Iraq's central bank will ban five more local banks from engaging in US dollar transactions. The move comes after meetings with American Treasury officials in efforts to combat money laundering, dollar smuggling and other violations, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter have told Reuters.
Israeli soldiers have killed a woman in a southern Lebanese border town as residents tried to return home ahead of the ceasefire deadline between Tel Aviv and Hezbollah.
Tel Aviv has received a shipment of heavy MK-84 bombs from Washington, after US President Donald Trump lifted a block imposed on the export of the munitions by the administration of his predecessor Joe Biden, the Israeli Defence Ministry announced on Sunday.
Two Palestinian police officers were killed and a third was seriously injured on Sunday by Israeli shelling in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip despite a ceasefire accord, according to official Palestinian sources.
Lebanese authorities arrested more than 25 people on Saturday following an attack on a United Nations convoy that wounded two peacekeepers the day before, the interior minister announced in a statement.
Israel's decision to force released Palestinian prisoners to wear shirts featuring a Star of David logo and the phrase 'we will not forget or forgive' in Arabic has sparked outrage and been slammed as a 'racist crime.'
Israel has demolished dozens of homes in Rafah, southern Gaza, despite the ceasefire between Tel Aviv and Hamas, satellite imagery analysis conducted by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency, Sanad, shows.
Hamas has released three more Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip in the sixth such exchange following days of tense negotiations that threatened to undo the precarious ceasefire.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has strongly condemned the Friday attack on a UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) convoy near the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, which wounded some peacekeepers.
The president of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region says security measures and border monitoring should be stepped up to prevent any activities that might disrupt the stability of the borders between Iran and the Kurdistan Region.
US President Donald Trump has advocated taking a "hard stance" on the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian enclave for which he has proposed a U.S. takeover and where a fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas is in place.
The Arab Group at the United Nations, along with group of UN ambassadors, have strongly rejected any plans to displace Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, deeming it as a violation of international law.
US intelligence agencies have concluded that Israel is considering "significant strikes" on Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2025, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
The director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital has been subjected to various forms of intense torture and inhumane treatment in an Israeli military prison, his lawyer has told Al Jazeera.
A record number of journalists were killed in 2024, with Israel responsible for more than two-thirds of those deaths, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has announced in its annual report.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has spoken to Syria’s interim leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, the first such a top-level contact since the ouster of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Recovery and reconstruction needs in the Gaza Strip would amount to over $53 billion, with short-term needs in the first three years reaching $20.568 billion, the Untied Nations has estimated.
King Abdullah II of Jordan said Tuesday that Arab nations are unified in their opposition to displacing Palestinians from Gaza, following a meeting with US President Trump in which Trump reiterated his plans for Palestinians to move elsewhere while the U.S. rebuilds Gaza.
Hamas has reaffirmed its commitment to the ceasefire agreement and prisoner exchange deal with Israel, saying Tel Aviv is failing to uphold its commitments, holding it responsible for any complications or delays.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued an ultimatum, stressing the Gaza ceasefire would be cancelled and "intense fighting" would resume if Hamas does not release captives by noon on Saturday.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for avoiding the resumption of hostilities in the Gaza Strip, urging all parties to uphold the ceasefire accord and engage in further negotiations.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has warned that Israel's military operation in the West Bank has escalated forced displacement of Palestinians at an alarming level, impacting over 76,000 people in the area.
The Gaza Government’s Media Office called on the international community Monday to pressure Israel to implement the humanitarian protocol of its ceasefire agreement with Hamas, warning that continued delays could lead to a “catastrophic humanitarian crisis.”
The United Nations has announced a temporarily pause to all its operations in Yemen’s Sa'ada governorate after the recent detention of the body's personnel by Houthis.
