Saudi Arabia has spent months courting Syria's new leaders, aiming to draw closer a country long dominated by Iran and...
Israel has pummeled Gaza City with air strikes and tank fire in its bid to seize it, nearly two years...
Syria was suspended from the Arab League in 2011 over Assad's brutal crackdown of pro-democracy protests. But on Wednesday, in...Top diplomats from the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries plus Egypt, Iraq and Jordan met in Saudi Arabia at the kingdom's request
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been shunned by many Middle Eastern countries and is a Western pariah over the ongoing civil war in the country
Moments after a blast was heard in Wakayama, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was evacuated from the spot, and he...The incident occured when the prime minister was about to deliver remarks to a crowd in support of a ruling party candidate in upcoming lower house by-elections
After the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe while speaking at a campaign event in July 2022, Japan has shored up security around politicians
Arab countries gathered in Jeddah on Friday to discuss ending Syria's long spell in the diplomatic wilderness as regional relations...The Jeddah meeting is one of a flurry of initiatives following Saudi Arabia and Iran's landmark announcement on March 10 that they would resume ties.
Although the Arab League takes decisions by consensus, unanimous agreement is unlikely, said a Riyadh-based diplomat who declined to be identified.
The pro-Palestinian rallies follow months of unrest in Iran sparked by the September death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a...Rallies were held in Tehran and other major Iranian cities including Tabriz in the northwest, Hamedan in the west, Yazd in the center.
In central Tehran, protesters were burning US and Israeli flags and images of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
- Tunis, Tunisia -- A professional footballer in Tunisia has died after setting himself alight earlier this week in what he said...
Nizar Issaoui, 35, suffered third-degree burns from his action in the village of Haffouz in the central region of Kairouan..
News of Issaoui's death sparked protests on the streets of Haffouz on Thursday evening, Tunisian media reported.
- Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr, an influential player in national politics, said he was "freezing" for a year his powerful movement...
Sadr has repeatedly taken supporters and opponents by surprise with major announcements on social media.
The freezing of the movement would not affect religious activities and an institution dedicated to his father's legacy.
- The first plane departed Sanaa, the rebel-held capital, for government-controlled Aden hours after a Saudi delegation departed without a fresh...
On Friday, 322 prisoners will fly on International Committee of the Red Cross planes between Sanaa and Aden, on the first day of an operation that will see 887 prisoners released.
Among the prisoners to be released by the Houthis on Friday are Yemen's former defense minister, Major General Mahmud al-Subaihi.
- Houthi political leader Mohamed Ali al-Houthi said the talks were conducted in a "positive atmosphere", with plans for another round....
Saudi delegation led by ambassador Mohammed al-Jaber, left Yemen late on Thursday, four days after he arrived seeking to stabilise a truce that lapsed last year
Britain's ambassador to Yemen, Richard Oppenheim, said the talks were a "positive development and may be the start of a golden opportunity for peace"
Friday's nine-nation talks in Jeddah, the Red Sea gateway to Mecca, come after Syria's foreign minister arrived on a previously...Friday's nine-nation talks in Jeddah, the Red Sea gateway to Mecca, come after Syria's foreign minister arrived on a previously unannounced visit
On Wednesday, an Iranian delegation landed in Saudi Arabia to pave the way for reopening diplomatic missions, following a trip by a Saudi team to Iran
- The European Union's central data regulator said it was forming a task force to help countries deal with AI chatbot...
ChatGPT can generate essays, poems and conversations from the briefest of prompts and is capable of passing exams.
Chatbot can only function if it is trained on vast datasets, raising concerns about where OpenAI gets its data.
