Middle East
Israeli police enter tense holy site as Jewish visits resume
Israeli police entered a flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem to clear away Palestinian protesters on Thursday, after Jewish visits that ...Israeli war planes strike Gaza after rocket attack
Israel carried out air strikes in central Gaza before dawn on Thursday after a rocket launched from the Palestinian territory ...Israel downs Gaza rocket, admonishes Jordan as Jerusalem tensions simmer
Israel shot down a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on Monday, the Israeli military said, the first such attack ...Palestinians clash with Israeli police at Jerusalem holy site, 152 injured
At least 152 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli riot police inside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Friday, the ...Palestinians clash with Israeli police at Jerusalem holy site, 152 injured
At least 152 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli riot police insideJerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Friday, extending a ...Palestinians vandalize West Bank shrine as tensions soar
Palestinians set fire to a West Bank shrine revered by Jews as Israeli forces operated in the occupied territory following ...Yemen president cedes powers to council as Saudi Arabia pushes to end war
Yemen’s president dismissed his controversial deputy on Thursday and delegated his own powers to a presidential council in a move ...Rights groups accuse Ethiopian regional forces of ethnic cleansing in Tigray
Two leading human rights groups on Wednesday accused armed forces from Ethiopia’s Amhara region of waging a campaign of ethnic ...Israeli forces kill three Palestinian militants in West Bank
Israeli security forces killed three gunmen from the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in a shootout in the occupied West ...No country met WHO air quality standards in 2021 – data
Not a single country managed to meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) air quality standard in 2021, a survey of ...