Category: 2. Middle East

Youssef Assaf was in a Lebanese Red Cross ambulance when it was targeted by an Israeli strike near Tyre, in southern Lebanon. The 35-year-old paramedic died of his wounds two days later.

“I was called around 10:30 pm and told that he was wounded…

Jordan’s King Abdullah II arrived in Doha on a visit to Qatar on Tuesday, as regional escalation continues to rage amid the ongoing US-Israeli strikes on Iran and retaliatory attacks by Tehran, Anadolu reports.

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A US Navy warship, believed to be carrying thousands of Marines and sailors, is nearing the Strait of Malacca en route to the Middle East, maritime tracking data showed Tuesday, amid the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran…

The UN human rights office on Tuesday slammed Israeli rhetoric suggesting Lebanon could face destruction similar to Gaza as “wholly unacceptable,” Anadolu reports.

“Statements by Israeli officials threatening…

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

CAIRO, March 17 (Reuters) – An Israeli airstrike killed at least three people including a child in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, local health authorities said, the latest violence jeopardising the ceasefire which has been under…

By Feras Dalatey

DAMASCUS, March 17 (Reuters) – Syrian authorities have banned alcohol from restaurants and bars in Damascus, one of the clearest moves yet by the Islamist-led government towards enforcing conservative ways since Ahmed al-Sharaa…

DUBAI, March 17 (Reuters) – Iran arrested 10 foreigners among dozens rounded up on suspicion of collaborating with Israel and the U.S., Iranian media said on Tuesday, as officials warned people to stay at home during a festival that they said…

No explosions, few police checks and well-stocked shops: in the relaxed Caspian Sea resorts where many Tehran residents have fled, the ongoing war seems far away.

“It seems as though people barely realise that there’s a war happening,” said an…

Israeli settlement expansion and rising violence have driven the displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, the UN human rights office said on Tuesday, Anadolu reports.

According to a…

By May Angel and Tristan Veyet

LONDON, March 16 (Reuters) – As the U.S.-Israel war with Iran enters its third week, analysts warn it is severely disrupting fertiliser markets and endangering food security for developing countries in the near…