Bahrain's flag carrier Gulf Air has announced that it has begun selling tickets ahead of its first direct flights to Israel's Tel Aviv commencing on 3 June. The airline's...
The administration of US President Joe Biden has conveyed several messages to the Israeli government recently, through which it expressed unease over Israel's attacks against Iranian targets, Yedioth Ahronoth...
The Carnegie Institution for Science's D.C. has sold its headquarters to the government of Qatar for an undisclosed price, Doha News reported. The decision to sell Carnegie's iconic building to Qatari...
Mahmoud Abbas has warned that Israel is on the path to becoming an apartheid state in a speech to the annual J Street Conference in America. The President of...
Pakistan has summoned a number of its diplomats in Saudi Arabia due to "multiple" complaints from the Pakistani community there, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Quresh announced on Saturday. "The...

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April 19, 2021 |
Eman Abusidu Palestinian electrical engineer Loay Elbasyouni, who was part of the NASA team which sent the Perseverance spacecraft to Mars last month, has returned to prominence as the space agency...
A number of US congressional staffers are pushing for removing allegedly "anti-Semitic" content from the curricula taught to Palestinian children in schools run by the United Nations Relief and...
Syria will hold a presidential election on May 26 that is virtually certain to return President Bashar al-Assad for a third term – an event that Washington and the...
There are no scheduled meetings between Pakistani and Indian foreign ministers during their visits to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), officials from both countries confirmed on Saturday, Anadolu Agency reported. Pakistan's...
Iran criticized the US on Friday for imposing new sanctions on Russia, describing the move as a "false step", Anadolu Agency reports. Tehran firmly rejects fresh sanctions on Moscow...
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April 17, 2021 |
Ahmad Hwedi Arab and Islamic communities are scattered across various continents around the world. Statistics have shown that Arab communities hold weight in Europe and America, especially the Palestinian communities, which...
An Iraqi court in Nineveh on Friday confiscated $1.6 million and gold bars from Daesh, Anadolu Agency reported. "$1.6 million, gold and silver coins and gold bars were found...
The US has urged Eritrean forces to leave Ethiopia's Tigray region immediately, and the Ethiopian government to hold those responsible for human rights violations accountable, Anadolu Agency reports. Linda...
Lebanese President Michel Aoun stressed on Thursday the importance of continuing the border demarcation negotiations with Israel and what he described as "honest and fair" mediation by the US....
President Joe Biden's U-turn on ending US support for offensive operations in Yemen earlier this week with the resumption of arms sale to the UAE has been condemned as a "disastrous"...
Iran has begun 60 per cent uranium enrichment at its Natanz plant, the country's nuclear chief said today, days after an explosion at the site that Tehran blamed on...
Democratic lawmakers in the US House of Representatives yesterday introduced a bill specifying that Israel should not be allowed to use American taxpayer's money to kill, torture, imprison, displace...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced on Thursday that his country would limit uranium enrichment to 3.67 per cent if the US rejoins the 2015 nuclear deal and lifts sanctions....
Anti-war activists in the US are staging a hunger-strike in protest at American support for the Saudi-led coalition's war and blockade against Yemen, currently in its sixth year. The...
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi ordered an investigation into the attack
The United States and the European countries party to the Iran nuclear deal yesterday pushed back against Tehran's decision to enrich uranium at 60 per cent purity, with a...
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US Japanese lunar exploration firm iSpace will collaborate with the UAE in taking a rover to the moon next year. According to Reuters, the Rashid lunar rover will be built entirely by the...
US President Joe Biden's administration has confirmed the $23 billion weapons deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), including advanced F-35 jets, armed drones, and other weapons, reported Reuters....
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that sanctions and sabotage attempts will not create opportunities for negotiations with the United States over the nuclear deal, but rather make...
Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, yesterday called for all sanctions imposed by the United States on Iran to be lifted, unconditionally, including sanctions targeting foreign firms that deal with...
The Jewish National Fund (JNF) in Israel approved on Sunday plans to purchase land in the occupied West Bank to expand illegal settlements, mainly in Nablus and Jenin, Haaretz...
German Fenerbahçe midfielder, Mesut Ozil, has donated €101,000 ($120,770) to the Turkish Red Crescent for an aid campaign run during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Anadolu news agency reported. The...
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UK Former Israeli spy, Jonathan Pollard, yesterday joined scores of illegal settlers in storming Joseph's Tomb in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. Local Kan reported that Pollard had...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to send more water from the River Jordan to Amman after encouragement from the United States, local media reported yesterday. Jordan is...
President Bashar al-Assad has dismissed Syria's Central Bank Governor Hazem Karfoul, the state news agency reported on Tuesday, Reuters reported. It did not immediately say whether Assad had appointed a replacement...
Iran said on Tuesday it would begin enriching uranium to 60% purity, a move that would take the fissile material much closer to the 90% suitable for a nuclear...
US President Joe Biden has ordered the full withdraw of all combat troops from Afghanistan by September 11, a senior administration official said on Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reported. The official,...