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Features Men carry Hezbollah flags while riding on two wheelers, at the entrance of Beirut's southern suburbs, in Lebanon, November 27, 2024. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani/File Photo

US Plan Sees Hezbollah Disarmed by Year-end, Israeli Withdrawal

The United States has presented Lebanon with a proposal for disarming Hezbollah by the end of the year, along with ending Israel's military operations in the…

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Features Palestinian woman Sally Muzhed, 38, displaced from Deir al-Balah, poses for a picture holding a plate with eggplant, her only food for the day, amid severe food shortages in the Gaza Strip, in Deir al-Balah, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Mothers in Gaza Stretch Meager Ingredients Where They Can, but Say Hunger Persists

A single bowl of eggplant stewed in watery tomato juice must sustain Sally Muzhed’s family of six for the day. She calls it moussaka, but it’s a pale echo of…

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Features Motorists wave Hezbollah flags as they parade in Beirut's southern suburbs on Nov. 27, 2024. (AFP/Getty Images)

Can Lebanon Disarm Hezbollah?

Lebanon's cabinet has told the army to draw up a plan to establish a state monopoly on arms in a challenge to the Iran-backed Shiite group Hezbollah, which…

Features A patient lies on a bed as a technician (L) adjusts a screen before the start of a Proximie surgery, with doctor Ghassan Abu Sitta in Beirut guiding Palestinian surgeon Hafez Abu Khousa in the operating room at Al Awda Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip April 30, 2016. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem

A Young Surgeon Tries to Save Lives at a Crippled Gaza Hospital

At Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip, nothing is sterilized, so Dr. Jamal Salha and other surgeons wash their instruments in soap. Infections are rampant. The…

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Features Pedestrians walk past a flooded area during heavy rains, in Hong Kong, China, August 5, 2025. (Reuters)

What Is Chikungunya, the Virus Now Spreading in Southern China? 

Chinese authorities have taken measures this week to try to curb the spread of chikungunya, a virus that often causes fever and joint pain. As of Wednesday,…

Features Lebanese President Joseph Aoun. (AP file)

Lebanon’s Supreme Defense Council: A Coordinating Body within Government Limits  

Debate over the Supreme Defense Council (SDC) is back in Lebanon amid rising political discussions about the possibility of assigning it a role in handling the…

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Features A man walks near solar panels on his farm, an increasingly popular sustainable energy option for homes and farms to generate electricity, in Mosul, Iraq, July 8, 2025. (Reuters)

On Farmland and on Rooftops, Iraqis Turn to Solar as Power Grid Falters 

Weary of paying big bills for power supplies that are often cut off, wheat grower Abdallah al-Ali is among the rising number of farmers to have turned to solar…

Features A Hezbollah supporter holds up a Hezbollah flag in front of the headquarters of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, July 26, 2025, during a demonstration against the Israeli war and what they say is the starvation of civilians in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

What is Hezbollah, the Lebanese Group under Pressure to Disarm?

The Lebanese government is expected to discuss Hezbollah's disarmament on Tuesday, facing pressure from the United States to make progress as Israel presses…

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Features Palestinians wait to receive food from a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, August 4, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled

Gaza War Deepens Israel's Divides

As it grinds on well into its twenty-second month, Israel's war in Gaza has set friends and families against one another and sharpened existing political and…

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Features  Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with the head of the Russian-controlled Donetsk region Denis Pushilin during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Trump’s Deadline for the Kremlin Looms but Putin Shows No Sign of Making Concessions

The coming week could mark a pivotal moment in the war between Russia and Ukraine, as US President Donald Trump’s deadline for the Kremlin to reach a peace…

Features  A Somali man grazes camels in Beder Camel Farm on the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP)

Somalia’s Camel Milk Revolution Is Improving Nutrition and Creating Jobs

Camels have long been the backbone of Somalia's pastoralist culture, feeding families, transporting goods and standing tall in local folklore. But on the dusty…

Features A Russian and Chinese national flag flutter near Tiananmen Gate for the visiting Russia's President Vladimir Putin, in Beijing, May 16, 2024. (AP)

China Pushes Back at US Demands to Stop Buying Russian and Iranian Oil

US and Chinese officials may be able to settle many of their differences to reach a trade deal and avert punishing tariffs, but they remain far apart on one…

Features  Palestinians leave a food distribution point run by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) group with bags and wooden pallets, near the Netsarim corridor in the central Gaza Strip on August 3, 2025. (AFP)

UN Warns of Deadly Aid Crisis in Gaza amid Looting and Israeli Restrictions

The trickle of food aid Israel allows to enter Gaza after nearly 22 months of war is seized by Palestinians risking their lives under fire, looted by gangs or…

Features FILE PHOTO: A pump jack operates near a crude oil reserve in the Permian Basin oil field near Midland, Texas, US February 18, 2025.  REUTERS/Eli Hartman/File Photo

How Moscow Might Respond if Trump Stops Russian Oil to India

US President Donald Trump's demand on India to halt Russian oil imports could threaten billions in Russian revenues, prompt Moscow to retaliate by stopping a…

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Features Tsunami waves hit the coast of Minamisoma in Fukushima Prefecture, photographed on March 11, 2011. (Sadatsugu Tomizawa / AFP / Getty Images)

Some Facts About the Strongest Earthquakes Ever Recorded 

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia’s Far East early Wednesday, causing tsunami waves to wash ashore in Japan and Alaska and calls for…

Features Children and youths gather as a C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft flies over during an aid-drop on the northern Gaza Strip on July 27, 2025. (AFP)

Gaza Aid Turns into Free-for-All Looting Spectacle  

Despite the limited and inadequate flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the bulk of it is being hijacked by gangs and looters amid a breakdown in law and order,…

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Features Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis, in Gaza City, July 28, 2025. (Reuters)

Israel’s Netanyahu Claims No One in Gaza Is Starving. Data and Witnesses Disagree 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says no one in Gaza is starving: “There is no policy of starvation in Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza. We…

Features 27 July 2025, Palestinian Territories, Gaza City: Palestinians carry sacks of flour from a humanitarian aid convoy, as they make their way along al-Rashid street. Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa

What to Expect, and What Not to, at the UN Meeting on an Israel-Palestinian Two-state Solution

The UN General Assembly is bringing high-level officials together this week to promote a two-state solution to the decades-old Israel-Palestinian conflict that…

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Features  Protesters hold a Palestinian flag during a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in Santiago, Chile July 25, 2025. (Reuters)

Palestinians Hold Mixed Views as France Prepares to Recognize State

Palestinians expressed mixed opinions Friday after French President Emmanuel Macron said he would recognize a Palestinian state, with enthusiasm mitigated by…

Features French President Emmanuel Macron (L) welcomes Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas prior to their meeting at the Elysee Palace, on September 21, 2018 in Paris. (AFP)

Frustration, Gaza Alarm Drove Macron to Go It Alone on Palestine Recognition

President Emmanuel Macron's announcement that France would become the first Western member of the United Nations Security Council to recognize a Palestinian…

Features A general view of the Trump Turnberry hotel and golf resort in Turnberry, on the west coast of Scotland, on July 21, 2025. (AFP)

Scotland Awaits Famous Son as Trump Visits Mother’s Homeland 

Donald Trump will fly into Scotland on Friday for a private visit to the land where his mother was born and spent her childhood on the remote Isle of Lewis. …

Features A view of buildings on the corniche in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, Egypt, April 20, 2025. (Reuters)

Rising Seas and Shifting Sands Attack Ancient Alexandria from Below 

From her ninth-floor balcony over Alexandria's seafront, Eman Mabrouk looked down at the strip of sand that used to be the wide beach where she played as a…

Features A Red Crescent team exhumes bodies from a mass grave in Khartoum. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Sudan Families Bury Loved Ones Twice as War Reshapes Khartoum

Under a punishing mid‑morning sun, Souad Abdallah cradles her infant and stares at a freshly opened pit in al‑Baraka square on the eastern fringe of Sudan’s…

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Features A woman walks next to the graves of soldiers killed in the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus at the Tymvos Makedonitissas military cemetery in Nicosia, Cyprus July 20, 2025. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou

Greeks Mourn, Turks Celebrate Anniversary of Invasion that Split Cyprus

Greek and Turkish Cypriots marked on Sunday the 51st anniversary of Türkiye’s 1974 invasion of Cyprus, an event that split the island and remains a source of…

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