Iraq, which has qualified World Cup finals only once, in 1986, was working for months to welcome international matches and to get the FIFA ban lifted.

Among Arab countries, Morocco has the largest number of students in Ukraine, with around 8,000 enrolled in universities, followed by Egypt with more than 3,000.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine could mean less bread on the table in Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen and elsewhere in the Arab world where millions already struggle to survive.

Andrey Rublev made a plea for peace after notching an eighth consecutive victory on Friday to move into his second final in as many weeks with a 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7/5) win against Hubert Hurkacz in Dubai. The Russian No.2 seed signed the camera lens on court with the message,...

Locals residing in border area are angered at both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Western-backed leader Volodymyr Zelensky for not ending the war, resident from Avdiivka said "I want to slap Putin and Zelensky."

Arab and international universities have donated to "enable the revival of the library" in Mosul.

Embargoes have become a weapon of choice in response to war, the fight against terrorism, or human rights breaches.

Burkina Faso became the fourth country to be suspended by the African Union after Guinea, Mali and Sudan to punish the coup leaders of these countries.

The abandoned village of Cyprus became a "haven" for rare plants and animals as well as a "wildlife corridor" that links otherwise fragmented environments right across the island.

The spokesman of Saudi led coalition also said the facility was not on the OCHA no-target list.

About six meters underground, four interconnected ablution rooms built of stone and plaster which measures three meters in height and 3.5 meters in width were found along with the extensive prayer room at Al-Nuri mosque in Iraq.

The modern history of Iraq -- with its succession of conflicts, especially since the 2003 US-led invasion and its bloody aftermath -- has kept foreign researchers at bay.

According to officials of the US-led coalition fighting against the Islamic State group, two fixed-wing drones rigged with explosives were destroyed by defensive capabilities at the Iraqi Al-Asad Air Base.

The statement was issued after the latest review of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) — which first came into force in 1970 — was postponed from its scheduled date of January 4 to later in the year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Iran-backed Huthis released images of what they said were military jeeps and weapons on board the vessel, named Rwabee, which was captured in the Red Sea off the Yemen coast. The coalition branded the hijacking an act of piracy and threatened to seize the ship back by force. The...

Apart from the hospitals, the rest of Mosul is also struggling to regain a sense of normalcy. Residents crowd into cafes and restaurants, many of which have opened under buildings left in a suspended state of construction, their top floors scarred by gaping holes.

France detained a 60-year-old French-Syrian man on suspicion of conspiracy to commit crimes against humanity.

Syrian lawmakers have approved a draft budget for 2022 of $5.3 billion, down from $6.8 billion this year, as a spiraling economic crisis hits public finances and threatens subsidies on essential goods. A decade of war, Western sanctions and the coronavirus pandemic have devastated the Syrian economy, pushing most of...

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.

The annual appeal by UN agencies and other humanitarian organisations said that providing aid to the 183 million most vulnerable people across 63 countries next year would require $41 billion.

Women and children were among the group intercepted Friday by a navy patrol off the coast of Qalamoun in northern Lebanon, the army says

Libya has seen several political and security crises since Muammar Gadaffi was overthrown a decade ago.

The Gulf country has played a significant role both in diplomacy and evacuations as the US ended its 20-year war in Afghanistan.

Xi's call came hours after China and the United States announced a surprise pact to accelerate climate action at a summit in Glasgow.

About 3,000 Kurds have left the region in the past three months, of whom 1,600 have gone to Belarus on tourist visas, according to the Kurdistan Refugee Association.

Libya had been mostly off-limits to tourists throughout the four-decade rule of Moamer Kadhafi

A decade-old civil war, economic crisis and a creative brain drain that has deprived Syria of some of its best writers and many of their readers have compounded worldwide problems facing the industry

Among many attractions of Riyadh Season is Combat Field for fans of war and combat games. It simulates the reality of wars through 33 events.

In Yemen's easternmost province, far from the front lines of the war that has devastated the country, the lush greenery of the Hawf nature reserve offers a rare respite.

The climate crisis threatens a double blow for the Middle East, experts say, by destroying its oil income as the world shifts to renewables and by raising temperatures to unlivable extremes.

A Libyan Airlines flight with about 255 passengers on board flew into Cairo International Airport, marking the first time in seven years that the airline touched down in the neighboring country.

Announced in the early 1980s, the project for a refinery in southern Libya had been put on hold for years before being revived in 2017. Libya, which has the most abundant oil reserves in Africa, has been trying to emerge from a decade of chaos since the fall of Moamer...

Amina Mahdi had already been teaching children to read and write before the outbreak of the impoverished country's devastating war in 2014.

Analysts say the balance has tilted in favour of the Huthi rebels against the Saudi-led military coalition

Taliban fighters swept into the airport and fired weapons into the sky in jubilation as the last of the American troops left on Monday night.

Both already host large refugee populations — 3.6 million Syrians in Turkey and 3.5 million Afghans in Iran

From prosthetics to financial support, the Saudi aid center in Yemen has been critical to the welfare of ordinary citizens

President Bashar al-Assad vows to focus on economy after taking the oath of office for a fourth term in Syria Saturday, after bagging 95 percent of the vote in the election.

Libyan crisis led to 2 percent loss in Tunisia's GDP  TunisAir was the first foreign carrier to resume flights to Libya  After years of war in Libya, Tunisian traders celebrated the reopening of the border with their oil-rich North African neighbor as a positive sign they hoped would stimulate economic...

OIC condemns the militia's unending attacks as terrorism Iran accused of providing rockets and missiles to Houthis Saudi air defenses shot down a Houthi drone close to the kingdom’s border in the southern city of Khamis Mushait, according to the Arab Coalition command. In a statement released on Saturday, the...

Yemen is plagued by conflict that started with Houthi insurgence Some 80 percent of Yemenis are dependent on aid To cope with a worsening humanitarian crisis in the country, Yemen would receive $150 million in aid from the World Bank to shore up the war-scarred country’s basic healthcare, nutrition, and...

 No university in the Gaza Strip offers a speciality in psychiatry  The available mental health services can't keep up with the demand Her eyes glued to a cellphone photo of her sister and four children killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza, Ola lets out the painful words: "I was...