Middle East

The Yemeni Army and allied Popular Committees have conducted a drone operation targeting Saudi Arabia’s southwestern city of Khamis Mushait in retaliation for the Riyadh regime’s devastating military campaign and blockade against its impoverished neighbor. In a statement released early on Thursday, the Saudi-led coalition invading Yemen claimed that Saudi …

More than a dozen of Palestinians have been injured by Israeli forces on the border fence between the Gaza Strip and the Israeli-Occupied Territories, where Palestinians gathered to demonstrate against the regime’s blockade of the coastal enclave. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, 14 Palestinians were wounded during the Wednesday demonstration, …

Lebanon’s lawyers have sued a British chemical firm linked to the devastating explosion of 2020 at Beirut’s port at the High Court in London. The Beirut Bar Association and four others, including a survivor of the explosion and the families of two victims of the blast, filed the lawsuit against …

Egypt allows one-way traffic as Israel eases import restrictions for the besieged territory it has blockaded since 2007. Egypt says it has partially reopened the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, allowing one-way traffic into the besieged Palestinian enclave, as Israel eases import restrictions for the territory it has …

Lebanon’s lawyers have sued a British chemical firm linked to the devastating explosion of 2020 at Beirut’s port at the High Court in London. The Beirut Bar Association and four others, including a survivor of the explosion and the families of two victims of the blast, filed the lawsuit against …

Islamic Republic of Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi vows that his administration will resolutely pursue the removal of the United States’ oppressive sanctions, but not condition the growth of the national economy to the elimination of the bans. “We will vigorously seek elimination of the sanctions,” the chief executive said at …

Turkey’s military has begun evacuating from Afghanistan, the defence ministry said on Wednesday after the Taliban had asked Ankara for technical help to run Kabul airport but insisted it withdraws its military by the end of August. President Tayyip Erdogan’s government had said for months it could keep a presence …

Israeli forces have martyred a Palestinian teenage boy during a violent raid on a refugee camp in the northern West Bank. According to reports, the incident took place at the Balata refugee camp, situated near the city of Nablus, early on Tuesday, as the Palestinians clashed with the Israeli soldiers …

The US forces stationed at Kabul’s international airport have reportedly been extorting money from Afghan nationals trying to flee the chaos in their homeland, following the collapse of Afghanistan’s military and the Taliban’s takeover of the country. Iran’s Nour News reported Tuesday that US Marines — who control sections of …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that Kabul’s airport restrictions have blocked the delivery of over 500 tons of medical supplies, including surgical equipment and severe malnutrition kits, as the United States continues with its messy pullout of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The WHO sounded the warning on Monday, stressing that …

Egypt has closed the Rafah crossing on its border with the besieged Gaza Strip, declining to provide details or reasons for the move. The Egyptian authorities closed the Rafah border crossing with Gaza Strip in both directions on Monday until further notice, blocking the only land opening to the rest …

A senior official from the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, says the Palestinian nation and resistance groups will not remain silent in the face of the deteriorating economic situation in the Gaza Strip caused by the tight Israeli blockade and will take proper measures to assuage the sufferings of the …

A high-ranking United Nations official has warned that Yemen is spiraling faster toward food shortages and other humanitarian catastrophes, with millions of people in the Arab country ravaged by a Saudi-led war being “a step away” from famine and related diseases. “There is perhaps one overarching humanitarian priority and that …

The secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement says the current crisis in the country is a sign of a war waged against the resistance front, which is being led by the US embassy and its ambassador in Beirut. According to Press TV, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made the remarks in …

Turkey is beefing up security measures on its border with Iran and elsewhere to prevent a likely influx of Afghan refugees, who could try to enter the country after fleeing a Taliban takeover. The country is to add another 64 kilometers (39 miles) to a three-meter-high wall that it has …

Tensions have heightened between Palestinian resistance forces and the Israeli regime after the latest act of aggression in the besieged Gaza Strip, the worst since the 11-day war in May. The resistance groups in Gaza on Sunday pledged to step up protests to force the regime in Tel Aviv to remove its …

The head of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council says the leaders of the war coalition against Yemen plunder more than 85 percent of the country’s oil and gas revenues. Mahdi al-Mashat made the remarks in a meeting with Yemeni Prime Minister Abdel-Aziz bin Habtour in Sana’a on Sunday, according to Yemen’s …

Jordan has agreed to allow 2,500 Afghan citizens to pass through the kingdom as they fly to the US, the foreign ministry said on Monday. It did not say when the arrangement, agreed with Washington on humanitarian grounds, would come into force. Thousands of Afghans and foreigners have thronged the …

Russia and Turkey are close to signing a new contract to supply Ankara with additional S-400 air defense units in the near future, the Interfax news agency cited the head of Russia’s Rosoboronexport arms exporter as saying on Monday. Turkey’s initial purchase of S-400s from Russia strained ties with the …

Egypt is to close the Rafah crossing on its border with the Gaza Strip until further notice on Monday, Egyptian security sources said. Hamas said it had been informed by Egypt of the decision to shut the crossing in both directions, without giving details. According to two Egyptian security sources, …