The UK Home Office has introduced a digital campaign in Iraq's Kurdistan Region to dispel misinformation spread by smugglers. Announced on 4 March 2025, the campaign aims to warn potential migrants ...

Syrian security forces arrested a top former intelligence officer suspected of numerous killings, including the 1977 murder of Lebanese opposition leader Kamal Jumblatt, the state news agency reported ...

The Trump administration on Wednesday said it held talks with Hamas over the return of US captives still held in the Gaza Strip, engaging with the Palestinian group for the first time in decades.

Gunmen loyal to Syria's Bashar al-Assad killed 16 security personnel on Thursday, a war monitor said, in attacks it described as the "most violent" since the longtime president's ouster. The fighting ...

Syria received a new shipment of its local currency printed in Russia on Wednesday with more consignments expected in the future, a Syrian government official said, in a new sign of improving ties ...

Sudan has filed a case against the United Arab Emirates arguing that the Gulf state is complicit in genocide over its alleged support for Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, the International ...

On 23 February, Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced the formation of a self-styled ‘Government of Peace and Unity’ - a move with Orwellian undertones. Indeed, the RSF, notorious ...

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich arrived in the United States on Wednesday on a short visit to "strengthen economic cooperation" and bilateral ties between the two countries. The far-right ...

Anti-war students teamed up with a prominent pro-Palestine activist group to spray-paint one of Cambridge University’s historic buildings, in protest at the prestigious university's continued ...

In a move that complicates the already intricate security landscape of northern Iraq, hundreds of Yazidi officers formerly serving in a Kurdish Peshmerga force affiliated with the Kurdistan Democratic ...

Lebanese officials have rejected claims by the US news site Axios that Tel Aviv, Washington, and Beirut have reached an agreement allowing Israeli forces to remain in southern Lebanon for an extended ...

Donald Trump’s proposal to empty Gaza of its people is an unprecedented disdain of basic morality and international norms. But for Benjamin Netanyahu — who is the likely initiator of the plan ...