Israel’s plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank has been postponed until normalisation deals with Arab states is complete, a US official said yesterday. Avi Berkowitz, the...

The Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday that Zambia and the Kingdom of Eswatini opened consulates in the Western Sahara, bringing the total number of foreign missions...

A court in Lebanon suspended plans on Wednesday to introduce a new migrant worker contract that would have replaced the long-criticised kafala system. The State Council ruled in favour of temporarily...

Israeli settlers cut off electricity poles in the village of Al-Sawiya in the northern occupied West Bank, Maan News Agency reported. The Palestinian official in charge of the settlement file in...

A new Sunni front has emerged in Iraq comprising 35 parliamentarians who seek to oust the speaker of the Iraqi House of Representatives, Mohamed Al-Halbousi. The front is headed...

United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, yesterday urged Yemen’s rival parties to “include women in the conflict negotiations”. “Yemeni women’s activism, persistent efforts and initiatives to end...

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman was informed of a US court’s lawsuit against him via the WhatsApp messaging app, new documents related to the case have revealed....

Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry has condemned the ongoing provocation of Muslim communities by insults directed at Prophet Muhammad. The organisation also warned that the consequent waves of...

A number of international human rights organisations expressed “deep concern” on Wednesday over the candidacy of Major General Ahmed Nasser Al-Raisi, the General Inspector of the UAE Interior Ministry,...

More than 600 children born to Daesh members who are European nationals are being detained with their mothers in camps run by Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria, a new...

Israel will impose sanctions and penalties on Palestinian banks which process payments from the Palestinian Authority (PA) to the families of Palestinians who have spent time in Israeli jails,...

Israeli forces cancelled the celebrations under the pretext of COVID-19

Kuwait’s Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) will investigate the recent collective resignations of a number of employees at the Ministry of Finance in protest of violations committed by Finance Minister, Barak...

The Israeli police on Thursday limited the entry of Palestinians to Al-Aqsa Mosque by setting checkpoints in Jerusalem’s old city, Anadolu reports. Since early morning, thousands of Palestinians gathered...

The British government summoned the Iranian ambassador on Thursday following news that imprisoned British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is to be recalled to court in Iran, the Foreign Office...

Combat operations continued Thursday along the front line a month after border clashes erupted between Armenia and Azerbaijan, according to local authorities, Anadolu Agency reports. Over the past day and night,...

Gulf OPEC producers the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, as well as Iraq, are debating whether they should roll over existing oil supply cuts into 2021, as they struggle...

The United States on Thursday slapped sanctions on multiple entities in Iran, China and Singapore over their purchase and sale of Iranian petrochemical products, in the Trump administration’s latest...

Azerbaijani top officials along with the heads and members of foreign diplomatic missions and international media representatives on Thursday visited the regions where civilians were recently targeted by Armenian...

The Trump administration has notified Congress of its intent to sell advanced F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a key lawmaker announced Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports. Outgoing House...

The number of illegal immigrants entering Europe from Turkey dropped during the first nine months of 2020, German daily Welt reported. According to the publication, the European Union saw a 70...

Oman has received $1 billion in direct financial aid from Qatar as the sultanate tries to mitigate its economic crisis which has been worsened by the impact of the...

The Trump administration has announced that Americans born in Jerusalem can request to have Israel listed on their US passports as their place of birth

Israel is expected to nominate a hard-right former general with a track record of making racist remarks about Palestinians to head Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. The...

CCTV footage has been released purportedly showing the moment paramedics discovered an abandoned baby girl at Doha airport

Israeli occupation forces yesterday delivered demolition notices to several houses inhabited by Palestinians in the Issawiya neighbourhood, located in occupied East Jerusalem, reported Wafa news agency. According to Mohammed Abu Al-Hummus,...

Saudi Arabia has announced its target of attracting 100 million tourists a year by 2030, despite the world’s top tourism destinations being unable to reach such a figure. “This...

Sudan’s transitional government has stripped thousands of foreigners, including Syrians, from their naturalised Sudanese citizenship, Erm News reported yesterday. In an official statement, the government said that the foreigners...

A high-ranking Russian delegation yesterday arrived at the Rafic Hariri International Airport in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on a one-day official visit to discuss the return of Syrian...

Victims of the Beirut blast have filed nearly 700 criminal complaints over the incident, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported. The complaints were filed by the Beirut Bar Association, in the names of...

Saudi Arabia is to host its first Formula One grand prix next year with a street race set to take place in Jeddah. According to F1 sources the event...

The Czech Republic agreed to designate the whole of Lebanese Hezbollah a terrorist organisation yesterday, becoming the latest European Union (EU) member to break away from the bloc’s partial...