Edward Finkelstein

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.

Egypt’s population hit 108 million, according to figures released by the state-owned Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS).

Israeli officials have reiterated claims that a significant number of journalists working in the Gaza Strip are either members of Hamas and other Islamist organizations, or maintain close collaboration with them. 

Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned Israel’s plan to expand its military operations in the Gaza Strip, claiming such actions would worsen what it called an already dire humanitarian situation in the Palestinian enclave.

Egypt has officially announced that the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) will open its doors to the public on November 1. Located near the iconic pyramids of Giza in Cairo, the billion-dollar museum is poised to become a global cultural landmark.

France will recognise a Palestinian state in September at the United Nations General Assembly, French President Emmanuel macron said on Thursday, adding that he hoped it would help bring peace to the region.