A high-ranking European official said yesterday that the EU intends to extend sanctions imposed on the Syrian government, despite the spread of the coronavirus. The unnamed official told reporters...

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on Tuesday urged Israeli officials to stop Chinese investment of 5G in the country, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. This came during talks between...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday asked the Palestinian Authority (PA) to provide clarification regarding the status of the Oslo Accords, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. According to Haaretz,...

Since the start of 2020, the Iraqi authorities have recorded a series of movements attributed to Daesh militants in the Iraqi territory, which indicates that the terrorist organisation has...

Al-Karama Coalition bloc in the Tunisian parliament announced the presentation of a legislative initiative calling for the cancellation of an investment agreement between Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates...

France’s threats and interference have complicated the case of a French-Iranian academic jailed in Iran, a spokesman for the Islamic Republic’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday, according to the...

The Saudi-led coalition engaged in Yemen said its forces intercepted and downed drones launched by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement towards the Saudi border city of Najran on Wednesday in...

A Turkish soldier was killed in the northwestern Syrian region of Idlib on Wednesday after an explosion along the M4 highway, Turkey’s Defence Ministry said in a statement, Reuters...

Saudi Arabia and Qatar confirmed new deaths from the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, while Morocco, Lebanon and Libya reported only fresh cases, Anadolu reports. The Qatari Health Ministry said...

268 lawmakers were sworn in for the opening ceremony while observing social distancing regulations and some wearing optional face masks

Israel could use violence to annexation large parts of the occupied West Bank and Jordan valley, PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat warned today. Speaking to Palestine Radio, Erekat said that...

Israeli settlers seized more Palestinian land yesterday belonging to the townspeople of Deir Dibwan and Rammun near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. The Jewish settlers were protected by...

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz has reiterated that using military force against the occupied Gaza Strip is still an option, Israeli Public Broadcaster Kan reported today. “I visited the Southern Command...

The government of Qatar is planning to use technology on the fight against Covid-19. A new app called Ehteraz is its latest weapon in the attempts to curb the...

Three women were injured in a missile strike in the southern Saudi town of Jazan, the Saudi Press Agency reported yesterday, adding the projectile had been fired by the Houthis in...

Israeli occupation authorities today forced a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem to demolish the extension at his home, Jordan’s Assabeel newspaper reported. The house, which is owned by the Siyam family, is...

The Trump administration has been rebuked for making “excessive demand” on Israel over the final boundary in its eastern border. The White House has outraged Israeli officials by pushing...

Saudi Arabia allowed Palestinian prisoners to call their relatives during the Eid holiday, senior Hamas official Mohammed Nazzal revealed today. Nazzal said in a press release that authorities prevented...

Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) announced yesterday that they have arrested Daesh’s media official in the Saladin province. A statement from the PMF said that “a force from the...

At least three Arab states have greenlighted Israel’s planned annexation of large parts of the occupied Palestinian West Bank, Israel Hayom revealed today. According to the daily, at least three Arab...

A 13-year-old Iranian girl has been beheaded in a so-called “honour killing” by her father while she was sleeping

Ex-Daesh fighters could face prosecution for gruesome “conflict selfies” with severed heads and dead bodies, the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said. Daesh terrorists have been known to...

A private Israeli plane landed at Khartoum International Airport yesterday morning following a phone call between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the President of Sudan’s Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah...

Leader of Lebanese Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, has rejected US requests to empower a UN peacekeeping force patrolling the border with Israel, claiming the demands come indirectly from the self-declared Jewish...

Israeli politician Avigdor Lieberman accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of dragging Israel into a “civil war” to save himself and to escape personal problems. “To get rid of personal...

United States Representative Ilhan Omar has said that the country’s foreign policy has been highly and disproportionately influenced by foreign nations such as Saudi Arabia and Israel, and that...

An abused Nigerian domestic worker in Lebanon was prevented from boarding an evacuation flight after her employer intervened and claimed he “ her”, Middle East Eye (MEE) reports. According to Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign...

Six Saudis have been killed during shooting in Assir, a volatile region south west of the country close to the Yemeni border. Three others were also injured and taken...

The body of a 15-metre-long whale has washed up on Kuwait’s shores

A senior Shia religious figure has called for scrapping Lebanon’s decades-old power sharing system, part of the Taif Agreement, in a speech during Eid Al-Fitr, which marks the end...

China cut its imports of oil from Saudi Arabia last month, customs data issued by the authorities in Beijing revealed this week. During the same period, imports of Russian...

Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been his bullish self despite facing criminal charges, by declaring that he will not miss the opportunity to annex the West Bank....