Middle East

A new United Nations report says surging global food insecurity has placed 750,000 people in five countries — including Yemen and Afghanistan — at immediate risk of “starvation or death.” Over 400,000 of those displaced people are in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, with the remainder in Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and South Sudan, …

The Israeli regime is openly putting pressure on the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog to censure Iran’s peaceful nuclear energy program. “We expect the IAEA (the International Atomic Energy Agency’s) Board of Governors to place a clear warning light in front of the government in Tehran, and make it clear that …

A Turkish military convoy has reportedly crossed the common border into Syria, ignoring repeated warnings by Damascus for Ankara to respect the country’s territorial integrity. The Turkish convoy, the second one to enter the Arab country within the space of a week, made its way into the Syrian territory through …

A high-level team of United Nations investigators has said the Israeli regime’s occupation and discrimination against Palestinians are the main causes of the endless cycles of violence across the Occupied Territories. The team, appointed last year by the United Nations Human Rights Council to probe “all underlying root causes” of …

Russian and Syrian fighter jets have conducted a joint aerial patrol over the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and participated in real combat conditions against mock enemy warplanes and unmanned military aircraft. Syria’s official news agency SANA said the mission involved Russia’s Sukhoi Su-24, Su-34 and Su-35 twin-engine fighter bombers, besides six …

The United States, South Korea and Japan have flown warplanes over waters surrounding the Korean Peninsula in a show of force against North Korea that is reportedly planning another nuclear test. On Tuesday, four US F-16 fighter jets flew in formation with 16 South Korean planes, including F-35A stealth fighters, …

The director of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound says Israel’s unrelenting violations at the holy site will lead to what he has termed uncontrollable explosion. In a statement released on Sunday, Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani said the occupying regime has been desperately attempting to alter the status quo of the holy site by encouraging …

A senior Iranian official has urged the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency to refrain from pursuing any political agenda in his work, stating that the Islamic Republic is strongly opposed to an anti-Iran resolution at the IAEA Board of Governors. Speaking with the IRIB TV1 television channel, …

The Arab League has called on the UN Security Council to force Israel to end its occupation and withdraw all of its forces from the occupied Palestinian and Arab territories. In a statement released on Monday, the General Secretariat of the organization said that the 15-member council should assume its responsibilities and …

Lebanese caretaker Defense Minister Brigadier General Maurice Sleem has called upon the international community and the United Nations to “move quickly and put an end to the renewed Israeli provocations,” after a gas drilling ship arrived in disputed waters in the Mediterranean Sea to conduct hydrocarbon exploration for Israel. Sleem said Israel’s activities …

French President Emmanuel Macron has condemned the Tel Aviv regime’s insistence on illegal settlement construction and land expropriation policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, asserting that Paris supports the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people. During a telephone conversation with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas, Macron expressed his concern in the face …

A high-ranking official with Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement says the United States is preventing the Arab country from offshore crude oil and natural gas exploration and production, stating that Beirut possesses the ability to tap its own energy resources to cover its domestic demands. “The US is the main opponent …

The Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) says the Saudi-led coalition has banned a Yemen-bound ship carrying tons of fuel from docking at Hudaydah Port in violation of a UN-brokered ceasefire agreement to end the siege and war on the impoverished country. Essam al-Mutawakel, a spokesman for the YPC, said in a …

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says it is still possible for parties to the 2015 Iran deal to reach an agreement if the American side proves capable of making a realistic decision. Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in a Thursday address to the World Economic Forum in the Swiss city of …

The UAE’s Ministry of Health reported on Tuesday the first case of monkeypox, becoming the first Gulf country to detect a case of the disease. The patient is a 29-year-old visitor from a West African country and she is receiving the required medical care in the UAE, WAM added. Monkeypox …

The administration of US President Joe Biden is secretly mediating negotiations among Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Israel as part of efforts aimed at normalizing ties between Riyadh and the occupying Tel Aviv regime, according to a report. Citing five American and Israeli sources, the Axios news website reported on Tuesday …

Iraq closed public buildings and temporarily shut airports Monday as another sandstorm — the ninth since mid-April — hit the country.

Two people were killed and 120 injured on Monday when a gas cylinder exploded inside a restaurant in the United Arab Emirates’ capital Abu Dhabi, police said. Civil defense firefighters managed to contain the fire, which damaged several shops and the facades of six buildings, the police added. They had …

The Palestinian presidency has denounced a ruling by an Israeli court for allowing Jewish rituals at al-Aqsa Mosque.

At least six people have lost their lives and some 80 others have been trapped under rubble after a building partially collapsed in Iran’s southwestern province of Khuzestan.