Israel’s Knesset Speaker yesterday vowed that the government will proceed with the annexation of territory in the occupied West Bank, regardless of the election result. According to pro-settler news...

Israeli opposition parliamentarian Yoaz Hendel assailed the United Nations-mandated list of companies complicit in West Bank settlements at an international conference in Vienna, describing the database as an “ethical...

The Likud party moved narrowly ahead of the Blue and White opposition list in the polls for the first time, reported Haaretz, a week before Israel’s third election in...

The Israeli prime minister’s office yesterday ordered that 12 unauthorised settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank be connected to the state’s power grid, reported the Times of Israel. ...

Jordan yesterday banned non-Jordanian travellers from entering the country from Iran and South Korea as a “temporary precautionary measure” after the outbreak of the coronavirus. Government spokesperson, Amjad Adaileh,...

The Syrian news agency, SANA, claimed on Sunday that the Turkish army had arrested dozens of rebels as they fled from the fighting in Idlib and headed for Turkey....

The European Union Foreign Policy Chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc will not recognise any changes brought by Israel to occupied East Jerusalem, urging Tel Aviv to reconsider its...

Some 800 Kuwaitis have been evacuated from the Iranian city of Mashhad onboard six flights following the outbreak of the coronavirus, spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Abdullah Al-Sanad,...

The head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency, Yossi Cohen, has visited Qatar on the order of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to try to reinforce the ceasefire with Hamas in...

The General Authority of the Court of Cassation in Jordan said that the Muslim Brotherhood was dissolved in the country on 15 June 1956, Al Watan Voice reported yesterday....

Following the confirmation of the second case of coronavirus in Israel, more than 200 citizens have been put in quarantine, including 30 soldiers, local media reported on Monday. Those...

Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) has decided to keep information about gas sales from the Leviathan field to Jordan and Egypt secret, Arab48.com reported on Sunday. This approach...

Russia supports holding a “four-way summit” to bring together Turkey, France and Germany to discuss the situation in Syria’s Idlib province, the Kremlin announced yesterday. “Russian President Vladimir Putin...

Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Coveney yesterday criticised the Israeli government’s plans to build thousands of new settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem. Coveney, who also...

Syrian regime’s leadership has threatened to respond to any breach on the Syrian airspace, local media reported yesterday. “The Syrian forces would respond to any infiltration of the country’s...

The English-speaking Emirati Khaleej Times newspaper reported that in the third quarter of 2019, the merger of two local banks caused licensed commercial banks to drop to 59, including...

An official Israeli channel reported, on Sunday 23 February 2020, that the office of the outgoing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Ministry of Construction and Housing are about...

Fears mounted on Monday that the coronavirus outbreak in China will grow into a pandemic with disruptive and deadly consequences for countries around the world, after sharp rises in...

The Houthis announced on Sunday in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, the unveiling of four new air defence systems. The Houthi news agency, Saba, stated that the head of the...

France is ready to support Lebanon financially, bilaterally or multilaterally, its finance minister said on Sunday according to a Reuters report, warning against mixing economic recovery in the small...

Israeli police shot and killed a man who they claim tried to carry out a stabbing attack in the old city of Jerusalem on Saturday, Reuters reported a Israeli...

A Turkish soldier was killed in Syria’s Idlib region in a bomb attack by Russian-backed government forces, the defence ministry said on Saturday, Turkey’s 16th military death during a...

Iran on Sunday announced a 42% turnout in its parliamentary election, the lowest rate since the 1979 Islamic revolution, while its top leader said Tehran’s enemies played up the...

Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said said on Sunday the government would work to reduce public debt and restructure public institutions and companies to bolster the economy, reports Reuters....

The United Nations has suggested that the Tal Abyad border crossing between Syria and Turkey could be used to deliver aid to civilians in northeast Syria after Russia and...

Turkey has closed its border with Iran and halted incoming flights as a precaution to stop the potential spread of coronavirus after the neighbouring country reported 43 cases of...

Pope Francis on Sunday warned against “inequitable solutions” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying they would only be a prelude to new crises, in an apparent reference to US President...

Iraq has extended an entry ban for any non-Iraqis coming from Iran, the prime minister said, as authorities in Tehran announced 15 more cases of coronavirus and a death...

Iran has confirmed 15 new cases of the new coronavirus, taking the total to 43 with a death toll of eight, reports Reuters. Most of the infections have been...

Nine people died and hundreds of buildings collapsed in southeastern Turkey on Sunday after a magnitude-5.7 earthquake struck near the border with Iran, injuring dozens in villages and towns...

Israel may quarantine some 200 visitors from South Korea at a military base in a Jewish settlement on the occupied West Bank over coronavirus fears, Israel’s Ynet news site...

Naval forces from the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen on Sunday foiled an “imminent terrorist” attack by the Houthi movement in the southern Red Sea, a major commercial shipping...