3+ week, 5+ day ago   (726+ words) By Feras Dalatey and Tuvan Gumrukcu DAMASCUS/ANKARA, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Israel bombed an airbase in Syria on Tuesday, Syrian state media said, carrying out what appeared to be its first strike on Syrian government assets since March and drawing condemnation…...

1+ mon, 20+ hour ago   (648+ words) Nearly six months into the US war in Iran and with no clear exit strategy for Washington, a new security reality is emerging in the Gulf, one that plays into China’s hands and its vision for the region. Part of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (850+ words) By Timour Azhari, Ariba Shahid and Tuvan Gumrukcu RIYADH/KARACHI/ANKARA, Aug 7 - Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey signed a joint defence agreement in Mecca on Friday, wedding Sunni Muslim U.S. allies alarmed at a regional conflagration that has rained missile fire…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (443+ words) JERUSALEM, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Israeli prosecutors on Thursday charged a Jewish settler over the killing of a Palestinian community leader last year in the occupied West Bank - the first indictment of a settler in a Palestinian's death in nearly three years....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (187+ words) Turkey has been intensifying engagement with the Sudanese army leader as Red Sea security concerns grow and to protect its interests in the broader Africa region. ANKARA — Turkey is moving Sudan higher up its foreign policy agenda as battlefield gains…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (824+ words) CAIRO, July 30 (Reuters) - Israeli strikes killed at least four people, including two children, in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials said, as mediators held new talks with Hamas leaders to work towards full implementation of a U.S.-brokered Gaza peace…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (685+ words) WASHINGTON/BEIRUT — Lebanese President Joseph Aoun arrived at the White House on Tuesday for a meeting with US President Donald Trump, the first on that level since 2009. Just hours before the meeting, the Lebanese military began deploying in a pilot…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (508+ words) An Iranian aerial attack damaged a power generation and water desalination plant in Kuwait on Friday, raising concerns over disruptions to electricity and water supplies in the water-stressed Gulf country amid an intensifying exchange of strikes between Iran and the…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (665+ words) BEIRUT — The White House has invited Lebanese President Joseph Aoun to visit the United States and meet with President Donald Trump on July 21 in the first such visit by a Lebanese head of state in nearly two decades. The embassy…...