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News Articles: Middle East

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to the army leaders at the Hotel le Brienne on  July 13.

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  • Europe

French President Macron says France will recognize Palestine as a state

The mostly symbolic move puts added diplomatic pressure on Israel as the war and humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip rage. France is now the biggest Western power to recognize Palestine.

July 25, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Displaced Palestinians receive donated food at a community kitchen in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday.

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  • Middle East

U.S. cuts short Gaza ceasefire talks and accuses Hamas of lacking 'good faith'

A breakthrough on a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas following 21 months of war has eluded the Trump administration as humanitarian conditions worsen in Gaza.

July 25, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Iran's deputy foreign minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, then the country's envoy in Vienna, awaiting the start of the International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting in Vienna, Austria, Nov. 21, 2019.

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  • World

European countries are set for Iran talks, but expectations for a breakthrough are low

Germany, France and the United Kingdom will hold talks with Iran in Istanbul Friday, just days after the three European nations warned they would reimpose stiff sanctions on Tehran.

July 24, 2025
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By:
  • Jackie Northam
Palestinians hold onto an aid truck returning to Gaza City from the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday.

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  • Middle East

Israeli forces have killed over 1,000 aid-seekers in Gaza since May, the U.N. says

More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since May while trying to get food in Gaza, mostly near food sites run by an American contractor, the U.N. human rights office said.

July 23, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
AFP journalist Khader Zaanoun poses for a picture in Gaza City on Tuesday. AFP journalists in the Gaza Strip say chronic food shortages are affecting their ability to cover Israel's conflict with Hamas militants.

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  • World

Agence France-Presse says it wants to pull its hunger-stricken journalists out of Gaza

French news agency Agence France-Presse called on the Israeli government to allow its freelance journalists to leave the Gaza Strip because of worsening hunger.

July 22, 2025
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By:
  • Nick Spicer
Adham Aljamous, 32, and his father Nouruldeen, 72, on their rooftop in Gaziantep, Turkey. They fled Syria over a decade ago. Now, with a chance to return, they're unsure what's left of home.

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  • Middle East

Assad is gone. But can Syrians go home?

After over a decade in exile, many Syrians living abroad are contemplating what was once unthinkable: going home. But what does home look like today?

July 21, 2025
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By:
  • Rebecca Rosman
People and traffic pass the fence of the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis which was hit in an Israeli strike at dawn that targeted the southern Gaza Strip city on May 13, 2025.

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  • Middle East

Inside a Gaza hospital: A British surgeon on what he's witnessing firsthand

Dr. Nick Maynard tells NPR he's treating children shot at food distribution sites and witnessing what he believes is the systematic destruction of Gaza's civilian infrastructure.

July 21, 2025
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By:
  • Sacha Pfeiffer
Syrian government security forces block Bedouin fighters, background, from entering Sweida province, in Busra al-Harir village, southern Syria on Sunday.

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  • Middle East

Syria's armed Bedouins say they have withdrawn from Druze-majority city

The clashes between militias of the Druze religious minority and the Sunni Muslim clans killed hundreds and threatened to unravel Syria's already fragile postwar transition.

July 21, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Palestinians react after carrying the bodies of those killed while trying to reach aid trucks entering northern Gaza through the Zikim crossing with Israel, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, on Sunday.

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  • World

Nearly 100 people killed seeking aid in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian officials say

Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance.

July 20, 2025
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez,
  • Daniel Estrin,
  • and 1 more
Palestinians who were injured during a food distribution at a center run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization approved by Israel, receive treatment on the floor of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 19, 2025.

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  • Middle East

32 Palestinians killed trying to reach food distribution hubs, Gaza authorities say

Palestinians were shot dead during a food distribution on Saturday at a center run by a U.S.- and Israeli-backed group in southern Gaza, hospital officials said.

July 19, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Israeli soldiers stand guard as Syrian Druze people cross back into Syria at the Israeli-Syrian border, in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams, on Thursday.

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  • Middle East

Syrian forces who fought Druze militias leave Sweida province under a ceasefire

The conflict had drawn airstrikes against Syrian forces by neighboring Israel in defense of the Druze before a truce halted most of the fighting.

July 18, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Palestinian Christians wait to pray at the midnight Christmas Eve Mass out side the Deir Al Latin Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City, 2021.

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  • Middle East

Israel strikes Gaza church, killing 3 and wounding priest who was close to late pope

Until his final days, the late Pope Francis had regularly spoken to the priest at Gaza's Catholic church about the situation in the war-ravaged territory.

July 17, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike that hit the Syrian Defense Ministry, in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday.

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  • Middle East

Israel strikes Syria's capital Damascus, pledging to defend Druze minorities

Israel said it struck military targets in Syria's capital to intervene after Syrian and Bedouin fighting against the Druze in southeastern Syria.

July 16, 2025
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By:
  • Ruth Sherlock,
  • Greg Dixon,
  • and 3 more
Smoke rise from clashes between Syrian government forces and Druze militias in Sweida city, southern Syria on Tuesday.

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  • Middle East

Israel strikes in Damascus as Syrian forces clash with Druze groups

The strike came as clashes continued in the southern Syrian city of Sweida after a ceasefire between government forces and Druze armed groups collapsed.

July 16, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Protesters enter Miznon Hardware Lane in Melbourne, Australia, July 4. Demonstrators clashed with staff at the restaurant, which is co-owned by Shahar Segal, who had joined the Israeli- and U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as a spokesperson. Segal has since left his role with the controversial Gaza food distribution group.

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  • Middle East

An Israeli restaurant owner quits a controversial Gaza food program after criticism

Shahar Segal, who runs popular restaurants around the world, has left his role as a spokesman for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation amid calls to boycott his businesses.

July 15, 2025
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By:
  • Itay Stern
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