The six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) signed a ‘solidarity and stability’ agreement on January 5, 2021, at the 41st GCC summit meeting to end a three-and-a-half-year blockade on Qatar...

At least two people were killed and more than 90 wounded in an explosion at a gas station on Saturday afternoon in the Houthi-controlled central city of Bayda, a health official told Arab News...

Egypt re-nominated Ahmed Aboul Gheit as secretary-general of the Arab League for a second term. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi sent messages to Arab leaders, expressing Egypt’s intention to re-nominate Aboul Gheit to serve for five more y...

South Africa registered 318 new deaths from the coronavirus, taking its death toll to 43,951, health officials said Saturday...

According to an official statement by Bo Viktor Nylund, UNICEF Representative in Syria yesterday,  one 12-year-old girl was reportedly killed  in an attack in Azaz, northern rural Aleppo...

Tunisia's Speaker Rached Ghannouchi has called for the complete switch over to a parliamentary system of governance...

A refugee camp in Syria’s northwestern Afrin district was left inundated due to heavy rains on Sunday...

The Myanmar military on Monday took control of the government and announced a nationwide state of emergency hours after detaining the country's civilian leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and other high-ranking elected government officials in a co...

Social distancing may remain in place until the end of the year - while coronavirus vaccines would have to be 85 per cent effective to prevent a surge in deaths if restrictions were totally relaxed, scientists warned today...

As the world gears up to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers and health experts in Africa are calling for equity and fairness in the distribution of vaccines to ensure the continent is not left behind in the global fight against the coronavirus...

Israeli military forces have shot dead a young Palestinian man near the Gush Etzion settlement in the southern part of the West Bank for an alleged stabbing attempt against troops, less than a week after an Israeli military commander fatally sho...

Israel is set to deliver 5,000 COVID-19 vaccinations to the Palestinian Authority so that it may vaccinate 2,500 health care professionals, Ynet reported on Friday citing an unnamed PA official...

King Abdullah II of Jordan affirmed today that without a just and comprehensive solution to the Palestinian cause that meets all the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, there will be no peace or stability in the region and the entire world.....

Lebanon's oldest member of Parliament, Michel Murr, died Sunday from complications of COVID-19. He was 88 years old...

Algeria has kicked off its coronavirus inoculation campaign after receiving the first shipment of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine...

French President Emmanuel Macron has defended his decision not to impose a third COVID-19 lockdown in France despite a surge in cases and a faltering vaccine rollout...

The once tension-ridden face of Ansar Hossain, a Rohingya refugee living on a remote Bangladeshi island, now exudes tranquility and peace...

Russian police have detained over 250 anti-Putin protesters today as activists took to the streets and a frozen ocean demanding the release of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny...

I hope Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, and Iran’s Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif will read this article because it has a lesson for them...

The Egyptian Authority for Unified Procurement, Medical Supply and Technology Management announced Saturday that the first shipment of the British Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine will arrive in Egypt on Sunday...