Lebanon's top Public Prosecutor, on Wednesday, charged the judge investigating the 2020 Beirut Port explosion that killed at least 220 people, of stymieing his effort to hold members of the...

Swedish and Finnish hopes of quickly joining NATO have run into an obstacle in the form of objections by Turkiye, which holds veto powers over accession to the military...

Under pressure from Washington to stem the flow of dollars into Iran, Iraq's Prime Minister sent elite counter-terrorism forces more accustomed to battling Islamist militants to shut down dealers...

A different type of energy transition has taken place at this year's World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting. Unlike 2021's COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, where oil and gas executives...

In better times, Om Mohamed's family used to take holidays at resorts on Egypt's Red Sea coast. Now there is no money for vacations. Om Mohamed, 61, and her...

European investigators are in Beirut quizzing witnesses as they probe suspected money laundering and embezzlement by Lebanese Central Bank Governor, Riad Salameh, who denies any wrongdoing and still enjoys support...

British-Iranian relations, which have been strained for decades, were back in the spotlight after Iranian authorities sentenced to death British-Iranian national, Alireza Akbari, for spying, charges he denies. Here...

Israel's sharp tilt to what is likely to be the most hard-right government in its history puts its new Arab allies in the awkward position of having to deal...

Turkiye's Maritime Authority said on Thursday it would continue to block the passage of oil tankers that do not carry appropriate insurance letters, adding that insurance checks on ships in...

When Saudi Arabian Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, took his seat next to the FIFA President at the World Cup opener in Qatar, it capped a remarkable turnabout in...

A decade ago, Tunisian fisherman, Ahmed Chelli's nets bulged with fish and octopus that he sold at the local market in the Kerkennah islands. Today, he pulls up only...

Alaa AbdElfattah, an Egyptian-British software developer and blogger from an activist family who rose to prominence in the Arab Spring uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak is now a symbol...

Benjamin Netanyahu faces a new test forming a government with an ultra-nationalist party whose sudden rise has many at home and allies abroad alarmed at the potential implications for Israeli democracy.

Benjamin Netanyahu's likely return to power will fuel concern about deepening tensions with Arab neighbours, but Gulf States which forged ties with Israel under his leadership will see him...

Lebanon entered an unprecedented government crisis on Tuesday, with no president, a caretaker cabinet with limited powers and a deeply fragmented Parliament. The country is still struggling with a...

On 1 November, Israel holds an unprecedented fifth election in less than four years, with former Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vying for a comeback, Reuters reports. Caught in an...

The Lebanese Presidency is set to fall vacant on 31 October, unless the main powerbrokers can strike a deal on the election of a successor to Michel Aoun, raising...

Social media companies are unlikely to fully abide by Turkiye's new law requiring them to remove "disinformation" content and share user data with authorities, analysts say, raising the spectre...

The Qatar World Cup was always going to be unique in several ways, but one aspect FIFA would not have welcomed is that fans the world over are opting not...

Western actors and officials have cut their hair on camera to dramatise their support for Iranian women, whose protests have rocked the Islamic Republic since a 22-year-old woman died...

Neither side is backing down in a battle of wills over oil, between Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince and US President Joe Biden, putting a severe strain on their countries'...

US legislation that could open members of oil producing group OPEC+ to antitrust lawsuits has emerged as a possible tool to tackle high fuel prices, after the body said...

In a bare kitchen in her house in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, Umm Zakaria Al-Sharaabi, prepares for a daily challenge – creating a meal out of virtually nothing to...

Lebanon and Israel are closer than ever to signing a deal demarcating their maritime border, opening the door to new oil and gas exploration, after years of US-brokered negotiations....

Raihana, 19, wanted to be a doctor, studying until midnight in recent weeks for Afghanistan's university entrance exam, a chance for women to advance their education even as they...

School teacher, Claude Koteich, her teenage daughter and 10-year-old son should have all been back in class weeks ago – but a crisis in Lebanon's education sector has left...

At downtown Khartoum's Al-Souq Al-Arabi, travel agencies helping young Sudanese seek a brighter economic future in Egypt are replacing once-packed hardware stores in a corner of the capital's main...

Saudi Arabia has won a diplomatic victory by securing freedom for foreign fighters captured in Ukraine, signalling the value of the Crown Prince's alliance with Russia to Western partners...

On the run from authorities after forcing a bank to release her family savings at gunpoint to treat her cancer-stricken sister, 28-year-old Lebanese interior designer, Sali Hafiz, insists she...

Five months after Lebanon's draft IMF deal raised hopes it could finally pull together an economic reform plan to address its financial meltdown, political and financial elites are obstructing...

Palestinian-American, Amer Zahr, is on a mission to heal through humour. In 2015, he started bringing fellow Arab-American comedians from the United States to perform stand-up across occupied Palestinian...

A series of rocket attacks on a gas field in northern Iraq has sent the US contractors working on its expansion packing, dealing a blow to the Kurdish region's...