Israel returns to lockdown as COVID-19 cases mount
Tel Aviv (Reuters) – Israel entered a second nationwide lockdown on Friday at the onset of the Jewish high-holiday season,
Read More
Factual Version of a Story
Middle East and North Africa
Israel, Bahrain tourism ministers speak, discuss joint ventures with UAE
Jerusalem (Reuters) – The tourism ministers of Israel and Bahrain held a first publicly acknowledged phone call on Thursday and
Read More
Israel closes schools again as COVID-19 cases surge
Jerusalem (Reuters) – Israel closed its schools on Thursday, a day before entering a second national coronavirus lockdown, as daily
Read More
U.S. blacklists Hezbollah official, Lebanon-based companies
Washington (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on a Hezbollah official and two Lebanon-based companies as the
Read More
U.S. hopes to name Qatar as major non-NATO ally, official says
Washington (Reuters) – The United States hopes to move forward with naming Qatar as a major non-NATO ally, a status
Read More
Qatar operates weapons funding network for Hezbollah using gold shipments through Africa: Reports
Doha – Qatar has been operating a weapons funding network from Europe to Hezbollah using gold shipments traded across Africa,
Read More
U.S. threatens to sanction arms makers that sell to Iran
Washington (Reuters) – The Trump administration vowed on Wednesday to impose the “full force” of U.S. sanctions on any international
Read More
Defying fatwa, Iraqis flock to COVID cemetery to exhume dead, re-bury elsewhere
Najaf (Reuters) – It took Abu Haider and his relatives several hours to dig up his nephew’s grave and exhume
Read More
U.N. war crimes experts urge Turkey to rein in rebels in Syria
Geneva (Reuters) – Turkey must rein in Syrian rebels it supports in northern Syria who may have carried out kidnappings,
Read More
Battle of the battlements – Jerusalem walls used as political canvas
Jerusalem (Reuters) – The ramparts of Jerusalem, built for battle, were commandeered for a messaging war between Israelis and Palestinians
Read More