Category: 2. Middle East

Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh said his government is continuing with its security plan and will not back down from eliminating militias and armed formations, Anadolu reports.

Armed formations that are not affiliated with the national defense and interior ministries emerged in Libya after 2011 due to the effects of security conditions, Dbeibeh said in an interview with Libya’s al-Ahrar TV channel which was published Monday.

“We are continuing our…

The first round of indirect ceasefire talks between Hamas and Israel in Qatar ended without a deal, according to two informed Palestinian sources who spoke to Reuters early on Monday.

The sources stated that the Israeli delegation did not have sufficient authorisation to reach an agreement with Hamas.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is currently on his way to Washington to meet US President Donald Trump, said late on Saturday that “Hamas’s…

A shocking revelation emerged on Sunday as members of the Israeli Knesset’s Science and Technology Committee visited the Weizmann Institute of Science, which sustained unprecedented damage during a recent Iranian missile strike.

The tour was led by the Institute’s administration, headed by its president, Professor Alon Chen, who presented committee members with details of the destruction caused by the attack.

According to data shared with the visiting Knesset…

ANKARA — At least 12 Turkish soldiers died from methane gas poisoning in northern Iraq, the Turkish Defense Ministry said Monday.

What happened: The soldiers were exposed to the toxic gas while searching a cave. Nineteen were taken to a hospital for treatment on Sunday. Five died the same day, while seven others succumbed on Monday, according to separate statements from the ministry.

The ministry identified the cave’s location as in an area where Turkey has been conducting cross-border…

US envoy Thomas Barrack said Monday he was satisfied by the Lebanese authorities’ response to Washington’s request to disarm Hezbollah, which was heavily weakened in a recent war with Israel.

Lebanese leaders who took office in the aftermath of the conflict have vowed a state monopoly on bearing arms, while demanding Israel comply with a November ceasefire that sought to end more than a year of hostilities with the Iran-backed group.

“I’m unbelievably satisfied with the response,” Barrack,…

An Israeli army spokesperson announced that two missiles were launched from Yemen towards Israel at dawn on Monday, in what appears to be a retaliatory move by the Houthi group following Israeli airstrikes in Yemen.

The spokesperson said the missiles were fired from Yemeni territory and added that the outcome of interception attempts by Israeli defence systems was still under assessment. “Our defence systems are working to intercept this threat,” the…

The United Arab Emirates has ranked second in the world as a destination for digital nomads in the 2025 VisaGuide Digital Nomad Visa Index, rising two places since last year and trailing only Spain.

Scoring 4.14 points, the UAE ranked ahead of Montenegro (third), the Bahamas (fourth) and Hungary (fifth), according to the survey of 55 countries.

The Gulf country was rated highly for its internet quality, public safety, low tax environment, comprehensive health-care system and overall…

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 12 people on Monday, including six in a clinic housing Palestinians displaced after 21 months of war.

Israel has recently expanded its military operations in the Gaza Strip, where the war has created dire humanitarian conditions for the Palestinian territory’s population of more than two million.

Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that six people were killed and 15 injured in an Israeli air strike that hit the Al-Rimal…

An Israeli soldier, Daniel Edri, took his own life by setting himself on fire inside his car in a forest near Safed, following severe psychological distress after serving in Gaza and Lebanon, according to the Hebrew news site Walla.

His mother said he often transported the bodies of fallen soldiers. “He told me he had witnessed the horrors of war,” she said. “He told me: ‘Mum, I smell the bodies and see them all the time.’”

She explained that his…