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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan hosted a Hamas delegation on Saturday evening in Ankara and discussed efforts for a ceasefire in Gaza, Turkish state media confirmed. Hamas's delegation was led by Muhammad Ismail Darwish, head of Hamas’s Political (Shura) Council.After Saturday's meeting with Fidan, Turkish and Hamas officials ...

An Italian court upheld two life sentences on Friday for parents found guilty of honor killing their 18-year-old daughter for refusing an arranged marriage to her older cousin, according to international media reports.Saman Abbas’s body was discovered buried in a farmhouse near her father’s work in 2022, 18 ...

When American troops pulled out of Kabul in a hasty moved under the Biden administration in 2021, the military left behind a trove of US weapons. Many of the weapons left in the hands of the Taliban have since been sold to terror groups across the region, including ...

A series of coordinated attacks on US fast-food franchises in Karachi has escalated Pakistan’s ongoing protest movement over the war in Gaza, with demonstrators targeting businesses seen as symbols of American support for Israel.For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org On April 2, protesters vandalized ...

Senior Kremlin officials on Tuesday said there was little chance of striking a new nuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States soon because there was not enough trust and cautioned that a host of other countries would gain nuclear weapons.The bleak assessment from Moscow comes amid the ...

Syria and forgotten memoryAl-Ittihad, UAE, March 28For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org During what became known as the Arab Spring – a period marked by widespread turmoil and suffering for the Arab peoples despite being backed by major powers, particularly under the vision of ...

■ IT HAS sometimes been said of diplomats that they are soldiers in suits instead of uniforms. This comes to mind as Holocaust Remembrance Day approaches, and we remember heroic diplomats such as Raoul Wallenberg and Chiune Sugihara, who saved thousands of Jewish lives through their courage and ...

Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, is a profile in courage and responsibility after being in the wrong place at the right time.  A nominee for the Genesis Prize in 2021, Goldberg was accidentally invited into a chat group on an open-source messaging service Signal, where top US ...

Iran remains the primary cause of global terrorism, both directly and through its proxies, the National Security Council said on Tuesday in its public assessment of threats against Israelis abroad, ahead of spring vacations.The NSC said the assessment is intended to raise awareness among Israeli travelers regarding the ...

On March 8, 2025, US authorities arrested Palestinian Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian-born student activist and key mediator in Columbia University’s pro-Hamas protests, after ICE agents raided his home. The arrest followed State Department orders canceling his student visa. Khalil played a crucial role in negotiations between protesters and ...