Middle East

Bahraini opposition groups have called for mass participation in rallies marking the eleventh anniversary of the February 14 uprising, as the Al Khalifah regime continues its heavy-handed crackdown on dissent in the Persian Gulf country. According to Press TV, the groups published schedules of their activities on social media accounts, …

Bahrain has confirmed media reports that an Israeli officer will be stationed in the tiny Persian Gulf country, which plays host to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet. In a statement carried by the state news agency on Saturday, Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry said the appointment will be related to the work of …

Lebanese officials have decided to impose a ban on Bahraini opposition groups intending to hold two events in the country, amid a diplomatic rift pitting Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf allies against Lebanon over Beirut’s criticism of the Riyadh-led war on Yemen. According to Press TV, on Thursday, Lebanese …

The leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement has condemned the recent fatal shooting of three young Palestinian men by Israeli troops during an operation in the occupied West Bank, stressing that armed struggle against the occupying Israeli regime will continue unabated across the Palestinian territories.  “The blood of …

Russia’s foreign ministry repeats Moscow’s call for the illegal Zionist entity to stop its incessant attacks on Syrian soil, underlining the geopolitical and security repercussions of the operations. “Israel’s continuing strikes against targets inside Syria cause deep concern. They are a crude violation of Syria’s sovereignty,” spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said …

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) says the civilian death toll in Yemen has almost doubled since the United Nations rights body dissolved its monitoring mechanism in the war-torn country. Reporting on Thursday, the NRC said 823 civilians were killed or injured in the four months before the end of monitoring, …

An explosion at a mosque has killed at least one Afghan and wounded seven others in the northern province of Badghis, a Taliban official says. The blast took place while dozens of worshipers had gathered inside a mosque in the provincial capital Qala-e-Naw for Friday prayers. Baz Mohammad Sarwari, the Taliban’s …

Israeli forces have arrested more than 100 Palestinians during recent clashes in the Negev desert, a report says, as the Palestinian residents of the region, including children, face a forced eviction drive by the occupying entity. The mass arrests occurred during Tel Aviv’s crackdown on protests staged in reaction to …

Israeli authorities have extended for four more months the detention without charge or trial of a chronically-ill Palestinian teenager already held for a year, as the Tel Aviv regime is pressing ahead with its policy of administrative detention to keep Palestinians behind bars. “The occupation tribunal renewed my son’s administrative …

A human rights group has voiced concern over the unknown fate of dozens of victims of enforced disappearance in Saudi Arabia, saying the kingdom is in a dark era under the rule of the infamous Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. “The Saudi authority still ignores international condemnations and warnings …

The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of the occupied al-Quds says extremist Israeli groups are threatening the presence of Christians in the holy city as the Tel Aviv regime continues assaulting places of worship. In a column in the Times of London on Saturday, Theophilos III said he believed the aim is to …

US occupation forces have set up an oil refinery in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakah, as US military trucks continue to smuggle crude oil from the energy-rich region to Iraqi territory. Syria’s official news agency SANA, citing local sources, reported on Sunday that US forces and the so-called Syrian Democratic …

The US military has reportedly deployed reinforcements to the bases it has occupied near the oil fields in Eastern Syria, days after they again came under rocket attacks, local sources said. “American forces based in Iraq sent military reinforcements consisting of 30 trucks carrying armored vehicles, tanks and bulldozers,” the …

Saudi authorities have released Princess Basmah bint Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, a businesswoman and an outspoken human rights advocate, and her daughter, who had been detained without charge for nearly three years. A legal adviser to Princess Basmah announced on Saturday that she and her daughter, Suhoud Al Sharif, …

An official Lebanese delegation, headed by the Minister of Industry, George Boujikian, will arrive in Baghdad tomorrow to attend the Iraqi-Lebanese businessmen conference. Lebanese media reported that Boujikian visited Prime Minister Najib Mikati yesterday, Friday, to brief him about the preparations for the conference that will take place in the …

Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Bassam Sabbagh has affirmed Damascus’ condemnation of the use of chemical weapons, anywhere, anytime by anyone and under any circumstances, saying Western states fabricate lies on his country’s cooperation with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). During a session of …

Yemen’s Army Spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree said the country’s forces carried out two major operations against the Saudi-led coalition and their mercenaries in 2021, liberating 12,000 square kilometers of land in five provinces. In a statement carried by Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network on Sunday, the Brig. General he …

Yemeni Foreign Minister in the National Salvation Government Hisham Sharaf Abdullah has called upon the UN Security Council to hold Saudi Arabia and its arms suppliers to account in accordance with the international law over their war crimes in the crisis-stricken Arab country. Abdullah, in identical letters addressed to the …

As more Arab countries are taking steps toward normalization with the Syrian government, Bahrain has appointed its first ambassador to the war-ravaged country after relations were strained following the outbreak of foreign-sponsored militancy in March 2011. Bahrain’s state-run news agency BNA reported that Waheed Mubarak Sayyar has been appointed to …

Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas has told Russian President Vladimir Putin that Israeli raids and other acts of aggression have put the occupied West Bank on the brink of an “explosion.” Abbas told the Russian president during a telephone conversation on Thursday that Israeli settlements, land confiscation, home demolitions and “settler …