It was no surprise that the first Arab nation on Joe Biden’s must-call list was Iraq, a state whose destiny has been entwined with America’s for three decades...

A military base housing US troops in western Iraq was attacked with rockets on Wednesday, local media reported...

An Iranian political prisoner and champion bodybuilder stitched his lips together in protest for being held at an inhumane penitentiary in Tehran where he is denied adequate medical care for severe health problems...

Gunfire broke out in south Beirut on Tuesday night when Hezbollah fought off an apparent attempt by Lebanese security forces to arrest the man convicted of assassinating former prime minister Rafik Hariri...

Saudi authorities have again condemned the continuing cross-border attacks on the Kingdom by the Houthi militia in Yemen...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will appeal against his criminal conviction in a corruption and influence-peddling case for which he was handed a three-year prison sentence, his lawyer has announced...

Lebanon registered 62 more coronavirus-related deaths and 3,098 new cases in the latest 24-hour period, the Health Ministry said Tuesday...

A commercial plane crashed late Tuesday in South Sudan, killing all 10 people on board, according to the governor of Jonglei state...

Members of the US military increasingly believe that they hold an exceptional position above the rest of society...

 The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has slammed the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for sending an envoy to the Israeli-occupied territories, saying the move shows Abu Dhabi is determined to insist on its “sin” of normalization w...

Morocco has cut all contacts with the German Embassy in the capital, Rabat, in protest at Berlin’s stance on the disputed Western Sahara region...

France will start giving Britain's AstraZeneca vaccine to over-65s in an humiliating U-turn for President Macron after he personally cast doubt on its effectiveness...

Thirty people have been killed and more than 1,200 have been detained by the police and security forces since the military coup in Myanmar, according to a human rights organization...

Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted last week from a boarding school in the northwestern Zamfara state have been released, the state's governor said Tuesday...

A scathing new report from a US watchdog says Washington wasted billions of dollars in war-ravaged Afghanistan on buildings and vehicles either abandoned or destroyed...

Russia says it will respond to planned sanctions by the United States over the case of opposition figure Alexei Navalny, depending on their content and nature...

Facemasks with at least two or three layers are effective at reducing the spread of Covid, a top UK health official has said...

The coronavirus pandemic pushed almost all schools, colleges and universities online, for both teaching and exams...

Finland has declared a state of emergency, activating powers which allow it to introduce tougher restrictions to stem the rising tide of coronavirus infections...

Hopes of foreign summer holidays were given a boost last night after the European Union said its 'vaccine passports' scheme could be opened up to the UK...