Thousands of women on Wednesday were on the streets of several Turkish cities to protest against gender-based violence and demand the country remain a signatory to an international pact...

A 24-year-old Palestinian woman is in a critical condition after being shot by Israeli soldiers early this morning in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the Palestinian Health...

The Iraqi Ministry of Electricity yesterday announced its intention to import 200 megawatts of electricity from Turkey to address the severe power shortage it is facing, Anadolu reported. A ministry spokesman,...

Five Egyptian men have been arrested for verbally assaulting the Egyptian TV presenter Reham Saeed. According to the state-run Al-Ahram, the men insulted her over her 2018 detention when she...

Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have imposed a siege on several towns in the countryside of Deir Ez-Zor in eastern Syria, with help from US forces. Syria’s SANA news agency said the...

Egypt has said that travellers wishing to enter the country must present a negative coronavirus test within 72 hours of arriving in the country. Foreign tourists arriving by direct...

Five human rights organisations have called to provide humanitarian and relief assistance to thousands of Yemenis who had been affected by the two-weeks of heavy rain and floods especially...

Turkey has criticised and dismissed a maritime agreement between Greece and Egypt for an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the eastern Mediterranean intended to counter Turkey’s own such deal...

Saudi Arabia’s MBS ordered a hit squad to seek out and kill one of his former top intelligence officials in Canada just 13 days after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi

Lebanon’s leading Druze politician, Walid Jumblatt, yesterday called for an “international investigation” into the Beirut port explosion and said he had “no trust” in the government finding the truth....

Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) yesterday said it had suffered quarterly losses for the third time “due to low sales and impairments”. SABIC, the world’s fourth largest chemical company,...

Iraq will create an inventory of all “hazardous materials” at its ports and airports as a precautionary measure, after a warehouse filled with ammonium nitrate fertiliser exploded in the...

Spain’s former king, Juan Carlos, has been staying at Abu Dhabi’s exclusive Emirates Palace Hotel since leaving Spain aboard a private jet on Monday, newspaper ABC reported on Friday....

The Palestinian Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission have confirmed that Israeli forces demolished 313 homes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem during the first half of this...

Two Palestinian attorneys have foiled a large-scale land ownership forgery in the occupied city of Jerusalem after nearly 12 years of deliberations in Israeli courts, Palestinian Wafa News Agency...

The prime minister of Greece said Thursday that a maritime deal signed with Egypt on exclusive economic zones (EEZ) in the Eastern Mediterranean is “in accordance with international law”, ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday promised aid to blast-stricken Lebanon but reassured angry citizens reeling from a lethal explosion that killed 145 people that no blank cheques will...

US President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Iran is leaving his post after two years, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports. It is unclear why Brian...

Hamouti hopes his inventions will prevent the spread of COVID-19

The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on three individuals and a Malta-based company, accusing them of acting as a network of smugglers and contributing to instability in Libya,...

The UN’s human rights chief said on Thursday she is appalled by the number of human rights violations against journalists across Yemen — including killings, disappearances, and death sentences,...

The US is sending three C-130 cargo planes to Lebanon with aid meant to help that country recover from a devastating blast in Beirut, Central Command announced Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports....

A study published yesterday in the journal PLOS One has revealed that archaeologists have unearthed 8,000-year-old stone fluted points in the Arabian Peninsula, specifically in Yemen and Oman. The...

A plane has crashed at Gouna Airport killing the both pilots on board, according to local news sources. The plane crashed whilst trying to land after a recreational flight...

The United States sent a shipment of crude to Saudi Arabia in June, data from the US Census Bureau showed yesterday, in what appears to be the first such...

The Egyptian Minister of Petroleum, Tarek El-Molla, and Cyprus’s Minister of Energy, Natasa Pilides, discussed plans to boost cooperation in the fields of oil and gas especially in the...

Russia has “resolutely” condemned Israeli air strikes in Syria yesterday, and has warned the Zionist state that it could face “dangerous consequences”. The condemnation by the Ministry of Foreign...

Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi has called on Latin American countries to ban the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah during a meeting with ambassadors from the region yesterday. “Terrorism affects...

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood group, which has been banned since the 2013 military coup, expressed its deepest condolences and solidarity with Lebanon after a devestating explosion ripped through the city. In a...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that America will submit a resolution at the UN Security Council next week calling for an extension of the arms...

Cori Bush, a Black Lives Matter activist and supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Israeli occupation, caused an historical upset yesterday in the US...

The international community has rushed to deliver aid to Lebanon in the wake of the explosions which rocked the capital Beirut on Tuesday, killing at least 137 and injuring thousands more....