When Senator Robert Menendez arrived in Qatar in 2022 to attend the country’s lavish production of the men’s soccer World Cup, he gave an unusual interview to the authoritarian government’s news agency praising the progress that Qatar had made...
Key points:UN Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari said “no cause or grievance” could justify continuing Houthi attacks against freedom of navigation in the Red SeaAll incidents originating in Houthi controlled areas “must stop”He encouraged “all concerned parties” in the wider...
American, Israeli and Lebanese officials insist that few parties want Israel’s war in Gaza to become a wider conflict that engulfs the Middle East.But the assassination of a top leader of Hamas in Lebanon on Tuesday, and the deaths...
Mexican authorities said on Wednesday that all 31 migrants seized over the weekend in a mass kidnapping near the border with the United States had been rescued.The announcement followed days of frantic searching for the migrants, involving Army and...
“Over the last six days, children and families, and the infrastructure they rely on have come under attack in Dnipro, Lviv, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Odesa, and other populated areas”, said Munir Mammadzade.With schools and health facilities destroyed and damaged, “Ukraine’s...
HEZBOLLAH leader Hussein Yazbek has been killed in a strike in southern Lebanon, it has been reported.
At least four more people are dead in the the strike that hit Naqoura district of the country.
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A pair of explosions on Wednesday at a memorial for Iran’s former top general, Qassim Suleimani, killed at least 103 people and wounded an additional 211, according to Iranian officials, sowing fear in a country where domestic unrest and...
Kenneth Roth has a unique perspective on these questions. Roth, considered by many to be a dean of the human rights movement, spent nearly three decades as the executive director of Human Rights Watch before stepping down last year...
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war in the biggest single release of captives since the conflict began in February 2022.Ukrainian authorities said 230...
Just 24 hours before he took to the podium on Wednesday, Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanon’s powerful armed group Hezbollah, was preparing to deliver a speech commemorating another of Israel’s former arch foes, Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian commander...
