Russia got their World Cup campaign off to a dream start with a 5-0 thumping of Saudi Arabia but face an entirely different beast in the form of Egypt

Houthi forces fought to keep control of the airport in Yemen’s main port city of Hudaydah on Sunday as Saudi-led coalition air strikes struck the compound, in an offensive...

Syrian state media, citing a military source, reported early on Monday that US-led coalition aircraft had bombed “one of our military positions” in eastern Syria, leading to deaths and...

Myanmar’s leader is doing her best to cover up her country’s international crimes against Rohingya people

This year’s Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Iran was staged with greater fanfare than ever, not least because of rising tensions with Israel. Last month Israel claimed to have staged...

At least 74 undocumented migrants have been held in northwestern Turkey, security sources said Friday. In Canakkale’s Ayvacik district, gendarmes held a total of 41 undocumented migrants, including women...

The battle for the western Yemeni port of Hudaydah could be an important milestone in the three-year civil war. But analysts say the conflict is so complex that even...

Arab warplanes and warships pounded Houthi positions in Yemen’s Hudaydah on Thursday as a Saudi-led alliance tried to seize the port city in the largest battle of a war...

Debris from five missiles fired at Saudi Arabia by Yemen’s Houthi group since July 2017 “share key design features with a known type of missile” manufactured by Iran and some of...

President Donald Trump’s nominee for a top State Department Middle East post said on Thursday he would dissuade countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt from weapons deals with Russia that could...

Expatriate workers who accept low wages and are willing to work long hours are exacerbating the Iraq’s unemployment problem, locals have said. Hussein Jassim, an Iraqi worker who left...

A federal judge today allowed an American journalist based in Syria to challenge his alleged placement on a US kill list, the Washington Post reported today. The green light...

A Palestinian youth succumbed this morning to wounds he sustained during the Great March of Return protests in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Spokesperson of the Gaza...

Eminent historian Professor Bernard Lewis, a British born American, passed away on 19 May. He was 12 days short of his 102nd birthday. I was kind of waiting for...

The US Secretary of Defence, General James Mattis, has linked his country’s withdrawal from Syria to a comprehensive solution to the eight-year-old crisis. This means that America is refusing...

At least three OPEC members disagree with Saudi Arabia and Russia on the need to pump more oil, OPEC sources said, complicating any official decision to boost supply just...

The US State Department announced the imposition of sanctions on two Israeli companies that the authorities claim cooperated in a Russian cyberattack against American authorities. The companies, Embedi and...

The 2026 World Cup will be held in the United States, Mexico and Canada after FIFA’s congress voted today to back the tri-nation joint bid for the tournament. The...

In recent years, Israeli authorities have carried out dozens of “pre-emptive” arrests of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, on the basis of so-called intelligence gathered...

First-Vice President of the Russian National Geopolitical Academy, Konstantin Sivkov said that Saudi Arabia had succumbed to US pressure and abandoned the Russian S-400 air defence system deal. “Saudi...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday he opposed any repeat of the 12 May parliamentary election and warned that anyone who tried to sabotage the political process...

The Syrian army has reinforced its anti-aircraft defences near the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, a commander in the regional alliance that backs President Bashar al-Assad said on...

India’s oil imports from Iran surged to about 705,000 barrels per day (bpd) in May, their highest level since October 2016, according to data from shipping and industry sources, despite the...

The Saudi-led coalition geared up on Tuesday for an assault on Yemen’s main port, preparing to launch by far the biggest battle of a three-year-old war between an alliance...

What is taking place in Palestine is not a ‘conflict’.  We readily utilise the term but, in fact, the word ‘conflict’ is misleading. It equates oppressed Palestinians with Israel,...

The White House has denied that President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner had a “stormy and abrupt meeting” with Kuwait Ambassador to Washington, Salem Abdullah Al Jaber...

Iranian Minister of Economy and Finance Masoud Karbasian announced yesterday that Iran and China are using their national currency for a joint trade exchange. According to the official IRNA...

President Donald Trump announced last month the US was withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal and re-imposing sanctions that would hit international businesses working in the Islamic republic. The...

A US soldier killed in combat with Al-Shaabab in Jubaland, Somalia, has been identified as Alexander Conrad, the Hill reported yesterday. Conrad was killed in an ambush by Somalia’s...

The Sudanese are not generally known for peddling conspiracy theories. However, during this severe economic crisis many elaborate claims and counter claims about the causes and consequences of the...

Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat today blasted US envoy Jason Greenblatt for criticising Palestinian protests in the Gaza Strip against the decades-long Israeli occupation. “The US administration’s defence of...

The UK, US and France are backing the civil defence forces in Syria to attack civilians, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said in an interview with the Mail on Sunday...