Category: 2. Middle East

Ras Hankorab Beach, a pristine spot on southern Egypt’s Red Sea coast with crystal clear waters and flat white sands, is the jewel of Egypt’s Wadi Al-Gemal National Park, home to one of the country’s last untouched marine ecosystems.

Today, the beach, a 90-minute drive from Marsa Alam international airport, and a four-hour drive from the huge, fast-growing resort of Hurghada, is closed off by a wooden fence, Reuters has reported. Campaigners are battling to…

Disarming the resistance movements in occupied Palestine and handing over their weapons to the “Zionist enemy” signals “complete surrender” and gives the “green light for the extermination of the Palestinian people,” a senior member of Islamic Jihad has said.

Ihsan Ataya told Al-Resalah Net that even if this were to happen, it would not mean an end to the brutal aggression against the Palestinians in Gaza. The member of the movement’s Political…

It is impossible for Israel to achieve its declared war goals in Gaza without making radical changes to address the severe shortage of soldiers, and the failure to recruit Ultra-Orthodox Jews into the army, Chief of Staff of the occupation army, Eyal Zamir, has said.

“Under the current force configuration, which reflects a significant shortage of manpower in the army, it will be extremely difficult to achieve a significant portion of the goals set by the…

Prominent Islamic scholars in Pakistan have called on Muslim-majority countries and their governments to fight against Israel to prevent its ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, calling it an obligatory duty.

At the National Palestine Conference in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Thursday last week, Islamic scholars spoke of the obligation on Muslim countries and their militaries to defend the Palestinians against Israel’s occupation forces. Chief amongst them…

Iran insists on engaging in indirect talks with the United States due to Washington’s “contradictory policies”, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said yesterday.

Ministry spokesperson, Ismail Baqaei, also explained that “the venue of the next round of negotiations will probably be somewhere other than Oman …  the format and framework of the talks will remain unchanged.”

“Direct talks with the US will be neither fruitful nor acceptable to Iran,” he…

Hamas is ready to release all Israeli detainees in exchange for a “serious prisoner swap” and guarantees that Israel will end the war in Gaza including withdrawing its troops from the Strip, Taher Al-Nunu said yesterday.

The Hamas negotiating delegation, led by Khalil Al-Hayya, held several meetings with officials from Egypt and Qatar, the two mediating states in the truce negotiations.

“We are ready to release all Israeli captives in exchange for a serious…

The head of Israel’s spy agency Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, intends to resign in the coming weeks despite a Supreme Court ruling requiring him to remain in his position, Israeli media reported yesterday.

A report broadcast by Israel’s Channel 12 said Bar has informed several people close to him in recent days of his intention to resign, believing the ongoing crisis surrounding his position is causing significant harm to the sensitive security agency’s work.

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The once unthinkable disarmament of Hezbollah could finally be within reach, as the United States pushes Lebanon to act and applies pressure to the group’s backer Iran over its nuclear programme, analysts said.

Hezbollah was left badly weakened by more than a year of hostilities with Israel, beginning with the group’s campaign of rocket fire at its arch-foe in support of ally Hamas, and culminating in a major Israeli bombing campaign and ground incursion into Lebanon.

In the months after the…

US immigration authorities on Monday arrested another Columbia University student who participated in pro-Palestinian campus protests, detaining him as he attended an interview to become an American citizen.

Mohsen Mahdawi’s lawyers, in a court filing seeking his release and halt to any imminent deportation, also claimed President Donald Trump’s mounting crackdown on immigrant student protesters violates the US Constitution — the latest judicial challenge to the Republican adminstration.

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Sudan’s civil war has displaced 13 million people, the United Nations reported Monday, as the conflict between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces enters a third year.

“The conflict has provoked the displacement of 13 million people, including 8.6 internally displaced people and 3.8 million refugees,” said Abdourahouf Gnon-Konde of the UN refugee agency in an interview with AFP.

The war, which erupted on April 15, 2023, has left tens of thousands dead, pushed parts of Sudan into…