Middle East

Hamas says it has no links to companies and individuals targeted by Sudan's crackdown, which it claims seized assets belonged to Palestinian investors and businesses.

"Israel extends its hand back in peace," Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says after over 300 Iraqi officials, including tribal leaders, call for the country to join the Abraham Accords. Baghdad, officially at war with Jerusalem, condemn officials as "traitors."

Palestinian Authority president tells the General Assembly that Israel is "destroying the prospect of a political settlement based on the two-state solution," calls Israel "apartheid state." Israel's UN envoy: Those who truly support peace do not threaten delusional ultimatums from the UN platform. 

Lebanese PM Najib Mikati says the Iranian shipments constitute a breach of Lebanon's sovereignty, while the state electricity company says Lebanon is at risk of a total blackout by the end of September.

Sudanese authorities seize control of lucrative assets that for years provided backing for Hamas, shedding light on how the country served as a haven for the Palestinian terrorist group under Sudan's former dictator.

The US official declined to say what the United States might do if Iran refuses to return to negotiations, or if a resumption of the original deal proves impossible.

“The region’s been crowded out by other global crises, but there’s also a sense of Western hopelessness after so many years of crisis,” one observer notes.

"General security for both sides, indeed for the whole world, can only be ensured by a two-state solution," he says, calling for the creation of a Palestinian state established on the 1967 lines with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Abeer Jebril says she hopes her portraits will bring attention to the social and political problems women face in Gaza. "Men and women are both in chains under the occupation," she says.

Egyptian presidency declares three days of national mourning following death of Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi, who temporarily ruled Egypt after 2011 Arab Spring uprising.