Middle East

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, will embark on a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia, commencing next Tuesday, the State Department announced, Anadolu Agency reports. During his visit, Blinken...

Saudi Aramco met with a large group of Turkish contractors this week to discuss $50 billion of potential projects in the Gulf Kingdom, Bloomberg reports. According to the report,...

Senior officials from more than a dozen countries, including Saudi Arabia and Iran, were in talks on forging closer links with the BRICS bloc of major emerging economies on...

Three more Europeans are being released by Iran, in return for Iranian diplomat, Asadollah Assadi, as part of a prisoner swap in which Iran released Belgian aid worker, Oliver...

The United Arab Emirates is arbitrarily detaining a dozen human rights activists who have already completed their prison terms, a UN document showed on Friday, urging the government to...

A two-year-old Palestinian toddler has been severely wounded after being shot in the head by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank yesterday. According to the Wafa news agency,...

Lebanon's Hezbollah, on Friday, denied that five men accused by a military tribunal of killing an Irish UN peacekeeper in 2022 were linked to the armed Shia group, Reuters reports. A...

Private security firm G4S is to divest completely from Israel, the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement reported yesterday in an announcement billed as a "major win for human rights...

A former head of Israel's military intelligence, on Thursday, claimed that Iran possesses a quantity of uranium capable of making three to five nuclear bombs, Anadolu Agency reports. Speaking...

Jordan's Crown Prince, Al Hussein bin Abdullah II, married Saudi heiress and architect, Rajwa Al Saif, on Thursday in a wedding attended by global royalty, Anadolu Agency reports. The...

A 15-year deal on liquefied natural gas (LNG) was signed between Bangladesh and the Middle Eastern energy hub of Qatar on Thursday in Doha, according to a media statement...

Hungary's ambassador to Israel yesterday denied Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen's claim that Budapest will relocate its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. "We have been operating a trade office...

Supporters of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Sweden are continuing their activities in support of the organisation despite a new anti-terrorism law going into force yesterday, Anadolu reported....

Hamas yesterday criticised Israel's attempts to Judaise education in occupied East Jerusalem, describing it as an "escalating crime" against Palestinian "existence, identity, geography and history". "This Zionist policy will...

The Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said Israeli occupation forces and illegal settlers carried out 492 attacks on Palestinian citizens and their properties in May. In its monthly...

The Lebanese army has declared a state of "maximum alert" on the country's southern border after the Israeli army threatened to dismantle a tent it uses along the Israeli-Lebanese...

Yemen's Houthi group yesterday threatened to return to military escalation and resume attacks on economic facilities in Saudi Arabia, in response to Riyadh's failure to settle the humanitarian issue...

Israeli settlers burned land in the northern occupied West Bank town of Qusra, south of Nablus, Quds Press reported. Settlers set fire to pastoral fields, which resulted in the burning of vast...

A confidential European Union report warned of what it described as "drastic acceleration" of Israeli pressure on the Palestinian population in Jerusalem in the past year, the Spanish newspaper El...

Italy has lifted its embargo on arms sales to Saudi Arabia after years of restriction, amid the recent peace initiatives to resolve the conflict in Yemen. Over the course...

Shamsa Al-Ali, 65, builds tandoors — traditional clay ovens to bake bread — in Syria's northern district of Tal Abyad to look after her six orphan grandchildren, Anadolu Agency...

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said, on Thursday, it had uncovered a US National Security Agency (NSA) plot using previously unknown malware to access specially made so-called backdoor vulnerabilities...

Palestinian citizens of Israel have been protesting outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office against Israeli forces "complicity" in the increasing murder rates in the Arab towns. According to the...

A Lebanese military tribunal has formally accused five members of Hezbollah and the Amal Movement of killing an Irish UNIFIL officer in 2022, a senior Lebanese judicial source told...

The Sultan of Oman Haitham Bin Tarik yesterday presided over the launch ceremony for a new city bearing his name, which is set to be the sultanate's first smart...

A high-profile British delegation from the House of Lords touched down in Israel on Sunday for a four-day fact-finding mission, in an effort to strengthen the increasingly close relations,...

Thousands thronged the streets of Amman to witness the procession and the wedding ceremony was attended by 140 guests.

The Kremlin said, on Thursday, that relations with Saudi Arabia were constructive and based on mutual understanding and respect, ahead of an OPEC+ meeting, Reuters reports. Asked about relations with...

The President of the Saudi Arabian Football Federation (SAFF), Yasser Al-Misehal, said he has no news on whether Lionel Messi is moving to the Saudi Pro League (ROSHN)'s tournament this summer, Arabi21 reported. "I have no...

The United Nations World Food Program is facing great difficulty in providing food aid to the Palestinian Territories due to lack of funding, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis afflicting the...

The Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) has announced its aim to develop new projects in the Caspian basin and strengthen its regional connections, Anadolu Agency reports. "It is our main...

Arab experts have said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's re-election will advance Turkish-Arab relations to greater horizons, Anadolu Agency reports. Erdogan won last Sunday's runoff vote with 52.16 per cent....