- NEW YORK CITY: The UN Security Council on Friday voted to end the mandate of the UN mission in Sudan. Fourteen of the council’s 15 members voted in favor of the draft resolution, while Russia abstained. The resolution asks the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan to begin wind...
- BRUSSELS: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will pay his third wartime visit to the Middle East this week, a US official said Monday, just as mediators announced an extension of a truce in Gaza. Blinken will also head this week to Dubai to represent the United States at the COP28 climate su...
- DUBAI: Kuwait's highest court on Sunday sentenced former defence and interior minister Sheikh Khalid Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah to seven years in prison with hard labor for mishandling military funds, Kuwaiti paper Al-Qabas reported. Former Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah,...
- ISTANBUL: Two suspects have been detained in Istanbul on suspicion of “military and political espionage” for Israeli intelligence. The suspects contacted Palestinian software engineer Omar A. on the pretext of doing business in Turkiye, it was reported on Thursday. The investigation was con...
- ATHENS/IRBIL: As the hostage deal agreed by Israel and Hamas ushers in the potential for a brief pause in the fighting in Gaza, thoughts are already turning in some quarters to the possibility of the Palestinian enclave’s recovery from unprecedented physical devastation. If the experience of ...
- NASIRIYAH: For the past decade, Nasser Jabbar and his children have lived in a rundown house built of grey concrete blocks at a shantytown in southern Iraq. Drought chased the father of 10 out of the countryside, where he had been a herder and farmer, and into a life of unemployment and urban ...
- NAIROBI, Kenya: Heavy fighting Sunday in a disputed region claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan killed at least 32 people, including a UN peacekeeper, authorities said. The civilians and a Ghanaian soldier serving with a peacekeeping force died when unknown gunmen attacked two villages in the...
- JERUSALEM: Israel stepped up accusations of Hamas abuses at the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital on Sunday, saying a captive soldier had been executed and two foreign hostages held at a site that has been a focus of its devastating six-week-old offensive. At one point a shelter for tens of thousa...
- JERUSALEM: Clutching photos of their missing loved ones, hundreds of relatives of hostages snatched into Gaza on October 7 marched into Jerusalem on Saturday to demand answers from the Israeli government. The families, their faces etched with exhaustion and stress, were joined by thousands of ...
- GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories: A Hamas health official said more than 80 people were killed Saturday in twin strikes on a northern Gaza refugee camp, including a UN school used as a shelter for people displaced by the Israel-Hamas war. Social media videos verified by AFP showed bodies co...
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