Middle East
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, ...Gaza Palestinians resume demonstrations on Israeli border
Hundreds of Palestinians on Wednesday demonstrated near the Israeli border in the southern Gaza Strip, calling on Israel to ease a crippling ...Israel strikes Gaza after incendiary balloon attacks
Israel launched airstrikes against Gaza on Monday, the army and a source inside the enclave said, after incendiary balloons launched from the ...Russia, Iran and China to hold joint drills in Gulf
Russia, Iran and China will hold joint maritime exercises in the Persian Gulf around late 2021 or early 2022, Russia’s ambassador to ...Israeli aircraft strike Hamas sites in Gaza after border clashes
Israeli aircraft struck Hamas sites in Gaza late on Saturday, the military said, in an escalation of hostilities after earlier cross-border gunfire ...Hamas chief congratulates Taliban on end of US ‘occupation’
The political chief of Palestinian resistance group Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, has congratulated the Taliban on the end of the US “occupation” of ...At least 28 killed in Lebanon fuel tank explosion
At least 28 people were killed and nearly 80 others injured when a fuel tank exploded in northern Lebanon on Sunday, authorities ...Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Israel trade cross-border fire amid Iran tensions
The Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah fired barrages of rockets in the direction of Israeli forces on Friday, drawing retaliatory fireplace from Israel ...Israel conducts first Lebanon strikes in seven years
The Israeli air force said it carried out its first air strikes on neighbouring Lebanon in seven years Thursday following a second ...














