Iraqi protesters in Maysan province have blocked roads leading to Al-Shayib border crossing with Iran and one of the province’s largest oil fields, a security source said yesterday. Anadolu...

The Hamas leader said that the movement seeks to end the Palestinian division and build a political system based on partnership.

Tunisia’s Ennahda movement has announced that it has decided to nominate Rached Ghannouchi as speaker of the parliament. Tunisian media quoted the chairman of Ennahda’s Shura Council, Abdelkarim Harouni,...

The UN must investigate the death of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and hold those responsible for his murder to account, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood said on Saturday. “As part...

Israeli occupation forces clashed with far-right settlers yesterday during an attempt to arrest a so-called “hilltop youth” activist in the notorious illegal settlement Yitzhar. According to the Jerusalem Post,...

A plurality of Israelis back the formation of a Benny Gantz-led unity government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, the results of a new poll published yesterday has...

Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs is recruiting a senior manager in “cultural affairs”, as part of the government’s offensive against so-called “cultural delegitimization”, a reference to the Palestinian-led Boycott,...

More than 120 highly qualified Palestinian doctors emigrated from the Gaza Strip in 2018 and 2019, pushing the Ministry of Health to close medical departments in hospitals. According to...

Security authorities in Egypt hid a woman, her husband and her baby after arresting them ten days ago. The mother’s brother was arrested and disappeared a week later, according...

The number of civilians and security forces killed in protests in Iraq since last month has risen to 319

Saudi Arabia’s Human Rights Commission (HRC) has introduced new regulations for domestic workers, local media reported yesterday. “HRC has introduced new related contractual, financial and health rights for the...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has confirmed the return of 365,000 Syrians to homes in the “safe zones” setup by his forces in northern Syria. In a speech delivered...

Qatar Petroleum (QP) yesterday announced the launch of the Egyptian Refining Company (ERC)’s in the Mostorod refinery plant located in the north of the Egyptian capital city of Cairo....

In the presence of the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation Ali Akbar Salehi Russian officials and contractors, Iran laid down the cornerstone of the second Bushehr Nuclear Plant,...

It has been a bitter harvest for some Israeli farmers on the border with Jordan. On Sunday, a 25-year-old deal between the two countries that has allowed them to...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the Syrian presidential election in 2021 would be open to anybody who wants to run and that there would be numerous challengers for the...

Declaring property rights over Syrian oil is the real occupation, Turkey’s ruling party spokesman said Saturday. “Those who say that they will transfer the resources of the Syrian people...

Amnesty International has called on Iraqi authorities to rein in security forces, amid anti-government protests that left scores dead. On Saturday, at least seven protesters were killed as security...

The Interior Minister of Libya’s internationally recognised government accused Russia of fueling the ongoing war with mercenaries Sunday and urged the US to increase efforts to resolve the crisis....

The Egyptian judiciary decided Sunday to release the former justice minister who served in the Mohammed Morsi government, reports Anadolu Agency. Prosecutors ruled former Justice Minister Ahmed Suleiman would...

Former Secretary-General of Lebanon’s Shia Hezbollah movement, a key ally of Iran, criticised Iran’s supreme leader Sunday for being behind corruption in Lebanon and Iraq, where anti-government and corruption...

Iran has discovered a new oilfield in the southwest of the country that has the potential to boost its reserves by about a third, President Hassan Rouhani said on...

Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that the whereabouts of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, missing since visiting Iran’s Kish Island in 2007, remain unknown, and it denied a...

Three French women who escaped from a camp for suspected militants in northern Syria say they want to go home and face whatever legal action France requires over their...

Malta’s armed forces have started cooperating with Libya’s coastguard to turn back migrant boats heading into Malta’s search and rescue zone, a local newspaper and Reuters reported on Sunday,...

Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday rejected as a “trap” reports that the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, found traces of uranium at an Iranian site that...

Iran should come to the negotiating table with world powers and Gulf countries to seek a new deal that would deescalate regional tensions and revive its economy, a senior...

Lebanese bank deposits are safe and there is no need to panic, the head of the banking association said on Saturday, seeking to calm nerves about restrictions on some...

Iraqi security forces killed at least five people on Saturday as they pushed protesters back towards their main camp in central Baghdad using live ammunition, tear gas and sound...

President Tayyip Erdogan and Russia’s Vladimir Putin discussed Turkey’s military offensive in Syria in a phone call on Saturday, Reuters reports Turkey’s presidency as saying. Turkey launched its cross-border...

Iran has the capacity to enrich uranium up to 60%, a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) said on Saturday, far more than is required for...

Saudi Aramco is looking to sell up to 0.5% of the state oil giant to retail investors in its planned initial public offering (IPO), three sources familiar with the...