Category: 2. Middle East

Sitting in a crowd of mothers and children under the harsh sun, Najlaa Ahmed described the moment the Rapid Support Forces men poured into Darfur’s Zamzam displacement camp, looting and burning homes as shells rained down and drones flew overhead.

She lost track of most of her family as she fled. “I don’t know what’s become of them, my mother, father, siblings, my grandmother, I came here with strangers,” she said — one of six survivors who told…

The United States will roughly halve the number of troops it has deployed in Syria to less than 1,000 in the coming months, the Pentagon said Friday.

Washington has had troops in Syria for years as part of international efforts against the Islamic State (IS) group, which rose out of the chaos of the country’s civil war to seize swaths of territory there and in neighboring Iraq over a decade ago.

The brutal jihadists have since suffered major defeats in both countries, but still remain a…

The Turkish Embassy in Cairo organised an informative event on Thursday to highlight Egypt’s relationship with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and the role of both Turkiye and Italy in serving as the NATO Contact Point in Cairo.

The event was held on Thursday, at the residence of Turkish Ambassador Salih Mutlu Sen under the title “NATO Mission: Past, Present and Partnership with Egypt”, on the occasion of Turkiye and Italy embassies assuming…

Hamas has condemned the United States’ air strikes on Yemen’s Ras Issa oil port in Al-Hudaydah province, which killed 38 Yemenis and injured dozens, describing the attack as a war crime and a violation of Yemeni sovereignty, Anadolu reported.

In a statement issued on Friday, Hamas said: “We strongly condemn the criminal American aerial aggression targeting the Ras Issa oil port in Al-Hudaydah province of the Republic of Yemen, which resulted in the…

The deaths of three Tunisian sixth-formers in a school wall collapse in the small inland town of Mezzouna has fuelled anger over underinvestment and neglect in the nation’s hinterland.

Since Monday’s accident, angry residents have blocked roads leading to the town’s National Guard post with burning tyres, as young men clashed repeatedly with security forces.

“We’re asking for the most basic things: healthcare and education,” said Najet Messaadi.

“Instead, they sent us 112 police cars. What are…

Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli strike Friday on a vehicle near the southern coastal city of Sidon killed one person, with Israel announcing that an attack in the same area had targeted a Hezbollah operative.

Despite a November 27 ceasefire that sought to halt more than a year of conflict between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah, Israel has continued to conduct near-daily strikes in Lebanon.

“The attack carried out by the Israeli enemy against a car on the Sidon-Ghaziyeh road…

Lebanon’s health ministry said Israeli air strikes killed two people in the south on Friday, with Israel announcing attacks in the same areas targeting Hezbollah militants.

Despite a November 27 ceasefire that sought to halt more than a year of conflict between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah, Israel has continued to conduct near-daily strikes in Lebanon.

An Israeli attack on “a car on the Sidon-Ghaziyeh road resulted in one dead”, a Lebanese health ministry statement said on the fourth…

Gaza’s civil defence rescue agency said Friday that Israeli strikes killed at least 24 people, including 10 from the same family, after Hamas signalled its rejection of Israel’s latest ceasefire proposal.

The Palestinian militants’ chief negotiator dismissed what he called Israel’s “partial agreements” and called for a “comprehensive deal” to halt the 18-month-long war.

Khalil al-Hayya also urged international pressure to end Israel’s complete blockade of Gaza that began on March 2.

The appeal…

Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed on Wednesday to exhaust all efforts to secure the release of all captives held by Palestinian resistance in Gaza, Anadolu agency reported.

Meeting in the Kremlin with Russian- Israeli dual national Aleksandr Trufanov and his family, who was released in February, Putin credited Russia’s longstanding ties with the Palestinian people for enabling Trufanov’s release.

“Certainly, we’ll do everything possible to replicate…