A U.S. jury has awarded $42 million to three former detainees of Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison, holding a Virginia-based military contractor responsible for contributing to their torture and mistreatment two decades ago
November 12, 2024
In the quiet seaside town of Amchit, 45 minutes north of Beirut, public schools are finally in session again, alongside tens of thousands of
November 12, 2024
Saudi crown prince accuses Israel of committing ‘collective genocide’ in Gaza
November 12, 2024
The U.S. Defense Department says Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted two U.S. Navy warships with multiple drones and missiles as they were traveling through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Tuesday
November 12, 2024
The Israeli military pounded Beirut's southern suburbs with airstrikes on Tuesday, mounting one of its heaviest daytime attacks yet on
November 12, 2024
International aid groups said that Israel had failed to meet a series of U.S. demands intended to improve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza by a Tuesday deadline.
November 12, 2024
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran will not be able to ignore its arch-foe the United States and needs to "handle its enemies with forbearance", state media reported on
November 12, 2024
Eight international aid groups say Israel has failed to meet U.S. demands to allow greater humanitarian access to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip
November 12, 2024
The Biden administration says Israel has made some good but limited progress in increasing the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza, and therefore it will not limit arms transfers to Israel as it had threatened to a month ago if the situation had not improved
November 12, 2024
Palestinian medical officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 46 people in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, including 11 at a makeshift cafeteria in an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone
November 12, 2024
US has not assessed Israel is violating law on Gaza aid, will not change policy despite humanitarian groups’ findings
November 12, 2024
Riot police in Amsterdam on Monday evening arrested several people during another eruption of violence sparked by a soccer match between Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv and local
November 11, 2024
Eyeing Trump support, Israeli minister pushes for West Bank settlement annexation
November 11, 2024
Israel's far-right finance minister said on Monday he hoped Israel would extend sovereignty into the occupied West Bank in 2025 and that he would push the government to engage the
November 11, 2024
France's foreign minister said on Monday that a new round of sanctions targeting violent Israeli settlers could happen soon.
November 11, 2024
Israel said on Monday there was progress in talks about a Lebanon ceasefire and indicated Russia could play a part by stopping
November 11, 2024
A British soldier accused of passing sensitive information to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps pleaded guilty on Monday to escaping from prison while awaiting trial.
November 11, 2024
Turkey is pressing the United States to reconsider its support for Kurdish militants in Syria, according to comments by its leaders including President Tayyip Erdogan, who has again
November 11, 2024
Hezbollah has not received any proposals on a truce for Lebanon, a spokesperson said Monday, as Israel's foreign minister said diplomatic efforts had made "progress" and amid
November 11, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved pager attacks that dealt a deadly blow to the Iran-backed Lebanese armed group Hezbollah in September, Omer Dostri,
November 11, 2024
An Israeli airstrike killed seven people late Monday at a café near the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, Palestinian medics said, bringing the death toll from
November 11, 2024
The United States this week will decide whether Israel has made progress toward improving the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and how Washington will
November 11, 2024
Taiwan on Monday said it had closed a probe into pagers that exploded in Lebanon in September and caused a deadly blow to Iran-backed Hezbollah, saying no Taiwanese citizens or
November 11, 2024
Israel’s new foreign minister says there has been “certain progress” in efforts to end the fighting with Lebanon’s Hezbollah
November 11, 2024
Four-year-old Hussein Mikdad survived an Israeli airstrike on his home in a Beirut suburb last month
November 11, 2024
6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes off coast of eastern Cuba
November 10, 2024
Israel Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday that his country has defeated Hezbollah and that eliminating its leader Hassan Nasrallah was the crowning achievement.
November 10, 2024
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November 10, 2024
Dutch police said they took away more than 300 pro-Palestinian protesters who ignored a ban on demonstrations in Amsterdam on
November 10, 2024
The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog says he will travel to Iran in the coming days to hold talks regarding the country’s nuclear program
November 10, 2024
At least 23 people, including seven children, were killed and six others injured in an Israeli strike on Almat in Lebanon's Mount Lebanon province, the country's health ministry
November 10, 2024
An Afghan official says the Taliban will attend a UN climate conference for the first time since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021
November 10, 2024
The chief of staff of Saudi Arabia's armed forces, Fayyad al-Ruwaili, visited Tehran on Sunday to meet with his Iranian counterpart and discuss defence ties, state media reported the
November 10, 2024
U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi will visit Iran next Wednesday and start consultations with Iranian officials the following day, state media reported on Sunday.
November 10, 2024
New Israeli strikes have killed dozens of people including children in Lebanon and northern Gaza
November 10, 2024
At least 40 Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza on Sunday, including two dozen when a residential building in the northern town of Jabalia was
November 10, 2024
US carries out strikes against Houthis in Yemen, defense official says
November 10, 2024
A soldier for Yemen’s exiled government has opened fire on Saudi troops as they exercised in eastern Yemen, killing two of them and wounding another in a rare insider attack during the kingdom’s nearly decadelong war there
November 10, 2024
Qatar says it suspended mediator efforts for Gaza ceasefire due to lack of good-faith negotiations
November 10, 2024
Qatar is suspending its role in talks between Israel and Hamas
November 09, 2024
Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu will call for an immediate ceasefire and peaceful resolution of the Israel-Palestinian conflict when he attends the upcoming Arab-
November 09, 2024
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi denied U.S. charges that Tehran was linked to an alleged plot to kill Donald Trump and called on Saturday for confidence-building between the
November 09, 2024
A prominent Iranian American human rights activist has expressed shock but also defiance about Iranian murder-for-hire plots to kill her and Donald Trump that were disclosed by the U.S. Justice Department
November 09, 2024
Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof will miss the COP29 climate summit after clashes in Amsterdam this week between Israeli soccer fans and pro-
November 09, 2024
Qatar has told Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel it will stall its efforts to mediate a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal
November 09, 2024
The attacks on Israeli football supporters in Amsterdam this week followed tensions that began brewing days before between the fans and pro-Palestinian activists
November 09, 2024
Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof has canceled his planned trip to United Nations climate talks in Azerbaijan so he can stay in the Netherlands to deal with the fallout from assaults on fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team in Amsterdam that authorities condemned as antisemitic
November 09, 2024
A Gaza family sat weeping on Saturday over children killed by an Israeli strike as they were getting ready to play soccer, amid an
November 09, 2024
Around 70% of deaths in Gaza are women and children, says UN
November 09, 2024
Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon over the last day have killed at least 40 people including several children, Lebanese authorities said on Saturday, after heavy Israeli bombardment
November 09, 2024
Qatar says it has suspended its key mediation efforts between Hamas and Israel
November 09, 2024
Qatar agrees to kick Hamas out of Doha following US request, sources say
November 08, 2024
The U.S. has told Qatar that the presence of Hamas in Doha is no longer acceptable in the weeks since the Palestinian
November 08, 2024
The outgoing Biden administration pressed ahead on Friday with diplomacy aimed at reaching deals to end Israel's conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon, with Secretary of State Antony
November 08, 2024
There is a "strong likelihood that famine is imminent in areas" of the northern Gaza Strip, a committee of global food security experts
November 08, 2024
The United Nations' peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon said on Friday that the Israeli military's "deliberate and direct destruction" of its property was a "flagrant violation"
November 08, 2024
Israeli foreign minister Gideon Saar met Dutch Justice Minister David van Weel and far-right leader Geert Wilders in
November 08, 2024
JPMorgan lowered its Israel GDP growth forecast for 2024 to 0.5% from 1%, and also cut its growth estimate for next year to 3.3% from 3.7%, the Wall Street bank said on Friday.
November 08, 2024
Israeli residents of a settlement named after Donald Trump hope his return to office will breathe new life into their tiny community in the Golan Heights
November 08, 2024
Israel-France tensions deepen as Paris says consulate staff briefly detained by police in Jerusalem
November 08, 2024
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November 08, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have shot down what they described as an American drone, potentially the latest downing of a U.S. spy drone as the militants continue their attacks on the Red Sea corridor
November 08, 2024
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Thursday that Israel had made some progress in getting assistance into Gaza but more needed to be done.
November 07, 2024
Most central banks of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) cut key interest rates on Thursday, following the Federal Reserve's decision to reduce
November 07, 2024
The French foreign ministry says armed Israeli police forced their way into a French-owned church compound in the contested city of Jerusalem, briefly detaining two consulate members and prompting the top French diplomat to abandon his planned visit to the site
November 07, 2024
The United States has had conversations with Israel in the past week about establishing the first meeting of a channel for Washington to raise and discuss civilian harm
November 07, 2024
France accused Israel on Thursday of harming bilateral ties after Israeli security forces entered a holy site under French administration in Jerusalem and briefly
November 07, 2024
An Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese city of Sidon killed three Lebanese citizens and wounded three Lebanese soldiers, the Lebanese army said on Thursday, and the Malaysian
November 07, 2024
Hezbollah welcomes any effort to stop the war in Lebanon but does not pin hopes for a ceasefire on any particular U.S. administration, Hezbollah lawmaker Ibrahim al-
November 07, 2024
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said the result of the U.S. election did not matter to his country, state media reported on Thursday, amid heightened tensions
November 07, 2024
French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau on Thursday criticised the unfurling of a giant "Free Palestine" banner at a Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) soccer match, saying
November 07, 2024
Israel’s parliament has passed a law that would allow it to deport family members of Palestinian attackers to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip or other locations
November 07, 2024
Several large airstrikes have hit Beirut’s southern suburbs, including one on a site adjacent to Lebanon’s only international airport
November 07, 2024
Military judge overrules defense secretary and says plea deals for alleged 9/11 conspirators are valid
November 07, 2024
A jury could begin deliberations as soon as Thursday on whether a Virginia-based military contractor bears responsibility for abuse of detainees 20 years ago at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison
November 06, 2024
The United Nations says replacing its Palestinian relief agency UNRWA in Gaza and the West Bank is not the world body's responsibility, signaling it was
November 06, 2024
Donald Trump will return to the presidency at a time of unprecedented conflict and uncertainty in the Middle East
November 06, 2024
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said on Wednesday that only developments on the battlefield, not political moves, would bring an end to the hostilities between the Lebanese armed group
November 06, 2024
Palestinians, locked in war with Israel for more than a year, expressed fear at Donald Trump's return to the White
November 06, 2024
A Lebanese government minister says his country has filed a complaint against Israel at the U.N.’s labor organization over the string of deadly attacks involving exploding pagers, saying workers were among those killed and injured
November 06, 2024
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November 06, 2024
U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Wednesday he might head to Iran in the coming days to discuss its disputed atomic programme and
November 06, 2024
An Israeli airstrike has killed at least 30 people in central Lebanon, as the war between Israel and Hezbollah continues with no signs of easing
November 06, 2024
As one of the Arab World’s largest book fairs opens in Algeria on Wednesday, there is one conspicuous absence
November 06, 2024
Israeli strikes on Lebanon killed 40 people around the eastern city of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley on Wednesday, according to the country's health ministry, and at dusk more strikes
November 06, 2024
Lebanon’s Civil Defense service says they have pulled 30 bodies from the rubble of an apartment building that Israel struck the night before
November 06, 2024
Donald Trump, who won a second term in office with his victory in Tuesday's U.S. presidential election, and several of his allies continued to engage with the most powerful and
November 06, 2024
Israeli attacks in West Bank killed at least eight people, officials and residents say
November 05, 2024
Yoav Gallant knew he was living on borrowed time as Israel's Defence Minister after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's first attempt to sack him last year
November 05, 2024
The Pentagon said on Tuesday that Yoav Gallant, whom Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired as defense minister on Tuesday, has been a "trusted partner," and said it
November 05, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired defence minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday, saying he had no trust in him over the management of Israel's ongoing
November 05, 2024
A U.S. Army soldier who was injured in May while working on the American-built pier to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza has died
November 05, 2024
At least one Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building in a beach town south of Beirut on Tuesday, Lebanese state media said, as other deadly strikes hit scattered locations
November 05, 2024
Mohammad Atteya has been separated from his family in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya for two weeks since being evacuated to hospital with a head wound.
November 05, 2024
An Iranian official has claimed that Iranian-German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd died before Tehran executed him
November 05, 2024
Investors ramped up oil futures and options trading in October to record levels in a bid to hedge growing uncertainty as war rages on in the Middle East and a
November 05, 2024
Palestinian officials say an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza has killed at least 20 people, mostly women and children
November 05, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday, citing a "crisis of trust", and replaced him
November 05, 2024
France's foreign minister will travel to Israel and the Palestinian territories on Wednesday seeking to press Israel to engage diplomatically to end the conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon
November 05, 2024
Two French citizens detained in Iran since May 2022 are in good health and being held in good detention conditions, Iran's judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir said on Tuesday,
November 05, 2024
Qatar has voted to end its limited elections for legislative seats
November 05, 2024
At least seven people were killed on Tuesday during an Israeli military raid and airstrikes on the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.
November 05, 2024
US soldier injured earlier this year on Gaza pier mission has died
November 04, 2024
The Biden administration is stepping up criticism of Israel for not doing enough to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza as a 30-day deadline looms for Israeli officials to meet certain requirements or risk potential restrictions on military assistance
November 04, 2024
Israel has taken some measures to increase aid access to Gaza but has so far failed to significantly turn around the humanitarian situation in
November 04, 2024
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says more than 3,000 people have been killed during 13 months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah
November 04, 2024
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on Monday he had discussed with his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock the "need for decisive action" in response to North Korean involvement
November 04, 2024
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 16 Palestinians in Gaza on Monday and residents feared new air and ground attacks were aimed at emptying areas of civilians in
November 04, 2024
Jewish settlers torched 20 cars during an attack on Palestinian property on the outskirts of Ramallah on Monday, residents said, in
November 04, 2024
Israel's effective use of air-launched ballistic missiles in its airstrikes against Iran is expected to pique interest elsewhere in acquiring the weapons, which most major
November 04, 2024
The Israeli military denied on Monday that it had hit a clinic in the northern Gaza Strip where health workers were carrying out polio vaccinations.
November 04, 2024
Police arrest Netanyahu aide as opponents accuse him of leaking intelligence to thwart Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal
November 04, 2024
Israel says it's terminated the agreement facilitating the work of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, the main aid provider in Gaza
November 04, 2024
The United Arab Emirates has opened its annual oil-and-gas summit as it plans to increase energy output even as global prices have fallen
November 04, 2024
Turkey dismissed the pro-Kurdish mayors of three southeastern cities on Monday for alleged ties to Kurdish militants, just two weeks after President Tayyip
November 04, 2024
Israel has formally ended a decades-old cooperation agreement with the United Nations Palestinian relief agency (UNRWA) that covered the protection,
November 04, 2024
Chinese electric vehicle maker Nio is planning to launch its first hybrid model in 2026 and will only sell it in overseas markets, including the Middle East, North Africa and
November 04, 2024
One of the most startling aspects of Israel’s campaign against Hamas in Gaza has been the destruction wreaked on the territory’s health sector
November 03, 2024
A suspected leak of classified Gaza documents involving an aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has jolted Israeli politics
November 03, 2024
U.N. experts say Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been transformed from a local armed group with limited capabilities to a powerful military organization with support from Iran, Iraqi armed groups, Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants and others
November 03, 2024
Iranian woman detained after taking clothes off at university in Tehran
November 03, 2024
Most stock markets in the Gulf were subdued on Sunday after a report suggested Iran might be preparing a retaliatory strike on Israel from Iraqi territory in the coming
November 03, 2024
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 31 people in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian medics said, with nearly half of the deaths in northern areas where the army
November 03, 2024
Palestinians were living under occupation for decades before the war. A Palestinian and an Israeli united to show the world their reality
November 03, 2024
Israel has long wanted to dismantle the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency. The consequences could be disastrous for all
November 03, 2024
An Iranian-American journalist who once worked for a U.S. government-funded broadcaster is believed to be detained by Iran for months now
November 03, 2024
The last three hospitals still partially functioning in northern Gaza have been encircled by Israeli troops and caught amid fighting for weeks
November 03, 2024
Israel's military announced updates to its Home Front Command's defensive guidelines on Saturday, raising the alert level in the Lower Galilee and southern Golan regions from "partial" to
November 02, 2024
An Israeli military official says Israeli naval forces have captured a senior Hezbollah operative in north Lebanon
November 02, 2024
An Israeli naval force mounted a "special operation" in the northern Lebanese coastal town of Batroun early on Friday and captured one person, a security source said.
November 02, 2024
Iran’s supreme leader vows ‘teeth-breaking’ response to Israel and US after strikes on military sites
November 02, 2024
An attack on a central Israeli town has injured 11 as Iran’s supreme leader vowed a punishing response to Israel’s attack last week
November 02, 2024
Iran’s supreme leader has threatened Israel and the U.S. with “a crushing response” over attacks on Iran and its allies
November 02, 2024
Satellite imagery and data collected by mapping experts show extensive destruction in 11 villages in southern Lebanon located immediately next to the border with Israel
November 02, 2024
Rockets fired from Lebanon wounded 11 people in central Israel on Saturday, Israeli emergency services said, after one of them hit a house, as prospects for a
November 01, 2024
The United States said on Friday it will deploy B-52 bombers, fighter jets, refueling aircraft and Navy destroyers to the Middle East, in a readjustment of military assets as
November 01, 2024
The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is sending additional bomber aircraft and Navy warships to the Middle East to bolster the U.S. presence in the region
November 01, 2024
Basel Adra, a Palestinian, and Yuval Abraham, an Israeli, spent five years making a movie that depicts daily life in Adra’s village under Israeli occupation
November 01, 2024
American efforts to halt fighting between Israel and Hezbollah have failed after the U.S. drafted an "unrealistic" ceasefire proposal and Israel's insistence on being
November 01, 2024
The situation in the northern Gaza Strip is "apocalyptic" as Israel pursues a military offensive against Hamas militants in the area, top United Nations
November 01, 2024
Kamal Kharrazi, an adviser to Iran's supreme leader, said on Friday that Tehran is likely to increase the range of its ballistic missiles and possibly review its nuclear doctrine, amid
November 01, 2024
An Associated Press review shows that Israel is falling far short of U.S. demands to surge the level of humanitarian assistance allowed into Gaza or risk possible restrictions on U.S. military funding
November 01, 2024
The Israeli cabinet approved a long-delayed wartime budget package on Friday that includes a raft of tax increases and spending cuts to pay for a war that has entered its second
November 01, 2024
A U.S. official asked Lebanon to declare a unilateral ceasefire with Israel to revive stalled talks to end Israeli-Hezbollah hostilities, a senior
November 01, 2024
Lebanese health authorities say that Israel has launched dozens of intense airstrikes across Lebanon’s northeastern farming villages, killing at least 52 people and wounding 72 others
November 01, 2024
Prospects of a ceasefire between Israel and its foes Hamas and Hezbollah ran aground on Friday as Israeli airstrikes killed
November 01, 2024
Christians in many countries around the world are celebrating All Saints’ Day, a somber and spiritual day in the church’s liturgical calendar that shares pagan roots with Halloween
November 01, 2024
Nerjes Hassan was so worried her children would fall ill from bathing in the frigid water of a displacement shelter in northeast Lebanon that she
November 01, 2024
Forty seven Palestinians were killed and dozens injured, most of them children and women, in overnight Israeli bombardment of the the central Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency
November 01, 2024
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