Human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has been threatened with "physical elimination" by Iran, according to a statement from the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Ms Mohammadi, an Iranian, was awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for work including tackling oppression of women in the Middle Eastern ...
Rafah in southern Gaza has suffered large-scale destruction of buildings and infrastructure/ For Gazans, a 60-day ceasefire being negotiated between Israel and Hamas would be a lifeline. A window to bring in large quantities of desperately needed food, water and medicine after severe – and at ...
At least 15 Palestinians, including eight children and two women, have been killed in an Israeli strike near a medical point in central Gaza, a hospital there says. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said the strike hit people queueing for nutritional supplements in the town of Deir al-Balah. Graphic ...
Houthi footage shows militants blowing up the Magic Seas ship earlier this week/ Ten crew members have been rescued and at least three others killed after a cargo ship was attacked by Yemen's Houthis and sank in the Red Sea, a European naval mission says. The Liberian-flagged, Greek-operated ...
The Trump administration is imposing sanctions on the UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur Francesca Albanese, an outspoken critic of Israel's military offensive in Gaza. Secretary of State Marco Rubio linked the move to her support for the International Criminal Court (ICC), some of whose ...
'They're not criminals – they're just a mum and a dad', Lindsay Foreman's son says/ The son of a British couple detained in Iran has said he broke down in tears when he learned of their arrest and has not heard from them in six months. Craig and Lindsay Foreman were on a "once-in-a-lifetime" ...
Nimisha Priya is currently lodged in the central jail of Yemen's capital Sanaa/ An Indian nurse who is on death row in war-torn Yemen is set to be executed on 16 July, campaigners working to save her have told the BBC. for the murder of a local man - her former business partner Talal Abdo Mahdi ...
The BBC asks about the Trump administration's vision for Gaza/ US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Tuesday evening for the second time in as many days to discuss the ongoing war in Gaza. The meeting came after Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff ...
Dozens of commercial vessels have been attacked by Yemen’s Houthi movement since 2023 (file photo)/ Two crew members of a Liberian-flagged cargo ship have been killed in an attack in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, Liberia says. A Liberian representative to the International Maritime ...
Most of Gaza's population has also been displaced multiple times during the war/ Israel's defence minister says he has instructed its military to prepare a plan to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp in the south of the territory, Israeli media reports say. Israel Katz told journalists on ...
