Middle East

Iran has slammed as “wrong” and “ill-considered” the joint statement issued by Germany, France, and the United Kingdom on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Speaking at a weekly presser on Monday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani said …

A Europe-based human rights organization has expressed concerns over the imminent execution of dozens of political prisoners in Saudi Arabia, as Saudi courts continue to hand heavy punishment to human rights activists for expressing their opinion. The European Saudi Organization for Human Rights (ESOHR) said in a statement that 34 people are …

In Yemen, some four million women and children are suffering from malnutrition due to the Saudi-led war on the impoverished country, a human rights organization has said. In a statement on Thursday, cited by Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network, the Yemen-based Entesaf Organization for Women and Child Rights said more …

The United States has smuggled a new batch of stolen Syrian oil into Iraq, continuing to plunder Syria’s natural resources through a number of illegal border crossings. “A convoy of the US occupation forces, consisting of 88 tankers loaded with stolen Syrian oil, left from the illegitimate Mahmoudiya crossing and …

Israeli forces have martyred a Palestinian near the city of Ramallah in the central part of the occupied West Bank, only a day after slaying a Palestinian youth elsewhere in the Tel Aviv-occupied territory. The assassination was carried out near the main entrance to the Beitin village, northeast of Ramallah, in …

One of the most important senior executives of the Daesh/ISIS terrorist organization has been captured in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Thursday. Terrorist Bashar Khattab Ghazal al-Sumaidai, codenamed Abu Zeid/Master Zeid, was captured in a successful operation by the Turkish intelligence and Istanbul police, Erdogan told reporters on …

A Europe-based human rights organization has expressed concerns over the imminent execution of dozens of political prisoners in Saudi Arabia, as Saudi courts continue to hand heavy punishment to human rights activists for expressing their opinion. The European Saudi Organization for Human Rights (ESOHR) said in a statement that 34 …

Hundreds of employees of the American tech giants Google and Amazon will hold a protest rally on Thursday against their companies’ recent billion-dollar deal with the Israeli regime. The employees will hold their “Day of Action,” which is part of the #NoTechforApartheid movement, on September 8, demanding the cancelation of …

The United Nations says Israeli forces shot dead at least four Palestinians and demolished 55 Palestinian-owned structures in the occupied West Bank and East al-Quds in a time span of over two weeks. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory said in …

A grisly drug-induced homicide captivated the media in Saudi Arabia this April when a man in the country’s Eastern Province set his family house on fire before iftar, the meal that ends the Ramadan fast. Four members of his family were killed. Police said he was under the influence of …

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has over the past years turned into one of the “most dangerous” rulers in the world after gaining clout through pressing ahead with his highly repressive policies, dismissing his political rivals, and butchering his detractors inside and outside of the ultra-conservative kingdom, a …

Israeli forces have killed a young Palestinian man in what is claimed to be a response to a stabbing attack in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil. Palestine’s official Wafa news agency said the killing was carried out on Friday afternoon as the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on …

Iranian Interior Ministry says border crossings to Iraq have been reopened hours after they were closed because of an eruption of violence in the country’s capital Baghdad. Authorities said on Tuesday that four main border crossings to Iraq had been reopened to travelers. Later statements said two of the crossings, …

More than two dozen Palestinians have been injured in the town of Rujeib, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, as clashes erupted after Israeli forces raided a house. Skirmishes started after the Israeli forces encircled a house in the early hours of Tuesday looking for two people who …

Turkish military forces and their allied militants have reportedly shelled residential areas in the countryside of Syria’s northern province of Raqqah, as Turkey is apparently preparing for a new cross-border offensive in West Asian country. The shelling struck the villages of Abu Surra, al-Dibs and the M4 international highway in the …

The UK government’s funding for Saudi Arabia and Bahrain has more than doubled this year through Persian Gulf Strategy Fund (GSF) for unknown reasons, according to a report. GSF spending for Saudi Arabia increased from £813,605 to £1.8m and from £710,028 to £1.8m for Bahrain in 2021-2022, the Foreign, Commonwealth and …

Syria’s air defenses have repelled yet another Israeli act of aggression targeting the Arab country’s western areas. The Israeli aerial assault took place at 19:15 local time (16:15 GMT) against the countryside of the cities of Tartus and Hama on Thursday, the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported, adding …

A military facility housing US occupation forces in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr has come under attack for the second time in a few hours when rockets fired from nearby areas hit the facility. Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Syria’s official news agency SANA that a …

Iran will stage large-scale drone drills across the country with the participation of different units of the Army, says a senior Iranian Army commander. Deputy Chief of the Iranian Army for Coordination Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari made the announcement on Tuesday, saying the massive exercises will kick off on August …

The northern section of the grain silos damaged two years ago by a blast at the Beirut port collapsed early on Tuesday after warnings the structure was leaning too far to stay up. The crash sent a cloud of brown-grey dust billowing over the waterfront, the LBCI television station reported. …