Category: 2. Middle East

As night falls in Israel’s coastal city of Tel Aviv, hundreds make the familiar descent into the depths of the metro to escape the latest salvo of Iranian missiles.

For those with no safe shelters near their homes, the city’s underground stations and car parks have become vital refuges since the war began on June 13.

Despite nightly missile barrages, Israel’s casualty toll has remained relatively low, with authorities repeatedly stressing the importance of taking cover in life-saving…

Mahmoud Khalil, one of the most prominent leaders of pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses, recounted his experience surviving 104 days in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention after being targeted for deportation by the Trump administration.

“I shared a dorm with over 70 men, absolutely no privacy, lights on all the time,” the 30-year-old said Sunday on the steps of Columbia University, where he was a graduate student.

Khalil, a legal permanent resident in the United States who is…

She was one of ancient Egypt’s most successful rulers, a rare female pharaoh who preceded Cleopatra by 1,500 years, but Queen Hatshepsut’s legacy was systematically erased by her stepson successor after her death.

The question of why her impressive reign was so methodically scrubbed has attracted significant debate, but in new research published Monday, University of Toronto scholar Jun Wong argues far too much emphasis has been placed on her gender.

“It’s quite a romantic question: why was…

Iran’s foreign minister said Tuesday Tehran did not intend to continue its strikes if Israel stopped its attacks, hours after US President Donald Trump announced a staggered ceasefire to bring about an “official end” to their conflict.

Abbas Araghchi suggested that Iran had already halted its operation at 4am Tehran time (0030 GMT) — and wanted a simultaneous end in attacks from Israel as well.

Trump had said the ceasefire would be a phased 24-hour process beginning at around 0400 GMT…

Israel said Tuesday it has agreed to US President Donald Trump’s declaration of a ceasefire with Iran, adding that it has achieved all its objectives in the 12-day war with its arch-foe.

Hours after Trump said his ceasefire had taken effect, Israel said it intercepted two Iranian missiles, with Defence Minister Israel Katz vowing that the military would “respond forcefully”.

Iran denied launching missiles at Israel after the ceasefire announcement, and said it had “compelled” Israel to…

President Donald Trump announced Monday that Iran and Israel had agreed to a staggered ceasefire that would bring about an “official end” to a conflict that had threatened to escalate into a full blown war involving the United States.

“It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE,” Trump wrote Monday on his Truth Social platform, although there was no official confirmation from either of the Middle Eastern adversaries.

Over a week of…

A fragile ceasefire in the Iran-Israel war appeared to be holding Tuesday, after 12 days of strikes that saw Israel and the United States pummel the Islamic republic’s nuclear sites.

US President Donald Trump, who had first declared the ceasefire, on Tuesday told Israel “do not drop those bombs” on Iran.

In Israel, no warning sirens sounded after 0745 GMT, while in Iran, the military reported the last strikes at around 0530 GMT.

Israel said it had agreed to Trump’s ceasefire plan, adding that…

President Donald Trump vowed that his order to bomb Iran would be a one-off and not the beginning of another prolonged US war in the Middle East.

But with Trump musing about everything from “unconditional surrender” to regime change, it remains to be seen if the US intervention will remain limited — or if Iran will let it be.

Two days after the United States bombed Iran’s key nuclear sites as part of an Israeli-led military campaign, Iran fired missiles at a major US base in Qatar that were…

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday reiterated that the recent US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities lack any legitimate legal basis, Anadolu reports.

“If one considers that there is legitimacy in neutralizing nuclear infrastructure in Iran, based on the objectives we share, there is no framework under international law that allows it. And so it must be said clearly: these strikes have no legal basis,” Macron told a joint news briefing in Oslo with…

The Pentagon confirmed Monday that a key air base in Qatar came under attack from missiles launched from Iran as fears of regional escalation continue to mount following US air strikes on three key nuclear facilities over the weekend, Anadolu reports.

“I can confirm that al Udeid Air Base was attacked by short-range and medium-range ballistic missiles originating from Iran today,” a Defense Department official said in a statement. “At this time, there are…