Shops, schools and government offices shut in the occupied West Bank, annexed east Jerusalem and allied countries Monday as Palestinians staged a general strike protesting against Israel's...
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Monday that Israel had no intention of staying permanently in the Gaza Strip and that it was open to discussing alternatives about who would control...
Bank of Palestine is the largest banking group in the Palestinian territories. With the Gaza Strip transformed into a battlefield since the start of a new war between Hamas and Israel, the bank...
Iran's president is to be arrested when he lands in Switzerland this week and charged with crimes against humanity connected to a 1988 purge of dissidents, according to a legal complaint filed...
The Emirati head of COP28 climate talks on Monday stopped short of pushing for a phase-out of fossil fuels, in a first bid for consensus that drew immediate fire from Western powers and...
The European Union will propose to EU governments that they impose sanctions on extremist settlers committing acts of violence against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, said the...
A mukhtar from the village of Taybeh (Marjayoun district) in southern Lebanon, 78-year-old Hussein Ali Mansour, was killed in an Israeli air strike on his home, two local officials confirmed to...
Tripoli's Rachid Karami International Fair listed as UNESCO World Heritage site
BEIRUT — Reddish worms wiggle through a scoop of wet soil in Hadi Awada’s hands. In the cell phone video, taken two months ago by the 24-year-old farmer and permaculture expert, shows the legless...
Avichay Adraee, the Israeli army’s Arabic-speaking spokesperson, is known for his ability to seamlessly transition between different tones. While communicating Israeli military updates, he ensures...
The Golan Heights has remained relatively calm since the start of the war in Gaza, with occasional rocket and shell attacks. However, it appears to be the scene of a major movement of Iran-aligned...
Berlin prosecutors said Monday that Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's comments on the Holocaust during a visit last year amounted to inciting racial hatred, but they will not pursue a criminal...
Hugo Danaguezian, 29 years old, was born in Lyon and grew up in the Beaujolais region of France. With a father of Armenian origin, born in Lebanon and a French mother with Italian roots, Hugo’s...
European Parliament members on Monday urged Iran to allow the family of Mahsa Amini, whose death in custody sparked global protests, to travel to France to collect the EU's top rights prize....
In a workshop in the war-torn and besieged Gaza Strip, Ibrahim Shouman is bringing old brass stoves back to life, giving hope to displaced people deprived of gas for cooking. ...
We are not out of the woods yet. Hamas’ bloody attack and the retaliatory carnage that Israel has rained on the Gaza Strip will have regional consequences for months, probably even years to come....
UN Security Council ambassadors arrived Monday in Egypt to visit the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, days after the United States vetoed a council resolution for a cease-fire....
NEW YORK CITY — In the days after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct.7, 2023, an infographic circulating on people’s Instagram stories proclaimed that “A leader of Hamas just called Muslims around the...
The UN human rights chief urged countries on Monday to work together to defeat threats such as war and pollution at an event to mark 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that...
Israeli strikes overnight near Damascus killed two Hezbollah fighters and two Syrians working with the Lebanese group, a war monitor said Monday, the latest such attack as Israel battles Hamas...
The UN General Assembly will meet on Tuesday to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, officials and diplomats said Sunday, after the United States last week vetoed a Security Council resolution...
Israel bombed southern Gaza's main city on Monday after Hamas warned no Israeli hostages would leave the territory alive unless its demands for prisoner releases were met....
More than 100 Israeli soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army said Monday. The army told AFP that the...
Israel carried out air strikes near Syria's capital Damascus late Sunday, Syrian state news agency SANA said. "At around 11:05 p.m. (9:05 p.m. GMT) the Israeli enemy...
Hamas warned Sunday that no hostages would leave Gaza alive unless its demands for prisoner releases are met, while the World Health Organization said the territory's health system was collapsing...
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called for Hamas militants to lay down their arms, saying the Palestinian Islamist group's end was near, as the war in the Gaza Strip raged more...
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Lebanese, Israeli delegation to meet in Washington; Lebanon files UN complaint against Iran: Everything you need to know this Thursday
