Category: 2. Middle East

Israeli media reported on Wednesday evening that armed Palestinian fighters engaged in a firefight with Israeli forces in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Channel 14 said a Hamas unit emerged from a…

The Prisoners’ Media Office said Wednesday that 114 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences remain in Israeli jails across various governorates, awaiting their release.

In a statement, the Hamas-affiliated…

The Grand Mufti of Oman, Sheikh Ahmed al-Khalili, said on Wednesday that Israel continues its aggression against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, particularly those besieged in Rafah, stressing that the recently…

ROME, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Italy’s defence minister on Thursday said other countries, including Germany and Australia, may be interested in entering the GCAP fighter jet programme in the future, with requests also coming from Saudi Arabia and…

Egyptian journalist and MP Mustafa Bakri has criticised a recent statement from the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, saying it “crossed all limits of civility and wisdom and violated all diplomatic…

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday that there was a “fundamental wrong” in Israeli management of its military operation in the Gaza Strip. He added that there are “strong…

A group of Gaza children and their family members, totalling 140 people, returned to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday through the King Hussein Bridge after completing their treatment in Jordanian hospitals under the…

BAGHDAD, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Iraq will freeze the money of Iran-backed armed groups, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthis, the official gazette said.

The move will likely be welcomed by Washington, which has long sought to reduce Iran’s…

The Forensic Evidence and Rapid-Response teams of the Palestinian Police in Gaza handled 252 alerts in November concerning unexploded devices and shells left behind by Israeli attacks across the governorates of the…

Israel awaited the return of the last hostage remains held by Palestinian militants in Gaza, as the military said on Thursday that those of a Thai national had been identified after they were handed over.

Under the first phase of the US-brokered…