"Last year, I said that Syria had returned. Today, I say that Syria is rising," Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, one year after becoming the first Syrian leader in nearly six decades to address the body.
Israel reacted sharply to remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron at the United Nations, after Macron criticized Israeli actions in the West Bank and claimed Hamas was not active in the territory, where the Palestinian Authority governs.
A major step forward in Morocco-Israel relations: the two countries "have confirmed their agreement on elevating [their] diplomatic missions to full embassy status," Le Monde reports.
The foreign ministers of Israel and Morocco agreed to upgrade diplomatic ties, including opening embassies and appointing ambassadors, according to a statement Wednesday by the official Israeli government account in Arabic on X.
Israel goes to the polls on October 27 in what may be its most consequential election in years - the first since October 7, the wars with Hamas and Hezbollah, and the seven-month conflict with Iran.
A cell of "malicious actors" based in northern Yemen used Claude, the artificial intelligence system built by US company Anthropic, in an attempt to develop guided weapons, the company announced Thursday, as Iran-backed Houthi rebels press a major offensive across Yemen.
Following Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, Pakistan has warned it may need to provide military support to Riyadh.
Sheikh Rafeh Halabi, a senior figure in Israel’s Druze community who presents himself as dean of the descendants of the Prophet (Naqib al-Ashraf) for Jerusalem and president of the Jerusalem branch of an international human-rights organization, has sent a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump calling for immediate American action to halt what he describes as the starvation and extermination of Druze in Syria’s Sweida province.
The third edition of the Hili Forum opened in Abu Dhabi on Monday under the theme “Gulf at Crossroads: Conflict, Consequences and Course Correction,” convening policymakers, diplomats, academics and international experts as the region confronts overlapping security, economic and technological pressures.
On 4 September 2026 the UN General Assembly adopted, by 164 votes to 1, the resolution Correct the Map: rebalancing global cartographic representation and promoting equitable representation of the world’s regions, particularly Africa.
Following the announcement that it had achieved "operational control" of the Ali Taher ridge, the Israeli military is reportedly preparing to reduce troop levels in southern Lebanon and shrink the footprint of its occupied "buffer zone," according to several Israeli security officials cited by Israel's Channel Kan 11.
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution Friday in New York, by a vote of 164 in favor, titled "Correct the Map: Rebalancing World Cartographic Representation and Promoting an Equitable Representation of the World's Regions, in Particular Africa."
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