Saudi Aramco is launching the biggest shale gas development outside of the United States to boost domestic gas supply and end the burning of oil at its power generation...

Iraq on Monday confirmed the first case of the coronavirus in the country’s Najaf city, Anadolu reports. Ridvan Kindi, the head of the Health Department in Najaf city in...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has dispatched some 100 shipments of weapons to renegade Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar since last month, the internationally recognized government said Monday, Anadolu reports....

Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain have agreed to resume postal services to Qatar almost three years after they were stopped due to a political dispute, the United Nations said...

Lebanese activists and journalists, Gino Raidy, Dima Sadek and Charbel Al-Khoury were summoned by the Criminal Investigation Department on Saturday for interrogation by the security authorities for spreading “fake...

An Israeli cycling team will be taking part in this week’s UAE Tour event for the first time despite there being no formal diplomatic relations between the two countries....

Turkey may soon be closing the Bosphorus Straits to Russian warships in order to prevent them from continuing to resupply the Syrian regime’s military, according to the Russian newspaper...

Saudi authorities have ordered the arrest of Saudi female rapper, Ayasel Slay, who released a music video for her song 'Bint Mecca'

US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said he will not attend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference because it is a platform for leaders who “express bigotry and...

Iran was the first country in the Middle East to declare deaths related to the virus

An Orthodox Jewish man hailed as a hero for stopping a machete-wielding man from causing further harm, having stabbed five people during a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi’s home...

Lebanon has officially reduced the number of flights to and from coronavirus infected countries, after some blamed Iran for its first case of the virus. Lebanese authorities confirmed the...

Yemen’s Information Minister Muammar Al-Iryani announced on Saturday that the Houthis have carried out a campaign of arrests against civil servants as well as officers at the interior and...

Israel’s Knesset Speaker yesterday vowed that the government will proceed with the annexation of territory in the occupied West Bank, regardless of the election result. According to pro-settler news...

Israeli opposition parliamentarian Yoaz Hendel assailed the United Nations-mandated list of companies complicit in West Bank settlements at an international conference in Vienna, describing the database as an “ethical...

The Likud party moved narrowly ahead of the Blue and White opposition list in the polls for the first time, reported Haaretz, a week before Israel’s third election in...

The Israeli prime minister’s office yesterday ordered that 12 unauthorised settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank be connected to the state’s power grid, reported the Times of Israel. ...

Jordan yesterday banned non-Jordanian travellers from entering the country from Iran and South Korea as a “temporary precautionary measure” after the outbreak of the coronavirus. Government spokesperson, Amjad Adaileh,...

The Syrian news agency, SANA, claimed on Sunday that the Turkish army had arrested dozens of rebels as they fled from the fighting in Idlib and headed for Turkey....

Israeli forces hang the body of a Palestinian man from a bulldozer

The European Union Foreign Policy Chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc will not recognise any changes brought by Israel to occupied East Jerusalem, urging Tel Aviv to reconsider its...

Some 800 Kuwaitis have been evacuated from the Iranian city of Mashhad onboard six flights following the outbreak of the coronavirus, spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Abdullah Al-Sanad,...

The head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency, Yossi Cohen, has visited Qatar on the order of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to try to reinforce the ceasefire with Hamas in...

The General Authority of the Court of Cassation in Jordan said that the Muslim Brotherhood was dissolved in the country on 15 June 1956, Al Watan Voice reported yesterday....

Following the confirmation of the second case of coronavirus in Israel, more than 200 citizens have been put in quarantine, including 30 soldiers, local media reported on Monday. Those...

Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) has decided to keep information about gas sales from the Leviathan field to Jordan and Egypt secret, Arab48.com reported on Sunday. This approach...

Russia supports holding a “four-way summit” to bring together Turkey, France and Germany to discuss the situation in Syria’s Idlib province, the Kremlin announced yesterday. “Russian President Vladimir Putin...

Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Coveney yesterday criticised the Israeli government’s plans to build thousands of new settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem. Coveney, who also...

Syrian regime’s leadership has threatened to respond to any breach on the Syrian airspace, local media reported yesterday. “The Syrian forces would respond to any infiltration of the country’s...

The English-speaking Emirati Khaleej Times newspaper reported that in the third quarter of 2019, the merger of two local banks caused licensed commercial banks to drop to 59, including...

An official Israeli channel reported, on Sunday 23 February 2020, that the office of the outgoing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Ministry of Construction and Housing are about...

Fears mounted on Monday that the coronavirus outbreak in China will grow into a pandemic with disruptive and deadly consequences for countries around the world, after sharp rises in...