Middle East

Jordan’s monarch has approved a cybercrime bill that will restrain online speech deemed by Amman harmful to national unity, with opposition lawmakers and human rights groups raising the alarm about crackdown on the right to freedom of expression. According to Press TV, King Abdullah II gave his approval on Saturday …

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has reportedly rejected multiple requests from the United States to send arms and military equipment to Ukraine. The New York-based Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin received a “noncommittal” reply in March when he asked Sisi to send …

Syria’s deputy permanent representative to the UN says US forces have supplied Takfiri terrorists in the strategic al-Tanf area in southern Syria with chemical weapons and trained them how to use them to incriminate Damascus. Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting on “The situation in West Asia” in New …

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has traveled to the United Arab Emirates after a visit to Saudi Arabia, amid efforts to mend ties with the two Arab states and a recent American military buildup in the region. Sullivan and Emirati President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan met on Tuesday …

The Yemeni Ansarullh resistance movement has warned of the “longest” and “costliest” war in history in the event US Navy vessels approach the Arab country’s territorial waters. “In the interest of international peace and security and the preservation of the safety of navigation in the Red Sea, the American forces …

Russia says without Moscow’s participation, a two-day meeting hosted by Saudi Arabia to find a peaceful settlement of the war in Ukraine had no “slightest added value.” Senior officials from over 40 countries gathered in Jeddah on Sunday to agree on key principles as to how to end the war. Unlike …

The Russian ambassador to Qatar says the two countries are seeking to use national currencies in their bilateral trade amid an accelerating wave of de-dollarization across the world. In an interview with Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency on Monday, Dmitry Dogadkin said that works are underway to diversify away from the …

Israel has launched a new airstrike against Syria targeting the vicinity of the capital city of Damascus, causing casualties and material damage. Syria’s official SANA news agency quoted an unnamed military source as saying that the new Israeli act of aggression took place early Monday from the direction of the occupied …

An Israeli settler has run over a four-year-old Palestinian child near the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, leaving him in a critical condition. The incident took place in the village of Kissan, east of Bethlehem, on Sunday, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency reported. According to Palestinian sources, the boy, identified as …

Syrian commandos and Russian air forces have carried out a groundbreaking joint tactical training exercise, as reported by the Russian defense ministry on Thursday. The night drill took place in Syria’s Hama Province and marked the first of its kind for the two allies. During the exercise, the forces responded …

The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has warned of a plan by the illegal Israeli settler groups to demolish al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied al-Quds and build a Jewish temple there instead. Hamas spokesman Abdul-Latif Qanu made the warning in a statement on Wednesday, rejecting the plan as a “dangerous and …

A raid by Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Nablus has injured dozens of Palestinians, as occupation forces shot live fire and tear gas at crowds during their latest act of aggression in the occupied Palestinian territories. According to eyewitnesses cited by the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, …

Israeli army officials have expressed concerns about the rising likelihood of war with the Lebanese Hezbollah. Israeli and Lebanese sides are reportedly aware of the escalating tension, with the Israeli government meeting to discuss the potential threat Hezbollah poses. Security officials and Israeli army officers quoted by Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper …

The Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in southern Lebanon experienced a cautious calm on Tuesday, as a “humanitarian truce” was observed after three days of intense clashes. The recent round of fighting, triggered by the killing of an Islamic militant in a revenge operation on Saturday night, resulted in …

The US military has separately used dozens of tankers and trucks to smuggle crude oil and crops from the country’s northeastern Province of Hasakah to bases in neighboring Iraq, amid Washington’s attempts to further plunder natural resources in war-ravaged Syria. Syria’s official news agency SANA, citing local sources in al-Ya’rubiyah …

Israeli military officials say they don’t want a confrontation with the Hezbollah resistance movement, amid tensions near the border fence between Lebanon and the Israeli-Occupied Territories, reports say. The Palestinian Sama news agency reported that the overview presented by senior military officials to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a …

The World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that the lack of funds, combined with the continuous disruptions in supplies, has left it with no choice but to halt malnutrition prevention activities in Yemen. The food aid arm of the United Nations said in a report that the program will come …

Members of the far-right Israeli regime led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say they will not make any concession to the Palestinians as part of a potential deal for normalization of relations with Saudi Arabia. “I can say that Israel will not give in to anything that will erode its …

The illegal Zionist settlers have once again intruded into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound under the protection of Israeli forces in the latest act of provocation against the sacred site. Palestine’s official WAFA news agency reported that scores of the illegal settlers, escorted by military forces, broke into the compound through …

Iran, Russia, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have reached an agreement to facilitate the transit of goods and fuel and improve maritime cooperation. The agreement was reached during a meeting in St. Petersburg on Thursday between Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mehrdad Bazrpash and Yevgeny Moskvichev, the head of Russia’s …