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The turmoil in the Republic of Kazakhstan made Israel worried about its secret oil, cybersecurity and weapons deals with the Central Asian country, according to Haaretz columnist David Rosenberg....

Egypt has spent $400 billion over the past seven years to tackle poverty, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said yesterday. Speaking at the World Youth Forum, Al-Sisi said: "There were...

Two Israeli soldiers were killed last night in a friendly fire incident during a patrol near a military base in the occupied Jordan Valley. According to a statement by...

Arab citizens of Israel living in the Negev say that the state is trying to take even more of their land. Local media have reported that the Jewish National...

Tunisia's Ennahda Movement called for the urgent release of its Vice President Noureddine Bhiri, noting that he is "on the brink of death". "Considering the intransigence of the existing...

Staffan de Mistura, UN envoy to the Western Sahara, yesterday began his first visit to Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. De Mistura is going to meet Moroccan officials in Rabat, according...

Zulfikar Suergo, member of the Central Committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), stressed yesterday that the PLO's Central Council will not hold a meeting...

Reconstructing Gaza needs more than the $500 million offered by Egypt following the Israeli offensive between 11-21 May 2021, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said yesterday. Speaking at a panel of the World Youth Forum (WYF) conference in the Egyptian Red Sea...

Eight UN member states, including Iran and Venezuela, have lost their voting rights because of unpaid dues, according to documents revealed on Wednesday and reported by Anadolu News Agency....

A French top diplomat said the United Arab Emirates will join a Saudi-French common fund that aimed to provide support to Lebanon, Reuters reports. According to the report, France's Foreign...

The UK's Home Office has assured that it does not plan on sending Syrian refugees and asylum seekers back to Syria, after it rejected one of their asylum applications...

Germany will extend its military mission in Iraq until the end of October, the government announced on Wednesday, and Anadolu News Agency reports. Bundeswehr troops will continue to support...

The economic problems of Turkey can be resolved with justice, the main opposition leader has said, criticising President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for slamming the country's top business group over...

Four Israeli women were arrested for providing intelligence information to an Iranian agent, Israel's domestic intelligence service Shin Bet said on Wednesday, and reported by Anadolu News Agency. Shin...

Saudi Arabia surpassed Russia as the OPEC+ group's largest crude oil producer in December, beating the non-OPEC leader that has struggled to ramp up output as the bloc boosts...

The United States has seemingly abandoned support for a pipeline project in the eastern Mediterranean which aimed to transport Israeli gas to Europe through Cyprus, voicing its misgivings about...

Last year, the country Georgia welcomed over 103,500 tourists from the Middle East, representing a 511 per cent year-on-year increase in November, according to statistics released by the Georgian...

Omar Abdulmajeed was a Palestinian-American, who died following his brutal arrest and assault by Israeli forces

France has today arrested a man in connection to the murder of an Iraqi-born engineer, his wife and mother-in-law in 2012. Saad Al-Hilli, his wife Ikbal and her mother...

Locals of Negev have staged several protests against their land demolition by the Jewish National Fund ahead of their confiscation

Aras Amiri, an Iranian employee of the British Council, has arrived back in the United Kingdom after an Iranian court lifted her travel ban over her spying sentence, the...

A mother in western Afghanistan faces the prospect of having to hand over her 5-year-old daughter to a man if she cannot pay off a $1,500 debt left by...

At least two people died, and eight others were missing yesterday after a truck slid off a ferry and into the River Nile. There were 24 farm labourers in...

China and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are moving towards establishing a strategic partnership, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, and reported by Anadolu News Agency. "Both sides agreed...

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) yesterday proposed a new initiative to "facilitate dialogue between the Sudanese parties" and find a radical solution to the country's crisis, the Sudanese...

The UN Special Envoy to Yemen has said military escalation does not bring any sustainable solutions, calling on the international community to give consistent support to the country, according...

Leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada Al-Sadr, yesterday warned rival Shia factions against resorting to threats or violence, amid tensions over forming the next government. "We are proceeding with...

At least 10 people, including five security officers, were killed when a suicide car blast targeted a security convoy in Somalia's capital on Wednesday, officials said and reported by...

Iraqi authorities issued 21 arrest warrants last month for high-ranking state officials over corruption charges, the Iraqi Integrity Commission said on Wednesday and reported by Anadolu News Agency. In...

Israel has granted 1,000 Palestinians, a majority of whom are based in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian identity card and passport to help them continue to live without...

Ousted Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir appeared in court yesterday in connection with the 1989 military coup that brought him to power. More than 20 former officials are standing trial...

Anti-narcotics police in Ecuador have seized 656.7 kilogrammes of cocaine concealed in a shipping container carrying bananas headed for Tunisia. According to the police, the drugs were dispersed among ten jute...