Category: News

Soldiers are suffering and they’re hungry, were the frank words of Gen. Joseph Aoun, spoken last week in a meeting addressing local developments.

Already displaced once in Yemen’s grinding civil war, Mohammed Ali Saleh fled with his pregnant wife and their three children to central Marib province last year to seek refuge in … Read More

When Jordan sabotaged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s triumphant pre-election trip to the United Arab Emirates last week, analysts say, it was sending him a message: stop marginalising us.

Myanmar faced growing isolation on Thursday with increasingly limited internet services and its last private newspaper ceasing publication as the military built its case against ousted elected leader Aung San … Read More

Egyptian political activist Sanaa Seif was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Wednesday for spreading “false information” relating to Covid-19, her sister and lawyers said.

After a yearlong investigation, Iran’s civil aviation agency on Wednesday released its final report on the crash of a Ukrainian passenger plane that killed 176 people last year, revealing no … Read More

Holders Bayern Munich cruised into the Champions League quarterfinals as a 2-1 win over Lazio in Wednesday’s last-16 second leg sealed a 6-2 aggregate victory.

Chelsea reached the Champions League quarterfinals for the first time since 2014 as Hakim Ziyech ended his goal drought to inspire a 2-0 win against Atletico Madrid in the last … Read More

France and its international partners will seek to increase pressure on Lebanon’s politicians in the coming months, a French diplomat said on Wednesday, although he did not envisage sanctions against … Read More