Turkey's main opposition party has announced it will hold an extraordinary congress on September 21 after a court ousted its...
- Gaza civil defense agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal accused Israel of carrying out "a policy of forced displacement against civilians" in...
Lebanese protesters blocked roads and burnt tires near the central bank in Beirut as the local currency plummeted to a...Lebanese banks have imposed draconian restrictions on withdrawals since the country's economy collapsed three years ago.
Dozens of protesters gathered Wednesday near the central bank headquarters amid heavy deployment of security forces.
"Our collective message is that we want to call for calm, for reflection, for calm in the process so that...Turkey earlier in the day said it had postponed upcoming NATO accession talks with Sweden and Finland originally scheduled for February
The Swedish PM said there were provocateurs who wanted to spoil Sweden's relations with other countries and foil its bid to join the NATO
Brussels, Belgium--The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog said Tuesday he plans to go to Iran next month for "much needed"...Rafael Grossi said that he may go to Tehran "for a much needed political dialogue, or reestablishment thereof, with Iran"
He noted that the big stockpile of enriched uranium "doesn't mean they have a nuclear weapon"
Nearly four years after India and Pakistan used fighter planes to bomb targets in divided Kashmir, former US secretary of...India launched airstrikes inside Pakistani territory after blaming a militant group there for a suicide bombing that killed 41 Indian paramilitary soldiers
Pakistan shot down an Indian warplane, capturing the pilot
The agency warned that most Palestinian refugees now live below the poverty line and a growing number are dependent on...The agency, which counts nearly 30,000 staff -- most of them Palestinian refugees -- runs more than 700 schools.
UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said the agency played "an indispensable role" for millions of Palestinian refugees.
- Jordan's King Abdullah II hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Amman in a rare meeting after years of strained...
Jordan in 1994 became the second Arab country to recognize and sign a peace treaty with neighboring Israel, after Egypt.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said the Israeli leader discussed "regional issues" and bilateral ties with the Jordanian king.
Ghassan Oueidat had in 2019 overseen a security services investigation into cracks in the warehouse where the ammonium nitrate was...Judge Tarek Bitar charged Lebanon's top prosecutor Oueidat and the three judges, with "homicide, arson and sabotage".
One of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions destroyed most of Beirut port and surrounding areas on August 4, 2020.
- Dubai's Holocaust Gallery is the only permanent exhibition on Arab soil about Nazi Germany's genocide of European Jews.
Arab nations generally have generally been reluctant to tackle Holocaust as it was a key factor leading to the 1948 creation of Israel and expulsion of Palestinians.
"Those who had suffered injustice should protect those who suffer injustice -- and not act unjustly," reads a message in the visitors' book in Dubai gallery.
Swedish-Danish politician Rasmus Paludan on Saturday torched a copy of the Islamic holy book in front of Turkey's embassy in...Turkey on Tuesday summoned the Dutch ambassador to express its deep displeasure with an anti-Islam protest in The Hague targeting the Quran.
The high representative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations has condemned the burning of the holy book as a “vile act”.
- The children returned to France on Tuesday were at the Roj camp in northeast Syria under Kurdish administration, about 15...
Rights groups have been pressing for years for France to take back the wives and children of fighters held in the camps since the IS group was ousted from the country in 2019
The lawyer who published the UN torture committee ruling, Marie Dose, said 150 French women and children were being held in the Syria camps before Tuesday's repatriation
