Month: May 2021

Le Drian began a visit to Lebanon Thursday with a meeting with Aoun, a day after vowing to deal firmly with politicians obstructing the formation of a new government.

Israel carried out air strikes overnight in the southern Syrian province of Quneitra, Syrian state media and a war monitor said Thursday, though there were no reports of casualties.

After nearly three decades in London, Christophe Reech was fed up with the city’s pandemic lockdowns.

After years of proxy warfare, Saudi Arabia’s secret talks with arch-rival Iran signal a high-wire diplomatic act as it scrambles to rein in Tehran-backed Yemeni rebels, although prospects of a … Read More

Israel’s military and the Shin Bet security service said Thursday that they arrested a Palestinian suspect in a weekend drive-by shooting in the West Bank that left one Israeli dead … Read More

Ahmad Daoud surveyed his shrivelled tomato plants near the Dead Sea in Jordan, where severe drought in what is already one of the world’s most water-deficient countries is hitting hard.

The United States threw its weight behind a waiver on patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines as India Thursday posted record deaths and infections from a catastrophic wave swamping the country.

France’s foreign minister began a visit to Lebanon Thursday with a meeting with President Michel Aoun, a day after vowing to deal firmly with Lebanese politicians obstructing the formation of … Read More