A car blast was heard near one of the restaurants in the Iraqi city of Basrah on Tuesday, a security source revealed to Asharq News...

The White House on Monday announced a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympics in China in a show of protest over a number of issues, most notably human rights...

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Monday held a number of meetings designed to help restore Arab trust in Lebanon, and the country’s diplomatic and economic relationships with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states...

The Tripoli Court of Appeal on Monday overturned an earlier verdict to exclude Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar from this month’s presidential elections, according to local media...

At least 48 people were killed in tribal clashes in Sudan’s West Darfur state on Monday, according to local medics...

If the Europeans think Iran is going to give them an easy ride on the nuclear negotiations in Vienna they are very much mistaken!  The Europeans, France, Britain and Germany know full well Iranian negotiators are tough, they play for time - an...

Marking the sixth consecutive year of growth, sales by the world's top 100 arms producers reached $531 billion in 2020 with the US taking a 54% share, according to an international think tank on Monday...

The Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Ahmed Aboul Gheit has said that Iran aims to extend its control over the Straits of Hormuz and Bab Al-Mandab, either directly or through militias it funds...

Powerful associates and relatives of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad have turned the country into a “new narco-state on the Mediterranean,” according to a report Sunday...

Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the UAE’s National Security Adviser, met with Iranian president Ibrahim Raisi on Monday, state news agency WAM said in a report...

Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the West Bank city of Tulkarm, just a day after the killing of a Palestinian man in occupied al-Quds...

About 14 people were killed and dozens others have been injured after the Mount Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupted...

The Omicron variant of Covid-19 has spread to about one-third of US states, prompting the surgeon general to call for calm as the nation struggles to get a grip on the ongoing pandemic...

Argentina has detected its first case of the omicron variant, according to the country’s Health Ministry...

Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to four-year jail term in first verdicts in its trial, Sky News reported...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday defended his soldiers who shot dead an injured Palestinian in occupied East Jerusalem...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is scheduled to visit the Sultanate of Oman on Monday. A statement by the Omani Royal Court said the visit is “an affirmation of the historic relations between Oman and Saudi Arabia...

A 15-year-old student used a handgun to kill four people and injure seven others at his US high school in Oxford Charter Township, Michigan, in the deadliest US school shooting this year...

 Lebanon’s Education Ministry should extend the December 4, 2021, school registration deadline for Syrian children and end policies that are blocking Syrian refugee children’s access to education, Human Rights Watch said...

At least five people including civilians were killed and more than six others wounded when a bomb went off at a busy restaurant in southern Somalia on Sunday, officials said...