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By joining the indirect talks in Egypt between Israel and Hamas, Turkey hopes to use its longstanding relationship with the Palestinian Islamist movement to help end the Gaza war.Speaking late Tuesday ...

KABUL (Reuters) -Afghanistan's Taliban foreign minister left for New Delhi on Wednesday, his ministry said, in what would be the first visit to India by a Taliban leader since the group seized power ...

Iran has released a 19-year-old Franco-German national days after throwing out spying charges against him, France's foreign minister told AFP on Wednesday. Lennart Monterlos is the latest French ...

Palestinian journalists and local officials rallied against Israeli attacks on Gaza media workers Wednesday in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, AFP journalists reported.Dozens of journalists ...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Wednesday he was optimistic about Israel and Hamas reaching a deal to end the Gaza war and invited US President Donald Trump to attend the signing of the ...

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Wednesday that the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) must abandon its "separatist agenda", a day after the group's leader and ...

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, seen in September, said global economy has generally withstood multiple shocks — Jim WATSON The global economy is doing better than ...

The navies of Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan signed a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement on Wednesday, aimed at strengthening security in the Caspian Sea basin as the four ...

The health of Hannibal Kadhafi, son of longtime Libyan ruler Moamer Kadhafi, is alarming and he should be released after nearly a decade of pre-trial detention in Lebanon, his lawyer said Wednesday.

AL-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

By Johan Ahlander and Niklas Pollard STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Scientists Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel chemistry prize for developing a new form of molecular ...