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By Kanishka Singh. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in a phone call on Friday that the escalation of tensions in the Middle ...
Al Jazeera was the leading media spreading the news about unrest in a small city in Tunisia throughout the Middle East in 2011. [56] People in the Middle East have heavily relied on Al Jazeera to obtain news about their regions and the world even more than YouTube and Google. [56]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. military will deploy additional fighter jets and Navy warships to the Middle East, the Pentagon said on Friday, as Washington seeks to bolster defenses following ...
The "Middle East" is traditionally defined as the Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia), Levant, and Egypt and neighboring areas of Arabia, Anatolia and Iran. It currently encompasses the area from Egypt , Turkey and Cyprus in the west to Iran and the Persian Gulf in the east, [ 1 ] and from Turkey and Iran in the north, to Yemen and Oman in the south.
The Middle East (term originally coined in English [see § Terminology] [note 1]) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage as a replacement of the term Near East (as opposed to the Far East) beginning in the early 20th century.
Al-Monitor is a news website launched in 2012 by the Arab-American entrepreneur Jamal Daniel. [ 1] Based in Washington, D.C., [ 2] Al-Monitor provides reporting and analysis from and about the Middle East. Al-Monitor is the recipient of the International Press Institute 's 2014 Free Media Pioneer Award. [ 3]
The BBC launched BBC Arabic Television on 11 March 2008, an Arabic-language news channel in North Africa and the Middle East. [225] This is the second time that the BBC has launched an Arabic language TV channel; as mentioned above , the demise of the original BBC World Service Arabic TV channel had at least contributed to the founding of the ...
The Middle East Monitor ( MEMO) is a not-for-profit press monitoring organisation [1] and lobbying group [2] [3] that emerged in mid 2009. [4] MEMO is largely focused on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, but writes about other issues in the Middle East as well. MEMO is pro-Palestinian in orientation [5] [6] [7] and supports Islamist causes.