2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1681+ words) Stepping on to the Yemeni island of Perim is to relive history. Its barren sand and rock moonscape feels for all the world like the land that time forgot. Its location, however, has put it at the heart of a…...

3+ day, 34+ min ago   (1373+ words) The UN’s nuclear watchdog agency is asking the body to hold Iran accountable for failing to stick with safeguards meant to prevent the development of nuclear weapons, diplomatic officials announced Wednesday. It’s the latest chapter in a more than decade-long…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (39+ words) Egypt Independent A satellite image shows smoke rising from the Saudi Aramco distribution centre, after what the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said were attacks by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis, in Abha, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. NASA WORLDVIEW/Reuters...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1600+ words) And then, the landscape turns flat: Village after village, home after home, reduced to rubble. This is what Israeli-occupied Lebanon looks like. CNN gained rare access by joining a convoy of residents permitted to move through that occupied territory to…...

3+ week, 21+ hour ago   (293+ words) Foreign ministers of Egypt, Qatar, Jordan, the UAE, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia voiced their categorical condemnation of Israel’s ongoing illegal settlement policies in the occupied Palestinian territory, rejecting the E1 settlement plan and related activities east of occupied East…...

3+ week, 22+ hour ago   (224+ words) The Israeli government advanced an internationally condemned settlement plan in the occupied West Bank that could split the territory and “bury” the possibility of a two-state solution. The bids for construction are due one week before the Israeli elections at the…...

3+ week, 22+ hour ago   (359+ words) This week, a two-month window for peace talks expired without a clear path to end the US war with Iran. Global oil prices have continued to rise, traffic through Middle East waterways is muted and the Strait of Hormuz remains…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (829+ words) The Israeli military acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that it opened fire on the vehicle carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza and said it had opened a criminal investigation into the killing. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (576+ words) Israeli forces have continued their military escalation in southern Lebanon, targeting populated areas and towns with airstrikes, artillery shelling, house demolitions, and gunfire. It is feared that these clashes could undermine the negotiation process and the framework agreement sponsored by…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (969+ words) Loui Ridi began building a home in his native town of Qusra, in the occupied West Bank, for his two daughters. The girls grew up in Ohio, but family trips made them fall in love with their father’s Palestinian roots....