The hospital was established in 2006 to treat victims of the sectarian violence that erupted in Iraq in the aftermath...
Washington, United States - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged India and Pakistan to restore direct communication to "avoid...
Morocco and Israel have marked the first anniversary of the US-sponsored resumption of diplomatic relations between them.The rapprochement was part of a string of normalization deals between Israel and several Arab countries
It was brokered by the administration of then US president Donald Trump and known as the Abraham Accords
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's government has called for a halt to international efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal....Negotiations to restore the pact known as the Joint Collective Plan of Action resumed in November
Washington was a party to the original agreement, but withdrew under president Donald Trump in 2018
Minister of Transport Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti, and Minister of Transport of the Republic of Iraq Nasser Hussein Bandar...The total number of passengers who used the Doha Metro during the FIFA Arab Cup 2021 exceeded 2.5mn with an average of 130,000 passengers daily.
According to Qatar Rail, the Doha Metro operated 50,000 trips during the tournament, covering 885,000km, and the average time between trains was 2.5 minutes
The queues are a worrying sight for Turkey's veteran President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is trying to fight inflation by...Countries usually raise borrowing rates to slow spending and bring down prices -- a policy mix the Turkish leader, a pious Muslim, rejects citing Islamic laws against usury.
One newspaper claimed Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was playing a "dirty game" by shutting down many of the discount bread shops, making the queues longer at existing ones.
- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday announced the emergency use approval of Turkey's first domestically-developed coronavirus vaccine. In June, Turkovac...
In June, Turkovac entered Phase III trials involving 40,800 participants in Turkey. No official data about its efficacy have been released.
Developers said the Turkovac vaccine works along the same scientific principles as China's CoronaVac, which Turkey has been using since the start of the year.
- Iran's envoy to Yemen, Hassan Eyrlou, died on Tuesday despite being flown out from the Huthi rebel-held capital in a...
Coalition spokesman Turki Al-Maliki on Wednesday condemned Iran's "defamatory" comments.
Regional rivals Riyadh and Tehran support opposite sides in several conflict zones across the region, including in Yemen.
The Saudi Ports Authority (MAWANI) has announced a new direct shipping service connecting Saudi Arabia to Djibouti, through the container...The service will connect Jeddah Islamic Port to Djibouti through the container transport company, Transmar.
Jeddah Islamic Port is one of the three Saudi ports included in the 2021 edition of Lloyd's List of Top 100 Ports.
The vote was intended to mark a fresh start for war-torn Libya a year after more than a decade after...The vote was intended to mark a fresh start for war-torn Libya a year after more than a decade after its 2011 revolt that toppled and killed dictator Moamer Kadhafi
But speculation had been mounting for weeks that the poll would not take place on time, given bitter disputes over its legal basis
- Yemen has been devastated by a civil war between the Saudi-backed government and Iran-backed Huthi rebels since 2014.
Yemen has been devastated by a civil war between the Saudi-backed government and Iran-backed Huthi rebels since 2014
The fighting has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions and left some 80 percent of Yemenis dependent on aid
- According to figures compiled by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 1,505 of them were civilians and among those 360...
According to figures compiled by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 1,505 of them were civilians and among those 360 were children
The figure is by far the lowest tally since the start of the war in Syria and confirms a downward trend that saw 6,800 people killed last year and just over 10,000 in 2019
