The Iraqi Company for Passenger and Delegate Transport has announced that the land link between Baghdad and Istanbul has reopened after a break of 5 years, Anadolu has reported....

The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) looks to have agreed to a 1 per cent increase in world oil production after believing that it has overcome differences...

US envoy to the Middle East Jared Kushner met Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday to discuss Donald Trump’s “deal of the century” and the Israeli-led siege of the Gaza Strip,...

The International Committee for Observing Hajj Administration has condemned Saudi Arabia’s ban on Qatari and Syrian citizens performing the pilgrimage, Echoroukonline.com reported on Friday. The Saudis have prevented Syrians...

A number of Arab states have been putting pressure on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for him to accept Donald Trump’s “deal of the century”, Quds Net News reported...

Israel’s Justice Minister has warned that the government might launch another war against the Gaza Strip because Palestinians continue to fly “incendiary kites” over Israeli farms, Quds Press reported...

Washington has called upon the government of Bahrain to release the Shia opposition leader Ali Salman, who was arrested in 2014, Thenewkhalij.news reported on Friday. Although Salman was sentenced...

Swedish activist Benjamin Ladraa has been visiting Palestinian refugees in camps around Lebanon as part of his #WalkToPalestine campaign. Ladraa has visited some seven refugee camps, including Burj El-Barajneh, Shatila, Dbayeh and Rashidieh. The 24-year-old expressed his shock at...

The Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi armed group in Yemen are hampering the delivery of aid to Yemen, a new briefing released by Amnesty International reveals today. Amnesty International...

A Dutch state TV station has apologised twice following complaints from Jewish groups that its coverage was biased against Israel. According to Israeli sources, NOS, Netherlands’ main public broadcaster,...

Iraqi Vice President Ayad Allawi yesterday called on the country’s authorities to take legal action against anyone who has forged results in the recent parliamentary elections, stressing that the...

A former Palestinian Minister of Health in the Gaza Strip has sent an open invitation to Britain’s Prince William to visit the besieged territory during his forthcoming tour of...

A 23-year-old Palestinian on Wednesday succumbed to wounds he sustained on 14 May during the “Great March of Return” along the Gaza border fence. Muhammad Ghassan Abu Farhana was...

The rate of suicide amongst the youth in Lebanon is rising at an alarming rate according to health professions. As many as one suicide attempts are being reported every...

Syria is ready to establish a railway link with Iraq and Iran, the country’s Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade, Mohammad Samer Al-Khalil, said. The proposal came during a...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has denied accusations that it is operating secret prisons and torturing detainees in Yemen, Gulf News reported yesterday. “Yemeni authorities are in complete control...

Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan is advancing an amendment that would give Border Police forces operating in occupied East Jerusalem “immunity from lawsuits” for damages they cause in...

Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) has been urged by members and rights activists to withdraw from the Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Group, in light of the Israeli army’s lethal crackdown on...

The Board of Deputies of British Jews’ Chief Executive Gillian Merron on Tuesday attended an Israeli government-hosted conference intended to mobilise and strategise efforts to undermine and sabotage the...

Iran has sent a naval destroyer and a helicopter carrier to the strategic Gulf of Aden after fighting escalated in the port city of Hudaydah ​​in Yemen. The local...

The European Union (EU) supports efforts being made by Kuwait to mediate a solution to the current Gulf crisis, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Frederica...

Lebanon requires “an immediate and substantial” fiscal adjustment to improve the sustainability of public debt that stood at more than 150 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) at...

Israeli occupation authorities have demolished and sealed 48 houses belonging to Palestinians under the pretext that one of their residents carried out attacks against Israeli targets, a new report...

A war monitor reported Syrian military helicopters dropped barrel bombs on opposition-held areas of the southwest today for the first time in a year, escalating an assault that has...

The Union of Tunisian Imams called on the Grand Mufti of the Republic to discourage pilgrims from travelling to complete the Hajj this year because of the high costs...

Morocco and Algeria should apply to jointly host the World Cup 2030, King Mohammed VI told Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Moroccan website Le 360 reported that the proposal came...

Tunisian Minister of National Defence, Abdelkarim Zebidi, confirmed that there have been no coup attempts in his country since 2011. Local radio station Shems FM reported yesterday, Zebidi saying:...

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis have indicated they would be willing to hand over management of Hudaydah port to the United Nations, a potential breakthrough in a conflict that has caused...

Reuters reports that, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, was charged on Thursday with fraud over the alleged misuse of state funds in ordering catered meals at their official...

A Bahraini court on Thursday acquitted three senior leaders of the country’s main opposition group of spying for Qatar, a rare win for opposition figures who say they have...

OPEC scrambled on Thursday to agree on raising oil output, with Saudi Arabia warning of shortages but Iran holding out against a deal amid the prospect of lower exports...

Egypt has called on the international community to “share the collective responsibilities of hosting refugees,” Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid said on Wednesday. “We renew...