Bahrain will add around 177 million dinars ($470 million) to its 2020 state budget in emergency spending on fighting the new coronavirus pandemic, state news agency BNA said on...

Two former managers of Monaco-based energy consultancy Unaoil have been convicted in Britain of bribing Iraqi officials to clinch lucrative oil projects as the war-ravaged country tried to boost...

The International Monetary Fund urged Lebanese authorities on Monday to unite around a government rescue plan and warned that attempts to lower losses from the financial crisis could only...

Bangladesh police said on Monday they have arrested three men over the trafficking of hundreds of young women taken to Dubai on the promise of jobs in hotels and...

State-owned Kuwait Oil Company today announced a 25 per cent reduction in its budget for the next five years. Local media quoted a company statement as saying that the...

An attack on pro-Palestine activists by lobby groups favouring the state of Israel took a violent turn in Canada over the weekend as the right-wing Jewish terrorist group the...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) yesterday announced that it was prolonging a lockdown in the West Bank for four days, to prevent the spread of coronavirus infections, reported the Times of Israel. PA...

The UK singed off more than £75 million ($94 million) worth of spyware and wiretaps normally used to curtail freedoms to some of the most authoritarian regimes in the...

Israel and the United States are developing a shared strategy aimed at taking out senior Iranian military figures and slowing down Iran’s nuclear program, US officials have revealed to the...

The irreconcilable tension within Zionism has been laid bare once again by prominent columnist and commentator Peter Beinart. For a number of years, the 49-year-old has had the status...

Palestinian resistance factions in the West Bank have called for a renewed popular uprising against the illegal Israeli occupation amid continued “colonial settlement and ethnic cleansing activities” reports the Palestinian...

The TV host repeatedly asked his children, “Who wants to feed a Bedouin?”

Lebanon’s traffic lights outage has been caused by a row over parking meter revenue, not fuel scarcity, a report by the National has revealed. Since mid-April, more than half of Beirut’s traffic...

A Lebanese TV show host is set to stand trial over remarks made against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a talk show broadcast in June, after Turkish authorities...

A former student from London who fled to Syria to join the Daesh terror group has died in a Kurdish-run prison, according to the BBC and the Independent. Ishak...

Israel is set to turn ancient Muslim cemetery in Jaffa into a homeless shelter

Students and families in Gaza celebrate their success in high school exams

Bahrain’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, has today upheld the death sentences against Mohammed Ramadan and Husain Ali Moosa over their involvement in a 2014 bomb attack that...

Real estate activity in Saudi Arabia witnessed a record decrease of 84.6 per cent last week after the government’s decision to increase the rate of Value Added Tax (VAT)...

The International Committee of the Red Cross warned on Saturday that two-thirds of Yemenis do not have food, and almost as many have no access to health care. In...

The UAE’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) said yesterday that the National Computer Emergency Response Team (aeCERT) repelled more than 100,000 cyber-attacks against the Federal Government’s entities in June. TRA...

The Iraqi Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein yesterday called on his German counterpart Heiko Maas to support Baghdad’s removal from the European list of high-risk countries for money laundering and...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has hailed the Security Council decision to extend cross-border humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees, the UN News website reported on Sunday. The previous authorisation for...

Many health care staff have quit their jobs in Yemen due to the high risk of contracting COVID-19, leaving the already-decimated healthcare system under-resourced, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reported at the...

Iraqi security forces yesterday prevented hundreds of protesters from entering the Green Zone in Baghdad to demonstrate against deductions in their salaries, Anadolu reported. Most of the protesters are members of...

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to serious losses in the tourism industry in the Arab world, with more than 50 million jobs lost, Anadolu reported on Sunday. A report...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement has praised the resolution passed by the Senate in Chile calling for a boycott of all Israeli goods in response to the planned annexation...

Doctors dispatched by the Qatari Red Crescent Society to the Gaza Strip have carried out dozens of difficult surgical operations, Al-Shorouq reported on Sunday. An example of the intricate...

Iranian local media yesterday said a senior commander of the country’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed in Syria. “IRGC leader Ibrahim Asami has been killed in Syria,” IRGC’s...

Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) accused the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday of instructing forces loyal to Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar to disrupt the country’s oil output and...

Yemen’s Saudi-led coalition said on Monday it intercepted and destroyed four missiles and six explosive drones launched overnight by Houthi forces towards the kingdom, Reuters reports. Cross-border attacks by...

The UN Security Council on Saturday approved delivering humanitarian aid to Syria for a year through one border gate, Anadolu Agency reports. The 15-member council reduced the number of gates for...