Middle East
10,000 displaced as clashes escalate over key Yemen city: UN
Fighting over the key Yemeni city of Marib has displaced around 10,000 people in the past month, the U.N. migration agency said ...Pandora Papers: Document dump allegedly links world leaders to secret wealth
A massive leak of financial documents was published by several major news organisations on Sunday (Oct 3) that allegedly tie world leaders ...Jordan’s Abdullah receives first call from Syria’s Assad since start of conflict
Jordan’s King Abdullah received a phone call from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the royal palace said on Sunday in what officials said ...Israeli troops kill four Hamas militants in West Bank raids
Israeli troops killed four Hamas militants in gun battles during raids on Sunday against one of the group’s cells in the occupied ...Under U.S. sanctions, Iran and Venezuela strike oil export deal
Venezuela has agreed to a key contract to swap its heavy oil for Iranian condensate that it can use to improve the ...World leaders return to U.N. with focus on pandemic, climate
World leaders are returning to the United Nations in New York this week with a focus on boosting efforts to fight both ...Putin meets Assad, takes swipe at US and Turkish forces in Syria
President Vladimir Putin received Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in Moscow for the first time since 2015 on Monday and criticised foreign forces ...FBI releases newly declassified record on September 11 attacks
The FBI on Saturday released the first document related to its investigation of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States ...Amnesty International says Syrian refugees tortured on return
Amnesty International said on Tuesday Syrian refugees who returned home were subjected to torture, detention and disappearance by security forces, urging governments ...7 loyalists killed in strikes on Yemen’s largest airbase
Strikes on Yemen’s largest airbase Sunday killed at least seven pro-government troops and injured scores more, medical and loyalist sources told AFP, ...














