.
January 05, 2025
Access to halal mortgages, which provide interest-free housing loans, has been growing in the US.
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U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein said on Monday that he was happy to see the Israeli army withdraw from the western sector of Lebanon back to Israel.
January 06, 2025
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January 06, 2025
The U.S. on Monday eased some restrictions on Syria’s transitional government after Islamist insurgents ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad
January 06, 2025
The U.S. military said on Monday operations against Islamic State in Iraq over the past week led to the death of a non-U.S. coalition soldier and wounded two other non-U.S.
January 06, 2025Israel and Hamas are once again struggling to reach a ceasefire that could wind down the 15-month war in Gaza and bring home dozens of Israelis held hostage
January 06, 2025
The U.S. on Monday issued a sanctions exemption for transactions with governing institutions in Syria for six months after the end
January 06, 2025
The U.N.
January 06, 2025Oil prices eased in volatile trade on Monday as some bearish economic news from the United States and Germany offset bullish support from a weaker U.S. dollar and
January 06, 2025
Gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Israelis in the occupied West Bank on Monday, killing at least three people and wounding seven others
January 06, 2025
UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed discussed bolstering "brotherly" ties with Syria during the first official visit by Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani to
January 06, 2025
Israeli soldiers face growing risk of arrest abroad after Gaza service
January 05, 2025
Lucid beat expectations for quarterly deliveries, as the Saudi Arabia-backed maker of luxury electric vehicles lowered prices and offered cheaper financing to drive demand
January 06, 2025
Three Israelis were killed and several injured on Monday in a shooting attack on a car and bus near the settlement of Kedumim in the Israeli-occupied West Bank,
January 06, 2025
The United Nations' Yemen mediator arrived in Yemen's capital on Monday as part of a bid to subdue heightened tensions in his first visit in almost two years, a spokesperson
January 06, 2025
The Bank of Israel left interest rates unchanged for the eighth straight meeting on Monday, citing expectations of higher inflation and economic uncertainty due
January 06, 2025
Iran's disputed uranium enrichment drive is nearing a point of no return and European partners to a moribund 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran should consider reimposing sanctions if
January 06, 2025
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January 06, 2025Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Monday that eradication of the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria was "imminent", and that Ankara would not agree to any policy that allowed
January 06, 2025
Iran said on Monday the detention of an Iranian national in Italy at the request of the U.S. amounted to hostage-taking.
January 06, 2025The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) plans to expand its work in Syria significantly beyond an initial $100 million programme, the organisation's president said on
January 06, 2025
Israel warns Lebanon truce could collapse if Hezbollah doesn’t withdraw in south
January 05, 2025
Hamas approves list of Israeli hostages for potential exchange, Reuters reports
January 05, 2025
A group of Afghan nationals have arrived in the Philippines to process special immigrant visas for their resettlement in the United States
January 06, 2025
A senior Hezbollah security official says leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike last year while inside the militant group’s war operations room
January 05, 2025
Turkey has launched an investigation into an opposition mayor's comments about Syrians, including his claims that he unlawfully revoked some of their business licences in his northwestern
January 06, 2025The United Arab Emirates' non-oil private sector expanded at its fastest pace in nine months in December, driven by strong demand and increased business activity, a survey showed on
January 06, 2025
Operating conditions in Egypt's non-oil private sector deteriorated in December, with output and new orders falling at the sharpest rates in eight months amid rising cost pressures,
January 06, 2025
Two Palestinians, including a 17-year-old boy, were killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, according to the Palestinian Fatah party and the Palestinian
January 05, 2025Israel has helped a former soldier leave Brazil after legal action was initiated against him by a group accusing Israelis of war crimes in the Gaza Strip
January 05, 2025
The FBI is looking into past visits to Egypt and Canada by the suspect in the New Year's Day attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people after a truck was rammed into a
January 05, 2025
Israel and Hamas wrangled on Sunday over the details of a deal to halt fighting in the Gaza Strip and return hostages home, as Palestinian officials said
January 05, 2025
Israeli military enlists first group of ultra-Orthodox recruits into brigade
January 05, 2025
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Sunday she was ready to work with Donald Trump after making a surprise visit to Florida to meet the president-
January 04, 2025
Syria's finance minister said on Sunday the government would hike salaries for many public sector employees by 400% next month after completing an administrative
January 05, 2025
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Syria's new leadership is determined to root out separatists there, as Ankara said its military had "neutralised" 32 members of the
January 05, 2025
Syria’s new foreign minister has met with his Qatari counterpart and Qatar’s prime minister in Doha on Sunday
January 05, 2025
Syria's new Islamist rulers said on Sunday that U.S. sanctions on Syria were an obstacle to the war-torn country's rapid recovery
January 05, 2025
The Bank of Israel is expected to leave short-term interest rates unchanged for an eighth straight policy meeting this week, although analysts believe a rate cut
January 05, 2025
Israeli military strikes in the Gaza Strip have killed at least 70 people over the last day, Palestinian medics said on Saturday, as
January 04, 2025
Strong demand drove growth in Saudi Arabia's non-oil business sector in December, albeit at a slightly slower pace than the previous month, a survey showed on Sunday.
January 05, 2025
Family of hostage in latest Hamas video urges Netanyahu to take ‘opportunity to bring them back’
January 04, 2025
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January 04, 2025
Hospital staff in Gaza say the latest Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 21 people including at least two children
January 04, 2025
The State Department has informed Congress of a planned $8 billion weapons sale to Israel
January 04, 2025
Israel considering limiting humanitarian aid to Gaza after Trump’s inauguration
January 04, 2025
Malaysian authorities say they have turned away two boats carrying nearly 300 Muslim Rohingya refugees who had entered the country illegally
January 04, 2025State Department notifies Congress of planned $8 billion arms sale to Israel
January 04, 2025
The truck attack in New Orleans by an Army veteran inspired by the Islamic State group unfolded amid months of warnings by officials about a resurgent terrorism threat
January 04, 2025
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January 04, 2025U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to South Korea, Japan and France from Jan. 4-9, the State Department said on Friday, amid a political crisis in Seoul.
January 04, 2025
Israel on Friday defended its raid on a north Gaza hospital last week while the U.N. human rights chief called the justification unsubstantiated and the
January 03, 2025
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January 03, 2025
Hamas said a new round of indirect talks on a Gaza ceasefire resumed in Qatar's Doha on Friday, stressing the group's seriousness in seeking to reach a deal as soon as possible,
January 03, 2025
Syria's new rulers have not yet decided when to hold a landmark national dialogue conference that is meant to bring together Syrians from across society to chart a
January 03, 2025Hamas says Gaza deal talks will resume on Friday
January 02, 2025
The top diplomats from Germany and France are in Syria to send what the German minister called a clear signal that a “political new beginning” between Europe and Syria is possible after the ouster of Bashar Assad
January 03, 2025
Israel has carried out airstrikes on dozens of Hamas targets in Gaza over the past 24 hours, it said on Friday, in attacks that
January 03, 2025
Hospital and emergency response workers say Israeli strikes have killed at least 42 people in Gaza
January 03, 2025
Syria's new administration has imposed restrictions on Lebanese crossing their shared border into Syria, a Lebanese security official and a Syrian official said on Friday.
January 03, 2025
A Palestinian man and his son were killed in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, local medical officials said on Friday, as a month-long standoff between Palestinian
January 03, 2025Iran's foreign ministry summoned the Italian ambassador on Friday over the detention of an Iranian national wanted by the United States for his alleged role in a deadly drone strike
January 03, 2025Turkish inflation was lower than expected at 44.38% annually and 1.03% on a monthly basis in December, data showed on Friday, in a month in which the central bank launched an
January 03, 2025
All Syrian groups, including women and Kurds, must be involved in the country's transition if Damascus wants European support, Germany's foreign minister said
January 03, 2025
French and German foreign ministers meet Syria’s new leaders in first high-level EU visit since Assad’s toppling
January 03, 2025
Syria's foreign minister has told Saudi Arabian officials that the new leadership in Damascus wants to set up a government involving all parts of Syrian society
January 03, 2025
New research shows that Afghan women earned 13% more for every additional year of schooling they received after the Taliban fell in 2001. That progress is now in peril.
January 03, 2025
Israeli airstrikes across Gaza have killed at least 50 people, including several children, as they struck Hamas security officers and an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone
January 02, 2025
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January 03, 2025
Palestinian and hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes killed at least 50 people across the Gaza Strip, including several children and two high-ranking police officers
January 02, 2025
As investigators learn more about the man who pledged allegiance to Islamic State and killed 14 people with a truck on New Year's Day in New
January 03, 2025
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January 02, 2025
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January 02, 2025Israeli airstrikes killed at least 68 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including at a tent camp where the head of the enclave's
January 02, 2025
Syria's foreign and defence ministers met with Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman in Riyadh on Thursday in a landmark first visit abroad by members of the new Syrian
January 02, 2025
Israel's military said on Thursday its special forces had raided an underground missile production site in Syria in September that it said was primed to produce hundreds of
January 02, 2025
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January 02, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was released from hospital on Thursday after his prostate surgery ended "successfully,", his office reported on X.
January 02, 2025
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Changes to Syria’s school curriculum spark online outrage
January 02, 2025
Italy's foreign ministry summoned the Iranian ambassador on Thursday to demand the immediate release of reporter Cecilia Sala, who was seized in Tehran on Dec. 19
January 02, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday he was preparing to re-establish diplomatic ties with Syria, less than a month after the overthrow of the Russia-backed
January 02, 2025
Israeli strike kills 11 people, including head of Gaza police, Palestinian officials say
January 02, 2025
The FBI says it recovered the black flag of the Islamic State group from the truck that an American man from Texas smashed into New Year’s partygoers in New Orleans’ French Quarter
January 01, 2025
An Israeli hostage held by Gaza's Islamic Jihad militant group has tried to take his own life, the spokesperson for the movement's armed wing said in a video posted
January 02, 2025Turkey's manufacturing sector contracted at the slowest rate in eight months in December, a business survey showed on Thursday, in a sign that the sector is nearing stabilisation.
January 02, 2025
Saudi Arabia says it has executed six Iranian men over drug smuggling, sparking strong objections from Iran at a time when the two countries are trying to mend relations
January 01, 2025Gaza’s population is falling, while Israel’s growth is slowing
January 01, 2025
Palestinian Authority freezes Al Jazeera operations in the West Bank
January 02, 2025
The Palestinian Authority temporarily halted operations of Qatar's Al Jazeera television in the territory including its broadcasts, citing the network's dissemination of "inciting
January 01, 2025
Protesters in Syria have held a sit-in demanding justice for four activists who were forcibly disappeared in 2013 and whose fate remains one of the most haunting mysteries of the country’s 13-year civil war
January 01, 2025
Former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, who had often taken an independent line against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right government allies, said on
January 01, 2025
A Syrian delegation led by newly appointed Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani arrived in Riyadh on Wednesday in its first official visit abroad, Syrian state news agency SANA
January 01, 2025
Palestinian medics say Israeli strikes have killed at least 12 people in Gaza, mostly women and children
January 01, 2025
Saudi Arabia executed six Iranian nationals for drug smuggling, state news agency SPA reported on Wednesday, prompting Tehran to summon the Saudi ambassador according to media
January 01, 2025The population of Gaza has fallen 6% since the war with Israel began nearly 15 months ago as about 100,000 Palestinians left the enclave while more than 55,000 are presumed dead,
January 01, 2025
Yemen's Houthi spokesperson Mohammed Abdulsalam said that the country would continue to defend itself after several U.S. strikes targeted facilities in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday.
December 31, 2024
The Israeli military kept up the pressure on northern Gaza on Wednesday, striking in a suburb of Gaza City, medics said, and told residents in a central part of the enclave to
January 01, 2025
Seven migrants were rescued, but at least 20 are missing after their boat sank en route to Italy from Libya, the mayor of the Italian island of Lampedusa said on Wednesday.
January 01, 2025The next round of nuclear talks between Iran and three European countries will take place on Jan. 13 in Geneva, Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency cited the country's Deputy
January 01, 2025
Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Investment Company accounted for about 20% of the almost $136.1 billion spent by sovereign wealth funds worldwide last year, overtaking Saudi
January 01, 2025‘We’re dying from the cold’: Displaced Palestinians battle winter in Gaza
January 01, 2025
Israel raid empties northern Gaza’s last functioning major hospital of all patients and detains its director
December 30, 2024
Spike in Russian flights from Syria to Libyan desert base as Moscow eyes new Mediterranean hub
December 31, 2024
Carter’s presidency holds foreign policy lessons for Trump
December 31, 2024According to US Central Command, two US Navy pilots ejected safely after their fighter jet was shot down over the Red Sea in an apparent friendly fire incident. CNN military analyst Col. Cedric Leighton breaks down how a friendly fire incident can happen.
December 22, 2024
Matt Borie, Chief Intelligence Officer for Osprey Flight Solutions, explains why early indications in their investigation suggest a Russian anti-aircraft system may have downed an Azerbaijan Airlines jet.
December 26, 2024
Israeli leader Netanyahu takes a break from hospital to pass divisive bill
December 31, 2024
A U.S. military appeals court has ruled that plea deals related to the man accused of masterminding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two accomplices can proceed
December 31, 2024
Israeli attacks on hospitals in Gaza have devastated the Palestinian enclave's health system and raised serious concerns about Israel's compliance with international law, the U.N.
December 31, 2024
The streets were buzzing with excitement in Damascus as Syrians welcomed in a new year that seemed to many to bring a promise of a brighter future after the unexpected fall of Bashar Assad’s government weeks earlier
December 31, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got up from his hospital bed to call on unruly coalition partners to fall in line and back his government's 2025 budget
December 31, 2024
France carried out missile strikes last weekend in Syria, targeting Islamic State sites in the country, French Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Tuesday.
December 31, 2024
Families of military officers who served under Syria's ousted Bashar al-Assad are being evicted from their subsidised housing at a compound outside Damascus to
December 31, 2024
Once muscular and strong, Palestinian bodybuilder Moazaz Obaiyat’s nine-month spell in Israeli custody left him
December 31, 2024
Dozens of patients and the wounded have been evacuated for treatment outside the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, where the United Nations says Israel’s attacks on and around hospitals have pushed health care to the brink
December 31, 2024
US repatriates Tunisian detainee held without charge at Guantanamo Bay since the day it opened
December 31, 2024
Israel’s military says it intercepted a missile fired toward the country by Yemen’s Houthi rebels
December 30, 2024
Israeli strike kills five journalists in Gaza, hospital says
December 26, 2024
Syria's new rulers have installed some foreign fighters including Uyghurs, a Jordanian and a Turk in the country's armed
December 30, 2024
Turkey imposed a 6% tax hike on fuel on Tuesday, after its finance minister said over the weekend that tax moves on fuel and tobacco would not affect the government's inflation goal
December 31, 2024
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations on Monday issued what he called a final warning to Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi militants to halt missile
December 30, 2024
Syria's new foreign minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani on Monday urged Kuwait to reopen its embassy in Damascus and resume relations with Syria following the downfall of Bashar al-
December 30, 2024
One of Jimmy Carter's crowning achievements as president was the Camp David talks that would deliver Israel's first peace agreement with an Arab nation and make Nobel Peace Prize winners of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
December 31, 2024
The Taliban say they will close all NGOs employing Afghan women
December 31, 2024For Gaza’s women, the hardships of life in the territory’s sprawling tent camps are compounded by the daily humiliation of never having privacy
December 30, 2024
Yahya Al-Batran woke up in the early hours of Sunday morning to find his wife, Noura trying to wake their newborn twin sons Jumaa and Ali as they
December 30, 2024
The Indiana National Guard says a 34-year-old soldier serving in Iraq has died in a non-combat incident
December 30, 2024
The head of the internationally recognized Syrian opposition body during the previous administration's rule, said on Monday that the group has not received an invitation to the
December 30, 2024
The Pentagon said on Monday a ceasefire between Turkey and the U.S.-backed Kurdish Syrian forces around the northern Syrian city of Manbij was holding.
December 30, 2024Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told his Emirati counterpart on Monday that Brazil will work to seal a deal between South American trade bloc Mercosur and the
December 30, 2024
Ukraine and Russia carried out a new exchange of prisoners of war on Monday, with the two sides bringing home a combined total of more than 300 former captives.
December 30, 2024
Syria hopes for strategic partnerships with Ukraine, its new foreign minister told his Ukrainian counterpart on Monday, as Kyiv moves to build ties with the new Islamist rulers in
December 30, 2024
Chipmaker Nvidia has completed its acquisition of Israeli AI firm Run:ai, the startup said on Monday, following antitrust scrutiny over the buyout.
December 30, 2024
Russia and Ukraine conducted a prisoner swap on Monday, with each side freeing 150 prisoners of war, Russia's Defence Ministry said in a statement.
December 30, 2024
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners of war in the latest such swap that released hundreds of captives and was brokered with the help of the United Arab Emirates
December 30, 2024
Iran confirmed the arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala for "violating the laws of the Islamic Republic", Iran's official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.
December 30, 2024
Germany said on Monday it would back 60 million euros ($62.70 million) worth of projects in Syria to boost education, women's rights and other areas in the aftermath of the
December 30, 2024
Holding elections in Syria could take up to four years, Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said in remarks broadcast on Sunday, the first time
December 29, 2024
Gaza hospital director held at notorious Israeli military detention center, recently released detainees say
December 30, 2024
Iran's state media say an Italian journalist has been arrested on charges of violating the Islamic Republic's laws
December 30, 2024Iran confirms arrest of Italian journalist, state media reports
December 30, 2024
Syrian elections could take up to 4 years to organize, de facto leader says
December 30, 2024
Germany’s federal prosecutor has charged an Iraqi couple with enslavement, torture and war crimes, alleging they kept two young Yazidi girls as slaves and sexually and physically abused them
December 30, 2024Pakistani student Laiba Rashid, 22, hopes her life will change once she learns how to drive a motorcycle after undergoing a training programme that
December 30, 2024
Turkey is ready to supply electricity to Syria and Lebanon and a team of government officials is already in Syria working on how to resolve its
December 30, 2024Turkey's tax hikes for fuel and tobacco next year will be set in a way that will not endanger the country's 2025 inflation plans, Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said.
December 30, 2024
The head of the World Health Organization on Monday called for an end to attacks on hospitals in Gaza after Israel struck one and raided another in the past few days.
December 30, 2024
Syria's long-ruling Baath party has frozen its activities after insurgents overthrew President Bashar Assad weeks ago
December 30, 2024Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev says the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed last week was shot down by Russia, albeit unintentionally
December 29, 2024
A gas explosion killed three police officers as maintenance work was being performed at Egypt's police academy in Cairo on Sunday night, the country's interior ministry said in a
December 29, 2024Israeli hospital says Netanyahu has undergone successful prostate surgery
December 29, 2024Israel arrests hospital director and other staff in raid on last functioning facility in northern Gaza, health officials say
December 28, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in good condition and fully conscious after his prostate surgery ended "successfully," his office said on Sunday.
December 29, 2024
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter died at age 100 on Sunday. Here are several key events from the Georgia Democrat's time in office from 1977 to 1981.
December 29, 2024
An Israeli hospital says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has undergone successful prostate surgery
December 29, 2024
A fourth infant has died of hypothermia in Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by nearly 15 months of war are huddled in tents along the rainy, windswept coast as winter arrives
December 29, 2024
Syria’s de facto leader has said it could take up to four years to hold elections in Syria, and that he plans on dissolving his Islamist group that led the country’s insurgency at an anticipated national dialogue summit for the country
December 29, 2024
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday that a passenger plane that crashed last week, killing 38 people, had been damaged by
December 29, 2024
Israeli forces carrying out a weeks-long offensive in northern Gaza ordered any residents remaining in Beit Hanoun to leave the town on Sunday, citing Palestinian
December 29, 2024
Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey’s banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has said that he is willing to contribute to peace between Turks and Kurds, according to the pro-Kurdish DEM party
December 29, 2024Shark attack at Egyptian Red Sea resort kills one foreigner, injures another
December 29, 2024Turkey announced on Sunday a $14 billion regional development plan that aims to reduce the economic gap between its mainly Kurdish southeast region
December 29, 2024
The jailed leader of Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, has been quoted as indicating he may be prepared to call for militants to lay down arms,
December 29, 2024
Hostages held in Gaza were subjected to torture, including sexual and psychological abuse, starvation, burns and medical neglect, according to a new report by
December 29, 2024
Iranian media say a suicide bomber killed a local police officer and wounded another in a southern Iranian port city, home to a large Sunni Muslim community
December 29, 2024Gaza's Health Ministry says Israel’s army has detained the director of one of northern Gaza's last functioning hospitals
December 28, 2024
Syria’s embassy in Lebanon has suspended consular services a day after two relatives of deposed Syrian President Bashar Assad were arrested at the Beirut airport with allegedly forged passports
December 28, 2024
President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologised to Azerbaijan's leader for what the Kremlin called a "tragic incident"
December 28, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a “tragic incident” following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that killed 38 people
December 28, 2024
A suicide bomber killed the head of police intelligence in Iran's southern port city of Bandar Lengeh on Saturday, Iranian state media reported.
December 28, 2024Israeli forces detained more than 240 Palestinians including dozens of medical staff from a north Gaza hospital they raided on Friday,
December 28, 2024
The case of an Italian journalist being held in Iran is "complicated", but Rome hopes to bring 29-year-old Cecilia Sala home quickly, Italy's foreign minister said on Saturday.
December 28, 2024
Iran, bracing for a possible re-imposition of incoming U.S. president Donald Trump's "maximum pressure" policy, said on Saturday that 2025 would be an important year for its nuclear issue.
December 28, 2024
Turkey's foreign minister discussed with U.S.
December 28, 2024
Lebanon expelled around 70 Syrian officers and soldiers on Saturday, returning them to Syria after they crossed into the country illegally via informal routes, a Lebanese
December 28, 2024A passenger jet operated by Azerbaijan Airlines crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, after diverting from an
December 27, 2024
Iraq will allow the national carrier to resume flights to Lebanon on Monday following their suspension earlier this month, the transport minister was quoted as saying by state media
December 28, 2024Thousands of people protested in Turkey's capital Ankara on Saturday to demand a bigger hike in the minimum wage, chanting slogans calling on the government to resign and waving the
December 28, 2024Afghanistan's Defense Ministry says its forces hit several points inside Pakistan in retaliation for deadly airstrikes
December 28, 2024Afghan Taliban forces targeted "several points" in neighbouring Pakistan, Afghanistan's defence ministry said on Saturday, days after Pakistani aircraft
December 28, 2024Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli soldiers stormed and burned a hospital after forcibly removing staff and patients
December 27, 2024
The top U.N. humanitarian official in Yemen says Israeli airstrikes hit Yemen’s main airport as a civilian Airbus 320 with hundreds of passengers on board was landing this week
December 27, 2024
Israeli forces surround northern Gaza hospital and order evacuation, says director
December 27, 2024
The head of the World Health Organization said on Friday he was not sure he was going to survive an air strike on Yemen's main airport carried out by Israel a day
December 27, 2024
Lebanese officials say the wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian president Bashar Assad’s cousins have been arrested at the Beirut airport
December 27, 2024Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli troops have stormed one of the last hospitals operating in the territory's north and forced many of the staff and patients outside
December 27, 2024
A former engineer at a semiconductor manufacturer pleaded not guilty on Friday to U.S. charges that he illegally procured technology for an Iranian firm that made a
December 27, 2024
Israeli forces on Friday raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of three medical facilities on the northern edge of Gaza, ordering
December 27, 2024
An advanced U.S. military anti-missile system was used in Israel to try to intercept a projectile for the first time since President Joe Biden placed the system in Israel in October, a
December 27, 2024
UAE airline flydubai has suspended flights from Dubai to the southern Russian airports of Sochi and Mineralnie Vody, the carrier said on Friday.
December 27, 2024
Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in
December 27, 2024Turkey has decided to allow parliament's pro-Kurdish DEM Party to hold face-to-face talks with militant leader Abdullah Ocalan on his island prison, the party said on Friday, setting
December 27, 2024
WHO chief and UN team caught up in Israeli strikes that killed 6 in Yemen
December 26, 2024
Israeli jets struck seven crossing points along the Syria-Lebanon border on Friday, aiming to cut the flow of weapons to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group in southern Lebanon.
December 27, 2024Italy said on Friday it was making every effort to bring home a journalist who has been under arrest in Iran for more than a week, as politicians of all stripes expressed their concern
December 27, 2024Italian journalist Cecilia Sala arrested in Tehran, Italy says
December 27, 2024
Family members remember tow truck driver who died in hit-and-run
December 27, 2024
Turkey's inflation rate is expected to rise by 1.61% in December from the previous month and stand at 45.2% year-on-year, with the annual rate seen falling to 26.5% by the end of
December 27, 2024
A Palestinian man stabbed an 83-year-old woman to death in the Israeli city of Herzliya, Israeli media reported on Friday, in what police described as a terrorist attack.
December 27, 2024
Ukraine, a global producer and exporter of grain and oilseeds, has sent its first batch of food aid to Syria, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday.
December 27, 2024
An Azerbaijan Airlines flight to the southern Russian town of Mineralnie Vody turned back to Baku on Friday after being told a chunk of airspace in southern Russia had been closed,
December 27, 2024
KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian man was caned at a mosque in the northeastern state of Terengganu on Friday for the Islamic crime of close proximity with a non-family member of the opposite sex, local
December 27, 2024
Turkey aims to provide electricity to Syria and strengthen its power infrastructure, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar was quoted on Friday as saying, adding that Ankara may
December 27, 2024
Israel struck multiple targets linked to the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen on Thursday, including Sanaa International Airport, and Houthi media said at least six people
December 26, 2024
A new round of Israeli airstrikes in Yemen has targeted the Houthi rebel-held capital of Sanaa and multiple ports
December 26, 2024
Syria’s new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs a day after protests by members of the Alawite minority erupted in gunfire and stirred fears that the country’s fragile peace could break down
December 26, 2024
Aviation experts say that Russian air defense fire was likely responsible for the Azerbaijani plane crash the day before that killed 38 people and left all 29 survivors injured
December 26, 2024
U.S. officials say they asked for — and got — the retraction of an independent monitor's warning of imminent famine in north Gaza
December 26, 2024
At least 14 security personnel killed in ‘ambush’ by former Assad forces, new Syrian authorities say
December 26, 2024
Israel’s attorney general has ordered police to open an investigation into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife on suspicion of harassing political opponents and witnesses in the Israeli leader’s corruption trial
December 26, 2024
The World Health Organization’s director-general said airstrikes on Yemen’s main airport occurred as he was about to board a flight in the Houthi rebel-held capital of Sanaa
December 26, 2024
Israel’s attorney general orders probe into Netanyahu’s wife on suspicion of witness harassment
December 26, 2024
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is set to visit Moscow on Jan. 17 and sign a cooperation agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian state news agency RIA cited
December 26, 2024
Gaza authorities said an Israeli airstrike killed five Palestinian journalists in a vehicle outside a hospital on Thursday but the Israeli
December 26, 2024
Four babies die from hypothermia in Gaza, as Israel’s war pushes Palestinians into tent camps
December 25, 2024
The Israeli military loosened its rules of engagement at the start of the Gaza war to enable commanders to order attacks on targets despite a heightened risk of civilian
December 26, 2024
Lebanon said on Thursday it was looking forward to having the best neighbourly relations with Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad opened the way to a new era in the often
December 26, 2024
Syria's new authorities on Thursday launched a security crackdown in a coastal region where 14 policemen were killed a day before, vowing to
December 26, 2024
The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) called on Thursday for a timely Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon, citing what it called Israeli violations of a Nov. 27
December 26, 2024
Fourteen members of the Syrian police were killed in an "ambush" by forces loyal to the ousted government in the Tartous countryside, the transitional administration said early on
December 25, 2024
Israel's ultranationalist security minister ascended to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem on Thursday for what he said was a "prayer" for hostages in Gaza, freshly
December 26, 2024
Turkey has decided to allow parliament's pro-Kurdish party to hold talks with militant leader Abdullah Ocalan on his island prison, the pro-government Sabah newspaper reported on
December 26, 2024Accusations of genocide. Charges of corruption. Improbably, Netanyahu had a good year
December 26, 2024A Syrian family that survived a 2013 chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people near the country's capital, Damascus, says the ordeal they experienced haunts them to this day
December 26, 2024
Expectations of a Turkish central bank rate cut strengthened on Wednesday after a less-than-requested minimum wage hike, economists said, as it showed the
December 25, 2024
Israeli hostage families light first candle of Hanukkah, marking start of second holiday without loved ones
December 25, 2024
A British-based war monitor said clashes between Islamists who took over Syria and supporters of ousted President Bashar Assad’s government have killed six Islamic fighters and wounded others
December 25, 2024
A baby girl froze to death overnight in Gaza, while Israel and Hamas accused each other of complicating ceasefire efforts that could wind down the 14-month war
December 25, 2024
Libya's eastern-based government said in a statement on Wednesday that it had agreed on a proposal to end fuel subsidies and would prepare a mechanism to implement the agreement.
December 25, 2024
Minnesota National Guard soldier home for joyful Christmas with family after deployment
December 25, 2024A leading global food crisis monitor says deaths from starvation will likely pass famine levels in north Gaza as soon as next month
December 24, 2024
Russian cargo ship sinks in Mediterranean after engine room explosion, Moscow says
December 24, 2024
A Russian cargo ship that ran into trouble on Monday in the Mediterranean Sea and later sank was rocked by a series of three explosions in "an act of terrorism," state news agency
December 25, 2024
Pope Francis in his Christmas message on Wednesday called for talks between Ukraine and Russia to end the war that followed Moscow's full-scale invasion two
December 25, 2024
A Taliban government official says Pakistan’s airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan killed 46 people, mostly women and children
December 25, 2024
The Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel traded blame on Wednesday over their failure to conclude a
December 25, 2024
Christians protest in Syrian capital after burning of Christmas tree
December 24, 2024
Bombardment by Pakistani military aircraft in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province on Tuesday killed at least 46 people, most of whom were children and women
December 25, 2024Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Kurdish militants in Syria will either lay down their weapons or "be buried", amid hostilities between Turkey-backed Syrian
December 25, 2024
Pope calls for ‘lasting peace’ in Ukraine in Christmas Day message
December 25, 2024
Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa reached an agreement on Tuesday with former rebel faction chiefs to dissolve all groups and consolidate them under the defence ministry,
December 24, 2024
The Turkish military killed 21 Kurdish militants in northern Syria and Iraq, the defence ministry said on Wednesday.
December 25, 2024Bethlehem is marking another somber Christmas Eve under the shadow of war in Gaza
December 24, 2024
One-third of Turkey's children live in poverty, with many forced to work to support their struggling families
December 25, 2024
Israel's military intercepted a missile early on Wednesday that was launched from Yemen and crossed into Israeli territory, the army said.
December 25, 2024Israeli forces killed at least eight Palestinians in raids on Tuesday on a refugee camp near the city of Tulkarm in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli
December 24, 2024
Syria's newly appointed foreign minister, Asaad Hassan al-Shibani, told Iran on Tuesday not to spread chaos in Syria but to respect the Syrian people's will and the country's
December 24, 2024
Oil prices rose more than 1% on Tuesday, reversing the prior session's losses on a brightening short-term outlook tied to the prospect of
December 24, 2024
Turkey's net monthly minimum wage will be 22,104 Turkish lira ($630.36) in 2025, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, marking a 30% increase from 2024.
December 24, 2024
Syrian Christians attended Christmas Eve services on Tuesday for the first time since the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad in early December, in an early
December 24, 2024
The actions of the Israeli military had a "circumstantial influence" on a decision by Hamas militants to kill six hostages in Gaza in August, according to a
December 24, 2024
The Palestinian Health Ministry says at least eight people were killed by Israeli military operations in the northern West Bank
December 24, 2024
By David Gauthier-Villars, Nidal al-Mughrabi, John Davison -Israel has failed to crack down on armed gangs attacking food convoys in Gaza, despite a pledge to do so in mid-October to help ward off
December 24, 2024
Iranian authorities have lifted a ban on Meta's instant messaging platform WhatsApp and Google Play as a first step to scale back internet restrictions, Iranian state media reported
December 24, 2024
Morocco aims to grant women more rights over child custody and guardianship as well as a veto over polygamous marriage, in the first review of its family code in
December 24, 2024Al Jazeera television has clashed with the Palestinian Authority over its coverage of the weeks-long standoff between Palestinian security forces and militant
December 24, 2024
Two arrested in Egypt after attempting to steal hundreds of ancient artifacts from the bottom of the sea
December 24, 2024
Israeli troops forced the evacuation of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza and many patients, some of them on foot, arrived at another hospital miles away
December 24, 2024
An Amsterdam District Court has issued sentences of up to six months in jail against 5 men who were involved in violent disorder after a soccer match between the Dutch club Ajax and Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv in November
December 24, 202411 killed in blast at explosives factory in Turkey
December 24, 2024
Turkey is aiming to strike a maritime demarcation agreement with Syria after a permanent government is formed in Damascus, Turkish Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said on
December 24, 2024
Syrian refugees and residents in Egypt face an uncertain future as new regulations may jeopardise their right to remain in the
December 24, 2024
Saudi Arabia executed 330 people this year, the highest number in decades, despite de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman's 2022 assertion that the death penalty had been
December 24, 2024
Israel has instructed its diplomatic missions in Europe to try to get the Iran-backed Houthi rebel group in Yemen designated as a terrorist organisation.
December 24, 2024
Famine in Sudan has expanded to five areas and will likely
December 24, 2024
A blast ripped through an explosives factory in northwest Turkey on Tuesday, killing 11 people and injuring seven, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said, adding that an
December 24, 2024
It’s a simple but brutal equation: The number of people going hungry or otherwise struggling around the world is rising, while the amount of money the world’s wealthiest nations are
December 24, 2024
The U.N. organization assisting in investigating the most serious crimes in Syria says the country’s new authorities were “very receptive” to its request for cooperation during a just-concluded visit to Damascus — and it is preparing to deploy
December 24, 2024
The U.S. military said on Monday it conducted an airstrike in Syria that killed two Islamic State operatives and wounded one.
December 24, 2024Israel’s defense minister has confirmed that Israel assassinated Hamas’ top leader last summer and is threatening to take similar action against the leadership of the Houthi rebel group in Yemen
December 23, 2024
The Israel military said in a statement early on Tuesday that sirens sounded in several areas in central Israel following the launch of a projectile from Yemen.
December 23, 2024Gaps between Israel and Hamas over a possible Gaza ceasefire have narrowed, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials' remarks on
December 23, 2024
In late September, an experienced pilot at low-cost European airline Wizz Air felt anxious after learning his plane would fly over Iraq at
December 11, 2024
Omar al-Bashir Fast Facts
December 10, 2012Turkey is in close dialogue with Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, adding visits to Syria will increase from now on.
December 23, 2024
Two recently retired senior Israeli intelligence agents are sharing details about a deadly clandestine operation that targeted Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and Syria with exploding pagers and walkie-talkies
December 23, 2024
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz admitted on Monday for the first time publicly to Israel's killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran in July, further risking tensions
December 23, 2024
Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Monday Lebanon will cooperate with an Interpol request to arrest former Syrian intelligence officer Jamil
December 23, 2024
Number of US troops in Syria has steadily increased over time, Pentagon now says
December 23, 2024
Egypt will contribute troops to an African Union Somalia peacekeeping mission, its foreign minister said on Monday, as ties between the two countries grow closer amid tensions with
December 23, 2024
Tensions in northeast Syria between Kurdish-led authorities and Turkish-backed groups should be resolved politically or risk "dramatic consequences" for all of Syria, the United
December 23, 2024
Greek lawyers representing the survivors and victims of a deadly 2023 shipwreck said on Monday a naval court needed to examine more evidence after a preliminary investigation failed
December 23, 2024
Qatar is ready to invest in Syria's energy sector and ports, the de facto Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said after meeting a senior Qatari official in Damascus on Monday, as his
December 23, 2024
Thousands of women rallied in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on Monday to demand the new Islamist rulers in Damascus respect women's rights and
December 23, 2024
A new front in the Middle East: Militants battle Palestinian Authority in sprawling refugee camp
December 23, 2024
Syrian church leaders are advising Christians to scale back Christmas celebrations this year, despite assurances from the Islamists who have just
December 23, 2024
Here is what we know so far about the man who was arrested as the suspected driver in a car-ramming attack on Friday at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg in which
December 21, 2024
A Russian delegation met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran on Monday, Iranian news agencies said, as the two countries prepared to sign a comprehensive cooperation
December 23, 2024
Days before he retires as chairman of the influential U.S.
December 23, 2024
The Kremlin on Monday rejected Turkish media reports which suggested that Asma al-Assad, the British-born wife of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, wanted a divorce and to
December 23, 2024
The city of Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, will not have the usual trappings of the city's favorite holiday: no public Christmas tree, no raucous scouts march, no decorations and no twinkling lights, in deference to the ongoing war in Gaza
December 23, 2024
No sooner had the global economy started to put the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic behind it than a whole new set of challenges opened up for 2025.
December 23, 2024
The U.S. military says two U.S. Navy pilots have been shot down over the Red Sea in an apparent “friendly fire” incident
December 22, 2024
Two US Navy pilots eject safely over Red Sea after fighter jet shot down in apparent friendly fire incident
December 22, 2024
Turkey's foreign minister said after meeting Syria's de facto leader in Damascus on Sunday that there was no room for Kurdish militants in Syria's future, calling
December 22, 2024
Nearly two million displaced Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to protect themselves from the coming winter
December 22, 2024
Officials say four women and a 9-year-old boy were killed when a man drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers in the German city of Magdeburg
December 21, 2024
Israel ordered the closure and evacuation on Sunday of one of the last hospitals still partly functioning in a besieged area on the northern edge of the Gaza
December 22, 2024
Family killed in Israeli strike in northern Gaza, as aid reaches neighborhood cut off for 75 days
December 22, 2024
Palestinian medical officials say Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 22 people, including five children
December 22, 2024
How a teenager’s holiday romance led to prison time in Dubai
December 22, 2024
A prominent Lebanese politician has met with the insurgent who led the overthrow of Syrian leader Bashar Assad, and both expressed hope Sunday for a new era in relations between their countries
December 22, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel would continue acting against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, whom he accused of threatening world shipping and the
December 22, 2024
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized back control of a key logistical base in North Darfur on Sunday, the paramilitary group said, a day after it was taken by rival forces
December 22, 2024
The Biden administration is concerned that a weakened Iran could build a nuclear weapon, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday, adding that he
December 22, 2024
The U.S. military said it mistakenly shot down one of its own fighter aircraft over the Red Sea early on Sunday, forcing both pilots to eject.
December 22, 2024Syria's de facto ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa hosted Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt on Sunday in another effort to reassure minorities they will be protected after Islamist rebels led the
December 22, 2024
Oleksandr Usyk beats Tyson Fury again as highly anticipated rematch goes the distance
December 22, 2024
Four people were killed in southwest Turkey on Sunday when an ambulance helicopter collided with a hospital building and crashed into the ground.
December 22, 2024
Turkey believes Syria's new rulers, including the Syrian National Army (SNA) armed group which Ankara backs, will drive Kurdish YPG fighters from all territory they occupy in
December 22, 2024
With hostile Turkish-backed groups mobilising against them in Syria's north, and Damascus ruled by a group
December 21, 2024
The U.S. Department of Education said Friday it has reached an agreement with the University of California system resolving complaints from Jewish and Muslim students of discrimination and harassment during protests last spring over the war in Gaza
December 20, 2024
Turkey will do "whatever it takes" to ensure its security if the new Syrian administration cannot address Ankara's concerns about U.S.-allied Kurdish groups it views as terrorist
December 22, 2024
At least 10 Palestinians, including two children, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on two houses in the Nuseirat refugee camp and Deir Al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip,
December 21, 2024The U.S. military said it conducted precision airstrikes on Saturday against a missile storage facility and a command-and-control facility operated by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen's
December 21, 2024Syria's new rulers have appointed Murhaf Abu Qasra, a leading figure in the insurgency which toppled Bashar al-Assad, as defence minister in the interim government, an official
December 21, 2024
Pope Francis on Saturday again condemned Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, a day after an Israeli government minister publicly denounced the pontiff for suggesting
December 21, 2024
The Israeli military said a rocket fired from Yemen hit an area of Tel Aviv injuring 16 people on Saturday, and Houthi rebels later reported airstrikes in Yemen’s rebel-held capital, Sanaa
December 21, 2024
Authorities investigated a Saudi doctor with a history of anti-Islam rhetoric as the suspected driver in a car-ramming attack on a
December 21, 2024
The U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said five of its fighters had been killed on Saturday in attacks by Turkish-backed forces on the city of Manbij in northern Syria.
December 21, 2024
Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day
December 21, 2024
Austria is reviewing the status of Syrian refugees who arrived less than five years ago, Chancellor Karl Nehammer said on Thursday after media reports that some
December 19, 2024
Pope Francis is suffering from a cold and will deliver his Sunday blessing from indoors
December 21, 2024
Tel Aviv hit by missile fired from Yemen, Israel and Houthis say
December 21, 2024
Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she recalls how she lost her mother while trying to escape the giant waves and her father to the sea
December 21, 2024
A U.S. judge ruled on Friday in favor of Meta Platforms' WhatsApp in a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the messaging app to install spy software allowing
December 21, 2024
Iran has summoned the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, who represents U.S. interests in the country, and a senior Italian diplomat over the arrest by the U.S. of two Iranian nationals this week
December 21, 2024Sixteen security personnel were killed in northwest Pakistan in an attack by Islamist militants early on Saturday, a senior police official in the South Waziristan region said, as
December 21, 2024The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century of authoritarian rule
December 21, 2024
The Israeli military said it failed to intercept a missile from Yemen early on Saturday that fell in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area, and the ambulance service said 14 people received mild
December 21, 2024
Large-scale returns of refugees to Syria could overwhelm the country and even stoke conflict following the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad, the head of the U.N.
December 20, 2024
A tale of two Syrians: One finally made it back, another is too fearful to return
December 20, 2024
Two U.S. senators introduced bipartisan legislation on Friday that would impose sanctions on Turkey, citing concerns over military action by that country or groups that it backs
December 20, 2024
Officials in the United States and Israel have denied reports their countries had signed off on the sale of Israeli spyware maker Paragon to
December 20, 2024
Palestinian health officials say an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in central Gaza killed at least seven Palestinians, including four children
December 20, 2024
The United Nations Security Council on Friday extended a long-running peacekeeping mission between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights for six
December 20, 2024
Senior U.S. diplomats visiting Damascus on Friday met with Syria's de-facto new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa and held a "good"
December 20, 2024
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 25 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Friday, medics said, including at least eight in an apartment in the Nuseirat refugee camp and at least 10,
December 20, 2024
Turkey expects foreign countries will withdraw support for Kurdish fighters in Syria following the toppling of Bashar al-Assad, President Tayyip Erdogan said, as Ankara seeks to
December 20, 2024
US removes long-standing bounty on Syrian rebel leader
December 20, 2024
The U.S.
December 20, 2024The Biden administration says it has decided not to pursue a $10 million reward it had offered for the capture of a Syrian rebel leader whose forces led the ouster of President Bashar Assad
December 20, 2024
Even with hopes running high, so much can go wrong when a country ousts a longtime dictator and tries to start anew
December 20, 2024
An Iranian officer blamed for the 2022 killing of an American in Iraq has been charged in New York with federal murder and terrorism crimes
December 20, 2024
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters have said they will work with a planned new government to oversee territories they control,
December 20, 2024Former CNN Moscow bureau chief Jill Dougherty says that Vladimir Putin spinning Russia's withdrawal from Syria as a victory could be a preview of how he will frame any possible ceasefire with Ukraine.
December 19, 2024
Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk stare at each other for over 11 minutes ahead of heavyweight rematch
December 20, 2024
AP PHOTOS: Glimpses of horror emerge inside Syria's Saydnaya prison, dubbed 'The Slaughterhouse'
December 20, 2024Greek authorities say a speedboat carrying migrants capsized Friday morning off the eastern Greek island of Rhodes, leaving eight dead, including a child
December 20, 2024
Sweden will no longer fund the U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) and will instead provide increased overall humanitarian assistance to Gaza via other channels, the Nordic country
December 20, 2024
With a month left in the White House, U.S.
December 20, 2024
Two journalists working for Kurdish media outlets in Turkey were killed in northern Syria on Thursday after their vehicle was allegedly targeted by a Turkish drone, Turkish media
December 20, 2024Provincial authorities in northwestern Pakistan said on Friday they planned to collect heavy weapons to stop sectarian clashes that have killed hundreds, but tribesmen
December 20, 2024This greenhouse keeps crops cool. It could prove valuable as our planet bakes
November 28, 2024
George Mason University student charged with plotting mass casualty attack on Israeli consulate in New York
December 20, 2024
Greece has recovered the bodies of eight migrants who fell into the sea after their speedboat collided with a coastguard boat pursuing it off the island of Rhodes on Friday, the
December 20, 2024
For the world, 2024 was riven by conflict on two fronts
December 20, 2024
Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian residents said on Friday, and video showed "Revenge", "Death to Arabs" and other slogans had been spray-painted
December 20, 2024The U.N. human rights office will send a small team of human rights officers to Syria next week for the first time in years following the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad, U.N
December 20, 2024
Israelis are increasingly moving out of the country since the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack shattered any sense of safety
December 20, 2024
An Israeli government minister criticised Pope Francis on Friday for suggesting the international community should study whether Israel's military offensive
December 20, 2024
2025 will be a year of reckoning for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his country's arch foe Iran.
December 20, 2024
US concedes it has double the number of troops in Syria as Biden sends officials to Damascus
December 19, 2024
The rapid downfall of Syrian leader Bashar Assad has touched off a new round of delicate geopolitical maneuvering between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan
December 20, 2024
Nine Palestinian Americans sued the U.S. government on Thursday, alleging that it had failed to rescue them or members of their families who were trapped in
December 20, 2024
A Palestinian Health Ministry official says Israeli airstrikes slammed into two schools sheltering displaced people in Gaza City
December 19, 2024
The Pentagon on Thursday said it has 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria, more than twice the 900 it has previously said it has, and that the additional
December 19, 2024
The United States has more than doubled the number of its forces in Syria to fight the Islamic State group
December 19, 2024
The rematch is days away
December 19, 2024
Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of genocide by ‘deliberately’ restricting water in Gaza
December 19, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced $200 million in humanitarian aid for conflict-torn Sudan during his likely final trip to the United Nations while in office
December 19, 2024
U.S. and Arab mediators are working around the clock to hammer out a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, sources close to the talks said, while in the Gaza
December 19, 2024
Israeli and Hamas appear close to reaching a ceasefire deal to wind down the war in Gaza
December 19, 2024
President Joe Biden's administration will provide U.S. lawmakers an assessment by Jan. 17 on the credibility of assurances by the United Arab Emirates that
December 19, 2024
The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday on Iran and Houthi-related entities, according to the Treasury Department website which listed a number of individuals, companies and
December 19, 2024
The United Nations General Assembly voted on Thursday to ask the International Court of Justice for an opinion on Israel's obligations to facilitate aid
December 19, 2024
President Vladimir Putin has boasted that his military operation in Ukraine has strengthened Russia and denied that the downfall of a key ally in Syria had dented Moscow’s prestige
December 19, 2024
Former Assad security forces hand in weapons to new Syrian government
December 19, 2024
The International Monetary Fund stands ready to assist Syria's reconstruction alongside the international community, but the situation on the ground remains
December 19, 2024
Syria will remove all references to the former ruling Baath party from its educational system as of next week but will not otherwise change
December 19, 2024
At least six Palestinians were killed in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, including militant fighters and an 80 year-old woman shot in the chest by
December 19, 2024By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE -Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza by denying them clean water which it says legally amounts to acts of
December 19, 2024
Kurdish fighters who came to Syria from around the Middle East to support Syrian Kurdish forces will leave if a total ceasefire is reached in the conflict
December 19, 2024
Putin promises to ask Assad about whereabouts of American journalist Austin Tice
December 19, 2024
Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of causing the deaths of thousands of Palestinians by systematically restricting and targeting Gaza’s water supply in a campaign that amounted to “acts of genocide.”
December 19, 2024Residents of a Syrian village near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights say Israeli forces have set up a position in an abandoned army base and are preventing local farmers from accessing their fields
December 19, 2024
Iraq sent back nearly 2,000 Syrian soldiers on Thursday to their homeland after they had sought refuge in Iraq during the advance of rebel forces that toppled President Bashar al-
December 19, 2024
U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) vowed on Thursday to fight Turkey and groups it supports in the city of Kobani in northern Syria.
December 19, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin denied on Thursday that Russia's nine-year intervention in Syria had been a failure, but expressed concern about Israel's military operations there
December 19, 2024
Israeli airstrikes on Syria are violations of the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity and "must stop," United Nations Secretary-General
December 19, 2024
Delegations from rival Libyan legislative bodies agreed at talks in Morocco on Thursday to work together with a United Nations mission
December 19, 2024
The tiny island that sits between Europe and Asia
December 19, 2024
There is no talk of a ceasefire deal between Turkey and the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Syria, contrary to a U.S. announcement, a Turkish defence ministry
December 19, 2024Israel launched strikes against ports and energy infrastructure in Houthi-held parts of Yemen on Thursday and threatened more
December 19, 2024
Tunisian authorities recovered the bodies of 20 people who appeared to have drowned after a shipwreck off the country’s Mediterranean coastline, near a popular point of departure for migrants attempting to reach Europe by boat
December 19, 2024Israel launched two waves of airstrikes on Yemen overnight, killing at least nine people, according to the Houthi-controlled satellite channel al-Masirah
December 19, 2024
Israeli military strikes Yemen hours after Houthi attack targets Israel
December 19, 2024
The Israeli military has ordered another evacuation in central Gaza ahead of an offensive in the area, even as Israel and the militant group Hamas appear to inch closer to a ceasefire
December 18, 2024
Two late-night traffic accidents in southeastern Afghanistan killed at least 44 people, local authorities said on Thursday.
December 19, 2024When Israel seized the strategic Golan Heights from Syria in 1967, many families were separated by a buffer zone created between the Israeli-controlled region and the rest of Syria
December 19, 2024
The Israeli military said on Thursday that sirens sounded in numerous areas in central Israel after a missile was launched from Yemen.
December 19, 2024
Netanyahu tells Israeli troops to stay in area of Syria’s Mount Hermon until end of 2025, source says
December 19, 2024
The International Federation of Journalists says that 104 journalists and media workers have been killed so far in 2024, with more than half of them perishing during the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip
December 10, 2024A severely hobbled Hezbollah was in no position to help defend former Syrian President Bashar Assad, a longtime ally, from the lightning-fast insurgency that toppled him
December 14, 2024
The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments has been sold at an auction for more than $5 million
December 18, 2024
The United States, joined by Arab mediators, sought to conclude an agreement between Israel and Hamas to halt the 14-month-old war in the Gaza Strip, where medics
December 18, 2024
The U.S.
December 18, 2024
At least 20 migrants die after boat sinks off Tunisian coast, marking second tragedy in a week
December 18, 2024France said on Wednesday it would host an international meeting on Syria in January and that the lifting of sanctions and reconstruction aid would be conditional on
December 18, 2024
Tunisia's coast guard has recovered the bodies of 20 migrants from Africa after the boat they were in sank off the coast, the national guard said on Wednesday, the second migrant
December 18, 2024King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud Fast Facts
February 27, 2015A report by CNN's Clarissa Ward about a freed Syrian prisoner provided some dramatic scenes, but the network has since found that it apparently wasn't all that it appeared
December 18, 2024
The United Nations' senior expert on torture visited the Israeli kibbutz communities attacked on Oct. 7, 2023, for the first
December 18, 2024
Exclusive: Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi says returning to prison won’t stop her fight for equality
December 18, 2024
Long-displaced residents of south Lebanon have started returning to their homes after a ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group took effect early Wednesday morning
November 27, 2024
Thousands of Lebanese displaced by the war between Israel and Hezbollah returned home Wednesday as a ceasefire takes hold
November 27, 2024
A Pakistani court approved bail for a journalist arrested this week after investigating claims of casualties in a protest march, his lawyer said on
November 30, 2024
The brother of an Israeli man held hostage in the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants Hamas criticized the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday
December 18, 2024
The German government has doubled its arms exports to Ukraine this year and halved them to Israel compared to 2023, data from the economy ministry showed on Wednesday.
December 18, 2024Some shareholders in Brooge Energy have filed a fraud complaint in the United States against Ernst & Young, alleging the auditor failed to identify fabricated revenues
December 18, 2024
The Assad regime has fallen. Why are foreign powers still targeting Syria?
December 18, 2024
Syria’s nearly 14-year-old civil war fragmented the country, crumbled the economy and created fertile ground for the production of the highly addictive drug Captagon
December 18, 2024
The Iranian rial has fallen to its lowest level in history, losing more than 10% of value since Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election in November
December 18, 2024
Delegations from rival Libyan institutions resumed talks in Morocco on Wednesday to try to break a political deadlock and prevent the country from sliding back
December 18, 2024A released hostage in Gaza is fighting to save her boyfriend, who remains in captivity
December 18, 2024
An Iranian official says authorities have paused the process of implementing a new, stricter law on women’s mandatory headscarf, or hijab
December 17, 2024
Hadi al-Bahra, head of the Syrian National Coalition that grouped opponents of Bashar al-Assad during the civil war, said on Wednesday Syria's transitional government should be
December 18, 2024
Israeli soldiers removed a small far-right group of Israeli civilians who had crossed into Lebanon, appearing to put up a tent settlement, in what the military said on Wednesday
December 18, 2024
(This Dec. 17 story has been corrected to fix the number of missing in Syria, provided by the International Commission on Missing Persons, to more than 150,000, in paragraph 11) By Timour Azhari and
December 17, 2024
The mysterious cities of the dead carved into the sides of cliffs
December 06, 2024
Hamas expresses optimism for Gaza deal even as obstacles remain
December 17, 2024
Israel will remain on the strategic Mount Hermon site on the Syrian border until another arrangement is found, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
December 18, 2024
Iran's Revolutionary Guards have tightened their grip on the country's oil industry and control up to half the exports that generate most of
December 18, 2024
As the war in Gaza rages, Syria's government transforms, and the Israeli-occupied West Bank seethes, Armenian residents of the Old City of Jerusalem fight a different battle
December 18, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli troops will remain in Syrian territory indefinitely, and that blurs the border with Israel's northern neighbor
December 18, 2024
Russian forces are around 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) to the south of the strategically important eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, open
August 27, 2024
U.S. prosecutors on Monday charged two men with illegally exporting sensitive technology to Iran that was used in a drone attack carried out by Iran-backed militants
December 16, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli troops will occupy a buffer zone inside Syria for the foreseeable future
December 17, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli forces will stay in a buffer zone on the Syrian border, and specifically on the summit of Mount Hermon, until another arrangement is found "that ensures Israel’s security.”
December 17, 2024
A top U.N. official on Tuesday pushed world powers and Iran to urgently work to restore a 2015 deal that lifted sanctions on Tehran in return for
December 17, 2024
Two Iranian citizens charged in connection to drone strike that killed 3 US soldiers in Jordan
December 17, 2024
Palestinian families sued the U.S.
December 17, 2024
A ceasefire between Turkey and the U.S.-backed Kurdish Syrian forces (SDF) around the northern Syrian city of Manbij has been extended until the end of this week, State
December 17, 2024
An agreement to halt the 14-month-old war in Gaza and free hostages held in the Palestinian enclave could be signed in the coming days
December 17, 2024
United Nations aid chief Tom Fletcher met with the commander of Syria's new administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa, and newly appointed Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir on Monday
December 16, 2024
In a report from Syria, CNN's Clarissa Ward discovers a man in a cell in a Damascus jail who claimed to be an ordinary citizen imprisoned by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. CNN's subsequent reporting suggests the man was a former intelligence officer with the deposed regime, Salama Mohammad Salama, according to local residents.
December 11, 2024
The United States is engaged with a number of United Nations bodies to ensure the Syrian people get answers and accountability when it comes
December 17, 2024
Huge Israeli airstrikes killed extended families in homes in two parts of the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Gaza medics said, with Israel's military saying it
December 17, 2024
Real Madrid star Vinícius Júnior has finally got his hands on a big global player award
December 17, 2024
A lawsuit by a group of Palestinians in Gaza and American relatives accuses the State Department of giving Israel a pass when it comes to a U.S. law meant to limit military aid over human rights abuses
December 17, 2024
Hundreds of thousands of bodies could be buried in Syrian mass graves, advocacy group says
December 17, 2024
The U.S.
December 16, 2024
Palestinian Authority security forces have battled Islamist fighters in Jenin for days, as they wrestle to exert control of one of the
December 17, 2024
Switzerland's parliament on Tuesday voted to outlaw Hezbollah, in a rare move by the neutral country that has traditionally followed a policy of promoting international dialogue and
December 17, 2024Concrete movement on an inclusive political transition in Syria will be key in ensuring the country gets the economic support it needs, United Nations
December 17, 2024
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday rejected criticism of her decision to appoint an ambassador to Syria before the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, and she said she
December 17, 2024
The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on two people and one entity based in the United Arab Emirates, accusing them of being involved in a network that launders millions
December 17, 2024
The head of a U.S.-based Syrian advocacy organization on Monday said that a mass grave outside of Damascus contained the bodies of at least 100,000 people
December 17, 2024
France raised its flag at its Damascus embassy on Tuesday for the first time in 12 years and European Union officials prepared to engage with the new Syrian leadership, a sign of
December 17, 2024
Shreveport doctor from Syria encouraged by the revolution so far
December 17, 2024
The European Union will establish contacts with Syria's new leadership and reopen its delegation in the country, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and EU Commission
December 17, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that an inclusive administration is needed in Syria and called on the European Union to support the return of Syrians who fled
December 17, 2024
Swiss judicial authorities have suggested the trial of the uncle of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad could be shelved due to the defendant's illness and has asked parties to
December 17, 2024A U.N. refugee agency official said on Tuesday that some 1 million Syrian refugees are expected to return to the country in the first six months of 2025, asking states
December 17, 2024
An Israeli resident of Jerusalem has been arrested on suspicion of being in contact with Iranian intelligence agents as part of a plot to carry out an attack in Israel in return
December 17, 2024
Israel and Hamas have been waging war since gunmen from the Palestinian militant group in the Gaza Strip stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and capturing 253
May 14, 2024
Russia's parliament passed a law on Tuesday that would allow courts to suspend bans on groups designated by Moscow as terrorist organisations - paving the way for it to
December 17, 2024Israeli lawmakers narrowly approved the country's 2025 state budget in an initial vote despite a rebellion by one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's
December 17, 2024
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday Israel will have security control over Gaza with full freedom of action after defeating Hamas in the enclave.
December 17, 2024
Pope Francis reveals two attempts on his life during 2021 visit to Iraq
December 17, 2024
The head of a U.N. investigative body has written to Syria's new authorities to express a willingness to engage with them and to travel to Syria to secure evidence that could
December 17, 2024
Pope Francis has revealed he was the target of an attempted suicide bombing during his visit to Iraq three years ago, the first by a Catholic pontiff to the
December 17, 2024
Germany plans talks with representatives of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Damascus on Tuesday, the foreign ministry said, joining the United States and Britain in establishing
December 17, 2024
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will take part in a summit of big Muslim countries in Egypt on Thursday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said, the first visit by an
December 17, 2024
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto headed to Egypt on Tuesday to attend meetings of a group of eight major Muslim developing countries, known as the D-8 Organization for Economic
December 17, 2024
Two men, including a dual Iranian American citizen, have been arrested on charges that they exported sensitive technology to Iran that was used in a drone attack in Jordan that killed three American troops early this year and injured dozens of other servicemembers
December 16, 2024
Health officials in the Gaza Strip say more than 45,000 Palestinians have now been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas militants
December 16, 2024
The U.S. military said it conducted an airstrike on Monday against a command and control facility operated by the Houthis in Yemen.
December 16, 2024Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Monday it was up to Syrians to determine their own future and called for an "inclusive" government taking account of the country's diverse ethnic and
December 16, 2024
The mother of American journalist Austin Tice,
December 15, 2024
An Israeli technical team is in Doha for working-level talks with Qatari mediators on "remaining issues" in a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, an official with knowledge of
December 16, 2024
The top U.N. official in Libya has announced a new initiative to overcome a three-year deadlock and move the divided oil-rich North Africa nation toward a national election
December 16, 2024
Freed prisoner who said he was a victim of the Assad regime was an intelligence officer, locals say
December 16, 2024
Ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad says he had no plans to leave the country after the fall of Damascus a week ago but the Russian military evacuated him after their base in western Syria came under attack
December 16, 2024
After months of deadlock, Israel and Hamas appear to be moving closer toward a ceasefire to end their 14-month war
December 16, 2024
The U.N.'s Syria envoy urged an inclusive Syrian transition based on a nine-year-old Security Council resolution during a meeting with the commander of Syria's
December 16, 2024
Women from Sudan's South Kordofan state have been repeatedly raped and some held as sex slaves by fighters from the warring Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias, Human
December 16, 2024
Israel's foreign minister accused Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris on Monday of antisemitism as he defended Israel's decision to close its embassy in Dublin over Ireland's
December 16, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday he had a "very good talk" with Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, about the war in Gaza and reiterated his
December 16, 2024
The Israeli military said sirens sounded across central Israel on Monday after a missile was fired from Yemen and was shot down before it crossed into Israel.
December 16, 2024The vault of Syria's central bank holds nearly 26 tons of gold, the same amount it had at the start of its bloody civil war in 2011, even after the chaotic fall
December 16, 2024
The European Union should be ready to ease sanctions on Syria if the country's new leadership takes "positive steps" to establish an inclusive government and respect
December 16, 2024
Syria's Bashar al-Assad issued his first statement since being toppled from power, saying he was evacuated to Russia from the Hmeimim base on Dec. 8 as it came under drone attack,
December 16, 2024
U.S.
December 16, 2024
The family of a Turkish-born American human rights activist killed by Israel in the occupied West Bank pleaded with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday
December 16, 2024
Relatives of Palestinians killed by Israel in Khan Younis gathered around their white-shrouded bodies on Monday before carrying them to
December 16, 2024
Russian military has begun large-scale withdrawal from Syria, US and Western officials say
December 16, 2024
The Israeli government decided on Sunday to double its population on the occupied Golan Heights while saying threats from Syria remained despite the moderate tone of rebel leaders who
December 10, 2024
Oil futures slipped from the highest levels in several weeks on Monday on weakness in consumer spending in China, the world's largest oil importer, and as
December 16, 2024
Facing terror designations and sanctions, Syria’s new rulers push for international legitimacy
December 16, 2024Russia’s intervention on behalf of former Syrian leader Bashar Assad once turned the tide of Syria's civil war
December 16, 2024
Palestinian security forces have launched a rare crackdown against local militant groups in the northern West Bank
December 16, 2024
Family of American woman killed in West Bank expresses frustration after Blinken meeting
December 16, 2024
Ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad said Monday he wanted to stay in the country after rebels captured the capital, but Russia's military evacuated him from their base in western Syria after it came under attack
December 16, 2024
Assad says he didn’t plan to flee Syria, according to presidency Telegram account
December 16, 2024
A northern Virginia man targeted by an FBI sting operation has been convicted on terrorism charges for collecting funds on behalf of the Islamic State group
December 16, 2024Palestinian grandfather whose tribute to slain granddaughter went viral is killed by Israeli fire in Gaza
December 16, 2024
European Union nations have set out conditions for lifting sanctions on Syria
December 16, 2024
A rebel force has deployed to a village in southeastern Damascus to stop looters who swarmed a residential complex in the area and set some apartments on fire
December 16, 2024US private schools group apologizes after criticism of antisemitic remarks during conference
December 16, 2024
For the families of Syria’s disappeared, hope fades but the demand for justice grows
December 16, 2024
Israeli strike kills Al Jazeera photojournalist on one year anniversary of colleague’s death
December 16, 2024
BP and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company's international investments arm XRG said on Monday they have closed a deal for a new natural gas joint venture in Egypt, as ADNOC
December 16, 2024
Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader Ramzan Kadyrov has said he is ready to step in if necessary and ensure that Syria gets the wheat it needs in what he said was the unlikely event
December 16, 2024
The United Nations will convene a technical committee of Libyan experts in an attempt to resolve contentious issues and put the country on the path to long-awaited national elections, the
December 15, 2024
Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 53 Palestinians, including a journalist and rescue workers, medics said, and the Israeli military said its air and ground
December 15, 2024
Netanyahu says he spoke with Trump about need for ‘victory,’ as Israeli government approves plan for Golan expansion
December 15, 2024
Israel agreed on Sunday to double its population on the occupied Golan Heights while saying threats from Syria remained despite the moderate tone of rebel leaders
December 15, 2024
A transformation has started to take place in the week since the unexpected overthrow of Syria’s President Bashar Assad
December 15, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with U.S.
December 15, 2024
Syrian Christians attended regular Sunday services for the first time since the dramatic overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad a
December 15, 2024
Israel says it will close its embassy in Ireland as relations deteriorate over the war in Gaza, where Palestinian medical officials say new Israeli airstrikes have killed over 46 people including children
December 15, 2024
Qatar will reopen its embassy in Syria on Tuesday after it was closed for more than 13 years, the Gulf country's foreign ministry said on Sunday, a week after Bashar al-Assad was removed
December 15, 2024In churches across long-stifled Syria, Christians have marked the first Sunday services since Bashar Assad’s ouster in an air of transformation
December 15, 2024
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has ordered Israeli troops to prepare to stay over the winter on Mount Hermon, a strategic location overlooking Damascus, adding to signs
December 13, 2024
Israel closes embassy in Ireland, blaming ‘extreme anti-Israel policies’
December 15, 2024
Britain has had diplomatic contact with the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group that swept Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power last week, British foreign minister David Lammy
December 15, 2024
Israel's inflation dipped in November, data from the Central Bureau of Statistics showed on Sunday, but staying above target and likely not enough to push
December 15, 2024
A transformation has started to take place in the week since the unexpected overthrow of Syria’s President Bashar Assad
December 15, 2024Israel said on Sunday it would close its Dublin embassy due to the Irish government's "extreme anti-Israel policies" including recognition of a Palestinian state and support for
December 15, 2024
The EU will not lift sanctions on Syria before its new rulers ensure minorities are not persecuted and women's rights are protected within a unified government
December 15, 2024
At least 22 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Saturday, medics said, while the Israeli military said it targeted gunmen operating from
December 14, 2024
In Syria's northwestern port town of Latakia, Christian worshippers attending Mass on Sunday at St.
December 15, 2024
France will send a team of diplomats to Syria on Tuesday to assess the political and security situation, the foreign ministry said, without specifying whom they would meet.
December 15, 2024
Syrian refugees across Europe celebrated Assad’s collapse. But an angry migration debate is brewing
December 15, 2024
State-run Israel Aerospace Industries is ready for an initial public offering in Tel Aviv but awaits the go-ahead from the government, IAI chief executive Boaz
December 15, 2024
Syria's de facto leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa said on Saturday Israel is using false pretexts to justify its attacks on Syria, but that he is not interested in engaging in new
December 14, 2024
In the final days leading to his ouster, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad complained to Iran's foreign minister that Turkey was actively supporting Sunni rebels in
December 14, 2024
Libyan officials say clashes have broken out between armed groups in a western city, trapping residents in their homes and causing fires in the country’s second largest oil refinery
December 15, 2024The new administration in Syria should be given a chance to govern following their constructive messages, and Turkey stands ready to provide military training
December 15, 2024
Saudi Arabia's annual inflation rate continued to slowly accelerate, hitting 2% in November compared to 1.9% in October, according to government data released on Sunday, again
December 15, 2024
University of Michigan DEI administrator fired over alleged antisemitic comments plans to take legal action, attorney says
December 13, 2024
PEN America has condemned the arrest of Reza Khandan, Iranian activist and husband of leading human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh
December 14, 2024Russia is pulling back its military from the front lines in northern Syria and from posts in the Alawite
December 14, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday he had instructed his government to set up supply mechanisms to deliver together with international organisations and partners
December 14, 2024
Why Israel captured Syria’s tallest mountain just hours after Assad fell
December 14, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has wrapped up perhaps his last Middle East mission as America’s top diplomat
December 14, 2024
Top diplomats from the United States, the Arab League and Turkey have met in Jordan to discuss Syria’s transition after the fall of Bashar Assad's government last weekend
December 14, 2024
Hezbollah head Naim Qassem said on Saturday that the Lebanese armed group had lost its supply route through Syria, in his first comments since the toppling of President Bashar al-
December 14, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says American officials have been in direct contact with the Syrian rebel group that led the overthrow of Bashar Assad’s government but is designated a foreign terrorist organization by the United States and others
December 14, 2024
Despite two weeks of U.N.-sponsored talks in Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh, the participating 197 nations failed to agree on a plan to deal with global droughts, made longer and more severe by a warming climate
December 14, 2024
Top diplomats from the United States, Turkey, the European Union and Arab nations have agreed that a new government in Syria should
December 14, 2024
The Iranian currency extended its fall on Saturday, hitting a new all-time low against the U.S. dollar amid uncertainties about Donald Trump's imminent arrival in the White House and
December 14, 2024
Iranian authorities have arrested a female singer who performed a virtual concert on YouTube, a lawyer said
December 14, 2024An Iranian court has sentenced Iranian-American journalist Reza Valizadeh to 10 years in prison for working at a U.S.-funded radio outlet, his lawyer Mohammad Hossein Aghasi said on
December 14, 2024US has had direct contact with Syrian rebel group, Blinken says
December 14, 2024
At least one person was killed as Palestinian security forces clashed with Palestinian militants and set up checkpoints on Saturday in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin
December 14, 2024
At least five migrants drowned after their wooden boat capsized off Greece's southern island of Gavdos, the coastguard said on Saturday, and witnesses said many were still missing as
December 14, 2024
Israel has arrested more than two dozen suspected Iranian spies over the last several months. CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports.
December 13, 2024
Like millions of Syrians around the world, the thousands who have settled in the Detroit area are excited about the prospect of visiting now that rebels have overthrown the government of ousted President Bashar Assad
December 14, 2024
A Russian cargo plane departed from Russia's air base in the Syrian port city of Latakia for Libya on Saturday, a Syrian security official stationed outside
December 14, 2024
U.S.
December 13, 2024
Iran will not impede U.N. nuclear watchdog's access and inspection of its sites, the head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organization said on Saturday.
December 14, 2024
A hip bone in a blown-out building, part of a spine amid some debris, a few foot bones in a worn-out sock.
December 12, 2024
‘The donkey is gone’: Syrians hit the streets to mark a momentous week
December 13, 2024
A top U.S. military officer visited Israel from Wednesday to Friday, meeting with Israeli defense officials and discussing the situation in Syria, among other
December 14, 2024
CNN's Clarissa Ward reports from Damascus, Syria, on the first Friday after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
December 13, 2024
Thousands of Syrians gathered in Damascus’ historic main mosque for the first Muslim Friday prayers since former President Bashar Assad was overthrown
December 13, 2024
Saudi Arabia says that to host the 2034 World Cup in men’s soccer, it will build or renovate 15 stadiums, create a futuristic city and expand airports and public transport in a massive buildout to accommodate millions of athletes, coaches and spectators
December 13, 2024
After insurgents toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad this month, many senior officials and members of his dreaded intelligence and security services appear to have melted away
December 13, 2024
The U.S. military has brought an American who was imprisoned in Syria for seven months out of the country
December 13, 2024
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attacked the main still-functioning hospital in al-Fashir, in Sudan's North Darfur state on Friday, killing nine people and injuring 20,
December 13, 2024“My Driver and I” was supposed to be made in 2016, but was scuttled amid Saudi Arabia’s decades-long cinema ban
December 13, 2024
Blinken makes unannounced trip to Iraq as international community grapples with Syrian regime collapse
December 13, 2024
CNN's Salma Abdelaziz reports on US citizen Travis Timmerman who told journalists that he has been in a Syrian prison for several months after crossing from Lebanon into Syria.
December 12, 2024
Thousands gathered in northwestern Syria on Friday for weekly prayers and a rally where clerics in the port city of Latakia, a former
December 13, 2024
U.S.
December 13, 2024
Russia appears to be packing up military equipment at a military air base in Syria, according to satellite images released by Maxar following rebels' overthrow of President Bashar
December 13, 2024
Exuberant Syrians observed the first Friday prayers since the ouster of President Bashar Assad, gathering in the capital’s historic main mosque, its largest square and around the country to celebrate the end of half a century of authoritarian rule
December 13, 2024
Syrian cyclist Bassel Soufi rode his bike 40 km (25 miles) from the northwestern city of Latakia on Friday to visit the Assad family's
December 13, 2024
Qatar will send its first official delegation to Damascus on Sunday to meet Syria's interim government and discuss reopening the Qatari embassy and enhancing
December 13, 2024
American citizen Travis Timmerman has been flown out of Syria, where he was imprisoned before being released by rebels this week, U.S. officials said on Friday.
December 13, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Friday caution was needed regarding Syria's prospects after the end of Bashar al-Assad's rule and that the country required "credible,
December 13, 2024
Palestinian medics said an Israeli airstrike hit a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing at least 25 Palestinians and wounding dozens more
December 12, 2024
The rebel group that led the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad - Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) - has long been under United Nations sanctions,
December 13, 2024
The industrial-scale drug lab sat just up a hill from a main road on the western edge of Damascus, the city that was the seat of power for the Assad family
December 13, 2024
Republican and Democratic U.S. senators say it is too soon to consider lifting sanctions on Syria following the removal of President Bashar al-Assad, an
December 13, 2024
Crucial dam at risk as Kurds and Turkish-backed groups battle in northern Syria
December 13, 2024
Trump has threatened the visas of international student protesters. A post-grad at risk shares his fears
December 13, 2024
Austria's conservative-led government said on Friday it is offering Syrian refugees a "return bonus" of 1,000 euros ($1,050) to move back to their home country
December 13, 2024
Ukraine, a global producer and exporter of grain and oilseeds, is ready to supply food to Syria following the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Ukrainian Agriculture Minister
December 13, 2024“The Bibi Files” started with a sudden leak that turned into a deluge
December 13, 2024
‘Catastrophic’ Israeli barrage hits hospital in northern Gaza, doctor says
December 13, 2024
Russian wheat supplies to Syria have been suspended because of uncertainty about the new government and payment delays,
December 13, 2024
Can Syria’s Islamist rebels govern the country? Their rule in Idlib offers clues
December 13, 2024
Turkey's competition authority has fined Alphabet Inc's Google 2.61 billion lira ($75 million), for taking advantage of its dominant position in ad server services market, the
December 13, 2024
Turkey can step in to resolve disputes between Sudan and the United Arab Emirates, President Tayyip Erdogan told the head of Sudan's sovereign council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in a
December 13, 2024
Tens of thousands of Syrians, mostly Shi'ite Muslims, have fled to Lebanon since Sunni Muslim
December 13, 2024
Rome's Jewish community expressed dismay on Friday after two unions called a nationwide strike to protest against Italy's "support for the genocidal Israeli
December 13, 2024The Red Cross said on Friday it had opened two new telephone hotlines to try to reunite Syrians who have been missing for years with their families, but warned that many cases will
December 13, 2024
The dead, the missing and the reunited: Three tales of Syria’s tortured prisoners
December 13, 2024
THE HAGUE - A Dutch court on Friday rejected a bid by 10 pro-Palestinian NGOs to stop the Netherlands exporting weapons to Israel and trading with Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian
December 13, 2024
Bashar al-Assad confided in almost no one about his plans to flee Syria as his reign collapsed.
December 13, 2024
U.S.
December 13, 2024
The US has been involved in Syria in several important ways, including sanctioning Bashar al-Assad’s government for more than a decade.
December 12, 2024
Israel accuses an ‘unprecedented’ number of Israelis of spying for Iran
December 13, 2024
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Beijing agreed with Egypt that both nations should promote peace and negotiations to achieve stability in the Middle East, amid several crises
December 13, 2024
Basim Faiz Mawat stood in the Damascus cell that his fellow prisoners used to call the "death dormitory", struggling to believe that the system that abused him
December 13, 2024
Battered corpses show the horrors of life and death under Syria’s Assad
December 12, 2024
The United States is working to bring home an American citizen found on Thursday in Syria, U.S.
December 12, 2024
A fire broke out early on Friday at a private elderly care centre in the Jordanian capital Amman, killing six residents and critically injuring five more, Social
December 13, 2024
It took only a few hours after the fall of Bashar al-Assad for some German politicians to begin suggesting it was time for Germany's million
December 13, 2024
Russia has
December 12, 2024
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles charged a former Syrian government official who headed the Damascus Central Prison from 2005 to 2008 with torture, the U.S.
December 13, 2024
U.S.
December 12, 2024
An American who disappeared seven months ago into former Syrian President Bashar Assad’s notorious prison system says he was released by the “liberators” who arrived in Damascus a day after the longtime ruler fled the capital
December 12, 2024
Missing US man found in Syria says he was kept in prison after entering country as a pilgrim
December 12, 2024
A former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where alleged human rights abuses took place has been charged with several counts of torture
December 13, 2024The police chief for the University of California at Los Angeles, who was criticized for the handling of a violent mob attack in May on pro-Palestinian
December 13, 2024
The White House has announced what it called the first-ever national strategy to counter Islamophobia
December 12, 2024
Palestinian medical officials say an Israeli airstrike flattened a multistory building in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people and wounding dozens more
December 12, 2024
The deputy executive director of the U.N. World Food Program has been on whirlwind visits to hotspots in the Middle East and Sudan to assess dire humanitarian situations and escalating demands for food from millions of people trapped or fleeing conflicts
December 12, 2024
U.S.
December 12, 2024
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December 11, 2024
The jihadi rebels who toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad say they want to build a unified, inclusive country
December 11, 2024
Top U.S. officials are in the Middle East pressing for stability in Syria and an end to Israel’s 14-month war in the Gaza Strip in a last-ditch diplomatic push by the outgoing Biden administration
December 12, 2024
Now covered in ashes and empty bullet casings, the grand mausoleum of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's family stood in the eyes of
December 12, 2024
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan defended Israel's operations in Syria since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, saying on Thursday it had a right to defend itself
December 12, 2024
Hundreds of Syrians marched through central Damascus in a funeral procession for one of the country's most prominent anti-government activists, whose body was found after the ouster of President Bashar Assad
December 12, 2024
Paraguay formally opened its new Jerusalem embassy in Israel on Thursday in a ceremony attended by President Santiago Peña and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, following
December 12, 2024
A Saudi human rights activist says soccer fans visiting Saudi Arabia for the 2034 World Cup will live in a “bubble” that doesn't reflect real life there
December 12, 2024
Since civil war erupted in Sudan last year, dozens of cargo planes from the United Arab Emirates have landed at a small airstrip in Chad that some U.N. experts and diplomats suspect
December 12, 2024
Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin was in Damascus on Thursday, two sources with knowledge of the visit told Reuters, for what the Syrian information ministry said would be
December 12, 2024
U.S.
December 12, 2024
A Supreme Court prosecutor in Greece has launched an emergency inquiry into the alleged beating and sexual assault of a 16-year-old Egyptian boy at a camp for migrants outside Athens
December 12, 2024U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Thursday he believed a deal on a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release may be close as Israel had signalled it was ready and "we
December 12, 2024
The Trump Organization plans to build a Trump Tower in the Saudi capital Riyadh as part of a real estate expansion in the region including in the Emirati capital Abu
December 12, 2024
U.S.
December 12, 2024
France said on Thursday it was too soon for the European Union to consider lifting sanctions on Syria following the removal of President Bashar al-Assad and would first focus on
December 12, 2024
The head of the chemical weapons watchdog said on Thursday he would ask Syria's new leaders to grant investigators access to the country to continue work
December 12, 2024
Paraguay has reopened its embassy in Jerusalem, a move that marks a diplomatic win for Israel as it faces increasing international isolation because of the Gaza war
December 12, 2024
Thousands of people have attended the funeral of a Taliban government minister killed in an Islamic State suicide bombing the previous day
December 12, 2024
The global chemical weapons watchdog has opened an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in Syria over concerns about the country’s stockpile of toxic chemicals in the wake of the overthrow of President Bashar Assad
December 12, 2024
Iran has agreed to tougher monitoring by the U.N. nuclear watchdog at its Fordow site dug into a mountain after it greatly accelerated uranium enrichment to close
December 12, 2024
Tunisia's coastguard has recovered the bodies of nine migrants while six others are still missing after their boat sank off the Tunisian coast, a judicial official said on Thursday,
December 12, 2024Why the ‘world has failed’ in the fight against hunger
December 12, 2024
Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized
December 12, 2024
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