Saudi Arabia is concerned about increased nuclear activities by Iran which threaten regional security, a Saudi Foreign Ministry official said, after Tehran started the process of producing enriched uranium....

Taliban fighters yesterday seized control of a key district in western Afghanistan that includes a major border crossing with Iran, Reuters reported Afghan security officials saying. In the last week, the...

Argentina said that it is taking steps to sanction foreign companies undertaking hydrocarbon exploration in the South Atlantic, Anadolu Agency reports. Officials said the companies are illegally exploring in...

Syrian refugee and Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini is set to compete for the Refugee Olympic Team at the Tokyo Summer Olympics, with the multi-sport event to begin on July...

Liverpool FC have refused star player Mohamed Salah's "strong desire" to represent his country, Egypt, at the Olympics hosted in Tokyo later this month, according to the manager of...

Users took to Twitter to highlight AIPAC’s hypocrisy in calling out the PA for detaining and intimidating journalists

US diplomats and troops in Iraq and Syria were targeted in three rocket and drone attacks over the past 24 hours, officials said yesterday, including at least 14 rockets...

Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar and his US counterpart Lloyd Austin met yesterday to discuss a plan for Ankara to operate and guard Afghanistan's Kabul airport after NATO forces...

Israeli occupation forces this morning destroyed the house of Palestinian prisoner Muntaser Shalaby, in the village of Turmus Ayya in the northwest of Ramallah. Eyewitnesses said a large number of Israeli...

The US Ambassador to Iraq has said that his country will provide $27 million to help Iraq to tackle financial crime. Matthew Tueller explained yesterday that this is part...

The American administration has frozen the Abraham Fund established following the normalisation of ties between the UAE and Israel in September 2020 to promote economic cooperation, Israel's Globes reported today. The...

Saudi Arabia's deputy defence minister on Tuesday became the highest-ranking Saudi envoy to visit Washington since Joe Biden became president in January. Prince Khalid Bin Salman held talks with...

The US government yesterday extended Yemeni eligibility for a humanitarian programme that grants deportation relief and work permits to immigrants already in the United States who cannot safely return to...

Iran has begun the process of producing enriched uranium metal, the UN atomic watchdog said yesterday, a move that could help it develop a nuclear weapon and that three...

Egypt and Sudan's foreign ministers met today to agree on a position over Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam. Sameh Shoukri and Maryam Sadiq Al-Mahdi reiterated their continued rejection of Ethiopia's announcement...

Egypt has been listed by the International Trade Union Confederation as one of the world's worst ten countries for workers in the world. In its annual report, the ITUC...

Six rockets yesterday targeted the Ain Al-Asad military base which houses US troops in western Iraq, Anadolu reported. The agency quoted an Iraqi army officer who preferred not to be named,...

US forces yesterday shot down an armed drone near the American embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Anadolu reported. The agency quoted an unnamed Iraqi police captain as saying that the...

Iran and Turkey have closed their consulates in the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif located in the Balk province amid growing security concerns about a resurgent Taliban. It has also...

The US State Department has approved the potential sale of $445 million in heavy tactical vehicles and associated equipment to Kuwait, Defense News reports. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), which...

Israel no longer has the ability to influence the discussions going on in Vienna to reach a new agreement over Iran's nuclear programme, Haaretz reported on Monday. Nevertheless, the...

The United States has placed Turkey on its list of countries involved in the practice of recruiting child soldiers, in a move that is set to further strain already-tense...

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday discussed with Iran's President-elect Ebrahim Raisi the "deteriorating" security situation in Afghanistan as a result of the US withdrawal from the country, Anadolu reported. Khan's...

Yemen's Houthi movement on Sunday carried out a rare missile strike on a southern region that has seen renewed infighting between forces allied to a military coalition led by...

An Egyptian court on Sunday adjourned hearings to July 11 in a compensation dispute over the container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March, to allow the canal...

Iran denied on Saturday US accusations that Tehran supported attacks on US forces in Iraq and Syria, and condemned US airstrikes on Iranian-backed militants there, state media reported, says...

Iran may face a fifth wave of COVID-19 infections as the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus spreads through the Middle East's worst-hit country, President Hassan Rouhani warned...

At least 43 migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, while another 84 were rescued, the Tunisian Red...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Friday that his country is present in Libya, Azerbaijan, Syria and the Eastern Mediterranean and will remain in these areas. This came...

The Iraqi Ministry of Defence announced on Friday thwarting an attack intended to target a military base at Baghdad International Airport, Anadolu Agency reported. "Based on precise information, the...

Three Republican House members have called for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate alleged connections between the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) and terrorism. According to...

The US Treasury said on Friday it removed sanctions on three Iranians but said this did not reflect a change in its sanctions policy toward Iran and had nothing...