Middle East

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his War Cabinet has approved a military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

Tel Aviv: Amid Israel's urgent evacuation notice to residents of eastern Rafah, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has sent word of the group's acceptance of a...

New York: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) affirmed that the Israeli entity continues to deny UN...

Tel Aviv: Israel's military has issued an urgent evacuation notice to residents of eastern Rafah, following a warning from the country's defence minister of...

Tel Aviv: As Al Jazeera was pulled off air in Israel on Sunday, the police, too, seized the news network's broadcasting equipment from its Jerusalem offices...

Cairo: A delegation from the Palestinian group Hamas is expected to meet with Qatari, Egyptian and US mediators on Sunday in a bid to strike a deal on a...

Geneva: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of what he described as a "bloodbath" if the Israeli...

Tehran: Iran has released all crew members of the Portuguese-flagged cargo ship MSC Aries, which had 17 Indians aboard among 25 crews.Iranian Foreign...

Gaza City: Hamas has officially announced its intention to dispatch a delegation to Cairo in a bid to advance mediated negotiations. Leading the delegation...

A report released by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) estimated that fully rebuilding Gaza could take decades."The scale of the destruction is huge and...