Middle East

Saudi Arabia's women's national football team made history yesterday after playing their first ever international fixture on home soil. The team known as the Green Falcons, led by German...

Egypt has announced plans to host the 2036 Summer Olympics said Sports Minister Ashraf Soby yesterday during a reception in Cairo for International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach....

Through digital modelling Forensic Architecture and Al-Haq have been able to determine that the sniper could not only see Shireen and her colleagues but targeted their shoulders and above; a deliberate attempt to murder

Ukraine has downgraded its diplomatic relations with Iran and withdrew the accreditation of the Iranian ambassador over Tehran's supply of drones to Russia. Ukrainian military forces yesterday shot down...

Turkiye and Qatar have decided to activate a joint military agreement to deploy 36 Qatari fighters and 250 military personnel for training in Turkiye, TRT reported on Thursday. According...

Palestinian medical sources reported that at least 50 Palestinians, including 11 children, were wounded in Israeli attacks on Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Israelis attacked...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of killing Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and urged the US to prosecute her killers. Abbas announced before the United Nations (UN) General...

A Jordanian public prosecutor at the High Criminal Court on Thursday killed his 43-year-old wife and 16-year-old son in the governorate of Jerash, north of the kingdom. A spokesperson...

Gilad Erdan, Israel's ambassador to the UN, harshly attacked Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday over his address to world leaders at the United Nations (UN) General...

Iran’s protests continue after the death of 22 year old woman.

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas told world leaders gathering at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on Friday that Israel has decided not to be a partner for...

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi warned against the UK moving its embassy to the occupied city of Jerusalem. Late on Thursday, in response to journalists' questions regarding the announcement...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Friday condemned Israel's "execution" of Palestinian youth Mohammad Usama Abu Jomaa in Jerusalem and for detaining his body, Al Watan Voice reported. In a...

The Saudi Monarch, King Salman, has issued a Royal Order appointing Hala Al-Tuwaijri as the Chief of the Human Rights Commission, the first woman to hold this position.

Israel is preparing for the expected increase in the number of Jewish immigrants from Russia, following President Vladimir Putin's decision of a partial military mobilisation of the Russian population...

Turkiye will send more than 3,000 riot police to Qatar to help secure World Cup stadiums and hotels in a security operation paid for by the competition hosts but...

At least 71 people died when the migrant boat they were aboard sank off the Syrian coast after sailing from Lebanon earlier this week, the Lebanese Transport Minister said,...

The Israeli Foreign Ministry summoned the Mexican Ambassador in Jerusalem for a reprimand, after protesters gathered Thursday in front of the Israeli Embassy in Mexico City and vandalised its...

At least 11 Palestinians were injured on Friday as Israeli forces opened fire to disperse an anti-settlement rally in the northern occupied West Bank, Anadolu News Agency reports. In...

The wife of journalist, Jamal Khashoggi who was assassinated by Saudi intelligence, is planning to sue the notorious Israeli spyware developed by the NSO Group. Hanan Elatr, 52, also...

Iran, Russia and China will hold joint naval exercises in the northern Indian Ocean "this autumn", Iranian semi-official Mehr news agency reported. Mehr quoted Iranian Chief of Staff, Major...

The Israeli Supreme Court approved, on Thursday, the appeal filed by the defence committee for Palestinian citizen of Israel, Sheikh Yousef Al-Baz, 64, from the city of Lod and...

Israeli Interior Minister and head of the right-wing Jewish Home Party, Ayelet Shaked said the Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid is using the United Nations as part of his...

The Iranian authorities have shut off the internet in parts of Tehran and Kurdistan, and blocked access to social media platforms such as Instagram and WhatsApp, while dozens are...

The Israeli Supreme Court approved on Thursday the appeal filed by the defence committee for Palestinian citizen of Israel, Sheikh Yousef Al-Baz, 64, from the city of Lod and...

Syrian authorities have found 34 dead and 14 survivors from a migrant boat near the coastal city of Tartous, that survivors said had left from northern Lebanon, Samer Qubrusli, the Director-General of...

The United Nations could set up an independent mechanism to help find 100,000 missing persons in Syria, as the regime of Bashar Al-Assad continues to remain unaccounted for those...

Saudi Arabia's mission to the International Space Station next year aboard a SpaceX capsule will include a woman who would become the world's first female Arab astronaut, according to...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi fires back at Western nations.

The US sanctioned Iran's Morality Police and senior officials, Thursday, as mass unrest envelops the Islamic Republic in the wake of the death of a woman while in police...

Israeli Prime Minister, Yair Lapid, on Thursday welcomed the comment of his British counterpart, Liz Truss, over reviewing the possibility of moving the UK embassy from Tel Aviv to...

A group of Israeli settlers yesterday fired live bullets at civilians near the town of Ni'lin, west of Ramallah. A source from the town told Safa news agency that...