Iran said it had called in the Swiss envoy to deliver a protest over a “provocative” US statement on its decades-old dispute with the UAE over three Gulf islands. The foreign ministry was reacting to a joint statement issued by the US and six Gulf Arab states backing UAE calls...

Clashes broke out between Iranian and Taliban forces at the border between the two countries, Iranian police said without reporting casualties, amid a water dispute between the two neighbors. State news agency IRNA quoted deputy head of the police force Qassem Rezaee as saying that Taliban forces started shooting at...

Spelling the end of independent oil exports by the regional government, Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region will resume oil exports through Turkey on Monday, but in the future they will be supervised by the federal government in Baghdad. The outcome was achieved in talks between federal and regional officials.

ARBIL, IRAQ - Authorities in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region announced on Sunday a November date for legislative elections which had been postponed by a year due to disputes between two major parties. The regional parliament had voted in October to extend its term and reschedule the vote amid disagreements between the...

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - The European Union and Germany on Saturday said they had struck a deal after a dispute over the planned phaseout by 2035 of the sale of cars using fossil fuels. A landmark deal to prohibit new sales of fossil fuel cars from 2035 is key to the bloc's...

After a months-long dispute between Qatar Airways and Airbus, the two announced on Wednesday the end of a $2.5 billion dollar battle over peeling paint on passengers jets before it became an embarrassing court case. Both sides said they were "please to have reached an amicable and mutually agreeable settlement"...

Three months after it was sworn in, Kuwait's government tendered its resignation in the wake of disputes with lawmakers, plunging the oil-rich state into political paralysis. The country's National Assembly is the only fully elected parliament in the Gulf but it has been fraught with repeated crisis between the executive...

Algiers, Algeria--France said Sunday it had ended months of tensions over a visa dispute with Algeria, just days after Paris and Rabat made a similar announcement. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, on a visit to the capital Algiers, announced a return "to a normal consular relationship" with Algeria, according to a...

Beijing, China—China has filed a dispute with the World Trade Organization over US restrictions on chip exports, Beijing's commerce ministry said in a statement late Monday, accusing Washington of threatening global supply chains. The United States in October announced new export controls aimed at restricting China's ability to buy and manufacture...

Lebanon's search for gas riches in the hydrocarbon-rich eastern Mediterranean had stalled since 2020 over competing claims with Israel over offshore gas fields. Lebanon has yet to officially agree to the deal, but PM Najib Mikati said he hoped a "conclusion would be reached soon" that could pave the way...

US mediator Amos Hochstein on Friday noted progress in indirect talks between Lebanon and Israel over a maritime border dispute but said more work was needed for a final agreement. The dispute which involves competing claims over offshore gas fields escalated in June after Israel moved a production vessel near...

A week after the airline was forced to cancel all flights due to a pilots’ walk-out on Friday, affecting 130,000 passengers, Lufthansa pilots will strike again this week, escalating a wage dispute. Cockpit, the pilot union, said the airline has not yet approached them and not put forward a new...

Powerful Iraqi Shiite preacher Moqtada Sadr Sunday urged other factions to support a protest that has seen his followers occupy parliament in a dispute over who should name the next prime minister. On Sunday, the protesters appeared in no mood to leave, as volunteers distributed soup, hard-boiled eggs, bread and...

While this was Biden's fifth talk with Xi since becoming president a year and a half ago, it's getting hard to mask deepening mistrust between the two countries amid a trade war and tensions over Taiwan. The latest flashpoint is a possible trip by Biden ally Nancy Pelosi to the...

The federal government in Baghdad and the autonomous Kurdish region pledged Saturday to "increase dialogue" to ease a simmering oil dispute that has been playing out in the courts in recent months.

Senior military figures from Libya's rival eastern and western power bases have held an unprecedented meeting in the capital Tripoli, calling Tuesday for a unified command over their troops

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid makes his first foreign trip as premier on Tuesday to Paris, where he will ask President Emmanuel Macron to intervene in a gas dispute with Lebanon.

Kuwait's government resigned on Tuesday, three months after it was sworn in, state media reported, amid escalating disputes with parliament. The move comes a day ahead of a parliamentary vote on a letter of non-cooperation, which 10 lawmakers submitted against the premier.

Qatar Airways on Monday accused aviation giant Airbus of blocking efforts to settle their billion-dollar dispute over the safety of the A350 as it announced that another plane has been grounded with peeling paintwork.

Tensions have simmered for years over Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian region of Azerbaijan that broke away from Baku's control in the early 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Dubai Courts has established two new courts in the Commercial Court in order to speed up settlement of securities-related disputes. It has also announced the establishment of a law enforcement committee for Dubai’s financial markets.

Morocco took delivery earlier this month of Turkish combat drones, the Far-Maroc unofficial website dedicated to military news reported.

Failing to take guarantees is a violation of the requirements and controls regulating the granting of loans, said the department.

The court refers the dispute between the Suez Canal Authority and Ever Given to a lower court The ship company blames the canal authority for the vessel’s grounding An Egyptian appeals court, according to media reports, on Sunday said it lacks jurisdiction to look into the Suez Canal Authority’s demands...