By Samia Nakhoul DOHA, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told Reuters on Saturday that a credible Palestinian civil administration and a vetted, trained police force should be in place to allow Hamas to disarm, saying the group is prepared to hand over
Qatar and Egypt, guarantors of the Gaza ceasefire, on Saturday called for the withdrawal of Israeli troops and the deployment of an international stabilisation force as the necessary next steps in fully implementing the fragile agreement. The measures were spelled out in the
By Samia Nakhoul DOHA, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told Reuters on Saturday that he believed Turkey and the United States would find a way to remove U.S. CAATSA sanctions "very soon", and added the NATO allies had started working on the issue.
Turkey's Foreign Minister and Qatar's Prime Minister said during the Doha Forum conference that there's still a 'big question' over the formation of an international security force for Gaza and that peace in the region could only take place with the eventual establishment of a
It took Egyptian actor Mona Zaki more than a year's preparation to take on the hardest role of her career -- the iconic singer Umm Kulthum, a legend in the Arab world. Marwan Hamed's "El Sett" ("The Lady") premiered this week at the Marrakech International Film Festival, where
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz heads to Israel on Saturday for his first visit since taking office, aiming to reaffirm traditionally solid ties that were shaken during the Gaza war. Merz, after stopping in Jordan for talks with King Abdullah II, is set to fly on to Israel in
By Thomas Suen NONG KHAI, Thailand, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Two years after Thai worker Sudthisak Rinthalak was killed by Hamas militants, his family in northeastern Thailand is preparing to welcome his remains home and hold a Buddhist ceremony they believe will bring his spirit
DOHA, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said Saturday that negotiations on the war in Gaza were at a "critical" moment. Mediators are working together to force the next phase of ceasefire forward, he said during a panel at the Doha
The Saudi Foreign Ministry published the joint statement on X, claiming that Israel's policy aims to push Palestinians toward displacement into Egypt via the Israeli-controlled border crossing, urging adherence to the U.S. cease-fire plan
SYDNEY, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Australia on Saturday imposed financial sanctions and travel bans on four officials in Afghanistan's Taliban government over what it said was a deteriorating human rights situation in the country, especially for women and girls. Australia's Foreign
OTTAWA, Dec 5 (Reuters) - The Canadian government said on Friday that it has removed Syria from its list of foreign state supporters of terrorism and removed Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the group that spearheaded the rebel alliance that helped oust President Bashar al-Assad, from its
By combining high-tech capabilities, publicized warnings to foreign vessels and historical framing of territorial sovereignty, Tehran is seeking to assertively position itself in a dispute that has resisted resolution for decades.
The French initiative aims to expand UNIFIL's authority to monitor both the Lebanese-Israeli and Lebanese-Syrian borders, with discussions also considering U.K. involvement in border monitoring infrastructure, according to a report by a Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese news outlet
The document frames US engagement as shifting away from energy and conflict and toward broader economic and defense partnerships.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Friday told a United Nations Security Council delegation his country does not want war with Israel, days after civilian representatives from both sides held their first talks in decades. Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem, whose militant group refuses
The Ramallah-based Palestinian health ministry said that Israeli forces killed a man in the northern occupied West Bank on Friday. "Bahaa Abdel-Rahman Rashid (38 years old) was killed by Israeli fire in the town of Odala, south of Nablus," the health ministry said in a
A treasure trove of 225 funerary figurines have been discovered inside a tomb in the ancient Egyptian capital of Tanis in the Nile Delta, a rare find that has also solved a long-running mystery. "Finding figurines in place inside a royal tomb has not happened in the Tanis
By Olivia Le Poidevin, Johnny Cotton and Cecile Mantovani GENEVA, Dec 5 (Reuters) - The Eurovision Song Contest was facing a potential budget squeeze after Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland and Slovenia said they would withdraw from next year's competition in protest at Israel's
U.S. President Trump promises Hamas disarmament and IDF withdrawal from Gaza are on the horizon – but ultimately, the fate of Israelis and Palestinians is now in the hands of Gulf monarchs
