Middle East

The European Union's (EU) General Court has dismissed a Syrian businessman's application to have his sanctions lifted, ruling that he remains a prominent business associate of the Syrian regime...

An investigation into last year's Beirut blast is set to resume after a court rejected the last of several lawsuits that had led the probe to be suspended for...

When Kaiwan Hussein, a 26-year-old from Iraqi Kurdistan, arrived in Germany on 23 November, after he slipped across the European Union border from Belarus, he sent a one-word WhatsApp...

Two Swiss half-sisters, whose mother took them out of the country with her when she joined the Daesh militant group in the Middle East in 2016 have been repatriated...

The parties to the war in Yemen each have their own agenda, making the conflict hard to resolve. Here are some of these groups and what they want, as...

A Saudi man has been arrested in France on suspicion of his involvement in the murder of the journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, three years ago. According to reports by French...

The leaders of Greece, Israel, and the Greek Cypriot administration met on Tuesday in Jerusalem for trilateral talks on their relations, Anadolu News Agency reports. In a joint press...

Turkey's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, slammed the recent arson attempt on a mosque in the Greek-administered part of the island, Anadolu News Agency reports. According to the report, Erdogan...

The Israeli government is failing to approve the citizenship applications of almost 80 converts to Judaism

The late Lebanese artist Etel Adnan once said that, "We are used to living in a world of 'either, or', but we are complex beings, multiple beings, diverse beings."...

An Israeli soldier was caught on camera planting a gun in the vehicle of a 19-year-old Palestinian driver while he was being arrested last month, the Jerusalem Post has...

Israel, on Tuesday, announced the completion of constructing a concrete wall around the blockaded Gaza Strip, Anadolu News Agency reports. A Defence Ministry statement said the 65-kilometre-long (some 41...

Israeli media is currently promoting an alternative plan for the country's leaders in the event the Vienna negotiations fail, and it is trying hard to drag Washington and European...

Sitting behind her sewing machine in her house located on the outskirts of Saffa village, 16-kilometres (9 miles) west of Ramallah, Hanan Karajeh, 55, recalls the events that shook...

Ten months have passed since the military escalation between Houthi rebels and government forces over Yemen's central province of Marib, located 173 km north-east of the capital, Sana'a, Anadolu...

The past few weeks have brought about an important shift in the region, represented by the visit of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Zayed, to Turkey and his...

Palestinian hunger striker, Kayed Al-Fasfous is proud of defeating the Israeli occupation by his "empty-stomach" campaign, Anadolu News Agency reports. Al-Fasfous, 32, staged a 131-day hunger strike in protest...

The Israeli Knesset today approved a bill ordering minimum penalties for possession and trafficking of illegal weapons, said to be an effort to combat the rising crime rates among...

A bomb killed four people in the southern Iraqi city of Basra today, the first such attack in years in a part of the country that has enjoyed relative...

Baghdad's water ministry has completed its application to take Tehran to the International Court of Justice over drop in the Tigris and Euphrates river levels

The UAE announced plans to move to a Saturday-Sunday weekend, making Fridays half-days to allow staff to attend prayers.

More than 40 Yemeni tribal leaders have called on all parties to the conflict in the country to start a "comprehensive and immediate ceasefire" and to reopen all humanitarian...

Syria has accused Israel of carrying out an airstrike on the key port of Latakia in the early hours today, targeting shipping containers and causing a fire in the...

The Red Sea International Film Festival opened on Monday in Jeddah. This is the first such festival to be hosted by Saudi Arabia. The ten-day festival is being held...

Iran yesterday accused France of "destabilising" the region by selling weapons to rival Gulf countries, three days after Paris signed a multi-billion-dollar contract with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the...

A Dutch appeals court today ruled that Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz was immune from civil prosecution in the Netherlands in a case brought over the deaths of six...

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has accused Israel of opposing regional dialogue and making efforts to thwart the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear agreement concluded between...

Poland aims to become an important supplier of high-quality goods and services to Qatar, President Andrzej Duda said on Monday. This is in addition to being an importer of...

Lebanon marks its "independence day" on 22 November annually, the day that it became independent of France in 1943. Or did it? Is Lebanon really independent? It has sovereignty...

Israeli journalist and analyst Barak Ravid said on Monday that Mossad head David Barnea has made "stupid" remarks about Iran's nuclear programme, Rai Al-Youm has reported. Ravid made his comment in...

Iran is not only talking about lifting the sanctions or reaching a temporary or interim deal on its nuclear programme, Foreign Ministry spokesman, Saeed Khatibzadeh, said yesterday. Khatibzadeh added that his...

The Israeli occupation Municipality of Jerusalem yesterday froze plans to build a large Jewish-only settlement on the land of an old Palestinian airport in occupied East Jerusalem, local media reported. According to the Times of Israel, the team at the Israeli Jerusalem District Planning Committee was...