Israeli forces make historic push inside Lebanon and complicate an Iran dealIsraeli forces are conducting their deepest incursion into Lebanon in over 25 years. This is happening despite a U.S.-brokered ceasefire an...
31 May, 2026, 07.56 PM IST
US bars Palestinian leader Abbas from UN as allies pledge statehoodThe United States has decided to bar Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas from traveling to New York for an upcoming United Nation...
30 Aug, 2025, 08.28 AM IST
US revokes Palestinian officials' visas ahead of UN meeting, State Dept saysThe U.S. State Department is denying and revoking visas for members of the PLO and Palestinian Authority, citing non-compliance with commit...
29 Aug, 2025, 09.29 PM IST
Canada to join France, Britain in supporting Palestinian statehoodPrime Minister Mark Carney said Canada's long-favoured approach of a two-state solution through a negotiated settlement between Israel and ...
01 Aug, 2025, 11.56 AM IST
Who is PLO's Hussein al-Sheikh? All about new vice president of Palestine Liberation OrganizationThe appointment makes Hussein al-Sheikh the front-runner to one day succeed 89-year-old Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
27 Apr, 2025, 12.13 AM IST
Canada going the Trump way? Tory leader vows to deport foreigners for anti-Semitic crimesConservative leader Pierre Poilievre pledged to deport foreign nationals in Canada involved in criminal hatemongering, particularly targeti...
13 Apr, 2025, 09.43 AM IST
The Gaza Strip has long been a powder keg. Here's a look at the history of the embattled regionHamas' attack on southern Israel in October 2023 resulted in severe Israeli military retaliation in Gaza, a region plagued by decades of co...
05 Feb, 2025, 10.28 AM IST
Hamas and Fatah sign declaration in Beijing on ending yearslong rift as war rages in GazaPrevious declarations had failed, including a similar deal in 2011, casting doubt over whether the China-sponsored negotiations might actua...
23 Jul, 2024, 04.30 PM IST
EU reverses earlier announcement that it was suspending development aid to PalestiniansNo immediate explanation for the reversal was given. A full European Commission statement always trumps a statement from an EU commissioner...
10 Oct, 2023, 03.07 AM IST
Unraveling the Israel-Palestine conflict: A timeline of Hamas-Israel tensions in the Middle EastSoon after Israel pulled out its troops from the Gaza Strip, the tension in the Middle East escalated. Israel-Palestine conflict continues ...
10 Oct, 2023, 12.11 AM IST
What is the Palestinian terror group Hamas that has launched a surprise attack on Israel?Hamas, the Palestinian group, which is backed by Iran and follows Islamist ideas, launched an unexpected attack into Israel from Gaza, mark...
08 Oct, 2023, 10.41 AM IST
What is the Palestinian group Hamas?Hamas, or the Islamic Resistance Movement, is a Palestinian group that was founded in 1987 during the first Palestinian Intifada. It is bac...
07 Oct, 2023, 05.31 PM IST
Israel deports Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri to France over security, interior ministry saysHamouri, 37, a Jerusalem resident without Israeli citizenship, had his residency status revoked on Dec. 1 on charges that he was active in ...
19 Dec, 2022, 12.52 AM IST
Antony Blinken says United States will aid Gaza without helping HamasBut the top U.S. diplomat faces the same obstacles that have stifled a wider peace process for more than a decade, including a hawkish Isra...
25 May, 2021, 05.04 PM IST
Iran leader says Israel a 'cancerous tumour' to be destroyedKhamenei spoke to the nation in a 30-minute speech aired on state television, as other officials in the past gave the keynote speech. He re...
22 May, 2020, 10.21 PM IST
Donald Trump cuts more than $200 million in US aid to PalestiniansThe funds, originally planned for programs in the West Bank and Gaza, would address "high-priority projects elsewhere."
25 Aug, 2018, 12.55 PM IST
Gaza's ceasefire of despairIt would be inaccurate to equate Hamas with Al Qaeda merely because both articulate their politics in the idiom of religious Islam.
27 Jan, 2009, 03.06 AM IST