Middle East

  The Israeli military says at least five troopers have been injured after a Palestinian drove a car into a group of soldiers near a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. The military said in a statement on Sunday that the alleged incident took place near the West Bank town …

Prime Minister Youssef Chahed decided Friday to ban the niqab Muslim face covering for women in Tunisian government offices “for security reasons”, his office said. It said Chahed signed a government circular “banning access to public administrations and institutions to anyone with their face covered… for security reasons”. The ban …

Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said three Syrians were killed in the Turkish town of Reyhanli close to the Syrian border in a car blast that may be terror-related. “The initial findings suggest there may be more of a link with terror,” Erdogan told reporters in Istanbul. “It …

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee voted on Friday to list the sprawling Mesopotamian metropolis of Babylon as a World Heritage Site after three decades of efforts by Iraq. Iraq had been trying since 1983 to have the site — a massive 10-square-kilometer complex of which just 18 percent has been excavated …

A senior Iranian official has called for the seizure of a British oil tanker in case London refuses to release the Iranian vessel it has illegally detained in Gibraltar. “If Britain does not release the Iranian oil tanker, it is the authorities’ duty to make a reciprocal move and seize …

The ancient Philistines, the Biblical villains whose origins have puzzled scholars for decades, came to the Middle East from southern Europe more than 3,000 years ago, new DNA testing has shown. The genetic findings came from skeletons unearthed by archaeologists in Palestine in 2016, including the bones of infants buried …

Turkish authorities have detained at least three French women on suspicion of Daesh links in a region on the Syrian border while they were trying to illegally cross the border. State news agency Anadolu reported that the women along with nine children were stopped in the border province of Kilis …

At least 12 people have been wounded by an explosion that hit a gas station at the settlement of Bakhaoun in northern Lebanon, local media reported, citing head of the Lebanese Red Cross, George Kettaneh, on Thursday. According to the LBC broadcaster, citing Kettaneh, 10 out of 12 injured people …

The human casualties caused by the United States Wars during the last century…in video.

Iran summoned the British ambassador in Tehran over the “illegal seizure” of an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar on Thursday, Iranian state TV quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi as saying. British Royal Marines seized an oil tanker in Gibraltar on Thursday accused of bringing oil to Syria in violation …

Iran will begin enriching uranium at a higher level than what is allowed under the 2015 nuclear deal within days, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday. The announcement comes two days after Iran announced it had exceeded limits on its low-enriched uranium stockpiles. Under the 2015 deal, Iran agreed to …

Princess Haya Bint al-Hussein, a wife of the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum, is in hiding in London and said to be in fear for her life after fleeing her husband. Sheikh Mohammed, 69, who is a billionaire racehorse owner and has often been seen conversing with the …

The second attack in two months on an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia has wounded nine people, according to a Saudi-led coalition statement. Yemen’s Houthi forces claimed responsibility for a drone attack Tuesday on Abha International Airport, according to the Al-Masirah news agency. The Saudi-led coalition confirmed the drone attack. …

An Israeli missile aggression against Syria’s Homs and the suburbs of Damascus has killed a number of civilians, including a kid, the official news agency SANA reported. State media put the number of victims at four. Many others have also been injured in the Israeli aggression, the report by SANA …

Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile has passed the 300-kilogram limit under its nuclear deal, an unnamed source familiar with the matter told Fars on Monday. The news comes after the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Behrouz Kamalvandi, said on June 26, the country’s stockpile of the 3.67%-enriched uranium …

Taliban Islamist fighters killed six people and wounded 105 others by blowing up a truck bomb at morning rush hour near an Afghan Defence Ministry compound in Kabul on Monday. The attack, which ended a period of relative calm in the capital, came as U.S. special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad …

  Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Khartoum on Sunday demanding the ruling military hand over to civilians, in the largest demonstrations since a deadly security service raid on a protest camp three weeks ago. Protesters waved the Sudanese flag and chanted “civilian, civilian” and “blood …

  Yemen group attacked military positions and aircraft hangars at Saudi Arabia’s Jizan airport, the group’s Al Masirah TV said on Saturday, citing a military spokesman. There was no immediate confirmation from Saudi authorities.  

A United Nations official on Saturday joined Dutch lawmakers in criticizing Queen Maxima over a meeting she held with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka this week. U.N. rapporteur on extrajudicial executions Agnes Callamard told newspaper Algemeen Dagblad it was “more …

Iran has formally filed a complaint to the United Nations Security Council against the US over an American spy drone that violated the Iranian airspace on July 20. “The [Iranian] Foreign Ministry filed a complaint to the UN Security Council and the organization’s president [Mansour al-Otaibi] after a US spy …