A southern Iraqi governor was replaced late Friday after five days of demonstrations demanding he step down, local media reported...

Israeli officials believe Iran was behind a blast on an Israeli-owned cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman, according to Friday reports...

Libya's prime minister-designate Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh says he's submitted a new vision for his interim government, as he seeks to lead the North African nation to elections in December...

US President Joe Biden has reaffirmed Washington's commitment to Saudi Arabia's defence but stressed the importance of human rights in a long-delayed first call with Saudi King Salman, the White House said...

The US says President Joe Biden ordered military airstrikes against facilities belonging to anti-terror resistance groups on the Iraqi-Syrian border...

The government on Wednesday decided to reinstate Friday lockdown in addition to extending daily curfew by two hours as part of coronavirus-containment measures...

As Arab and international pressures piled up on Lebanese factions to agree on the swift formation of a new government to deliver reforms, all signs indicate that the crises-ridden country is heading for a prolonged deadlock if top leaders refuse to b...

Al Qaeda has a new leader, called 'the Sword of Revenge' who is reportedly set to make the terror group as dangerous as they were under Osama Bin Laden...

Iran’s permanent ambassador to the UN office in Geneva has raised the alarm at the Israeli regime’s quiet expansion of its highly-secretive Dimona nuclear facility in the Negev Desert, renewing the call for the “irreversible destruction” of n...

Leaked Saudi documents show that the assassination squad that killed Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi flew to the Turkish city of Istanbul on private jets owned by a company under the full control of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (...

US President Joe Biden has opened a Trump-era detention center to lock up hundreds of refugee children, a move reminiscent of the former president’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy...

A group defending human rights in Myanmar is calling on the UN is to impose an embargo on the Southeast Asian country to stop its military from using weapons against the public...

The militaries of India and Pakistan said on Thursday they have agreed to a cease-fire along the disputed Kashmir border...

The Pfizer vaccine has prevented 94 per cent of recipients in Israel from getting symptoms in a huge peer-reviewed study of 1...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel last night warned that new Covid variants risk a third wave of infections sweeping across the country which could provoke another national lockdown...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Thursday that an announcement by the armed forces calling for him to resign amounted to an attempted military coup and he called on his supporters to gather in the center of the capital Yerevan...

Qatar and Egypt have agreed to appointment envoys and reopen their embassies in the wake of the AlUla agreement to mend relations with Doha...

Cash is dominating the global distribution of life-saving COVID vaccines with rich countries commandeering the supply...

Princess Latifa al Maktoum, the kidnapped daughter of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed, has asked British police to re-investigate the snatching of her older sister from a Cambridge street in a secret letter sent from captivity in Dubai...

As reflected by the activities of its ambassador to Jordan, Henry Wooster, the US is showing interest in Jordan’s political reform process...