Edward Finkelstein

In Istanbul, prosecutors have ordered the arrest of ten executives of Can Holding and the seizure of its vast assets, including three television channels — Habertürk, Show TV, and Bloomberg HT — on charges of fraud, tax evasion, and money laundering, Turkish media reported Thursday.

United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan arrived in Qatar on Wednesday, UAE state news agency WAM reported, in a show of solidarity a day after Israel launched an airstrike targeting Hamas officials in Doha.

Jordan’s King Abdullah II and UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan held talks in Abu Dhabi on Sunday, using the occasion to issue sweeping condemnations of Israel’s policies in the West Bank and Gaza. 

Erdogan’s ruling party couldn’t beat them at the polls, so now it’s using the courts. The purge of Istanbul’s CHP leadership shows how far Turkey’s president will go to weaken his opponents and cement his grip on power.

A broad majority of Greeks continue to back their country’s partnership with Israel, even as protests and political figures on the left demand a cooling of relations in light of the Gaza conflict.

Between 2020 and 2025, Morocco has significantly expanded its defense ties with Israel, making it Israel’s third-largest arms customer by 2023. 

Recognizing a Palestinian state is not merely symbolic but a concrete step toward peace and stability, Palestinian Deputy Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin said on Monday after talks in Rome with Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.

Israel's Foreign Ministry has publicly demanded the withdrawal of a recent famine report on Gaza, backed by the UN and issued by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). 

Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev reaffirmed their commitment to deepening ties between their two countries during a state visit by the Jordanian monarch on August 25–26, 2025.

On October 7, 2023, Israel endured a massacre of civilians so grotesque that it should have shocked the world into clarity. Jews were slaughtered in their homes, women were raped, families incinerated, children kidnapped.

France’s latest provocation came not in Paris but in Jerusalem. After moving toward recognition of a Palestinian state, Paris dispatched its consul in the city to hand-deliver a formal letter of recognition to Mahmoud Abbas. 

Syrian interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa met on Saturday in Damascus with the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, John X Yazigi, according to a statement posted by the presidency on Telegram.