More than 500 parliamentarians from France, Germany and the UK wrote to members of the US congress, Thursday, to warn against abandoning the Iran nuclear deal, known as the...

The Pentagon said on Thursday that while there were no signs the Syrian government was preparing to launch a chemical weapons attack, President Bashar al-Assad still retained the ability to...

The Syrian government stepped up its efforts on Thursday to retake the opposition’s last besieged enclaves, as rebels prepared to withdraw from one and a newspaper reported an ultimatum...

Iraq today carried out air strikes on Daesh positions in Syria a week after Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi said his country would defend itself from militant threats across the border....

Vox Cinemas, owned by Dubai’s Majid Al Futtaim, said today that it had received a licence to operate cinemas in Saudi Arabia and would open a four-screen multiplex theatre in Riyadh...

Five Saudi soldiers were killed yesterday in clashes with the Houthi along the Kingdom’s southern border with Yemen, local media reported. Saudi fighter jets launched raids on groups of...

The UK government must ensure arms it provides to Israel and trade ties with the country are not used to support unlawful actions against Palestinians by Tel Aviv, members...

Israeli occupation forces have arrested some 2,700 Palestinians since US President Donald Trump announced his administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Commission revealed yesterday....

The US has resettled just 44 Syrian refugees into the country since October, down from approximately 6,000 in the same time frame last year, according to CNN. Figures are...

Israeli settlers reportedly attacked Palestinian students as they were walking home from school in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron yesterday, according to the official Palestinian Authority...

Israeli occupation forces yesterday banned two Muslim guards from Al-Aqsa Mosque from accessing the Islamic site for a week. A guard was arrested and four were summoned for questioning...

Iran’s feud with the US is set to get worse after Tehran announced yesterday that it will start reporting foreign currency amounts in euros rather than US dollars, as...

The World Bank has warned of a “worrying” outlook for the Palestinian economy in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, in its latest update published this week. In...

The Houthi armed group shot down a US spy drone over Hudaydah yesterday, the Houthi-run Ansarollah reported. A military source in the air defence unit claims that a “US...

Israeli army reservists “received an emergency message calling them to duty early Thursday”, only to find out “shortly later the message had been a mistake”, reported AFP. According to...

UN human rights experts have condemned “the continued use of firearms, including live ammunition” by Israeli forces “against mostly unarmed Palestinian protesters and observers” for a third straight week...

Israelis are “protect” themselves and must “stand fiercely” in the face of their “enemies”, local media reported Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying yesterday during events to mark “Remembrance Day”....

Chief of Hamas Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh said on Tuesday that his movement is ready for a prisoner swap with Israel through third-party mediation. In a televised speech to...

Israeli occupation forces have killed 33 peaceful Palestinian protesters in the Gaza Strip and wounded 4,279 others in the three weeks since the start of the “Great March of...

The United Nations yesterday warned Israel of the dangers of deporting Palestinian Bedouins from occupied East Jerusalem. In a report issued following a visit by the UN Humanitarian Coordinator...

Hamas yesterday hailed calls made by senior Fatah member Marwan Barghouti for Palestinians to unite, stick to democracy and start comprehensive national dialogue. In a statement, Hamas chief of...

US Senator and former Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has criticised Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman for not doing enough to help people in the besieged Gaza Strip....

Qatari armed forces participated in the conclusion of the Gulf Shield 1 military exercise in Saudi Arabia earlier this week. The Qatari army said in a statement issued yesterday...

Some 500 Syrian refugees in Lebanon’s south-eastern town of Shebaa left their homes today heading to Syria’s Beit Jinn, which was recaptured by the regime forces from the opposition...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday warned of a complete collapse of the health situation of patients with kidney failure in Yemen. The warning came...

Iraq’s General Customs Authority yesterday said there was an agreement between the government and Saudi Arabia to reduce tariffs on Saudi goods entering Iraq. In a statement, the authority...

Syrian opposition leader, Michel Kilo has warned that replacing US troops in Syria with Arab forces could lead to a long-term Arab-Iranian war on Syrian soil. Speaking in an...

Last week, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told reporters in New York that Saudi Arabia is considering extending its agreement with Russia to reducing oil production for 10...

Three Belgian companies will appear before court in May for allegedly exporting chemicals to Syria, an official source revealed yesterday. The Belgian chemical exports were reported to have contained...

A Dubai princess who announced that she was escaping the UAE via a video message has been “brought back”, a source has said. “What I can confirm is they...

The United Nation’s envoy to Yemen plans to unveil a new framework to end the civil war which has entered its third year, Martin Griffiths told the Security Council...

The Baghdad Central Criminal Court has sentenced four foreign women to death and three more to life imprisonment for belonging to Daesh, the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) said....