Istanbul's jailed opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu went on trial Friday on charges of falsifying his university degree.
The UN Security Council announced it would hold an emergency meeting Friday to discuss discuss violations of Poland's airspace, a...
Abu Dhabi, UAE -- UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Sunday...Sheikh Zayed noted that the UAE is Singapore’s top trading partner in the Middle East and North Africa.
The two leaders reviewed cooperation and opportunities to develop relations, especially in the fields of economy, investment, education and tourism.
- The United States warned against any "escalation" in the Middle East in the wake of Israel's war with Hamas, Defense...
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the activation of air defense systems and notified additional forces that they may be deployed soon.
The Pentagon's moves came after what Austin had earlier described in a statement as "detailed discussions" with President Joe Biden.
- A rare delivery of fuel enters the Palestinian territory; Netanyahu says Hezbollah will make "mistake of its life" if its...
The United Nations has estimated about 100 trucks per day are needed to meet the needs of 2.4 million Gazans given the "catastrophic" humanitarian situation.
Sunday's aid delivery through the Rafah crossing was the second such operation in two days after 20 trucks arrived on Saturday.
- Several wealthy Americans have threatened to withdraw their financial support from prestigious private schools like the Ivy League's Harvard University...
The Wexner Foundation, which works to prepare young Jewish leaders in North America and Israel, went a step further: ending its partnership with Harvard's Kennedy School.
Harvard, which has an enormous endowment of close to $51 billion, says it derives some 8 percent of its operating revenue from gifts.
- "Gaza was a desperate humanitarian situation before the most recent hostilities," five UN agencies said. "It is now catastrophic." At...
The summit ended without a joint statement however, as Western officials demanded a clear condemnation of Hamas, and Arab attendees issued statements criticizing world leaders.
The scale of the bombing has left basic systems unable to function, with unidentified bodies were buried in a mass grave in Gaza City because cold storage has run out.
- While Israeli strikes have repeatedly caused the grounding of flights at the government-controlled airports in the capital Damascus and the...
The military source said the "simultaneous" strikes came "from the direction of the Mediterranean west of Latakia and from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan"
Last weekend, Israeli strikes targeted Aleppo airport, wounding five people, a war monitor reported, also putting it out of service, according to the authorities
It has repeatedly called for talks on ending the conflict, which has risked undermining its growing ties with Iran and...Russia convened a meeting on the war on Monday but its ceasefire resolution failed due to opposition
More than 3,700 Palestinians, mainly civilians, have been killed across the Gaza Strip in relentless Israeli bombardments
- New Delhi, India--India on Sunday flew 38.5 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Egypt's Sinai region for Palestinian civilians from the...
According to Indian foreign ministry, a plane loaded with 6.5 tonnes of medical aid and 32 tonnes of disaster relief material was dispatched for the people of Palestine
The aid included essential life-saving medicines, surgical items, tents, sleeping bags, tarpaulins, sanitary utilities, and water purification tablets
Since Wednesday, three Iraqi bases used by US-led coalition troops have been targeted in five separate attacks -- Ain al-Assad,...A statement issued on Telegram channels used by pro-Iranian armed groups said the attack was carried out by a group calling itself the Islamic Resistance in Iraq
A second Iraqi security source told the attack had involved two suicide drones, "the first was intercepted and the second crashed because of a technical problem," source said
- Berlin, Germany--Qatar, a key power in the efforts to release hostages seized by Hamas from Israel, believes they can be released...
A Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman told a German newspaper that hostages can be released very soon "thanks to ongoing discussions"
On Friday evening two American hostages were released by Hamas in Gaza, with Doha's mediation playing a key role in their freedom
