By Corina Pons MADRID, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Spain has returned to Morocco more than a dozen sub-Saharan African and Asian migrants who reached the Spanish enclave of Ceuta and were turned down for asylum,the first deportation of its kind from the enclave since a mass border
UK anti-terrorism police said Tuesday two men have been charged with national security offences after an incident last month at a British airbase used by the United States, linking the scare to Iran. The head of National Counter Terrorism Policing, Laurence Taylor, said two
In an ambulance carrying the bodies of relatives killed in a Jordanian strike on southern Syria, a young man sat in shock, having lost much of his family in an instant. "We were asleep when the missile hit us. My mother, my older brother and his three children --two boys and a
DUBAI, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Iran's Persian Gulf Strait Authority, a body set up by Tehran to manage passage requests in the Strait of Hormuz, said on Tuesday all vessels belonging to South Korean shipping company Sinokor would face "legal action" starting on November 1. Tehran
DUBAI, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Iranian Security Council chief Mohsen Rezaei on Tuesday met Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, not seen in public since succeeding his slain father in March, a day after holding talks with representatives of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan.
The Netherlands will not participate in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, its public broadcaster NPO said Tuesday, citing "sensitivities" over Israel's participation. The Dutch withdrawal is the latest in a series of boycotts from countries unhappy at Israel's inclusion in
DUBAI, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Tuesday they had launched an attack on Saudi Arabia's Ras Tanura oil refinery, the biggest in the kingdom, located on the Gulf west of the Strait of Hormuz. The group's military spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a
DUBAI, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Tuesday they had hit Saudi Arabia's Ras Tanura oil refinery, the biggest in the kingdom, with a ballistic missile. The group's military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the strike had caused a fire at the complex,
ATHENS, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates aligned with Greece to denounce a Turkey-Libya maritime accord as a threat to regional security and international legal order in a long-standing dispute over sea borders in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Oct 27 (Reuters) - Jordan said on Tuesday its forces had killed more than 20 Islamic State militants in airstrikes on southern Syria the previous evening, following a deadly church attack in Jordan that authorities linked to militants operating across the border. The strikes,
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Experts at a digital defense firm recently found that an Israeli ad tech company was heavily targeting users ofStarlink's satellite internet service in a likely effort to spy on them, according to six people familiar with the
LONDON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Two men were charged on Tuesday under Britain's National Security Act following last month's security incident at the RAF Fairford military base, with prosecutors accusing one of them of trying to assist Iranian intelligence operations in Britain. RAF
BAGHDAD, Oct 27 - An Iraqi court on Tuesday sentenced six French nationals to life in prison and a seventh to 15 years after convicting them of membership in Islamic State, a Reuters witness inside the courtroom said. The men were among 47 French Islamic State suspects
BEIJING, Oct 27 (Reuters) - China is highly concerned about conflicts in the Middle East and surrounding regions and Beijing will send an envoy to the relevant countries in the near future,foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakunsaid at a daily press conference on Tuesday. Guo
Gadi Eisenkot, the man who could unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, almost always dresses in black, speaks halting English and tends to respond in interviews with bullet-point lists, a reflection of the military culture that shaped him. For some voters in
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's consummate political survivor, faces the fight of his life in Tuesday's election as he tries to convince voters he is still the only candidate capable of keeping them safe. The 77-year-old's security-first reputation was all but
Israelis flocked to the polls Tuesday in turnout unseen in decades, with a deeply divided electorate delivering a verdict on veteran right-wing Prime Minister Benj
When Israel goes to the polls on Tuesday, voters will weigh in on military conscription, the economy and how the state should investigate its failure to prevent Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack. AFP looks at the key issues that have shaped the campaign. - Accountability for
Israelis flocked to the polls on Tuesday for the first time since Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack, with a deeply divided electorate delivering their verdict on vete
By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN, Oct 26 (Reuters) - American rapper Macklemore vowed to continue to speak out loudly against Israel's war in Gaza at the opening of his "Free Palestine" concert tour organised after he was dropped as the opening act for Ed Sheeran over pro-Palestinian
The Jordanian military said it had struck "terrorist organisations" in neighbouring Syria on Monday in retaliation for a deadly jihadist attack on a church last week, hours after authorities arrested three men they accused of the killings. It said air force jets had "destroyed
By Steven Scheer and Pesha Magid JERUSALEM, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Israelis surged to the polls at the fastest rate in 45 years on Tuesday, passing wartime judgment on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in what voters described as the most consequential election in their history. In
By Steven Scheer and Pesha Magid JERUSALEM, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Israelis surged to the polls at the fastest rate in nearly half a century on Tuesday to pass wartime judgment on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in what voters described as the most consequential election in the
By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Israel holds a parliamentary election on Tuesday, its first since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 that shook the country and plunged the Middle East into turmoil. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hold on power is at stake,
Security forces arrested three suspects after a shootout, authorities said, as the attack on a Greek Orthodox church killed nine and wounded 40. No group has claimed responsibility. Syria said the strikes were not coordinated
Oct 26 (Reuters) - Jordan said on Monday its air force struck what it described as militant hideouts in southern Syria after determining that the attackers behind last week's deadly church attack were linked to "terrorist groups" operating there. There was no immediate comment
Syria’s interim president is balancing Western demands for inclusion with pressure from Islamist hard-liners as he seeks to consolidate power and shed his jihadi past.
Battered by two wars, the group is stockpiling explosives, building attack drones and rebuilding command structures, sources tell Reuters, as Israeli forces occupy southern villages and pressure mounts in Beirut for its disarmament
GENEVA, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Israel continued to commit genocide in Gaza after last October's US-brokered ceasefire in the enclave, a UN commission said in a report published on Monday that Israel dismissed as part of a "misinformation campaign". The report by the UN Independent
For the first time since the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack, Israelis are heading to the polls in elections widely seen as crucial to the country’s future.
For the first time since the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack, Israelis are heading to the polls in elections widely seen as crucial to the country’s future.
Israel's military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, launched after a deadly attack by Palestinian gunmen, raises serious concerns of "ethnic cleansing", the United Nations warned Monday. The municipality in Hebron, the Palestinian territory's largest city,
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrapped up his campaign to remain in power on Monday with a claim that Israel faced potential annihilation at the hands of Iran should his election rivals prevail. Over the course of a neck-and-neck race, Netanyahu has campaigned heavily on
The four impacted states had a combined estimated population of about 14.1 million, according to 2024 UN data.
The talks were the first high-level contact between Iran and the three nations – which signed the Mecca mutual defense pact in August – since a war that began with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran also spread to Saudi Arabia and Yemen
A trickle of flights landed and departed from the Saudi capital on Monday as the Houthis continued to threaten aviation in the Gulf state.
Egypt's parliament authorised on Monday sending military support to Saudi Arabia to defend the kingdom from attacks by Yemen's Houthis, following a request from President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The House of Representatives voted with a two-thirds majority in favour of
By Laila Bassam and Maya Gebeily BEIRUT, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has spent three months preparing for a possible resumption of hostilities with Israel, after receiving an infusion of cash from Iran, according to Lebanese security personnel briefed on
By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Fuel shortages in Yemen's besieged city of Taiz have forced one hospital to cut the number of incubators it can operate from 40 to 10, putting newborn babies at risk as weeks of fighting choke off vital supplies and deepen a
The arrests follow days of searching for the three suspects in Friday’s attack, which killed nine people.
Egypt, which has one of the region's largest militaries, is reliant on Saudi investment and ties the kingdom's security to its own.
Egypt's President al-Sissi has said his country's assistance to the Gulf kingdom would be limited to defending Saudi territory and borders rather than attacking the Houthis in Yemen, whose recent advances also threaten a gateway to Egypt's Suez Canal
In first such gathering, Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman will join Pakistani army chief Asim Munir and Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin for talks with Iranian officials amid fears of renewed US and Israeli attacks against Iran.