ANKARA, Dec 22 (Reuters) – Turkey expects the second phase of a Gaza ceasefire deal to begin early in 2026, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Monday, following talks with U.S., Qatari and Egyptian officials in Miami over the weekend. Speaking at a press conference in Damascus, Fidan said the discussions focused on obstacles to…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Iranian officials executed a man over the weekend who was convicted of spying for Israel’s intelligence arm and its army, according to state media. The man was Aghil Keshavarz, who was put to death on Saturday, state media reported. Keshavarz, 27, had “close intelligence cooperation” with the…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Israel reportedly carried out a series of airstrikes across southern and northeastern Lebanon just ahead of the Dec. 31 deadline for the terrorist organization Hezbollah to disarm. The strikes hit Hezbollah infrastructure sites and launching sites in a military compound that the terror organization uses to train…
BAKU, Dec 15 (Reuters) – President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan has proposed what could be the biggest prisoner amnesty in his country’s history to mark the “year of the constitution and sovereignty,” the state Azertac news agency reported on Monday. It said the amnesty could affect around 20,000 people. Some would be released from prison,…
Owais Hammam was walking near his home in Khirbet Bani Harith in the West Bank on December 3, 2025, when, , he was kidnapped by Jewish settlers. Over several hours at a nearby settlement, the 18-year-old Palestinian is alleged to have endured . Israel military soldiers were reportedly involved in the incident, before they eventually…
DUBAI, Dec 14 (Reuters) – Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, will visit Russia and Belarus in the next two to three days, foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said on Sunday. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Turkmenistan on Friday. (Reporting by Dubai NewsroomEditing by David Goodman) Copyright 2025 Thomson Reuters. Photos…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Israel announced Saturday it had killed Ra’ad Sa’ad, the head of the Weapons Production Headquarters in Hamas’ military wing and one of the architects of Oct. 7. “Sa’ad was one of the last remaining veteran senior militants in the Gaza Strip and a close associate of Marwan…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A group of soldiers of the Syrian army was documented chanting a jihadi declaration of war on Israel during a military parade in Damascus on Tuesday, prompting a minister for the Jewish state to issue a chilling prediction. Amichai Chikli, Israel’s minister of Diaspora Affairs, posted on…
By John O’Donnell and Padraic Halpin DUBLIN, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Ireland’s planned curbs on trade with Israeli settlements will be limited strictly to goods, a minister told Reuters, offering the first clear signal on the scope of the contested legislation and rejecting accusations that the country is antisemitic. Ireland has been preparing a law…
The richest 10 percent of the world’s population now owns three-quarters of all personal wealth, according to the newly released World Inequality Report 2026. Income is not much different, where the top 50 percent of earners take home more than 90 percent, while the poorest half of the world receives less than 10 percent of…