Arab states

A closed Israeli military gate stands near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, February 18, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ammar Awad

Israel blocks Ramallah meeting with Arab ministers: Israeli official

The move, days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing government announced one of the largest expansions of settlements in the West Bank in years, underlined escalating tensions...

A Palestinian man stands inside a house that was damaged by Israeli strikes during Israel-Hamas fighting last May, in Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip September 26, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/File Photo

Middle East

Arab states to keep talking with Trump envoy on Egypt's Gaza plan

Palestinians, who were displaced to the south at Israel's order during the war, arrive on foot while making their way back to their homes in the northern Gaza, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, January 27, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

Middle East

Arab foreign ministers reject Trump call for transfer of Palestinians

China

Xi says China wants to work with Arab states to resolve hotspot issues

A man waves a Palestinian flag as people protest on the day of a public hearing held by The International Court of Justice (ICJ) to allow parties to give their views on the legal consequences of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories before eventually issuing a non-binding legal opinion, in The Hague, Netherlands, February 21, 2024. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw/File Photo

Hamas-Israel war

Arab states, Turkey, ask World Court to declare Israel's occupation illegal

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad arrives in Jeddah, to attend the Arab League summit the following day, Saudi Arabia, 18 May, 2023. SANA/Handout via REUTERS

World+Biz

Then and now: How Arab states changed course on Syria

An anti-government protester is carried by fellow protesters as he shouts slogans during a rally to demand for the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh outside Sanaa University March 7, 2011. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah/File Photo

Politics

Timeline: Ten years from uprising, Yemen lies fractured and hungry

A woman and her daughters sit outside their tent at a camp for internally displaced people near Sanaa, Yemen, August 15, 2016/ Reuters

World+Biz

Yemen 'Arab Spring' unity torn asunder by hunger and war

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani during the Gulf Cooperation Council's (GCC) 41st Summit at Al-Ula in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.(REUTERS PHOTO.)

World+Biz