Middle East and North Africa
U.S. hopes to name Qatar as major non-NATO ally, official says
Washington (Reuters) - The United States hopes to move forward with naming Qatar as a major non-NATO ally, a status that provides foreign nations...
Qatar operates weapons funding network for Hezbollah using gold shipments through Africa: Reports
Doha - Qatar has been operating a weapons funding network from Europe to Hezbollah using gold shipments traded across Africa, according to a latest...
U.S. threatens to sanction arms makers that sell to Iran
Washington (Reuters) - The Trump administration vowed on Wednesday to impose the “full force” of U.S. sanctions on any international arms manufacturers who deal...
Defying fatwa, Iraqis flock to COVID cemetery to exhume dead, re-bury elsewhere
Najaf (Reuters) - It took Abu Haider and his relatives several hours to dig up his nephew’s grave and exhume the body at a...
U.N. war crimes experts urge Turkey to rein in rebels in Syria
Geneva (Reuters) - Turkey must rein in Syrian rebels it supports in northern Syria who may have carried out kidnappings, torture and looting of...