Category: 2. Middle East

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio reaffirmed US support for Kuwait during talks with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al Sabah on Thursday, just 24 hours after an Iranian drone strike on Kuwait International…

TRIPOLI, June 4 (Reuters) – Hundreds of Libyan demonstrators blocked off the office of the U.N. refugee agency in the capital Tripoli on Thursday during a protest against migrants who have travelled to the country in search of work or passage to…

Despite living just 300 metres from the border wall separating Israel from Lebanon, Sigalit Levin has little enthusiasm for the new ceasefire deal meant to bring a lasting end to fighting with Hezbollah.

“We can’t keep doing this,” the 60-year-old…

June 4 – Residents of Gaza, south Lebanon, northern Israel and Kuwait were all under fire this week despite U.S.-arranged ceasefires supposedly in force in their regions.

Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza and Lebanon, with Israeli forces still actively…

LJUBLJANA, June 4 (Reuters) – Slovenia’s parliament on Thursday approved Prime Minister Janez Jansa’s centre-right government, which has pledged tax cuts, targeted spending and an anti-corruption drive.

Jansa, a pro-Trump populist who secured a…

The UN nuclear agency reaffirmed in a confidential report seen by AFP on Thursday that a lack of access to Iran’s nuclear material posed a “proliferation concern” and called on Teheran to act “constructively”.

The International Atomic Energy…

Iranian supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, appointed after a career entirely out of the spotlight as a behind-the-scenes figure, faces the challenge of occupying a role incarnated by his father for most of the Islamic republic’s existence.

Mojtaba…