Category: Middle East

Israel and the United States have promised to retaliate against Iran, following its missile attack on Israel. Iran, on Wednesday, however, said its missile attack on Israel, its biggest military assault on the Jewish state, was over. Despite calls for a ceasefire from the United Nations, the United States, and the European Union, fighting between […]

This picture shows on September 18, 2024 the remains of an exploded radio device inside a house in Baalbek in eastern Lebanon. – Hezbollah was in disarray on September 19, after a second wave of explosions swept through its strongholds across Lebanon, piling pressure on its leader ahead of a major speech to exact revenge […]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken disembarks at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv for a surprise visit to the West Bank city of Ramallah to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on November 5, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (Photo by Jonayhan Ernst / Pool / AFP) […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (Photo by Adem Altan / AFP) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he was breaking off contact with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due to Israel’s actions in Gaza. “Netanyahu is no longer someone we can talk to. We have written him off,” Turkish media quoted Erdogan as […]

Editors note: Graphic content / A man rushes as he carries a toddler into the Al-Shifa hospital following the bombing of a house during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza City’s Mansura neighbourhood, in the eastern suburb of Shujaiya on November 4, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. – Thousands […]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken talks to reporters prior to boarding his aircraft at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, on his way to the Middle East and Asia on November 2, 2023. – Blinken is on his second crisis trip to the Middle East as he renews support for Israel but also seeks subtly […]

By Steve Obum Orajiaku A man reacts as he carries the shrouded body of his child, in front of the morgue of the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Balah in the central Gaza Strip, following an Israeli strike on October 22, 2023, as battles continue between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group. (Photo by Mahmud HAMS […]

Israel intensified its attacks on Gaza on Sunday, calling for civilians to flee south where it vowed aid would increase. This is as the Red Cross warned of “intolerable” suffering. The United Nations warned that thousands more civilians could die in Gaza as Israel declared the war had entered a “second stage”, stepping up its […]

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / An Israeli army M109 155mm self-propelled howitzer fires rounds toward the Gaza Strip from a position in southern Israel across the border on October 28, 2023. – (Photo by Aris MESSINIS / AFP) Saudi Arabia on Saturday warned Israel against any further ground operations in the embattled Gaza Strip over […]

Protesters hold placards and wave Palestinian flags as they walk over Westminster Bridge with the Palace of Westminster, home of the Houses of Parliament behind during a ‘March For Palestine’ in London on October 28, 2023, to call for a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. – Thousands of civilians, both Palestinians and […]