A senior Hezbollah figure has privately signaled that the group would stay out of any limited United States military action against Iran, while declaring that an attack aimed at Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei or a bid to topple the Islamic Republic would compel the movement to join the fight.......
Somaliland has moved to deepen its ties with Washington by offering the United States exclusive access to its mineral resources and potential military facilities, intensifying a rivalry with Somalia for American strategic favor in the Horn of Africa. Khadar Hussein Abdi, Somaliland’s minister of......
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has wrapped up a rare visit to Ethiopia, using the trip to celebrate a century of diplomatic relations while cautioning against turning the Horn of Africa into a battleground for outside powers. At a joint news conference in Addis Ababa alongside Prime Minister......
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Washington has not asked Tehran to halt uranium enrichment, directly contradicting repeated public statements by senior US officials who insist that Iran must abandon the activity entirely. In an interview published online Friday by MSNBC’s Morning......
FIFA has promised to spend $50 million on a new national soccer stadium in the Gaza Strip, unveiling the plan at the first meeting of President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace in Washington as part of a broader reconstruction drive for the war‑devastated territory. The commitment comes as international......
Egypt and Israel are locked in a sharpening regional contest centered on Somalia and the wider Horn of Africa, as Cairo expands its military footprint in the country in response to Israel’s recognition of the breakaway region of Somaliland. An assessment by the Hebrew-language outlet Natsiv Net,......
Norway has reaffirmed that it will not join U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, even as it prepares to host a key international donor meeting on Palestinian aid in the spring. Oslo’s position directly contradicts Trump’s recent claim that Norway had agreed to host an event......
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Iran that any direct attack on Israel would trigger a response of a scale Tehran “cannot even imagine,” as coordinated military preparations with the United States intensify across the Middle East. Speaking at an Israel Defense Forces officers’......
Hamdan Ballal, co director of the Oscar winning documentary “No Other Land,” said Sunday that members of his family were attacked in the occupied West Bank despite a recent Israeli court order intended to keep non residents away from their home area. Ballal said the assault took place in......
Foreign ministers gathered Wednesday at the United Nations for a Security Council ministerial session on the situation in Palestine, as international pressure mounts over recent Israeli measures expanding control in the occupied West Bank. The meeting, chaired by British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper......
Foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt and Türkiye have denounced Israel’s decision to designate large areas of the occupied West Bank as state land and to initiate comprehensive land registration there for the first time since......
What began as a discreet race for influence between Riyadh and Abu Dhabi has evolved into an overt strategic rivalry that is reshaping regional balances without a shot being fired, yet at a potentially high long term cost for both sides. For general readers, policy analysts and investors following Gulf......
Israel has approved the opening of a land registration process in the occupied West Bank, marking a historic first since the 1967 war, according to reports from public radio KAN and several Israeli media outlets. The decision has been met with strong condemnation from the Palestinian Authority, which......
