Middle Orient

The photo shows a lean, tanned man in a dark helmet. He’s grasping a rifle and UN vehicles move behind him as he waves through traffic. The man is Yasser Abu Shabab, who says he commands hundreds of armed men known as the Popular Forces to offer protection to international …

What’s new? Israel’s far-right government is restructuring the occupation of the West Bank, shifting governing powers from military to civilian agencies in order to gradually institute permanent control. With Israeli law reaching further into the territory and space for Palestinian independence shrinking, much of the territory has, in effect, already been …

Lavrov a suggéré qu’ils pourraient faciliter l’envoi d’aide à l’Afrique, mais il est également possible qu’ils accueillent des pourparlers militaro-diplomatiques complexes entre toutes les parties prenantes en Syrie tout en aidant ses forces armées à maintenir l’unité nationale en les rééquipant, en les formant et en les conseillant également. Les …

A video this week captured Hamas fighters in Gaza executing Palestinian rivals as the militant group tries to assert that it is still the dominant force in the territory after two years of war with Israel. The public execution was captured on video. Masked gunmen, some wearing green headbands associated …

Official in Prime Minister’s Office says developments still only in 1st stage dealing with release of hostages, follow-up steps must be completed, denies talks on 2nd stage underway A senior official in the Prime Minister’s Office stressed to The Times of Israel on Wednesday that the war in Gaza is …

As Gaza Ceasefire Begins, Hamas Is Already Reasserting Control Disarming Hamas is key to the U.S.-backed deal to end the Gaza war. The first phase of the agreement signed Oct. 9 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, appeared to begin successfully on Oct. 13, when Hamas released 20 living Israeli hostages. However, …

This week’s summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh looks like nothing short of a triumph for the United States in the Middle East. U.S. President Donald Trump met with representatives of thirty countries, and the declaration signed there to end the war in Gaza stands in stark contrast …

On 29th September 2025, the US president Donald Trump, alongside the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, proposed a new plan to resolve the crisis in Gaza. As part of the president’s plan, a “Board of Peace” constituting a hand-picked technocracy led by the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is …

Several people were killed over the weekend in Gaza City in violent clashes between Hamas security forces and the members of an armed clan, multiple sources reported on Monday. Skirmishes first broke out last week between the Palestinian Islamist group and the Doghmush clan after a ceasefire between Israel and …

Syrian Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi has announced to AFP that he had reached a “preliminary agreement” with Damascus on the integration of his troops into Syria’s military and security forces. Abdi, who heads the powerful Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), had met Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus last week, …