Ireland is close to formally recognizing a Palestinian state and would like to do so in concert with Spain and other like-minded countries, new prime minister Simon Harris said on Friday after...
Italy is to admit 300 migrant workers from Lebanon, Ivory Coast and Ethiopia who will not have refugee status under a pilot project spearheaded by the Community of Sant'Egidio, a Catholic...
Waterborne diseases are spreading in Gaza due to a lack of clean water and rising temperatures, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Gaza said on Friday. "It is...
Syria has largely disappeared from the media’s radar, only coming under the spotlight when Israel targets Iranian militia leaders within its borders. In such cases, a certain anxiety seems to take...
BEIRUT — Hundreds of people attended on Friday the funeral mass of Pascal Sleiman, head of the Lebanese Forces (LF) office in the Jbeil district, killed six days ago and whose murder created a...
Five Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip have filed a legal complaint in Berlin against the German government over its delivery of weapons to Israel, an NGO representing them said Friday....
A Turkish state television journalist was badly wounded and another slightly hurt in the Gaza war Friday, the TRT channel said, adding that the team had been targeted by an Israeli strike....
End of September-first week of October, 2023 Beirut. I’ve been here for about a year so far to study for a master's degree in Human rights and democracy. Back home in Khan Yunis, Gaza, are my...
There are not many of them, and even the most extreme Israeli officials do not support their demand, but that has not stopped them from making themselves heard this week: They are the "[very few]...
France on Friday warned its citizens to "imperatively refrain from travel in the coming days to Iran, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories," the foreign minister's entourage told AFP....
BEIRUT — Lebanon's caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib expressed his concern about the possibility of the Gaza war expanding into Lebanon, demanding "the full implementation of UN...
We are republishing this article, originally published in el.Diario.es (Spain), as part of our collaboration with the Human Journalism Network program to share solutions-focused stories from around...
Gaza's health ministry, in its latest update, said that 33,634 people have been killed in the Israeli offensive on Gaza. Another 76,214 have been injured since fighting began on Oct. 7. In the...
China urged the United States to play "a constructive role" in the Middle East on Friday after its top diplomat Wang Yi spoke with his US counterpart Antony Blinken over the phone....
Police have detained two girls and two boys – all teenagers – in western Germany on suspicion that they were planning an Islamist attack, prosecutors said on Friday. Three arrested in North...
Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians early Friday in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported, but the military said it "eliminated" two militants including a Hamas...
The General Secretariat of Catholic Schools in Lebanon announced on Thursday evening the closure of all schools this Friday, "a day of prayer for the salvation of Lebanon," six days after the...
An Argentine court on Thursday said Iran had ordered the deadly 1992 attack on Israel's embassy in Buenos Aires and the 1994 attack on the Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) Jewish...
Residents reported heavy Israeli fire in central Gaza on Friday, with regional tensions soaring after Iran threatened reprisals over a strike in Syria this month that killed two Iranian generals....
The top US commander for the Middle East is in Israel for talks with the country's military officials on security threats, the Pentagon said Thursday. The visit comes amid fears that Iran will...
21:32 Beirut Time Thank you for following our LIVE coverage of day 189 of the Gaza war. We will be back tomorrow with more news updates. 21:18 Beirut Time...
Members of the UN Security Council failed to reach a consensus Thursday on a bid by Palestinians for full UN membership, meaning the longshot effort is now likely headed for a more formal council...
An Israeli minister said Thursday that after Hamas's Oct. 7 attack, there was no longer a "moral" justification to exempt ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from army service, breaking a long-standing taboo...
A senior Hamas official said Thursday that only a cease-fire can provide "enough time and safety" to locate Israeli hostages held across the Gaza Strip and ascertain their fate....
Germany said Thursday it is providing 25 million euros ($27 million) for Holocaust survivors in Israel to help them cope with the impact of the attack by Hamas and Gaza war....
The UN Security Council on Thursday acknowledged Israel's pledge to open more entry points to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza but said "more should be done" to help civilians in the besieged...
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