In the wake of renewed Israeli military action in southern Lebanon, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berry, a close Hezbollah ally, are now calling for the rapid implementation of UN Resolution 1701 to end hostilities between Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Shia militia, and Israel.
Germany will shut all three Iranian consulates in Germany but allow the embassy to remain open in reaction to the execution of a German-Iranian national, the foreign ministry said on Thursday.
A Hezbollah attack on northern Israel's Metula killed five people including an Israeli farmer and four foreign workers, Israel's Channel 12 said on Thursday, while Beirut said Israeli strikes had killed six health workers in southern Lebanon.
Growing regional instability and changing political dynamics have prompted the first bid in a decade to end Turkey's 40-year conflict with Kurdish militants, but its chances of success are unclear as Ankara has given no clues on what it may entail.
Growth in the Middle East and North Africa region is expected to rebound to 4% next year, but will hinge on a phase out of oil production cuts and headwinds subsiding, including from conflicts, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday.
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Ukraine's leadership was clearly nervous about Russian advances along the front line if Kyiv was asking the United States to supply it with long-range Tomahawk missiles.
A French court has reversed a government ban on Israeli firms participating in next week's Euronaval arms show near Paris, the organisers said on Thursday, confirming media report.
Israel's military said on Thursday it shot down a drone smuggling weapons from Egyptian territory to Israel on Wednesday.
A Turkish court on Thursday ordered the arrest of a mayor from Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) over alleged militant ties.
A week before Election Day in the U.S., former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump referred to the war in Lebanon.
Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday said he and President Joe Biden discussed U.S. efforts to halt hostilities between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, and expressed optimism that a ceasefire could be reached in the next weeks.
French PhD student Victor Dupont was detained in Tunisia on breach of state security charges 12 days ago, and French authorities are trying to negotiate his release, the director of his research lab, Vincent Geisser, said.
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