Category: 2. Middle East

The Israeli army on Wednesday detained 32 Palestinians, injured 10 others and forced dozens of families to evacuate their homes during a wide-scale military operation in the northern West Bank, officials and medics said, Anadolu reports.

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Israel’s military has decided to monitor the social media accounts of its soldiers and review everything they post, including text, images and videos, local media reported on Wednesday, Anadolu reports.

Army Radio…

Iran will allow two French citizens held by the Islamic republic for over three years to return home in “exchange” for France freeing an Iranian citizen “in the next two months”, Tehran’s foreign minister said on Wednesday.

In an interview with TV…

A pro-Palestinian activist unfurled a Palestinian flag in parliament on Wednesday during a foreign policy debate, protesting Germany’s Gaza policy, Anadolu reports.

The protester interrupted Foreign Minister Johann…

Israel’s military on Wednesday launched a new operation against Palestinian armed groups in the occupied West Bank, where a local governor told AFP that Israeli forces had raided several towns.

The Israeli military, police and internal security…

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty held talks in Beirut on Wednesday to discuss a government plan for arms control and ongoing Israeli attacks in the country’s south, Anadolu…

ANKARA — Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Ankara for his first overseas trip since assuming the papacy in May, visiting a volatile region to bring a message of peace and dialogue, the central pillars of his papacy.

Details: The 68-year-old pontiff…

By Ceyda Caglayan

SANLIURFA, Turkey (Reuters) -Turkey unveiled dozens of new finds at a major archaeological site in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, giving fresh insight into an area seen as showing humanity’s transition from hunter-gatherers to…

Rachelle Mazraani is travelling from Sydney to Beirut for Pope Leo XIV’s visit this week, one of many Lebanese at home and abroad who hope the trip will revive their struggling country.

After visiting Turkey, Leo is to arrive in Lebanon on Sunday…

The British government has issued an unreserved apology and paid £225,000 ($285,000) in libel damages to Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin. The Muslim community leader, who has lived in the UK since 1973 and been a British…