Yemen's new leaders are "ready for war" should the latest push for peace with Houthi rebels fail, but a senior official told AFP they genuinely want the years-long conflict to end soon. "Our first option is peace, but we are ready for war," Abdullah al-Alimi said late Saturday in his...

The first direct flight between the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv and Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh took off on Sunday, Israeli national airline El-Al said. Flight 5193, operated by El-Al subsidiary Sun d'Or, departed Ben Gurion International Airport at 0715 GMT, the carrier said in a...

Clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police wounded ten protesters on Sunday morning in and around Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the site of major clashes two days earlier. The Palestinian Red Crescent said its medics had treated ten wounded.

The wave of immigration from Ukraine and Russia over the past seven weeks is the largest Israel has seen since the early 1990s, when the collapse of the Soviet Union was falling apart as Russia's neighbors declared independence.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, April 16, called Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz.

The tanker XELO, carrying 750 tons of diesel from Egypt to Malta, sank in the Gulf of Gabes off Tunisia’s southeast coast.

Russia pounded a Ukrainian rocket factory following the sinking of its Black Sea flagship, as President Volodymyr Zelensky said his allies could shorten the war by delivering the weapons he had requested. The Vizar factory, near Kyiv's international airport, was seriously damaged in the overnight strikes, an AFP journalist saw...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Friday they seized another vessel smuggling fuel in the Gulf and arrested its seven crew members, the second such incident in as many weeks. "Naval forces have seized a vessel carrying smuggled fuel in the Persian Gulf," said Gholamhossein Hosseini, a public relations official of the...

Israel, a leader in making seawater drinkable, plans to pump excess output from its desalination plants into the Sea of Galilee, depleted by overuse and threatened by climate change. Irregular rainfall, rising temperatures and intensive pumping have overtaxed the world's lowest freshwater lake, which for decades has served as the Jewish...

Iran has started making components for machines used to enrich uranium at a new workshop in Natanz, the country's main nuclear site, the UN atomic watchdog said Thursday.

More than 100 people were wounded Friday in clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound. A Palestinian Red Crescent official said 117 people were rushed to hospitals and "dozens of other injuries" were treated at the scene.

France and Algeria have been attempting to improve their ties after a diplomatic crisis.

"A maritime gasoil smuggling network resulting from the looting of Libyan state oil refineries was allegedly carried out between 2014 and 2015 in the context of the Libyan conflict," Swiss state prosecutors said.

Iran president accused Iraq's Kurdistan region of "negligence", adding that Iran is closely monitoring the movements of Israel.

Russia's Black Sea flagship sank on Thursday after an explosion and fire that Ukraine claimed was a successful missile strike, as the Kremlin accused Kyiv of targeting its citizens in sorties across the border. The Moskva missile cruiser had been leading Russia's naval effort in the seven-week conflict.

Once boasting a capacity of more than 100,000 tons, the imposing 48-meter (157-foot) high structure has become emblematic of the catastrophic August 4 port blast.

Members of the European Parliament urged Tunisian President Kais Saied on Wednesday to engage in "genuine" dialogue with political parties and civil society, months after he staged a power grab.

The IMF plans to raise at least $45 billion for a new trust to help ‘low-income and vulnerable middle-income countries’.

The two-month ceasefire between Yemen's Houthi rebels and Saudi led military coalition took effect 11 days ago.

Tens of billions of dollars in Iranian money were blocked in many countries including China, South Korea and Japan.

US President Joe Biden announced an $800 million military aid package for Ukraine on Wednesday as international prosecutors declared the war-torn Western ally a "crime scene" amid fears of a massive revamped Russian assault. The Russian military has threatened to strike Ukraine's command centers in the capital Kyiv if Ukrainian...

The Iranians were caught trying to reach Spain with fake documents "according to a criminal modus operandi."

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait will develop a disputed gas field despite Iranian objections, while urging Tehran to engage in negotiations, a statement said Wednesday. The Gulf allies will honour their deal, branded "illegal" by Iran, to develop the Arash/Dorra maritime gas field, the Saudi foreign ministry said.

The Saudi ambassador to Lebanon, Waleed Al-Bukhari, has pledged the kingdom's support to Lebanon and its people during 'tough times.' The Lebanese presidency said in a statement that the Saudi diplomat's remarks came during his visit to the Lebanese President Michel Aoun in Baabda Palace earlier today. Al-Bukhari briefed President...

President Joe Biden for the first time Tuesday accused Vladimir Putin's forces of committing genocide in Ukraine, where Russia was intensifying its campaign to subdue the devastated port city of Mariupol. Biden's accusation came as Moscow -- already accused by the West of widespread atrocities against civilians -- was feared...

Oman has become the 100th country to ratify a 2006 treaty that protects the rights, pay and conditions of seafarers. The ratification means more than 96 per cent of the world’s gross shipping tonnage is now covered by the Maritime Labor Convention (MLC). It also applies to most countries that supply...

Maritime traffic between Spain and Morocco is set to resume Tuesday following the normalization of diplomatic relations between the two countries, Rabat's transport ministry said. Embroiled in a dispute with Spain over the territory of Western Sahara, Morocco upheld the blockade between some of the largest ports on the Mediterranean...

Between 1864 and 1897, as French colonial troops advanced through Algeria, 2,100 people were tried by special or military courts and deported to New Caledonia.

An agreement to increase the number of flights between Qatar and Iran was also signed.

The cost of wheat flour in Palestine has already surged by nearly 25 percent because of the Ukraine crisis.

Tehran on Monday questioned Washington's will in reaching an agreement to restore the 2015 nuclear agreement, with key sticking points unresolved after talks halted last month. Iran has been engaged for a year in negotiations with France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China directly, and the United States indirectly to revive...

UN special envoy Hans Grundberg started his first visit to Yemen's rebel-held capital Monday, following an April 2 ceasefire that the country's warring parties have accused each other of violating. The Swedish diplomat is scheduled to meet Huthi rebel officials during his first Sanaa visit since taking office in September.

This time, a series of polls have suggested Macron would win 51 to 54 percent against 46 to 49 percent for Le Pen, with margins of error making a Le Pen victory possible. In 2017, Macron won 66 percent to Le Pen's 34 percent.

The war in Ukraine has exposed not only Germany's dependence on Russian gas, but also the large share of Russian capital in the country's oil refineries, pipelines and other gas infrastructure. Energy deals with Russia were long seen as part of a German policy of keeping the peace through cooperation...

Spain on March 18 said it had agreed to publicly recognize Rabat's autonomy plan — a longtime demand from Morocco — for the territory, ending a decades-long stance of neutrality.

Al Khater reiterated Qatar's call for an immediate cessation of military action in Ukraine and securing humanitarian corridors to ensure aid access.

Israeli forces Sunday raided the flashpoint West Bank district of Jenin, home of gunmen who launched two recent deadly attacks in Tel Aviv, as Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned the Jewish state had "gone on the offensive". The military operation entered its second day as Israel buried three civilian victims...

Flash opinion polls conducted in the wake of first-round voting in France's presidential election Sunday forecast that Emmanuel Macron will secure a new five-year term in the second-round run-off on April 24 against far-right rival Marine Le Pen.

Iran's foreign minister said Sunday that Washington is "imposing new conditions" in the negotiations to restore the 2015 nuclear agreement.

More than a thousand Tunisians rallied Sunday decrying what they said was a power grab by President Kais Saied and his proposed constitutional reforms.

In a bombed-out building in northwest Syria, rescue workers who for years have braved Russia's war strategies film a tutorial video for Ukrainian volunteers.

Syria has over the past few months repeatedly accused the US of using its forces to steal oil from its territories. Operation Inherent Resolve, the US military's operational name for the international military intervention against the Islamic State group, has refuted those claims.

The UN chief said countries need to fulfil and accelerate dose-sharing and donation commitments in order to reach the billions who have so far not received vaccine shots.

Across the MENA region, people are struggling to secure even the most basic staples in view of soaring food and fuel prices triggered by Russia's February invasion of Ukraine.

Evacuations resumed on Saturday from Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, where a missile strike killed 52 people at a railway station a day earlier, as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson became the latest Western leader to visit Kyiv.

Experts say the chances of reforms will remain slim so long as the permanent members refuse to accept any dilution of their power.

The Al-Hol camp for displaced people in Syria is a jihadist threat and should be dismantled, a senior Iraqi security official said on Saturday. Al-Hol, in the Kurdish-controlled northeast, is Syria's largest camp for displaced people. It houses about 56,000 including displaced Syrians and Iraqi refugees.

The United States insisted Friday on keeping the elite Quds Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps on its designated list of terror groups, as Washington pushes on with negotiations to restore the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement.

Russia denied being behind the missile strike, which came even as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell were visiting Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and to visit the scene of civilian killings in the town of Bucha.

The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq said it shot down Friday an armed drone that targeted an air base, reporting no casualties or damage. The base, which is controlled by Iraq, is located in the desert in the western Anbar province.