middle east

AFP/APP Tel Aviv: The Israeli army bombed Gaza and battled fighters on Tuesday as US top diplomat Antony Blinken was back in Israel on a regional tour aimed at stopping the war from escalating across the Middle East. An AFP…

AFP/APP Kabul: In Kabul, grief and sorrow envelop the city as the Islamic State (IS) group has claimed responsibility for a devastating blast that took the lives of two individuals and left 14 others wounded on a bus in a predominantly…

News Desk Islamabad: Jazz, Pakistan's top digital operator, has achieved a groundbreaking throughput of 1.6 terabits per second (Tbps) per channel in its optical fiber network test. The test, conducted on December 13 using Huawei's…

AFP/APP Kuwait City: Sheikh Nawaf, who passed away at 86, in his brief era held pivotal roles during Kuwait's history, serving as defense minister during Iraq's invasion in 1990 and later as interior minister amid threats from militants in…

AFP/APP Gaza Strip: Fighting resumed in Gaza on Friday immediately after the expiry of a week-long truce between Israel and Hamas, with the first fatalities reported minutes later, according to health officials in the Palestinian…

News Desk Gaza Strip: Hundreds of people evacuated Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital on foot Saturday, an AFP journalist at the scene saw, after the hospital director said the Israeli army ordered the hospital emptied. The Hamas-run health…

APP United Nations: Lack of fuel is jeopardising 'the entire architecture of the humanitarian response' in Israel-blockaded Gaza, where raw sewage is now flowing in the streets, the head of UNRWA, the UN agency that assists Palestine…

Ishtiaq Ahmed London: The'hope' comes from seeing the estimated half a million Britons from around the UK of all backgrounds—Muslims, Christians, Jews, and those of other faiths and none faiths—converge on London in defiance of Suella to…

Resilience In Transit Asem Mustafa Awan: The small child on a pickup carrier embodies resilience and courage. Despite being under ten years of age, he is tied with ropes around his frail frame for his own safety and will remain in this…

AFP/APP Beirut: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has warned that the region is like a powder keg and anything is possible if Israel does not stop attacking Gaza. Meanwhile, Lebanon’s Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah…