- The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq said it shot down Friday an armed drone that targeted...
"US air defense systems shot down an armed unmanned aerial system entering Al Asad Air Base" early Friday morning, the coalition said in a statement
In early January, coalition forces in Iraq said they shot down two armed drones targeting the Ain Al-Asad base
- Many richer nations are now approaching oversupply. European Union and G7 countries had a surplus of 497 million doses at...
More than 13 billion doses have been produced since the pandemic, 11 billion of which have been administered.
Countries like South Africa and India have long called for the WTO to suspend intellectual property rights for vaccines and anti-Covid treatments, so they can boost production.
- Iran on Friday buried a second Shiite Muslim cleric killed in a suspected jihadist attack at a revered shrine in...
Sadegh Darai, a middle-ranking cleric, died Thursday from wounds sustained in the stabbing attack earlier this week in Mashhad, Iran's second-largest city
Another cleric, Mohammad Aslani, also died in the knife attack, while a third, Mohsen Pakdaman, is in a stable condition in hospital
- The European Union on Thursday said it had approved an embargo on Russian coal and the closing of the bloc's...
That package also includes a 10 billion euro ($10.9 billion) ban on exports to Russia, including high-tech goods, and the freezing of several Russian banks' assets
The EU also backed a proposal to boost its funding of arms supplies to Ukraine by 500 million euros, taking it to a total of 1.5 billion euros
- The move came after Madrid reversed decades of neutrality on the Western Sahara conflict in a U-turn that has angered...
Morocco lays claim to the Western Sahara as an integral part of it and sees it as a sensitive issue of security and national pride
The desert territory boasts rich Atlantic fishing waters, phosphate resources and a route to lucrative markets in West Africa
- Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam dismissed the move by President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi as ‘a desperate attempt to rearrange the ranks...
A United Nations-brokered truce that started on Saturday has offered a glimmer of hope in the conflict amid the humanitarian crisis
The truce came as peace talks were unfolding in Riyadh without the participation of the Houthis, who refused talks on ‘enemy’ territory
- A diplomatic crisis broke out last October after the then-information minister George Kordahi was quoted criticizing the Saudi role in...
The diplomatic row, which has also seen Saudi Arabia ban the imports of Lebanese goods, was a blow to a country already in the grip of economic crisis.
We stress the fact that Lebanon is proud of its Arab allegiance and is adamant on maintaining the best ties with Gulf nations, PM Najib Mikati tweeted.
- The country has been battered by triple-digit inflation, soaring poverty rates, and the collapse of its currency since a 2020...
PM Najib Mikati said the deal is "a visa stamp for donor countries to begin co-operating with Lebanon and to put Lebanon back on the global finance map".
The aid would be released only after the parliament in Beirut approves a 2022 budget and a new bank secrecy law to fight corruption.
- The European Court of Justice ruled Wednesday in favor of the family of late Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and confirmed...
The European Union had decided in March last year to end sanctions it had imposed on Mubarak, his wife, two sons and their wives.
The sanctions included a freeze on assets held in the EU and a ban on any citizens or entities from the 27-nation bloc making funding available to those on the blacklist.
- Authorities opened an inquest Friday into the death of a 16-year-old girl after she was mauled as she walked to...
A similar tragedy struck in neighboring Algeria last month, when a 12-year-old was killed and half-eaten by dogs in the Blida area.
Many stray dogs in the Maghreb region pose an additional threat: rabies, a virus that attacks the central nervous system and leads to a painful death.





















