Year: 2026

Economic pressures and changing social norms are driving couples in Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria to have fewer babies, with a recent study saying Maghreb fertility was at a historic low.

By Ali SawaftaQUSRA, West Bank, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Israel's military said on Thursday it had sent more troops to a West Bank village where settlers have trapped Palestinian families…

By Mohammad Yunus YawarKABUL, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch called for the release of two UN staffers and six NGO workers in Afghanistan following a string of Taliban…

ANKARA, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan will form political and military mechanisms under a defence pact signed between the regional powers last week, Turkey's defence ministry…

Israeli forces on Thursday moved against rogue settlers who have besieged Palestinians amid unusually strong US criticism, even as Israel inaugurated a major settlement elsewhere in the West Bank. Settlers…

DUBAI, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Iran will soon join the New Development Bank, the development lender established by the BRICS group of nations, central bank governor Abdolnaser Hemmati said in…

DUBAI, Aug 13 (Reuters) - The Strait of Hormuz is "under Iran's control and management", the head of Iran's Basij paramilitary unit, Hossein Taeb, said on Thursday, according to the…

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Hasseb AlwazeerCAIRO/GAZA, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Gaza cancer patients are dying at two to three times the pace they did before the start of the war…