The stakes are high in Lebanon's election. The heavily armed Hezbollah Movement has seen one of its main rivals descend into disarray, handing it an opportunity to cement power...

A US Senate committee is expected to pass a Bill on Thursday that could open members of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its partners to antitrust lawsuits for...

Emboldened by an oil price surge since Russia invaded Ukraine, Iran's clerical rulers are in no rush to revive a 2015 nuclear pact with world powers to ease sanctions...

Since Sudan's military staged a coup six months ago, many former allies of toppled autocrat, Omar Al-Bashir, have been allowed to rejoin the civil service, while others have been...

The fallout of the Russia and Ukraine war has just helped tip two of world's poorest countries into full-blown crises, and the list of those at risk – and...

By single-handedly knocking 13 per cent off rocketing oil prices on one day this week, the United Arab Emirates demonstrated the power Gulf producers wield in the market and...

Syrian refugee, Ahmad Al-Hariri, who fled the war in his country for neighbouring Lebanon 10 years ago, spent the last decade hoping in vain to escape to a new...

As students return to universities across Afghanistan this month, law major, Waheeda Bayat, will not be among them. The 24-year-old was looking forward to resuming her course at the private Gawharshad...

The IMF has asked Lebanon to fulfil a string of pre-conditions before negotiating a bailout, four sources briefed on recent talks said, pressing for steps Beirut has long failed...

Ukraine asks Turkey to ban Russian ships from its waterways

In a brightly lit classroom in Gaza, a teacher spells out Hebrew words on a whiteboard, followed attentively by Maher Al-Farra and dozens of other Palestinians hoping to take...

A single activist helped turn the tide against NSO Group, one of the world's most sophisticated spyware companies now facing a cascade of legal action and scrutiny in Washington...

A move by Libya's parliament to oust Interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah, who had promised not to use his stand-in position for political advancement, is testament to his success...

Ahmed Samir zips expertly through the Cairo traffic in his tuk-tuk, making a meagre living by ferrying Egyptians around the chaotic mega-city in his three-wheeled people carrier, Thomson Reuters...

Idrees Al-Haddad used to buy seven kilogramme tubs of Yemen's world-famous honey when he went shopping. Today he can only afford one kilogramme. Like many Yemenis suffering the extreme...

Short of masks and short of protective gowns, Yemen's over-stretched medical workers started dying from COVID-19. Nadia Dhrah – herself a doctor – was dismayed, so she resolved to...

A decision by Sunni Muslim leader, Saad Al-Hariri, to step away from Lebanese politics opens the way for Shia Hezbollah to extend its already deep sway over the country,...

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have launched two missile attacks at the United Arab Emirates in the last week, raising the stakes in a ruinous and complex conflict. Monday's assault, which...

Palestinian Zeyad Abu Odah watched with a smile as his four-storey house, destroyed in an Israeli air strike in last May's fierce Israeli attack on Gaza, was slowly being...

On the afternoon of 30 December, security forces banged on the windows of Khartoum Teaching Hospital then fired tear gas into an emergency room packed with protesters injured in...

The biggest task facing Kuwait's octogenarian crown prince after unexpectedly stepping in for the emir this month will be to tackle the perennial political feuding which has long blocked...

Abu Dhabi Crown Prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the UAE's de facto ruler, will visit Turkey for the first time in years, as the regional rivals work to...

Kuwait's Crown Prince has been asked to carry out some of Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah's constitutional duties on a temporary basis, state news agency, KUNA. said on Monday,...

Yemeni forces under a Saudi-led coalition said on Friday they have withdrawn from around the main port of Hodeidah held by their foes, the Houthis, as the Red Sea...

Democratic US Representative, Ilhan Omar, filed legislation on Friday seeking to block the sale of $650 million air-to-air missiles to Saudi Arabia, the first major arms sale to the...

The United States and Qatar have agreed that Qatar will represent the diplomatic interests of the United States in Afghanistan, a senior US official told Reuters, an important signal...

Iran will adopt an uncompromising stance when it resumes nuclear talks with major powers, betting it has the leverage to win wide sanctions relief in return for curbs on...

Dotted among wetlands on Tunisia's coast, a patchwork of tiny man-made islands stretches out towards the Mediterranean. Ploughed in neat furrows and shored up by sandbanks inside a lagoon,...

In his eighties, Mohammed Hadi Al-Harmali has been uprooted four times by shifting frontlines during the seven years of Yemen's brutal civil war. Out of money and bedridden with...

Already mired in economic collapse, Lebanon is facing a blast of Gulf Arab anger after a prominent broadcaster-turned-minister levelled blunt criticism at Saudi Arabia, in a row that has...

Mona Al-Khurais has loved guns ever since as a young girl her father took her on hunting trips in Saudi Arabia and taught her how to shoot. Five years...

After dawn prayers Hatim Ali Hadi dons his tracksuit and heads to a park in the Yemeni capital Sanaa for group exercise sessions which help take people's minds off...