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...
A planned mass rally in Tel Aviv by Israeli protesters opposed to the government's controversial legal reform plans forced an...Three suspected Palestinian militants were killed by Israel's forces in the occupied West Bank, hours before the arrival of Pentagon chief.
In Tel Aviv, protesters on foot blocked a major thoroughfare near the defense ministry.
AMMAN, JORDAN - The Speaker of Jordan's Senate Faisal Fayez met with Arab Parliament Speaker Adel Abdulrahman Al-Asoomi and discussed...The Speaker of Jordan's Senate is heading a delegation to Cairo at the invitation of the Egyptian Senate Speaker.
The Jordan Senate Speaker stressed the need for Arab parliaments to play a more effective role in addressing the region's challenges.
The pushback was "predictable", said Khaled al-Montasser, a professor of international relations at the University of Tripoli, as elections would...Senegalese diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily told the UN Security Council last month he planned to create a panel tasked with delivering presidential and legislative elections
But his blunt criticism of the North African country's two houses of parliament for failing to agree on elections has sparked a backlash that threatens to derail Bathily's plans
Sham Sheikh Mohammed, who suffered severe crush injuries in a 40-hour ordeal under the rubble, has not yet been told...Sham's survival encapsulated the tragedy, hope and heartbreak of the 7.8-magnitude quake that levelled buildings across Turkey and parts of Syria last month
After rescue of Sham, in Idlib province, captured global attention, the UAE dispatched a medical aircraft to fly her and Omar to Abu Dhabi from Istanbul
- Decades of unsustainable policies and fundamental neglect, capture of state resources by elites, alleged corruption, and vested interests cripple the...
Lebanese people receive electricity for only one to three hours a day on average, while people who can afford it supplement that supply with private generators.
The electricity crisis has exacerbated inequality in the country, severely limited people’s ability to realize their most basic rights and pushed them further into poverty.
Reacting to howls of condemnation his controversial comments have ignited, Tunisia's President Kais Saied on Wednesday denied racism. Last month,...The president claimed that migrants were behind most crime in the North African country
Fearing attacks since Saied's remarks, hundreds of migrants have flown home from Tunisia
Dubai, UAE – French President Emmanuel Macron faced embarrassing moments during a joint press conference with the Congolese President Felix...During a press conference, Macron lost cool, blaming Congo for its political crisis, but Tshishekedi reminds him of a former French minister's intrusive remarks.
Congo has criticized France for its support to Rwanda which has been accused of supporting the Congolese rebel group M23 in the eastern part.
- US Defense Secretary Austin also visits Baghdad to assure US support for Iraqi security, stability, and sovereignty ahead of the...
Austin wrote on Twitter that he would meet key leaders and reaffirm the US commitment to regional stability and advancing the shared interests of our allies."
Some areas for collaboration sought to be pursued are “integrated air and missile defense, maritime security, intelligence sharing and early warning systems”
- The Palestinian health ministry said six men had been killed, one aged 49 and the rest in their 20s, in...
At least 26 Palestinians were wounded during Tuesday's raid, the Palestinian health ministry said, three of them with serious injuries
Hamas condemned the killing of the six Palestinians, which it said would only make Palestinians "more determined to confront the Israeli occupation
As relations thaw after more than a decade of isolation, Saudi Arabia has suggested that closer cooperation with Syria may...Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud reaffirmed the Arab world's growing understanding that communication with Damascus was necessary
Syria was largely cut off from the rest of the Arab world following its leader Bashar al Assad's brutal suppression of 2011 uprisings against his government
