Dozens of Gazans stood amid bombed-out buildings in the courtyard of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City to pay their respects...
Obeid, 41, was killed on Wednesday when Israeli forces "targeted people waiting for humanitarian aid in the southern Gaza Strip", the...
Amman, Jordan - Jordan king Abdullah on Monday discussed his country's modernization efforts in a meeting with a number of...The meeting covered Jordan's modernization efforts, with the king reaffirming the Kingdom’s seriousness about political and economic reforms
Discussions also covered the latest developments in the Syrian crisis and the need to step up international efforts to reach a political solution
The UN has confirmed that Yemen's Houthi rebels and its internationally recognized government have reached an agreement to exchange more...According to UN special envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg, the parties "agreed on implementation plans to release 887 conflict-related detainees from all sides"
It is almost a year since the Houthis said they had agreed to a prisoner swap that would see 1,400 rebels freed in exchange for 823 pro-government fighters
- "There are no Palestinians, because there are no Palestinian people," far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said at an event...
"There are Arabs around who don't like it, so what do they do? They invent a fictitious people and claim fictitious rights to the land of Israel, only to fight Zionist movement.
Palestinian PM Mohammad Shtayyeh said "inflammatory statements are consistent with the first Zionist sayings of 'a land without a people for a people without a land'".
The provincial councils, created by the 2005 constitution following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, carry relatively significant power in...Iraqi parliament confirmed Monday date of the elections through a statement as its members agreed on it overnight.
The elections are scheduled to be held in 15 provinces, while three provinces in Kurdistan region will be left out.
- Aid groups urged donors to step up their commitments after the UN complained of the poor level of response to...
Turkey's President Recep Erdogan warned that "regardless of its economic standing, it is impossible for any country to fight a disaster of this scale on its own."
The UN had said the appeal for Turkey has so far only been 16 percent fulfilled, while the figure for Syria stands at 72 percent.
- UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on wealthy countries to move up their goals of achieving carbon neutrality as close...
Most rich countries have set their goal at 2050 but some are more ambitious, like Finland (2035), or Germany and Sweden (2045).
Leaders in emerging economies must commit to reaching net zero as close as possible to 2050, he said without naming any specific nation.
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani will visit Turkey on Tuesday for talks including on scarce water resources...The rivers Tigris and the Euphrates both have their sources in Turkey and Baghdad has long accused Ankara of withholding water in dams.
As per official Iraqi statistics from last year, the level of the Tigris entering Iraq has dropped to 35 percent of its average over the past century.
China has urged the International Criminal Court to respect immunity for heads of state and to avoid what it called...Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin exhorted the court to "avoid politicisation and double standards"
Xi Jinping arrived in Moscow on Monday to hold talks with Putin and sign an accord before heading back to Beijing
Dubai, UAE - Saudi Arabia and Iran are taking more steps to consolidate their ties following the rapprochement between them...Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has already "welcomed" invitation from Saudi Arabia's King Salman to visit the kingdom following the reconciliation deal between the two countries
Iranian foreign minister also said that his country hoped steps would be taken to normalize its ties with Bahrain, a Saudi ally that had also severed ties with Iran in 2016
- New Delhi, India--Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrived in India on Monday for talks expected to focus on deepening trade and...
Japan PM's visit comes in the wake of Australian PM's trip to India, which also saw talks centering around China and trade
India and Japan are expected to announce initiatives on clean energy, digital trade and infrastructure
