Apart from MSF, some of the 37 NGOs to be hit with the ban are the Norwegian Refugee Council, World...
- Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 and has for decades pushed for international recognition. A self-proclaimed republic, it enjoys...
The Houthis say they are targeting Israel and Israeli-linked vessels to push for a stop to the offensive in Gaza....Maersk said Friday that it would divert all vessels around Africa instead of using the Red Sea
The rebels have launched more than 100 drone and missile strikes in Red Sea
The army spokesman told reporters that its forces dismantled "the Hamas military framework in the northern Gaza Strip" and that...Israeli PM said his government had directed the army to "eliminate Hamas"
He said the war should not stop until Israel has achieved "all of the goals"
Josep Borrell held talks with the head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc, Mohammad Raad, Lebanese media reported. An EU source confirmed...Borrell said it is important to avoid Lebanon being dragged into a regional conflict
Cross-border fire has killed 181 people in Lebanon, including 135 Hezbollah fighters
Dubai, UAE - The Emirates is to put 84 people on trial for terror-related offenses, state media said on Saturday. The...The Gulf state's attorney general ordered the trial of "mostly members of the terrorist organization of (the) Muslim Brotherhood", official news agency WAM said.
In 2013, the UAE tried 94 activists, lawyers, students, teachers and other government critics, accusing them of membership of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
Aim is to expand Dragon Oil’s investments in Turkmenistan.Dragon Oil has been engaged in oil and gas cooperation with Turkmenistan on the basis of a production sharing agreement since 2000.
The company’s primary focus is on the extraction of hydrocarbon resources in the Caspian Sea, in the Cheleken Contract Area.
- The European Union foreign policy chief warned against a regional conflict that would involve Lebanon, as border clashes intensified nearly...
Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged near-daily cross-border fire since Hamas's unprecedented October 7 attack
But a strike that killed Hamas's deputy leader in Hezbollah's south Beirut stronghold on Tuesday intensified fears of a wider conflagration
- ISTANBUL, TURKEY - Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has called on US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to use his current...
US support for Israel's military campaign "has caused unprecedented massacres and war crimes against our people in Gaza", Hamas chief Haniyeh said.
Haniyeh also urged regional leaders due to meet Blinken to tell him that stability in the Middle East was "closely linked to our Palestinian cause".
- Beirut, Lebanon - Lebanon's Hizbollah fired on Saturday over 60 rockets at an Israeli military base, the group said, describing the...
The Israeli military said it had identified around 40 rocket launches from Lebanese territory on Saturday morning.
Air raid sirens went off in towns and cities across northern Israel, later also blaring in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
- TEHRAN, IRAN - A bombing attack in southern Iran claimed by the Islamic State group has killed 91 people, state media...
The attack is the deadliest in Iran since 1978, when arson killed more than 370 people trapped in a cinema in Abadan.
The Iranian intelligence ministry said on Friday that "one of the suicide bombers" was "of Tajik nationality".
The French leader posted a photograph of an airman standing on the cargo ramp of a military plane, with parachutes...Jordan and France sent C-130 transport plane with mixed French-Jordanian crews, bringing a total of seven tonnes of "humanitarian and health" aid, the presidency said
At least 22,600 people have been killed in Gaza in Israel's response to the October 7 attack by Hamas, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry
