Middle East

Thirteen Palestinians were also wounded in the shooting, including a 19-year-old female. Israeli security forces have shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank refugee camp of Jenin, home of the gunman behind a recent deadly Tel Aviv attack, the Palestinian health ministry said. Thirteen other Palestinians were wounded …

Ambassadors of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait went back to Lebanon in what appeared to be a diplomatic turnaround that comes as the crisis-stricken country is gearing up for consequential elections. The foreign ministries of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait issues separate statements on Thursday announcing their ambassadors’ return to Lebanon after …

Issuing a statement, the Iranian foreign ministry announced that 15 US authorities were subject to sanctions by Iran for terrorist acts, promotion and support of terrorism, as well as violating human rights. The statement reads as: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in conformity with …

Saudi Arabia says Muslims from inside and outside the country will be able to perform the Hajj providing they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and no older than 65. Saudi Arabia has said it will allow one million people – from both inside and outside the kingdom – to perform …

Local media in the occupied Palestinian lands reported a massive fire in northern occupied lands on Friday. The fire is reported to be burning a structure in the northern city of Acre on Friday afternoon. Hebrew-language media reported that a fire broke out in a structure under construction and rescue …

The foreign ministers of Iraq and Iran discussed bilateral relations, the Ukraine conflict as well as regional developments in a phone call on Friday. Fuad Hussein and his Irani counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held a telephone conversation on Friday morning. The two sides exchanged congratulations on Nowruz as well as the …

At least two people have been killed and several seriously wounded in a martyrdom-seeking operation in Tel Aviv’s city centre. Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service said it received reports of a shooting at “several scenes” around downtown Tel Aviv. It said it had evacuated six people to a nearby …

The trial in absentia of 26 Saudi suspects will be transferred from Istanbul to Riyadh A Turkish court has suspended the trial in absentia of 26 Saudis accused of the gruesome killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and said the case should be transferred to Saudi Arabia. The decision …

The former Yemeni president, a staunch ally of Riyadh, has handed over his self-proclaimed powers to a newly established body, in what appears to be another sign of the failure of the Saudi-led war that began seven years ago with the main goal of reinstalling him by force. A Thursday …

The Speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, Marzouq al-Ghanim, has condemned the international community for exercising double standards vis-à-vis the world’s ongoing conflicts, calling for the expulsion of the Israeli delegation from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). Speaking at an IPU meeting in the Indonesian capital city of Jakarta on Saturday, …

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visits the United Arab Emirates in his first such visit to an Arab state since the beginning of foreign-backed violence in Syria. Meeting with Assad on Friday, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahya “stressed that Syria is a fundamental pillar of Arab security,” …

People have taken to the streets of the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, and several other locations across Yemen to condemn the siege imposed by the Saudi-led coalition against their impoverished country, urging the Yemeni forces to intensify their retaliatory attacks against the aggressor regimes. Yemenis staged protests in several districts in …

Angry villagers, backed by Syrian army troops, have blocked a US convoy from advancing in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah. Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said on Friday that residents of the villages of Rehiyeh al-Sawda and Tamna al-Rehiyeh in the countryside of Qamishli City in Hasakah had blocked a …

Dozens of people have been injured in new clashes between Palestinians and Zionist regime forces who raided towns and villages across the West Bank, amid soaring tensions over Israeli regime plans to forcibly evict Palestinian families from their homes in the occupied al-Quds and frequent desecration of the al-Aqsa Mosque …

An Israeli official has reportedly floated the idea of buying uninhabited Greek islands in the Mediterranean Sea in order to evacuate and relocate Israeli settlers in case of a missile attack or natural disaster events. Avri Steiner, a representative of the Blue and White centrist and liberal political alliance led by Israeli Minister …

A top US general says the United States will sell advanced F-15 fighter jets to Egypt in spite of concerns about Cairo’s human rights record. According to Press TV, Central Command Head General Frank McKenzie told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the deal for the jets came after a …

A member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council has warned of attacks targeting “very sensitive” positions inside the United Arab Emirates in retaliation for a “deliberate” campaign to starve the Yemeni people, specifically through an ongoing siege imposed on Yemen by a Saudi-led military coalition. Referring to the siege on Yemen, …

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has announced that he will not run in the upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled for May 15 and that he will instead support the efforts of the elected individuals. While announcing the news in a television address on Monday, the Lebanese premier called on Lebanese people to turn …

US forces and SDF militants have reportedly transferred dozens of Daesh terrorists from detention camps in Syria’s eastern Province of Dayr al-Zawr to facilities in the neighboring Province of Hasakah. Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television, citing local sources, said they relocated scores of the extremists to the Industrial Secondary Prison and Ghweiran …

Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah has condemned the latest execution of over 80 prisoners in a single day in Saudi Arabia, saying it brings to the fore the true face of the Saudi regime, which practices the ugliest forms of sectarian discrimination. “This regime wears the dress of Islam, but is …