Dr Abdullah Maarouf interviewed by Ahmad Hweidi

Figures standing in the way for the formation of a new Lebanese government may face tougher sanctions, warned France's foreign minister on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. Speaking to Lebanon's official...

A Turkish charity provided aid to over 57,000 people in Lebanon during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, it said on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement, the...

With the rescheduled Expo 2020 Dubai set to open later this year, concerns have been raised over the alleged abuse of migrant workers by major contractors organising and running...

Russia has been utilising Israeli drone technology over the past decade, significantly enabling it to help defend the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad and keep him in power, an...

The United Arab Emirates came in third place in the list of countries importing Turkish defence products during the first quarter of 2021, Anadolu reported. According to report, the United States ranked first, importing weapons to the value of $386 million, an increase of about 56 per cent over the corresponding period last year. Azerbaijan came in second place with purchases amounting to more than $117 million, then the UAE came in third, with purchases worth more than $90 million. Turkish defence exports also rose 47.7 per cent during the first third of 2021. According to data from the Ministry of Commerce and the Exporters Council, the value of exports in January amounted to about $167 million and more than $233 million in February, about $247 million in March, and more than $302.5 million in April. Turkey-Egypt reconciliation will not be...

Palestinians were violently attacked by Israeli occupation forces and settlers during a protest against mass evictions in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah

A group of more than 180 Israeli intellectuals, writers and academics have called on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor not to accept Israel's own findings into alleged war...

European Union (EU) member states' pushback of asylum seekers and refugees seeking to enter Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the death of over 2,000, according to a report by...

UK media regulatory board Ofcom yesterday fined the UAE's Abu Dhabi Media Company PJSC, a total of £250,000 ($347.720) for serious breaches of fairness and privacy rules after airing two programmes about Qatar that did not meet broadcasting...

A 9-year-old boy known locally as Shiro A was gunned down near Afrin in northwestern Syria during a real life reenactment of the popular South Korean multiplayer experience

Israeli occupation forces yesterday detained one of the guards of Al-Aqsa Mosque and extended Sheikh Najeh Bakirat's ban from entering the Muslim Hily site, the Palestinian Information Centre reported. Police officers...

France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian arrived in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, yesterday and met with President Michael Aoun as part of efforts to end months of political deadlock...

A six-year-old girl has starved to death after her father chained her up and kept her in a cage, local media have reported. Nahla Al-Othman died in Faraj Allah...

Palestinian families facing forcible eviction from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood yesterday rejected the Israeli Supreme Court's proposal to reach a deal with Jewish settlers...

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is expected to visit Saudi Arabia for talks next week, as the two regional powers ramp up efforts to mend ties that have become...

A commander in Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)'s army said the Peshmerga forces repelled an attack by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters in the Sidakan area. The commander...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun has asked French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, for help to recover funds which have been smuggled out of the country, in an effort to...

The European Union called on Wednesday for Israel to reverse its decision to build new housing units in Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. It added that the...

The Prosecutor's Office in Qatar has announced that it has ordered the arrest of finance minister Ali Sharif Al-Emadi on corruption charges. The move was made public in a...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the water level in the Euphrates River has dramatically decreased over the past few weeks, threatening the lives and livelihoods of...

Jordan yesterday appointed Jafar Hassan as director of the Office of King Abdullah II. Royal Decrees also announced that the resignation of Haifa Khraisha from her position as Adviser to...

The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, is "deeply concerned" by the tension in the occupied West Bank and Israeli attempts to expel Palestinians...

An Israeli research centre has addressed the rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, stressing that this step constitutes a significant breach in the anti-Iran front that Israel seeks to...

Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita confirmed that Rabat had taken the decision to normalise relations with the occupation "out of conviction" and will go as far as possible in...

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan will embark on a three-day official visit to Saudi Arabia on Friday at the invitation of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, the Foreign Ministry...

The Arab League on Thursday condemned the forced eviction of residents of Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in East Jerusalem, calling it "a full-fledged crime", Anadolu Agency reports. "The eviction is...

Iraq's Mesopotamian marshes referred to as the 'Garden of Eden' threatened by waste

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin asks opposition leader to form government after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's fails to do so

Flash floods in Yemen brought on by heavy torrential rain have left several people dead and caused widespread damage to homes and buildings in the historic town of Tarim,...

US Congressman Jamaal Bowman of New York has defended his support for a bill that aims to regulate military aid to Israel. Bowman called for greater transparency over the...

'Because I've been documenting the Israeli attacks on the residents of Sheikh Jarrah, my Instagram has been suspended. Please continue and share as if you were here'