The Taliban government said Thursday it had not arrested or monitored Afghans involved in a secret British resettlement plan after a data breach was revealed this week. Thousands of Afghans who...
It was 8:30 p.m. when I arrived, buzzing with anticipation and glitter from the crowd already clinging to my sleeves. The air around the outdoor venue was thick with excitement: food trucks lined...
Online privacy campaigners filed fresh complaints against social media giant TikTok and two other Chinese-owned companies on Thursday, saying they had failed to comply with data access requests....
An AFP photographer counted 15 bodies lying in the center of the city of Sweida, in southern Syria, on Thursday morning, after government forces withdrew from the Druze-majority city. Some of the...
The Israeli army carried out air raids that struck the Catholic parish in Gaza, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni denounced on Thursday, with the Ansa news agency reporting two dead and several...
The Middle East reminds us at every moment how deceptive appearances can be and how volatile the situation on the ground remains.Just a few days ago, U.S. special envoy Tom Barrack was presenting...
More than 50 people died in 24 hours during rains in Pakistan, a government agency reported Thursday, bringing the death toll to around 180 since the beginning of the summer monsoon in late June....
A French appeals court Thursday ordered the release of pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant George Ibrahim Abdallah, who has been imprisoned for 40 years for the 1982 killings of two foreign...
Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa promised to protect the rights of Druze citizens on Thursday as a cease-fire appeared to be holding in the country's south following U.S....
The deadline has been set. According to three sources familiar with the matter cited by Axios, the United States and its allies have agreed to impose tough sanctions on Iran if a nuclear agreement...
At least 18 people were killed Thursday morning in the Gaza Strip by Israeli strikes targeting several areas of the enclave, according to medical sources cited by the al-Jazeera channel. In Deir...
This was the fifth targeted attack within a week in Iraqi Kurdistan, significantly disrupting oil production in this autonomous region. Early Wednesday, July 16, drone attacks hit three oil fields...
The French judiciary on Thursday ordered the release of pro-Palestinian Lebanese activist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, who was convicted in 1987 for the assassination of Israeli and Palestinian...
Syrian government forces have withdrawn from the entire Druze-majority province of Sweida in southern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and witnesses told AFP on Thursday. The...
As the clashes that continued Wednesday in Sweida put Druze factions and Syrian government forces in the spotlight, one central player seems to have faded from view: the Bedouin tribes. Yet it was...
22:44 Beirut Time We are now closing our LIVE coverage of events in the region for the night. We will be back tomorrow morning with more news updates. 22:43 Beirut Time...
"Israel is not our enemy. Our enemy is in Damascus," said Sheikh al-Hijri bluntly on July 7 from his seat in Qanawat, a village built of black basalt on the edge of Sweida, the majority...
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam emerged unscathed from the first general policy debate in Parliament since his government was formed in February. A majority of 69 out of 82 MPs present renewed their...
Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa said on Thursday that protecting Druze citizens and their rights is "our priority", as Israel vowed to destroy Syrian government forces...
A massive fire in a hypermarket in al-Kut city in eastern Iraq has left at least 60 people dead and 11 others missing, the city's health authorities and two police sources told Reuters on...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, July 17, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz Some key things to watch today:Latest developments in Syria and the outcomes of...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
