Middle East

The Saudi-led military coalition and its mercenaries plunder “three to four million barrels” of Yemeni oil every month, Yemen’s oil director says. Executive Director of the Yemeni Oil Company Ammar al-Azra’i announced the grim news in an interview with Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television news network on Friday, saying, “We do …

Bahrain’s leading religious scholar Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim has called on the tiny Persian Gulf island state’s authorities to immediately release political prisoners because such an issue “cannot be postponed” until the Bahraini parliament is ready. According to Press TV, in a statement carried by Bahrain Mirror, the religious scholar …

Five Palestinians go on indefinite hunger strike at the Israeli regime’s jails as their last resort to protest their similarly indefinite and unexplained imprisonment at the hands of the regime. The Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported the development on Thursday, citing the Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Authority. “Four of them are …

The head of the Executive Council of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah says all the sufferings in Lebanon today have been directly or indirectly caused by the United States. “Today, the one who has destroyed Lebanon is the United States, which continues to interfere in all of the affairs of …

An Indian family of five burst into tears of joy after being chosen for this weekend’s downsized hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, but hundreds of thousands of rejected applicants were left disappointed. Up to 60,000 Muslims residing in Saudi Arabia are allowed to take part in this year’s hajj, evoking …

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has released two videos showing armed Israeli settlers and masked Zionists fatally shooting Palestinians who did not pose any danger to them, with the Tel Aviv regime’s soldiers standing idly by. The first clip captured on May 14 shows Israeli forces in the West Bank …

President Bashar al-Assad has taken the oath of office for a fourth term in war-ravaged Syria, after taking 95 percent of the vote. Assad was sworn in on the constitution and the Qur’an in the presence of more than 600 guests, including ministers, businessmen, academics and journalists at the parliament …

Lebanese politician Saad al-Hariri abandoned his months-long effort to form a new government, dimming the chances of a cabinet being agreed any time soon that could start rescuing the country from financial meltdown. Hariri announced his decision after meeting President Michel Aoun, saying it was clear they could not agree, …

Since the gruesome murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Mohammad bin Salman, the de facto leader of the Saudi Kingdom, has kept a rather low profile in the international arena. But that does not mean the young prince has made a U-turn in his major policies, …

Lebanon’s Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri says he has abandoned his efforts to form a new government, citing differences with the country’s president. According to Press TV, Hariri announced on Thursday that he was unable to reach an agreement with President Michel Aoun on the formation of a new cabinet, and …

The Israeli regime’s much-flaunted “Iron Dome” missile system, which is constantly fortified and updated by the United States, “mistakenly” fired at one of the regime’s own warplanes during Tel Aviv’s latest war on Gaza, a report says. The incident came in May, when the regime was waging a heavy 12-day …

Lebanon’s Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri has presented a cabinet lineup to President Michel Aoun, in a move that could end a crippling political and economic crisis. Hariri met Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda on Wednesday, and presented a 24-member cabinet proposal to the president. “For me this government can start …

Several Palestinian resistance factions have condemned the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for opening an embassy in Tel Aviv, only weeks after Israel massacred over 120 Palestinians in the long-besieged Gaza Strip. Wednesday’s opening of the Emirati embassy, which is situated in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, came two weeks after the …

There have been conflicting reports about the fate of a major Afghan border crossing, a day after the Taliban claimed they had captured the Afghan side of the border crossing of Spin Boldak along the frontier with Pakistan. Local Afghan officials on Thursday said security forces had retaken control of …

Talks between OPEC and its allies to boost oil production and cool prices were abandoned earlier this month over a dispute that pivoted over how much crude the UAE would be able to pump under a new deal. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have reached a compromise deal …

Egypt’s highest civilian court has upheld the designation of a group of 13 people, including two prominent activists, as terrorists. The Court of Cassation on Wednesday rejected an appeal by the 13 people against their inclusion on a terrorist list for a period of five years. The group includes activists …

A group of the military forces that the US has taken out of Afghanistan have been sent over to Yemen, where they have occupied a strategic southwestern airbase. Yemen Press Agency carried the report on Tuesday, saying the forces first arrived at the Aden International Airport in the Aden Province …

The use of capital punishment in Bahrain has considerably increased over the past decade, particularly since the 2011 Islamic Awakening uprising, according to a new report. According to Press TV, a joint report released on Tuesday by anti-death penalty and human rights group Reprieve and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and …

A survey of US Jewish voters conducted after the recent Israeli war on the besieged Gaza Strip has found that a quarter of respondents believe the occupying entity is an apartheid regime committing genocide against Palestinians. The study, based on interviews with 800 Jewish voters, was commissioned by the Jewish Electorate …

The United Nations refugee agency says thousands of Afghan civilians are likely to flee their homes due to the ongoing Taliban advances across various parts of war-ravaged Afghanistan. According to Press TV, Babar Baloch, Spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told a news briefing in the Swiss …