Beirut, Lebanon - Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem has thanked a senior Iranian official for his country's ongoing support in confronting...
- Lebanese leaders firmly rejected any efforts at foreign interference during a visit by Iran's security chief Wednesday, with the prime...
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - Iraqi President Abdel Latif Rashid condemned Turkey on Saturday for bombarding an area near Sulaimaniyah airport in the...Iraqi president said Turkey continued to target Kurdistan region as it struck against Sulaimaniyah airport.
President Abdel Latif Rashid said Turkey has "no legal justification" for attacking the Kurdish region.
Amman, Jordan -- Twenty years after the fall of his regime, the late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein remains admired and popular..."Tens of thousands of Jordanians graduated from Iraqi universities in various fields during Saddam's era with free scholarships," MP Khalil Attiyeh told AFP.
"The main reason Jordanians love Saddam is that they saw him as a hero and a savior who had a mission to boost the Arab nation at all levels," Attiyeh told AFP.
In response to US and South Kroea military drills, North Korea has tested another underwater nuclear attack drone, though military...Blaming US-South Korea exercises for a worsening regional security situation, it claimed to have conducted the first test of the Haeil
According to Seoul, the US and South Korea staged joint air drills involving at least one US nuclear-capable B-52H strategic bomber
Evan Gershkovich was formally charged with espionage by Russia, according to Russian news agencies, accusation rejected both by the reporter...According to state-run agency TASS, sleuths from the FSB charged Gershkovich with espionage "in the interests of his country"
The State Department summoned the Russian ambassador and Antony Blinken raised the matter in a telephone call to Russian foreign minister
In a PLA statement, Senior Colonel Shi Yi, spokesman for the Eastern Theatre Command, said "United Sharp Sword" would involve...The People's Liberation Army's Eastern Theatre Command said "United Sharp Sword" would run April 8 to 10 for "combat preparedness."
The move follows a meeting in California between Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
- Following the killing of three people in the West Bank and Tel Aviv, Israel has mobilized police and army reserves...
In the occupied West Bank on Friday, two British-Israeli sisters were killed and their mother seriously wounded in a shooting attack
In Tel Aviv, one man was killed and seven people wounded when a car rammed into people sauntering along a cycling path along the seafront
Sleeping troubles, fear of spending time indoors and profound fear of the mountains are some of the symptoms survivors in...Volunteer psychiatrist Eralp Turk tries to heal the anguish by zipping around the disaster zone with a box full of pills in his car and a notepad for recording emotions.
Social worker Aysen Yilmaz said the people she consults in Turkey's tent cities were showing all the symptoms of post-traumatic stress.
TUNIS, TUNISIA - Tunisia's coastguard said Friday it had intercepted over 14,000 migrants trying to reach Europe from January to March,...The figure has risen from 2,532 intercepted in the same period last year, including 1,657 from sub-Saharan Africa.
Tunisia has long served as a launchpad for people fleeing conflict in countries as far afield as Cameroon and Sudan.
- Dubai, UAE -- The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) has signed a US$240 million loan agreement to support Pakistan's Mohmand...
The project is co-financed by the Saudi Fund for Development, OPEC, Islamic Development Bank, and the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development.
By using renewable energy sources, the project will generate 800 MW of electricity production capacity.
World food prices are still high but have fallen by a fifth compared to a year ago when prices soared...FAO said the fall in benchmark prices was "driven by declines in world quotations for cereals and vegetable oils."
The UN agency added that food remained expensive for developing countries highly dependent on imports.
