At a hospital in Gaza, wards are filled with patients fearing they will be left without care if Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is forced out under an Israeli ban due to take effect in March. Last month, Israel announced it would prevent 37 aid organisations, including MSF, from
Iranians took to the streets in new protests against the clerical authorities overnight despite an internet shutdown, as rights groups warned on Sunday that authorities were committing a "massacre" to quell the demonstrations. The protests, initially sparked by anger over the
Jan 11 (Reuters) - Israel is on high alert for the possibility of any U.S. intervention in Iran as authorities there confront the biggest anti-government protests in years, according to three Israeli sources with knowledge of the matter. President Donald Trump has repeatedly
Israeli intelligence sees a long-term erosion of Iran's regime, marked by eased hijab enforcement and deep infrastructure failures. As Trump presses for regime change, Netanyahu signals readiness to phase out U.S. military aid, reshaping Israel's strategic calculus
WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke over the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, Axios reporter Barak Ravid said on X, adding they discussed protests in Iran along with Gaza and Syria. Ravid cited a U.S. source.
Jan 11 (Reuters) - The last Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces fighters have left Aleppo, Syrian state-run Ekhbariya TV said on Sunday. The SDF head said the group had reached an understanding on a ceasefire and the evacuation of trapped civilians and fighters from Aleppo's
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Bangladesh said on Saturday it has told the United States that it wants to join the international stabilization force that would be deployed in Gaza. Bangladesh said its national security adviser, Khalilur Rahman, met U.S.
A protester briefly replaced the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran on its London embassy with a former flag, flown before 1979, during a demonstration Saturday, witnesses told AFP. A video posted to social media showed a man on the balcony of the embassy, near Hyde Park,
Husam Maarouf kept writing during the war, even as death surrounded him. Now his powerful poems come out in a Hebrew-Arabic collection
The Southern Transitional Council is an umbrella organization established in 2017 for groups that seek to restore southern Yemen as an independent state, and has received financial and military support from the UAE.
Clashes broke out earlier this week in predominantly Kurdish neighborhoods after the government and the Syrian Democratic Forces, the main Kurdish-led force, failed to make progress on how to merge troops into the national army. The fighting has displaced more than 140,000 and
Jan 10 - Egypt’s National Elections Authority declared the results on Saturday of the last 49 seats in a parliamentary election that began more than three months ago and gave President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi the super-majority he needs to amend the constitution. The results of
Aden airport was closed last week by the separatist Southern Transitional Council amid a worsening rift between the UAE and Saudi Arabia, which now support rival factions in the country's civil war. More than 600 stranded tourists were evacuated
Tehran escalated its threats against protesters on Saturday, with Iranian officials warning that demonstrators will be considered an 'enemy of God,' a death penalty charge against those 'betraying the nation and creating insecurity' or seeking 'foreign domination'
CAIRO, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Yemen's main separatist group, the Southern Transitional Council, denied on Saturday it was disbanding, according to a statement posted on X. The statement comes amid conflicting remarks by members on the UAE-backed group's fate, reflecting a feud
DUBAI, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The Iranian army said on Saturday it would safeguard strategic infrastructure and public property and urged Iranians to thwart "the enemy's plots", as the clerical establishment steps up efforts to quell the country's biggest protests in years. The