Category: 2. Middle East

Haaretz has criticised Israel’s government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warning that the country is heading towards internal collapse while Netanyahu seeks a new war to stop what the paper calls…

The general commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces, General Abdel Fattah al‑Burhan, said on Sunday that if the United Arab Emirates is part of the Quad group, Khartoum considers the group “not free of…

Beirut saw heightened tension on Sunday after an Israeli strike that targeted a senior resistance commander.

Mahmoud Qomati, the deputy head of Hezbollah’s political council told reporters: “We do not comment on…

(Corrects to change typographical error in word “risk” in paragraph 13)

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian far-right Senator Pauline Hanson wore a burqa to Parliament on Monday as a political prop in her push to ban the Muslim garment in public,…

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Alexander Cornwell

CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in Gaza near the line demarcating areas of Israeli control on Monday, underlining the struggle to broaden a fragile ceasefire deal…

Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said: “We attacked a senior commander in Hezbollah. The goal was to prevent the group from increasing its strength and to stop anyone who tries to threaten Israel.”

Zamir added:…

Hezbollah will hold a funeral on Monday for its top military chief and other members of the militant group, a day after Israel killed them with a strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs.

Haytham Ali Tabatabai is the most senior Hezbollah commander to…

Hussein al-Sheikh, the Palestinian vice president, met in Ramallah on Sunday with former UK prime minister Tony Blair, who is being considered for a future administrative role in Gaza, along with a representative of…

A court affiliated with Yemen’s Houthi movement in Sana’a has sentenced 17 people to death by firing squad after convicting them of spying for the United States, Britain, Saudi Arabia and Israel, the group’s run…