- Kuwait's crown prince announced Wednesday the dissolution of parliament and called for new elections amid escalating disputes between the legislative...
The cabinet, the fourth to be formed in two years, resigned in April, three months after it was sworn in, but continued to act in a caretaker capacity
Oil-rich Kuwait has been shaken by disputes between lawmakers and successive governments dominated by the ruling Al-Sabah family for more than a decade
- Leaders at the upcoming G7 summit in Germany will announce new measures aimed at pressuring Russia over its invasion of...
The club of wealthy democracies is at the heart of a fierce economic and diplomatic campaign to punish Russia
After attending the G7 summit, Biden will fly to Madrid for a summit of the NATO military alliance
- Leader of the free world sounds like a superhero character, but the Joe Biden heading this week to twin European...
Biden will tout the success of a monumental effort to rally the West and breathe new life into NATO
Biden refers to his presidency as an inflection point in a battle for the survival of Western democracy against the likes of Russian President Putin
- An estimated 2,000 homes have been destroyed by the deadly earthquake in Afghanistan, and a lack of machinery is hampering...
"We believe that nearly 2,000 homes are destroyed," the UN's humanitarian coordinator for Afghanistan Ramiz Alakbarov told reporters
Even before the Taliban takeover, Afghanistan's emergency response teams were stretched to deal with the natural disasters that frequently struck the country
- Israel on Wednesday said it was reinstating an increase in entry permits for Palestinian workers from the blockaded Gaza Strip,...
COGAT said decision regarding entry through Gaza Strip would take effect in coming days "provided that the security situation in the area remains quiet"
Earlier, Israel suspended entry permits for Palestinian workers from Gaza in response of the rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave to Jewish state
- Barbara Leaf, the top US diplomat for the Middle East, said that the Biden administration was encouraging greater cooperation between...
Barbara Leaf, the top US diplomat for the Middle East, said that the Biden administration was encouraging greater cooperation between Israel and the Arab nations
The UAE, Bahrain and Morocco in 2020 became the first Arab states in decades to normalize relations with Israel as part of the so-called Abraham Accords
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Iran on Wednesday for talks on boosting trade and energy cooperation as the...
During his two-day visit, Russia's top diplomat is expected to discuss with Iranian officials the 2015 "nuclear deal, the situations in Ukraine, Syria and Afghanistan
Lavrov will meet with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Thursday, official news agency IRNA said
- Arab govts in touch with Israel have no differences with it regarding the May 4 incident, Eliav Benjamin, Israeli foreign...
Arab govts in touch with Israel have no differences with it regarding the May 4 incident, Eliav Benjamin, Israeli foreign ministry director for Middle East affairs, tells TRENDS
The Israeli army cannot be trusted to investigate itself, says Dror Sadot, spokeswoman for the Israeli human rights group B'tselem
- An international coalition of journalists, editors and publishers demanded Wednesday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be immediately released from a...
Fifteen representatives of international journalist and publishers' unions and organisations gathered in Geneva for the "call to free Julian Assange in the name of press freedom".
Assange's long-running legal saga began in 2010 after WikiLeaks published more than 500,000 classified US documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Afghanistan is frequently hit by earthquakes especially in the Hindu Kush mountain range, which lies near the junction of the...
In Paktika province of Afghanistan, local markets are closed as people have rushed to help earthquake affected areas
Photographs and video clips posted on social media showed badly damaged mud houses due to the 5.9 magnitude quack that struck Afghanistan last night




















