A young Palestinian woman who was flown from Gaza to an Italian hospital in a severely emaciated state for treatment...
- Negotiators from 185 nations worked beyond Thursday's deadline and through the night in an ultimately futile search for common ground....
Recent months have seen increasing Arab engagement with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has been politically isolated in the region...The visit of Saudi diplomat comes less than a week after Syrian Foreign Minister visited Saudi Arabia, also on the first such visit since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011
Prince Faisal said in February that a consensus was building in the Arab world that a new approach to Syria requiring negotiations would be needed to address the conflict
Seeing no way out of a political crisis that has prevented the country from having an effective government, Kuwait's emir...In 1962, Kuwait embraced a parliamentary system, but repeated political crises have caused state paralysis
The rich country, unlike other Gulf Arab states, has a vigorous political life in which MPs and civil society regularly take the authorities to task
After two days of talks in the bucolic Japanese mountain resort town Karuizawa, the top diplomats from leading economies unveiled...G7 foreign ministers also put Beijing on notice over its "militarization activities" in the South China Sea and insisted their Taiwan policy was unchanged.
Their final statement sparked a furious reaction from China, which said it had been "maliciously slandered and smeared".
- Calling on warring parties in Sudan to immediately cease hostilities, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that any further escalation...
The UN's special representative to Sudan told reporters that the violence raged for a third day through Monday, with the death toll increasing to at least 185 people
The fighting broke out between the two generals who seized power in a 2021 coup: Sudan's army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo
Yemen faces its best chance to strike a peace deal since the country's civil war started over eight years ago,...The Arabian Peninsula country is one of the poorest in the Middle East, and has been devastated by the war, which started in 2014.
The government and the rebels have exchanged nearly 900 prisoners in recent days, as hopes grow for peace.
- PARIS, FRANCE - Air France and plane manufacturer Airbus were acquitted Monday over the 2009 crash of a Rio-Paris flight after...
The two companies went on trial in October to determine their responsibility for the worst aviation disaster in Air France's history.
If convicted, Air France, Airbus would have risked a fine of US$250,000 as well as significant reputational damage.
- The two countries had severed ties seven years ago after Saudi Arabia executed a revered Saudi shia cleric Sheikh Nimr...
The two Middle East powerhouses had held several rounds of dialogue in Iraq and Oman before reaching the agreement to mend ties on March 10 in China.
Saudi delegation to visit Iran to discuss the reopening of the embassy and consulate. Iranian officials say diplomatic mission likely to open before May 9.
A day after a major prisoner exchange, more than 100 prisoners of war were flown from Saudi Arabia to Yemen...The exchange and the truce negotiations come a month after Gulf heavyweights Saudi Arabia and Iran agreed to re-establish diplomatic ties
The release of 104 captives, days before the major Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr, takes the total number to 973 freed since Friday
- Beirut, Lebanon--A US helicopter raid on Monday targeted a senior Islamic State group leader in Syria suspected of plotting attacks in...
A US Central Command statement said that the target of the strike was "responsible for planning terror attacks in the Middle East and Europe"
The strike, according to the Observatory, a Britain-based war monitor, killed the main target and two other fighters
- The Observatory, which has a wide network of sources on the ground in Syria, said fighters riding motorbikes also attacked...
Since February, more than 240 people have been killed in IS attacks targeting truffle hunters or by landmines left by the extremists
Remnants of explosives laid by all sides in the conflict are now claiming more lives in Syria than anywhere else in the world, says the UN
