Category: 2. Middle East

Palestinian authorities in Gaza said Friday that narcotic pills had been found inside US-dispatched flour bags in the Israeli-besieged enclave, Anadolu reports.

In a statement, Gaza’s government media office said prescription painkiller Oxycodone was found by Palestinians inside flour bags they received from US-run aid distribution points in Gaza.

“It is possible that these pills were deliberately ground or dissolved inside the flour itself, which constitutes…

The Netherlands on Friday condemned the recent surge in violence by illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, calling on Tel Aviv to take immediate action, Anadolu reports.

“I condemn the increased violence coming from illegal settlements in the West Bank,” Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said on X.

Veldkamp emphasized that the Netherlands has taken a leading role in addressing settlers’ violence.

“The Netherlands has initiated and is a…

Illegal Israeli settlers launched a new attack on Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank on Friday, a local activist said, Anadolu reports.

“Israeli settlers launched an attack on the Arab Melihat community (of Jericho), forcing their livestock to flee,” Hassan Melihat, the head of the Al-Baydar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, an NGO, said in a statement.

He said the attack was the second on Friday after illegal Israeli settlers stole…

The UN chief on Friday expressed hope that the Sudanese army forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) would agree to a seven-day humanitarian ceasefire in the city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state in western Sudan, Anadolu reports.

“We have a dramatic situation in El Fasher,” said Antonio Guterres during a news conference at UN headquarters in New York, citing a recent attack on an aid convoy of UNICEF and the World Food Programme…

Iran will hold a state funeral service Saturday for around 60 people, including its military commanders, killed in its war with Israel, after Tehran’s top diplomat condemned Donald Trump’s comments on supreme leader Ali Khamenei as “unacceptable”.

The United States had carried out strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites last weekend, joining its ally Israel’s bombardments of Iran’s nuclear programme in the 12-day conflict launched on June 13.

Both Israel and Iran claimed victory in the war that…

Moroccan student Said Rifai, 15, is on a mission to help his peers pursue education in a country where an estimated 270,000 children drop out of school each year.

“We must help them come back,” said Rifai, who goes to middle school in Tiflet, a town east of the capital Rabat, and has already helped several of his friends back to school as part of a national youth-led effort.

To tackle the problem, which educators and officials warn exacerbates social inequalities and drives poverty, Moroccan…

Iran held a state funeral Saturday for some 60 scientists and commanders killed in its war with Israel, after its top diplomat condemned the latest White House tirade against supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

State television aired footage of thousands of black-clad mourners chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” as they held aloft photographs of the dead.

“Boom, boom, Tel Aviv,” read one banner, referring to the retaliatory missile fire launched by Iran against Israel during…

President Donald Trump has escalated his longstanding assault on the mainstream media, denigrating individual reporters and threatening legal action against major outlets over their coverage this week of US military strikes on Iran.

Trump has staked significant political capital on the success of last weekend’s strikes, which he ordered despite criticism within his own support base for breaking his campaign promises to avoid foreign military interventions.

The president has blasted press…

US President Donald Trump said Friday he had saved Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from assassination and lashed out at the supreme leader for ingratitude, declaring he would order more bombing if the country tried to pursue nuclear weapons.

In an extraordinary outburst on his Truth Social platform, Trump blasted Tehran for claiming to have won its war with Israel and said he was halting work on possible sanctions relief.

Trump said the United States would bomb Iran again “without question” if…