Middle East
France to recognize independent Palestinian state
By Valérie LEROUX AFP French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday his country would formally recognise a Palestinian state during a UN meeting ...UN body says Israeli forces have killed over 1,000 aid-seekers in Gaza since May, as ...
More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since May while trying to get food in the Gaza Strip, mostly ...25 Western nations say Gaza war ‘must end now,’ suffering has ‘reached new depths’
By SYLVIA HUI and JILL LAWLESS,Associated Press Twenty-eight countries including Britain, Japan and a host of European nations issued a joint statement Monday ...Israeli military attacks Houthi targets in Yemen’s Hodeidah port
The Israeli military attacked Houthi targets in Yemen’s Hodeidah port on Monday in its latest assault on the Iran-backed militants, who have ...Israel orders evacuations in central Gaza as ceasefire talks hit roadblock
By WAFAA SHURAFA, FATMA KHALED, and MELANIE LIDMAN, Associated Press At least 73 people were killed while attempting to access aid at ...Dozens of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on aid center in Gaza
Gaza’s civil defence agency on Saturday said Israeli gunfire killed 26 people and wounded more than 100 near two aid centres, in ...Syrian forces to re-enter Suwayda to quell renewed sectarian fighting
By GHAITH ALSAYED AP Renewed clashes broke out overnight between Druze armed groups and members of Bedouin clans in southern Syria, and ...Dozens killed as massive fire rips through multistory commercial building in eastern Iraq
A massive fire in a hypermarket in al-Kut city in eastern Iraq has left at least 60 people dead and 11 others ...Syria announces ceasefire after sectarian clashes, but more fighting and abuse alleged
By GHAITH ALSAYED and ABBY SEWELL, Associated Press Syria ‘s defense minister announced a ceasefire shortly after government forces entered a key ...Sectarian clashes in Syria leave at least 30 dead and scores injured
At least 30 people were killed and around 100 were injured in sectarian violence that exploded in Syria’s southernmost As-Suwayda Governorate, the ...














