The Lebanese Army, which has been playing a critical role in maintaining stability since the country's worst crisis broke out 18 months ago, is facing the growing challenge of surviving a rapidly deteriorating economy, resisting political pressures, ...

Tanzania swore in Samia Suluhu Hassan as its first female president Friday after the death of John Magufuli at 61...

More than 200 people have been killed in Myanmar since the Feb. 1 military coup, said a human rights group on Thursday...

Legal battles aimed at preventing the eviction of 28 Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah district of Jerusalem on Thursday appeared to be heading for defeat...

The Saudi Ministry of Health said more than 2.6 million people have taken a COVID-19 vaccine jab at one of the 500 vaccine centers across the Kingdom...

The number of Kuwaitis is one and a half million, and if any of them was given the opportunity to become a Minister of Health in these circumstances, they would not have refused the position, and you will then hear from each of them a plan, philosoph...

The lower court yesterday rejected two petitions challenging the government’s order to impose a partial curfew to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic...

When the spat with Jordan blocked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s triumphant pre-election trip to the United Arab Emirates last week, analysts say Amman was sending him a message: stop marginalising us...

Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi is set to face new corruption charges, as unrest continues over the recent coup d’état in the country...

Tunisia’s president met Wednesday with Libya’s newly-appointed government in Tripoli, becoming the first head of state to visit the war-torn country a day after the interim administration took power...

Japan will release a $10-million emergency fund for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and their host communities, a statement issued by the country's embassy in Dhaka said Thursday...

Taliban hideouts in Afghanistan were targeted by US airstrikes this week as the White House approaches a deadline for withdrawal of U...

In actions described by Western nations and human rights groups as undermining democracy in Turkey, officials moved to disband the pro-Kurdish opposition on Wednesday after stripping one of its lawmakers of his seat...

Israeli Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen said Wednesday he expects three more Arab countries and an African country to sign peace deals with Israel soon...

All airlines operating at Kuwait International Airport will start implementing a program to verify PCR certificates for eight countries starting March 25, according to local reports...

President Jair Bolsonaro has praised his supporters for staging anti-social distancing protests as Brazil announced a record of more than 90,000 daily infections...

Iran’s security chief says there will be no way out of the current impasse over the Iranian nuclear program unless the United States removes its cruel sanctions...

The State Security Court (SSC) on Wednesday sentenced six men to death in the case of the 16-year-old boy, who was a victim of a brutal revenge attack in Zarqa in October last year...

Russia has called its ambassador to the US to come back home for consultations on the future of Moscow-Washington relations after US President Joe Biden called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin “a killer”...

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died at the age of 61, the government said Wednesday.   “With great sadness, I announce the death of our brave leader President John Pombe Joseph Magufuli, who died today at around 6 p...