Palestinians walk amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip on April 29, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the militan
AFP Israel battled into the fifth week Saturday of its war to crush Hamas, showing no signs of letting up even as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken faced a rising tide of anger in meetings with Ara
AFP Pope Francis on Monday slammed the “shameful inability” of world powers to end the conflict in the Middle East, on the first anniversary of Hamas’s deadly October 7 attack on Israel. “A year ago,
This picture taken from Umm Safa village, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, shows a Palestinian flag (foreground) and Israeli flag fluttering on a hilltop overlooking the village on Februar
This picture taken from a position on the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip shows destroyed buildings in the embattled territory on August 27, 2025, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palest
Pictures of Aljazeera’s slain Palestinian journalists are displayed at a rally condemning Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), which was bound for the Gaza Strip, outside the Fren
An Israeli army vehicle patrols near the fence leading into the UN-patrolled buffer zone, which separates Israeli and Syrian forces in the Golan Heights, near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the
AFP Saudi forces intercepted more than two dozen drones Friday after Iran vowed to attack oil resources in the Middle East and said it would maintain a chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz that has sent
This picture taken on June 1, 2022 shows the Eiffel Tower with La Defense business district in the background in Paris. Photo: JOEL SAGET / AFP AFP European countries have stepped up domestic security
AFP The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said that a foreign UN worker was killed and five others seriously injured Wednesday by an Israeli strike on their headquarters in the centre of the territory
AFP Iran said on Saturday that it was no longer bound by restrictions on its nuclear programme as a landmark 10-year deal between it and world powers expired, though Tehran reiterated its “commitment
A convoy carrying a UN security council delegation, tours the border with Israel close to the southern Lebanese area of Naqura on December 6, 2025. UNIFIL peacekeepers have been tasked with acting as
AFP US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Iran must make a “meaningful deal” in negotiations with Washington in the next 10 days or else “bad things happen”, as he deployed warships, fighter
AFP Iran’s top diplomat has warned UN chief Antonio Guterres that Tehran is ready for a “decisive and regretful” response if Israel attacks his country in retaliation for a missile attack. The Islamic
Myanmar’s Catholics pray for the health of Pope Francis at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Yangon on March 9, 2025. Pope Francis’s clinical picture remains “stable”, the Vatican said on March 9, 2025 after th
Smoke billows over buildings following Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 27, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Ph
Israeli soldiers gather around army tanks stationed in an area along the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on April 10, 2024 © JACK GUEZ / AFP AFP Israel was on alert Thursday after its ar
People gather by a destroyed building in the aftermath of overnight Israeli bombardment in the Japanese neighbourhood in the northwest of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 28, 2025. (Photo
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attend the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 21, 2025, in Washington, DC. According to the US National Park Se
AFP UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Sunday said he regrets the Security Council’s failure to demand a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, condemning the divisions that have “paralysed” the world body.