The ban list imposed by Egyptian intelligence services on the appearance of ministers on official and private TV channels has been extended to include MPs. Well-informed sources revealed to...

US-backed fighters said they had taken positions in Daesh’s last enclave in eastern Syria and air strikes pounded the tiny patch of land beside the Euphrates River early on...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani yesterday said that his government would file a legal case against the United States (US) over the imposition of economic sanctions on the Islamic republic,...

Syrian refugees in Lebanon will not be able to return home as long as the Bashar al-Assad regime rejects taking them back, veteran Lebanese politician Walid Jumblatt said Monday,...

Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to demilitarize the disputed common borders between the two countries within one month, the defense ministries of the two countries said on Monday,...

Amid ongoing protests against his rule, Algeria’s president on Monday reaffirmed his decision to hold a national conference meant to lead to a constitutional referendum, says Anadolu Agency. In...

Turkey on Monday condemned a shooting that had claimed three lives in the Netherlands, reports Anadolu Agency. “We strongly condemn the attack that took place today (18 March 2019)...

The influence of Saudi Arabia‘s Bin Laden family on its eponymous construction business has been curtailed in a restructuring that follows an anti-corruption crackdown by Riyadh, a document seen...

Libya’s UN-backed administration agreed with the central bank and other players on a 2019 budget worth 46.8 billion dinars ($33.83 billion), it said on Monday after months of arguments,...

An Iraqi court sentenced a Belgian man to death by hanging on Monday for being part of Daesh, one of dozens of foreign nationals facing the death penalty in...

Dutch police arrested a man of Turkish origin suspected of involvement in a shooting in Utrecht on Monday that killed three people and wounded five, city authorities said. The...

Former Tunisian President Mohamed Moncef Marzouki has stressed that the UAE cannot stop the “second wave of the Arab Spring” which is taking place in Algeria and Sudan. Marzouki...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has reiterated the administration’s support for the Saudi-led Arab coalition fighting in Yemen. Pompeo made the remarks during a meeting with the UN...

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have been the victim of a secret campaign lunched over a year before his death by Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) to silence...

Tunisia is seeking the extradition of former President Zein El-Abidine Ben Ali’s brother in law from France on charges of fraud, the justice ministry said in a statement on...

Three people were killed today and nine others injured in a shooting in a tram in the central Dutch city of Utrecht, the mayor said, Dutch broadcaster NOS reported. Police said...

The Guardian newspaper has refused to publish a letter by a Jewish women’s group challenging the allegations of anti-Semitism within the Labour Party. The signatories of the letter revealed...

Some 28 civilians were killed in the eastern Syrian province in Deir Ez-Zor yesterday due to the ongoing US-led bombing campaign on the last Daesh stronghold, and an explosion...

The Yemeni army announced yesterday that its forces have taken control of villages and areas in the Houthi stronghold of Saada. The Yemeni army site reported the forces have...

Etihad Airways is facing the biggest crisis in its history after the Emirati company reported losses for the third consecutive year. The Abu Dhabi based company said in a...

Israeli occupation forces and general intelligence yesterday arrested the Fatah movement’s secretary in Jerusalem, Shadi Mutwar. The Mutwar family said Israeli police and intelligence forces raided their house in...

Nearly all Palestinian applications for building permits are denied by the Israeli authorities, forcing communities to build illegally

Russian Special Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Foreign Minister, Mikhail Bogdanov, said yesterday that his country will support the Sudanese people and their leadership represented...

Egypt announced today that it will reopen the Rafah crossing in one direction tomorrow to permit return of pilgrim who travelled to Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah to return....

Israeli occupation forces demolished a water well in the Umm Al-Nir village in southern Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, today. Locals said that an Israeli bulldozer, escorted...

An Israeli parliamentarian in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition has urged authorities to end any hope of establishing a Palestinian state, reported Arutz Sheva. Speaking yesterday, MK Motti...

Likud topped a new poll published yesterday, edging out the rival Blue and White list for the first time since Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid united in their bid...

Israel’s military censor “prohibited the publication of 363 news articles in 2018” in addition to “partially or fully redacting a total of 2,712 news items submitted to it for...

Human rights group B’Tselem has slammed Israeli authorities’ announcement of investigations into 11 deaths during Great Return March protests in the occupied Gaza Strip as “mere propaganda”. “A real...

The official spokesman of the National Liberation Front, Captain Naji Mustafa, said the Turkish army will resume patrolling areas in the demilitarised zone in and around the northwestern Syrian...

The population of Turkey’s biggest city of Istanbul is more than that of 131 countries in the world, according to the United Nations Population Fund. With a population of...

Benny Gantz has called on Israel’s attorney general to probe the sources of the reports about Iranian hacking of his mobile phone, Anadolu reported on Sunday. The Chairman of...