France on Wednesday pledged to send 500,000 doses of coronavirus vaccines to Lebanon, along with €100 million ($118.9 million) in emergency aid to rebuild Beirut a year after a...

The UK's military chief said on Wednesday that Iran made a "big mistake" by "attacking" the Mercer Street oil tanker, killing two people, including a British national, Anadolu Agency reported. "What...

German police have detained a Syrian man in Berlin suspected of firing a grenade into a crowd of civilians at a refugee camp near Damascus in 2014, prosecutors said...

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday accused certain parties of seeking to drag Lebanon into a civil war, Anadolu Agency reported. "We will not go where the enemy wants (to a...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken sharply condemned on Wednesday the Assad regime's "brutal assault" on the southwestern Syrian city of Daraa, Anadolu Agency reports. Blinken called "for an immediate end...

"Lebanon counts on you, don't let it down. Thank you."

The militaries of Oman and the US are holding joint exercises codenamed "Valley of Fire 2021". The 11-day drill hosted at the sultanate's Thumrait Air Base began yesterday and...

"Come on, let's trample these politicians"

The Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) urged President Kais Saied to expedite the appointment of a prime minister and form a government to face the urgent challenges the country...

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister has rejected the possibility of normalising ties with Israel, saying that the goal of Palestinian statehood must be addressed first. "The best way to build...

Thirty officials have been sacked from state institutions in Tunisia following President Kais Saied's 25 July takeover of executive powers. Last month, Saied announced that he had frozen parliament, sacked Prime...

A near two-decade old act authorising US military intervention across the Middle East and beyond will appear before the Senate for a critical vote today, which could have a...

Officials from Turkey and Russia discussed the latest developments in war-torn Syria and Libya, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Turkey's Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal and Russia's Presidential envoy...

Turkey yesterday criticised a US programme which offers potential resettlement to Afghans who may be targets of Taliban violence due to their affiliations to America, saying the move would...

The advocacy organisation CAGE has launched a legal challenge claiming UK Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson, discriminated against Muslim students and failed to protect freedom of expression in a letter...

US Congress will be "closely" monitoring human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said yesterday in a tweet highlighting the fate of...

Syrian table tennis prodigy Hend Zaza, the youngest athlete at the Tokyo Olympics, has accepted an invitation to train in China next month by the country's Olympic Committee, according to...

An American citizen has been found dead in a hotel in the Al-Haram area of Giza under mysterious circumstances, reports Newsweek. According to local media the 60-year-old man was last...

Tunisia's former president Dr Moncef Marzouki stressed that the worst mistake made by the current President Kais Saied is that he caused division among the people and opened the...

An Al Jazeera journalist has been arrested at Cairo airport after flying from Doha to visit his family. Rabee Al-Shaykh, a producer for Al Jazeera's Mubasher channel, was transferred to the Egyptian National...

Popular Conference of Palestinians Abroad (PCPA) yesterday condemned the African Union's decision to grant Israel observer status, calling for the decision to be rescinded, Quds Press reported. In a press release,...

Seven Arabic speaking countries told the African Union (AU) yesterday that they reject granting Israel observer status in the bloc, Anadolu reported. Israeli Ambassador to Addis Ababa Aleli Admasu presented credentials...

About 70 per cent of Yemenis are at risk of starvation, the World Bank said yesterday, at a time when the country's gross domestic product (GDP) has halved since...

Israel is prepared for "any scenario" with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, including a ceasefire or military escalation, Defence Minister Benny Gantz said yesterday. "Today I visited the [Israeli...

Qatar and the Palestinian Authority (PA) have reached a deal on the transfer of aid to the Gaza Strip after Hamas agreed to have the PA involved in the...

Israeli authorities have added the US and 17 others countries to its severe travel warning list; with travelers from these locations needing to quarantine for at least seven days....

The former secretary-general of the League of Arab States, Amr Moussa, yesterday resigned from his post as the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Yasser Arafat Foundation....

The United Nations Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights yesterday accused the Iraqi government of "torturing" detainees held in the country's...

The Sudanese cabinet yesterday approved a draft law on the country's accession to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. "Today, in our weekly Cabinet meeting, we have unanimously...

The West's silence regarding the situation in Tunisia shows their support for autocratic regimes including those in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, who stand behind the coup, former Italian Prime...

Boarders have left a tanker that maritime sources had said was seized off the coast of the United Arab Emirates and the vessel is safe, Britain's maritime trade agency...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi supports the exceptional measures recently taken by his Tunisian counterpart, Kais Saied, the country's Foregn Minister, Sameh Shoukry, announced yesterday. "Egypt is confident in...