Usumain Baraka speaks impeccable Hebrew, considers Israelis among his best friends and can quote passages from the Old Testament.
At least two people were killed and 51 injured after a gas pipeline explosion in southern Iraq, police sources said Saturday.
Fourteen people were killed in Turkey and Greece after a strong earthquake struck the Aegean Sea Friday, bringing buildings crashing down and setting off tidal waves which slammed into coastal areas and islands.
Qatar said Friday it referred officials at its international airport to prosecutors for possible charges after women aboard Qatar Airways flights faced forced vaginal examinations following the discovery of an abandoned baby.
As COVID-19 swells the ranks of unemployed women in the Arab world, surging demand for digital skills could help many of them find work in a region where only...
The United States revealed Thursday it had seized Iranian missiles shipped to Yemen and sold 1.1 million barrels of previously seized Iranian oil that was...
The United States has agreed to sell top-of-the-line F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates in light of its recognition of Israel, potentially shifting...
Syrian President Bashar Assad met Thursday with a high-level Russian delegation advocating for jointly hosting an international conference on refugees in the...
The director of Sidon Governmental Hospital in south Lebanon tested positive for coronavirus Saturday
Rai Saturday issued scathing remarks directed at Lebanese politicians, accusing them of “killing” the country’s people and urging them to step down.
A third person is under arrest in France in connection with the knife attack in Nice on Thursday, a police source said on Saturday.
The millions of signs that Americans place on their lawns during election season are increasingly being vandalized or removed by disgruntled neighbors, a sign...
Saudi Arabia "strongly condemned" deadly stabbings Thursday in the French city of Nice, which authorities are investigating as the latest terrorist attack in...
Tunisia said Thursday it was imposing a nationwide night-time curfew, shutting schools and banning inter-region travel in a bid to halt a resurgence of the...
U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem will now be able to list Israel as their birthplace on their passports, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced...
Saudi Arabia’s state-run news agency is reporting that a Saudi man has been detained after stabbing and slightly wounding a guard at the French Consulate in...
Days after Turkey took delivery of Russian missile defense systems in July 2019, top security officials in the Trump administration were in full agreement...
Entering a Gaza City restaurant, customers are welcomed by a multi-tasking disinfection machine designed by a Palestinian businesswoman to curb the spread of...
US officials on Wednesday warned of a possible strike on Riyadh, as the Saudi-led military coalition reported the interception of drones and missiles fired by...
The Trump administration lifted a decades-old ban Wednesday that had prohibited US taxpayer funding for Israeli scientific research conducted in Jewish...
Iran Wednesday reported 415 new deaths from the novel coronavirus, the second daily record toll in a row in the Middle East's worst-hit country.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wednesday strongly condemned Russia for conducting an air strike that killed dozens of pro-Ankara rebels in Syria.
Germany and France prepared to announce restrictions approaching the level of last spring's blanket lockdowns on Wednesday as COVID deaths across Europe rose...
The United States and several Western allies Tuesday accused the Syrian government of deliberately delaying the drafting of a new constitution to waste time...
Joe Biden plans to scrap what he calls the "dangerous failure" of President Donald Trump's maximum pressure policy on Iran should he win the US election, but...
Turkey said Wednesday it will take legal and diplomatic steps in response to a caricature of President Tayyip Erdogan in the French satirical weekly Charlie...
A first-of-its-kind study using satellite images to count fresh graves and analyse burial activity in Yemen has estimated the death toll there from COVID-19...
The successful repatriation of four children and a woman related to Albanian nationals killed fighting with Islamic extremist groups in Syria "is a great...
DUBAI: Iran has begun construction at its Natanz nuclear facility, satellite images released Wednesday show, just as the UN's nuclear agency acknowledged...
Inspectors from the U.N.'s atomic watchdog have confirmed Iran has started building an underground centrifuge assembly plant after its previous one exploded...
Iraqi authorities Tuesday reopened a bridge in central Baghdad leading to the high-security Green Zone, in a sign of easing tensions a year after the launch...
Some Turks were happy this week to see President Recep Tayyip Erdogan teach France a "good lesson" with a "long overdue" call for a boycott, but others said...
Hamas, the militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, said Tuesday it had released Palestinian activists who were arrested in April after organising a video...