Middle East

French football legend Zinedine Zidane has rejected a deal of $80 million a year to manage Saudi Pro League team Al-Nassr FC, sports news site Foot Mercato reported on Thursday. Zidane was offered a...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas declared on Friday: "Barbaric attacks of Israeli Jewish settlers will not scare Palestinians." In a statement, senior Hamas leader Abdul-Hakim Hanini also condemned...

European Diplomatic missions in Jerusalem on Friday called on the Israeli occupation to halt all confiscations and demolitions in the occupied West Bank. In a press statement, the consortium...

The extremist Israeli government is preparing a law to dismiss Israeli Arab students who raise the Palestine flag or express their support for Palestinian resistance inside universities, Israel Hayom...

Extremist Israeli settlers burnt Palestinian vehicles and crops on Friday between the villages of Turmus Ayya and Al-Mughayyir, northeast of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. Local sources reported...

Dozens of Israeli settlers congregated near Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem as they marked the Shavuot Jewish holiday.

A new conflict has occurred between Kuwait and the Philippines over the protection of domestic workers and the rights of Kuwaiti employers after the Gulf state suspended visas for...

An Omani man with a prosthetic leg has crossed boundaries by diving into deep waters. He lost his leg in a motorcycle accident. One of his goals is to beat his own record of 30 metres, hoping to dive 40 metres into the sea.

Jordan announced on Friday that the home of its ambassador to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, had been stormed and vandalised, expressing its condemnation and denunciation of the act in...

Algerian authorities have unveiled an ambitious project to construct the world's tallest statue, depicting the symbol of resistance against French colonialism and the founder of modern Algeria, Emir Abdelkader...

The United Nations (UN) announced on Friday that half a million children in areas controlled by the Yemeni government are at risk of acute malnutrition this year. This came...

Ankara is currently working on the safe return of Syrian refugees in Turkiye to their country, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said, as Syrian citizens praise the peaceful...

Once celebrated as a financial wizard, Lebanese Central Bank Governor, Riad Salameh, is spending his final weeks in office a wanted man, faced with French and German arrest warrants that have been prompted...

Lebanon will work over the next year to address deficiencies in policing corruption identified by a financial crime watchdog, the country's Financial Intelligence Unit said on Friday, Reuters reports. The Special...

An Iranian-Belgian prisoner swap agreement had been reached under the auspices of the Sultanate of Oman, the Omani Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. "In...

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"Oral histories always beg the question of what lives and cultural forms are isolated, erased and made insignificant by bringing this narrative to the fore," Livia Wick writes in...

Israeli occupation forces forced an immobile, elderly Palestinian woman to vacate her home so they could demolish the building next door in the occupied West Bank

The Israeli government is considering a bill aimed at imposing restrictions on foreign funding for NGOs, local media reported yesterday. According to media reports, the bill states that any...

Like many Syrians in Turkiye, Ghaith Sameer is awaiting the result of Sunday's election runoff with trepidation, fearing a win for an opposition candidate who promises to swiftly repatriate...

Supporters of Israel advocating for the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism have suffered a major blow in their ongoing effort to shield the apartheid state...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) said yesterday that some countries, which it did not name, have informed it they will be significantly reducing the...

The authorities across Israel's universities have condemned a bill that would ban flying the flag of Palestine anywhere in Israel, including in academic institutions, reported The Times of Israel....

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said yesterday that there are international efforts to reach a preliminary version of a nuclear agreement. Abdullahian said in a press statement that...

Turkiye has launched the construction of a mega-scale housing project to resettle Syrian refugees in northern Syria, Turkish media outlets reported. The project includes nearly a quarter of a...

The General Manager of the National Iranian Gas Company, Majid Jakini, said that if his country exports natural gas to Europe, it will be done through Turkiye. This came...

The Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation Affairs will discuss on Sunday an amendment to the law on national parks, nature reserves, national sites and memorials, which aims to impose...

The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), which represents over 45 million European workers and their trade unions, decided today to boycott products made in illegal Israeli settlements in the...

A strong sandstorm hit Iraq's Najaf province disrupting visibility. Traffic has been badly affected by the sandstorm and dust which forced the suspension of flights.

The head of Hamas' Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, has hailed the victory of the Hamas-affiliated Islamic Wafa bloc in the Birzeit University's student union election saying it represents an "extension" of...

It is unclear why 100-year-old Henry Kissinger has been elevated by Western intelligentsia to serve the role of the visionary in how the West should behave in response to...

Iran successfully test-launched a ballistic missile with a potential 2,000-km range on Thursday, state media said, two days after the chief of Israel's Armed Forces raised the prospect of...