Middle East

A Lebanese military court will ask Lebanese Forces (LF) party leader, Samir Geagea, to give a statement about last week's Beirut street violence, sources with knowledge of the matter...

When the news circulated that Morocco's leading political group, the Development and Justice Party (PJD), had been trounced in the latest elections held in September, official media mouthpieces in...

Polish authorities have discovered the dead body of a Syrian refugee drowned in a river, who was reportedly pushed in by Belarusian border guards. The 19-year-old refugee was found...

Israel is a "colony" controlled by the "settler power's representatives" who disregard the rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel and those in the occupied territories, a leading Middle East...

Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed an agreement yesterday to cooperate on multiple space projects, including the launch of the "Beresheet 2" mission to the moon scheduled...

The news of the arrival of 235 displaced Jews to Israel via Ben Gurion Airport on 13 October went straight over our heads. These immigrants arrived from the city...

The UN Security Council released its latest statement on the conflict in Yemen yesterday, in which it "condemned Houthi cross-border attacks against targets in Saudi Arabia" and called for "an immediate...

Qatar national liquefied natural gas exporter, Qatar Energy, said it builds a trustful partnership for energy supplies in India. "We remain committed to being the trusted partner for energy supplies in India and around...

The Syrian government draws off millions of dollars of foreign aid by forcing UN agencies to use a lower exchange rate, according to new research, The Guardian reports. According...

Palestinian activists have accused PayPal Holdings Inc. of discrimination for not allowing Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip to link their bank accounts to its...

Meeting 12-year-old schoolgirl Maram Al-Amawi and her mother Ezdihar, 31, was an emotional moment. I was with them to hear about their treatment for the severe burns that they...

When Jordanian King Abdullah II spoke with Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, on the phone earlier this month, it set a precedent that thawed a decade of ice between the...

Two Iranian truck drivers detained by Azerbaijani authorities last month have been released following hectic diplomatic efforts between the two sides, officials said yesterday. Jafar Barzegar and Shahroud Norouzi...

Turkey's aid to Lebanon is unconditional, the Turkish ambassador in Beirut announced yesterday. Ali Barış Ulusoy insisted that Ankara has "no hidden agendas" in this matter. According to the...

The Iraqi army today announced that it has built a 650-kilometre border fence with Syria including barbed wire and watchtowers to prevent terrorist infiltration into the country. "The 650km...

The city of Umm Al-Fahm has announced a general strike for tomorrow, in protest of the rising violence and murders in the city based to the north of Israel,...

The sole US base in Syria outside of Kurdish-held territory has come under attack by drones in a "deliberate and coordinated attack", US Central Command said today. The attack...

Iraqi authorities yesterday handed over 15 former Saudi detainees to Riyadh after they completed their sentences. The Director of the Civil Status Directorate at the Iraqi ministry of the...

READ: Fatah warns that Israeli intransigence will lead to more tension...

It is important to build on UN resolutions and to support the perceptions and working mechanisms of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to consider the possibility of conducting a...

As Israel continues to approve illegal settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, Irish politician Chris MacManus, a member of the European Parliament for Sinn Féin, has criticised the...

Saudi Arabia's capital city Riyadh hosts a festival

Thirteen people have been tried on drug trafficking offenses, one was handed a death sentence, while three others have been given life terms.

The scenes of masked snipers and the lines of contact between Ain El-Remmaneh and Chyah in Beirut brought back the nightmare of the civil war that Lebanon witnessed in...

The Turkish presidency yesterday submitted a memorandum requesting parliament extend the authority granted to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to carry out military operations in Syria and Iraq for another two...

The Israeli occupation authorities have expelled the head of the Islamic Cemeteries Care Committee, Haj Mustafa Abu Zahra, from Jerusalem, Safa news agency has reported. The expulsion order is...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday accused the Syrian regime and its allied militias of committing grave human rights violations including torture, extra-judicial killings and kidnappings against Syrian refugees who had voluntarily...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement hailed on Wednesday Malaysia's rejection of normalisation of ties with Israel. Hamas thanked Malaysia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Saifuddin Abdullah, for "refuting Israel claims"...

The United States has been trying to drag more Arab and Muslim states to normalise ties with the occupation state of Israel, Palestinian Authority (PA) Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki...

Jordanian authorities refused to issue permissions for events marking the Prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him)'s birthday, Anadolu reported the country's Islamic Action Front saying. "With pain, we received the reply...

Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission said yesterday it had received nearly 1,400 appeals contesting the election results. Commission chairman, Judge Jalil Adnan Khalaf, said all 1,400 appeals would be reviewed...

When former United States president, Barack Obama, was awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he was in office less than a year. The Nobel Committee, in its...