Middle East

Iraq’s Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halboosi met, at the Ittihadiya Palace in Cairo, on Sunday, with the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. At the beginning of the meeting, congratulations were exchanged between His Excellency and the Egyptian President on the occasion of the holy month of …

A general strike has been held across towns and cities in the occupied Palestinian territories following the Israeli regime’s killing of a Palestinian youth near the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds on the second Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. Palestinian media said …

Syrian President Bashar Assad could soon meet with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, sources say. Syria and Egypt are in advanced talks to restore diplomatic relations that were severed after the outbreak of the conflict in Syria back in 2011, informed sources have told the Wall Street Journal. A …

Syria’s foreign minister met his Egyptian counterpart in Cairo on Saturday, the first such visit in more than a decade and the latest sign of Arab states mending ties with President Bashar al-Assad. Faisal Mekdad was embraced by Sameh Shoukry as he arrived at the Egyptian foreign ministry, the first …

The United Nations has called for the “immediate and unconditional” release of Bahrain’s leading pro-democracy activist Naji Fateel and launch of torture investigations about him. In a report, the UN’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said the Al Khalifah regime should have never arrested the 48-year-old nearly a decade after …

Israeli forces have fatally shot a young Palestinian in front of one of the gates to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds as the occupying regime ramps up violence against Muslim worshipers in the fasting holy month of Ramadan. The Palestinian media said the young …

The Pentagon has revealed additional injuries in recent attacks on US outposts in northern Syria Six American soldiers suffered “traumatic brain injury” following two attacks on US bases in Syria, the Pentagon has said, blaming the strikes on “Iranian-backed groups.” Washington has warned Tehran that it would respond “forcefully” to …

Palestinians have held rallies to commemorate the 47th anniversary of Land Day, in honor of the struggle against Israeli settler-apartheid oppression and the call for freedom, justice, and equality. People in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and East al-Quds took to the streets on Thursday to mark the event that …

Israel has carried out fresh missile attacks on the Syrian capital Damascus, as the occupying regime continues its acts of aggression against the country. Syria’s official SANA news agency, citing a military source, reported that several Israeli missiles targeted areas near Damascus from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights …

Syria has condemned in the strongest terms the United States military for carrying out multiple air strikes in the eastern parts of the country against resistance groups, saying the raids are a cover-up for Washington’s ferocious attempts to further plunder energy resources there. Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates …

Top lawmakers from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party have backed the regime’s minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant’s call to halt the controversial judicial overhaul, fearing that the parliamentary majority could be eroded. On Sunday, Yuli Edelstein, a Likud lawmaker who chairs the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs Committee, called …

Israeli authorities have published tenders for more than 1,000 new settler units in the West Bank and East al-Quds, irrespective of the international outcry against the Tel Aviv regime’s illegal settlement expansion activities and land grab policies across the occupied Palestinian territories. The anti-settlement group Peace Now said in a …

ISIS killed 15 people foraging for desert truffles in central Syria by cutting their throats, while 40 others are missing, a war monitor said Friday. Syria’s desert truffles fetch high prices in a country battered by 12 years of war and a crushing economic crisis. Since February, at least 150 …

Amid tight restrictions, thousands of Muslim worshipers have crossed the Israeli military checkpoints deployed early on Friday morning before arriving at al-Aqsa Mosque for prayer. According to Palestinian media reports, Israeli occupation forces imposed restrictions as Palestinians tried to enter the city of al-Quds to perform Friday prayers. The Israeli …

A military base housing US forces in eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr has come under a rocket attack hours after the Pentagon carried out multiple airstrikes against Syrian troops. Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television news network, citing local sources, reported that ‏the rockets landed in the vicinity of a US-controlled al-Omar oil …

The United States has imposed sanctions on four entities and three individuals over their alleged involvement in a procurement network that purportedly supports Iran’s unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program. The US Department of the Treasury claimed that the network “operates on behalf of” Iran’s Ministry of Defense. According to the …

Jordanian lawmakers have called for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador following “racist” remarks by a far-right Israeli minister, who recently denied the existence of the Palestinian people. During the legislative session on Wednesday, Jordanian House of Representatives Speaker Ahmed al-Safadi called on the government to take action in response …

Iran has roundly dismissed the US State Department’s recent report on the situation of human rights in the country, saying that Washington has no qualification to make a comment about human rights and lecture others on the matter. Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani on Wednesday rejected the annual report as …

Syria has strongly denounced as “theatrical” an international conference in Brussels to purportedly raise funds for the victims of last month’s devastating earthquake, stating that the United States and its Western allies would instead lift sanctions on the crisis-hit country than organize such sham events. “Any improvement in the living …

In yet another hostile move against Iran, Britain has imposed sanctions on more senior officials of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), including those who it claimed were responsible for managing the elite force’s financial investments. The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said on Monday that it has …