Mohamed Khameri

Republican candidate Robert Sprague gives his victory speech after winning Treasurer for the state of Ohio on November 6, 2018 at the Ohio Republican Party’s election night party [Getty] Local and state US officials have been investing in sovereign bonds issued by Israel since 7 October, in deals that have raised ethical concerns, according to […]

Dozens of Palestinian detainees have spoken of the torture and abuse they face in Israeli detention [Getty/archive] A Hamas leader in the occupied West Bank died in Israeli custody, Palestinian authorities and the group said Friday. Mustafa Muhammad Abu Ara, 63, died after being moved from a prison in southern Israel to a hospital, according

Algeria reminded France of a particularly dark chapter of its colonial past during an otherwise celebratory opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics on Friday. Algerian athletes brought red roses on their boat as they paraded for the event, and then tossed them into the river to honour victims of an infamous 1961 police massacre of Algerian

Trump’s warm greeting to Netanyahu contrasted with Kamala Harris’s critical reception [Getty] Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sharply criticized his Democratic political rivals and pledged to work for peace in the Middle East if reelected as he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Florida on Friday. The meeting capped a week in which

More than 180,000 Palestinians have fled Israeli attacks around the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis in four days, the United Nations said Friday, after an operation by the Israeli army to extract captives’ bodies from the area. Recent “intensified hostilities” in the Khan Younis area, more than nine months into the Israel-Hamas war, have

Passengers were waiting for more information about their trips at Paris’ Montparnasse train station [Getty] France’s high-speed rail network was hit by arson attacks that disrupted travel for hundreds of thousands of passengers on Friday, just hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. A source close to the investigation told AFP the attacks

A historic boat parade down the River Seine launched the Paris Olympics with spectacular French flair Friday, as the City of Light welcomed the world’s greatest athletes for a sporting extravaganza. Braving torrential rain, some 300,000 people lined the river banks to cheer on the armada carrying competitors past the city’s iconic sights: the Eiffel

The Libyans were arrested at a farm in Mpumalanga province east of Johannesburg [Getty] South African authorities rounded up 95 Libyans on Friday in a raid at a farm that appeared to have been converted into an illegal military training base, police said. The morning raid was in a remote area outside the town of

Hezbollah and Israel have been clashing for months on the Lebanese border [Getty] An Israeli military commander said Friday that troops in the country’s north were preparing for “a decisive offensive” against Lebanon’s Hezbollah after months of deadly cross-border exchanges. Israeli forces have traded near-daily fire with Hamas ally Hezbollah since the Gaza war began

Veteran diplomat Martin S. Indyk, an author and leader at prominent U.S. think tanks who devoted years to finding a path toward peace in the Middle East, died Thursday. He was 73. His wife, Gahl Hodges Burt, confirmed in a phone call that he died from complications of esophageal cancer at the couple’s home in