Sanctions kill ordinary folk while elites carry on as usual.  This should be the lesson of the US and its Western allies, which impose sanctions on countries, which do not do their bidding...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas decided Thursday to postpone parliamentary elections scheduled for May 22...

At least 44 people were killed and 103 injured early Friday in a stampede at a Jewish religious festival in northern Israel...

Families of women and children with ties to suspected members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) who were recently repatriated to Tunisia say all of the women are in detention, Human Rights Watch said...

The United States is sending supplies worth more than $100million to India to help it fight a record-breaking surge of COVID-19 cases, the White House said in a statement on Wednesday...

The Indonesian government officially designated the West Papua National Liberation Army, an armed separatist group in far east of the archipelago, as a terrorist organization...

Air India will resume flights to the United Kingdom from Saturday (May 1) following the suspension of services on April 24 due to a daily record number of Covid-19 cases...

An Israeli military drone has fallen in the besieged Gaza Strip. Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television network on Wednesday cited Israeli media reports as saying that the aircraft fell on the roof of a home in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, and was deli...

Lebanon’s halted sea border demarcation talks with Israel are likely to resume sometime “soon,” the reputable An Nahar newspaper reported on Thursday...

The government on Wednesday decided to lift the Friday lockdown as of this Friday, replacing it with curfew similar to other days of the week, according to Minister of State for Media Affairs Sakher Dudin...

Russia has expelled seven European diplomats from Slovakia and three Baltic states over accusations by the Czech Republic that Russian spies were involved in an arms depot explosion in 2014...

Caught unprepared, the BJP government has looked woefully unequal to the task of handling a devastating second wave...

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke by phone Wednesday with Pakistan's Army Chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa on the latest developments regarding the Afghan peace process, which aims to bring an end to a decades-long conflict in the war-ravaged count...

A COVID-19 vaccine shortage, vaccine hesitancy, concerns about the AstraZeneca-Oxford shot and limited registration by foreigners have slowed Lebanon's vaccination drive more than two months after it was launched...

The husband of jailed British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has said she felt hopeless during an urgent parliamentary debate on her situation...

An Iraqi resistance group has staged a drone attack on an airbase housing US forces and warplanes north of the capital Baghdad...

US President Joe Biden has said he does not seek to escalate tensions with Russia, but warned their actions have consequences and defended his administration’s “proportionate” action in slapping sanctions on Russia...

US police are facing growing anger after a newly released body-camera video showed a California police officer put his knee on the back of a 26 year-old Latino man for about five minutes during an arrest as he eventually died of asphyxiation...

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, has lauded the Palestinians in Jerusalem al-Quds for their resistance against the Israeli forces’ aggression...

India marked a new high Thursday in coronavirus cases, registering a staggering 379,257 new infections in the last 24 hours...