Geostrategy - TRENDS MENA

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has announced that he has instructed diplomats to pursue negotiations with the United States, signalling a...

Turkey was headed for a fourth straight night of protests late Saturday, as the biggest street unrest the country has...
As the crowds began massing outside Istanbul City Hall, a convoy carrying the 53-year-old mayor arrived at Caglayan court on the other side of the city
He was arrested on Wednesday, just days before he was to be formally named the main opposition CHP's candidate for the 2028 presidential race
Tens of thousands of people in Paris and other French cities on Saturday rallied against racism and the rise of...
The rallies took place amid the rightward shift in French politics, with the government pledging to tighten immigration policies and border controls
In the runup to the rallies the LFI party caused an uproar in France by publishing the image of Cyril Hanouna, one of the most influential stars of right-wing media
Israeli defence chiefs said they held the Lebanese government responsible for all hostile fire from its territory regardless of who...
Lebanon's official National News Agency reported one girl among two killed in an Israeli strike on the southern town of Touline
The Israeli army said six rockets, three of which were intercepted, were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories -- Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah movement called on Hamas on Saturday to relinquish power in...
"Hamas must show compassion for Gaza, its children, women and men," Fatah spokesman Monther al-Hayek said in a message sent to AFP from Gaza.
Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007 from the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority, and subsequent attempts at reconciliation have failed.
Moscow has rejected a joint US-Ukraine proposal of a full and unconditional 30-day ceasefire, instead suggesting just to halt aerial...
US negotiators will meet separately with Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Riyadh, in what US envoy Keith Kellogg described as "shuttle diplomacy" between hotel rooms.
Despite the flurry of diplomacy and push from US President Donald Trump, a breakthrough has so far proved elusive.
The Istanbul Bar Association's executive board was dismissed Friday on grounds of "terrorist propaganda" and "publicly spreading false information", according...
The Turkish military insists it never targets civilians but only terror groups
The bar association issued a statement saying "targeting members of the press in conflict zones
The warning came as Israel stepped up the renewed assault it launched on Tuesday, shattering the relative calm that had...
Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed 11 people on Friday -- three in pre-dawn strikes and eight more during the daytime
Should Hamas not comply, Katz also threatened to expand buffer zones around Gaza to protect Israeli civilian population areas
Sam Rose, the senior deputy field director in Gaza for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA, highlighted the psychological...
James Elder, a spokesman for the UN children's agency UNICEF, said traumatized children usually only start to process their trauma when they begin returning to normalcy.
Humanitarians warned the situation has been made worse by Israel's decision earlier this month to cut off aid and electricity to Gaza over the deadlock in negotiations.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said the leaders of a coalition of Ukraine backers would meet again in Paris...
Macron, together with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, has been leading efforts to form a coalition in support of Ukraine
Starmer on Thursday hosted talks with around 30 senior military planners from nations interested in the coalition
US President Donald Trump "fully supports" Israel's renewed Gaza operations, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters when asked...
The offensive has drawn widespread condemnation and shattered a relative calm in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory where a ceasefire began on January 19
Israel earlier said it had closed off the territory's main north-south route as part of expanding ground operations that resumed on Wednesday