Western powers on Monday scrapped plans for a resolution criticising Iran at the UN atomic watchdog after Tehran agreed to prolong monitoring of some nuclear activities, even though the...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said yesterday that it expects Oman's economy to recover this year with a projected growth of 2.5 per cent, spurred by non-hydrocarbon GDP growth...

Death, destruction and endless streams of refugees have become a common theme in the documentation of war, to the point of becoming almost numbing in their repetitiveness. However, another...

The UN will begin distributing aid to thousands of poor families in the besieged Gaza Strip today under a programme funded by Qatar, the organisation's Middle East envoy announced...

Turkey has condemned a statement by the Arab League saying that Ankara is interfering in regional affairs. The allegation is a blow to recent reconciliation efforts between Turkey and...

Tunisian President Kais Saied on Friday said the country would not tolerate any foreign interference as he faces rising pressure from Western governments to restore constitutional order after seizing...

Iran is to allow the UN nuclear watchdog to service monitoring cameras at Iranian nuclear sites after talks on Sunday with IAEA head Rafael Grossi, according to the head...

UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi will fly to Tehran this weekend for talks that may ease a standoff between Iran and the West just as it risks escalating...

The Palestinian Ministry of Education has announced that Nesreen Qutainah, a science and maths teacher at Dora Primary School for Girls in the occupied West Bank city of Al-Khalil...

The United Arab Emirates said today residents who had been fully vaccinated with a shot approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO) could return as of 12 September from...

The UN today sent 37 truckloads of humanitarian aid through Turkey to Idlib, northwestern Syria, Anadolu Agency reports. The trucks crossed into the Syrian territory through the Cilvegozu border...

Suddenly, the idea put forward by French President Emmanuel Macron late last year does not seem so far-fetched or untenable after all. Following the hurried US-NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan,...

Lebanon's caretaker minister of social affairs today announced the launch of cash subsidy cards for 500,000 families saying that negotiations were under way for them to be partly funded...

A United Nations panel found that 18,000 Yemeni civilians had been killed or wounded in air strikes since 2015 during the ongoing conflict in the country. A report presented...

The European Commission seeks to establish closer cooperation with Turkey as well as other countries in the region as part of its future goals, a senior EU diplomat said....

Egypt's petroleum minister said today he hoped to export Egyptian gas as soon as possible to Jordan to generate power that will supply Lebanon, Reuters reports. The minister made his remarks...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to set up an independent international mechanism to monitor and report on the human rights situation...

The UN atomic watchdog chided Iran on Tuesday for its continued failure to answer questions including on uranium traces found at three undeclared sites, which could complicate the resumption...

The Turkish foreign minister in an interview on Tuesday said "it would be a wrong decision if Turkey entirely withdraws from Afghanistan", Anadolu Agency reported. In the interview with a Turkish...

Qatar today handed over the presidency of the Arab League to Kuwait ahead of the group's next meeting on Thursday, Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported. The Permanent Representative of Qatar to...

Think tank Transnational Institute (TNI) has called on the European Union (EU) to spend its resources saving lives, instead of punishing people seeking safety on its shores. Europe had...

Amnesty International has released a report to say that 66 Syrian refugees who returned home have been detained, forcibly disappeared, and tortured by Syrian security forces. The report, "You're...

Egypt's Interior Minister and National Security Agency officers have carried out unlawful extrajudicial executions in so-called shootouts, Human Rights Watch has said in a report. According to the publication, these...

NATO announced on Monday that it evacuated over 500 Afghan former employees and their families from the Taliban-controlled country, Anadolu Agency reported. "More than 500 Afghans who have worked with NATO...

Sudanese authorities yesterday discussed with the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) coordinating efforts to ensure the success of the transitional period and the democratic path...

Israel will fully open its crossings with Gaza and facilitate ending the crises in the besieged enclave, the Qatari envoy said this morning in a statement. The Israeli decision...

Events in Afghanistan could be a catalyst for the European Union to forge a common migration policy, European Commissioner Margaritis Schinas said in a newspaper interview, reports Reuters. EU...

The challenges to security emerging from the upheaval in Afghanistan should be a wake-up call for the European Union, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Saturday, urging...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday Iran was ready to hold talks with world powers to revive its 2015 nuclear accord but not under Western "pressure", adding Tehran...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced on Friday that he would not meet with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas because he took Israel to the International Criminal Court...

Six Syrian refugees arrested and detained by the Lebanese authorities must be released "unless they are charged with a recognisable offence," Amnesty International has urged. The six were arrested...

Turkey's Foreign Minister has said that his government will reject any European offer to keep Afghan refugees within the country in exchange for money, Anadolu has reported. Mevlut Cavusoglu...