Middle East

Women in Oman will soon be allowed to drive taxis in the capital, Muscat, and a women-only service will also be launched from 20 January. It is hoped the...

The Iranian Minister of Petroleum hailed a dramatic rise in the country's sale of oil products in the past 10 months, predicting that 1.2 million barrels per day of...

A delegation from Indonesia visited Israel in recent days to discuss the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to The Associated Press (AP). The health officials met with Israeli officials "to...

Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), yesterday, launched a security campaign with the aim of arresting young men and placing them in conscription camps in north-eastern Syria. The military campaign was...

Israeli police arrested dozens of Palestinian Arabs in the Negev region in southern Israel, amid protests against land confiscation in the area, according to a local NGO on Tuesday...

The administration of US President Joe Biden is employing diplomatic tact which says nothing about its foreign policy in terms of Palestine, other than that it is doing its...

A Palestinian man sentenced to life in prison marks his 40th year in detention in an Israeli jail, Anadolu News Agency reports. Maher Younes, 64, was arrested by Israeli...

Following yesterday's drone attack in Abu Dhabi, the spokesman of the Houthi-allied Yemen armed forces, Brigadier-General Yahya Saree, has disclosed further details of the operation dubbed "Hurricane Yemen" a...

A Hamas delegation has arrived in Algeria for talks on inter-Palestinian reconciliation, according to the Palestinian group and reported by Anadolu News Agency. Last month, Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune,...

The rise in global food prices will have repercussions on the Middle East where high prices and deteriorating living conditions sparked the Arab Spring revolutions, reports The New Arab's...

The summaries of the Palestinian Strategic Report for 2020-2021, launched recently by Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies and Consultations, do not provide much optimism for 2022. This is despite the...

The former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly agreed to Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit's demand that a plea deal in his criminal trial include a clause banning him...

A drop in temperature and rain has greatly affected the Palestinian territories and Gaza Strip and led to streets flooding and school delays

The Israeli Foreign Ministry criticised European diplomats harshly on Monday for visiting Sheikh Jarrah in solidarity with a Palestinian family under threat of forced eviction, the Jerusalem Post has...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's coalition government was embarrassed yesterday when the Knesset (parliament) failed to pass the orthodox conscription bill, which fell in a 54-54 vote on its...

The Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, General Ali Shamkhani, hailed on Monday the coming into force of the 25-year comprehensive cooperation agreement with China as...

The Yemeni Congregation for Reform Party, or al-Islah condemned on Monday "in the strongest terms" the attack carried out by Yemeni Houthi rebels against civilian facilities in the United...

The Palestinian Red Crescent (PRC) said on Monday that its paramedics have treated 28 Palestinians wounded by Israeli occupation forces in two separate villages in the occupied West Bank,...

Palestinian refugees in Lebanon went on a general strike on Monday in protest at the alleged inaction of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in relation to the...

The Palestinian Authority has frozen the work of the committee collecting evidence against Israel in preparation for submission to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Safa reported on...

Israel has been condemned by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for the eviction of a Palestinian family in Sheikh Jarrah, Al Watan Voice has reported. An official statement from...

Arab countries, on Monday, rushed to condemn a Houthi rebel attack from Yemen on the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which killed at least three people and injured six others,...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said, Monday, that it reserves the right to respond following an attack by Houthi rebels in Yemen, Anadolu News Agency reports. "We condemn the...

The League of Parliamentarians for Al-Quds has added the Spanish language to its official website in order to help convey its message and activities to the largest possible segment...

Israeli media reported that a private plane belonging to the retired Major General, Khalifa Haftar, landed in the occupied territory for several hours. The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, Makan,...

A Saudi engineer has won the "Innovators Under 35" award for developing a chip that can detect different types of cancer in the human body. Dana Al-Sulaiman works as...

As the UN Security Council marks the 76th anniversary of its first session, discussions on reforming the governmental body continue among many countries. A prominent Turkish expert pointed to...

The United Nations' Special Envoy to Syria has dismissed the need for regime change in Syria and said that the country is stable under President Bashar Al-Assad, seeming to...

A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces on Monday in an alleged knife attack in the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli army, and reported by Anadolu...

At least three people were killed and six others injured due to blazes caused by a possible drone attack in the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) capital, Abu Dhabi, police...

A Palestinian has threatened to set himself and his family on fire in protest of an Israeli eviction order, Anadolu News Agency reports. Israeli municipal authorities issued an order...

A convicted child-sex offender and adviser to the UAE, George Nader, has pleaded guilty to helping the Gulf state pump millions of dollars in illegal campaign contributions into the...