Category: 2. Middle East

For months, veteran Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya spearheaded the group’s indirect ceasefire negotiations with arch-foe Israel in an effort to halt the war in Gaza.

On Monday, the Palestinian Islamist movement named him as its new…

Near the base of a column atop which Saint Simeon Stylites once perched, scattered stones lay bare the damage inflicted on the surrounding Byzantine monastery in northern Syria by war, looting and rampant illegal excavations.

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مارك كوكوريلا، لاعب منتخب إسبانيا

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

July 20 (Reuters) – Khalil Al-Hayya, a senior Hamas official who survived an Israeli raid on Qatar in September last year and who is seen as having good ties with Iran, was named on Monday as the overall leader of the…

DUBAI, July 20 (Reuters) – Mediators have passed Iran a proposal to de-escalate the war with the U.S. that would offer a 10-day ceasefire to find ways to revive an interim deal reached last month, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Monday….

الموسيقار المصري هاني شنودة

SOFIA, July 20 (Reuters) – Bulgaria, a NATO and EU member, will seek parliamentary approval on Monday for up to eight U.S. tanker aircraft to be stationed at a military airport, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said, after a move to place such planes…

لامين يامال يحتفل مع شقيقه الأصغر كيني

The United States expanded the scope of its strikes on Iran on Monday, targeting provinces around the country including a city hosting a nuclear power plant, as the Islamic republic kept up its attacks in the region.

The Middle East…

(Corrects first bullet point to change “Southern” to “southern”.)

NICOSIA, July 20 (Reuters) – Cyprus marked the 52-year anniversary of Turkey’s 1974 invasion on Monday as the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities prepared for a renewed effort…