Category: 2. Middle East

By Ahmed Hagagy

KUWAIT, Feb 11 (Reuters ) – Lebanon’s government will decide next week how to move to the second phase of a plan to extend its authority and place all arms under state control in areas north of the Litani River, its information…

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas

CAIRO/GAZA, Feb 11 (Reuters) – The United Nations Development Programme began clearing a huge wartime garbage dump on Wednesday that has swallowed one of Gaza City’s oldest commercial districts and is…

The UN human rights chief warned Wednesday that recent Israeli decisions to expand land expropriation in the occupied West Bank violate Palestinians’ right to self-determination and risk deepening annexation,…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially joined the Board of Peace on Wednesday ahead of a meeting with US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC, Anadolu reports.

Netanyahu signed as a member of the…

Instagram has suspended the account of Track AIPAC, a widely followed watchdog project that tracks political spending by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and related pro-Israel lobbying groups. The…

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday that he pressed Israeli President Isaac Herzog during a meeting in Canberra for “full accountability including any appropriate criminal charges” over the…

Illegal Israeli settlers displaced 15 Palestinian families from their homes Wednesday in the village of Duyuk al-Tahta, west of Jericho in the occupied West Bank, Anadolu reports.

About 50 illegal settlers,…

Iran’s president vowed on Wednesday that the Islamic republic would not bow to outside aggression, as it marked the anniversary of the 1979 revolution with events overshadowed by the looming threat of US military action.

Protesters, meanwhile,…