Middle East

Scores of people were injured in Beirut on Tuesday in clashes between security forces and protesters rejecting the new government as it sought to win a parliamentary vote of confidence. Smoke wafted through Beirut where riot police fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters seeking to block MPs from reaching …

An election app in use by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political party potentially exposed sensitive personal information for the country’s entire national voting registration of about 6.5 million citizens, according to Israeli media reports. The cellphone-based program, identified as the Elector app, is meant to manage the Likud party’s …

The United States has announced to Iraq its readiness to renew sanctions waivers allowing the country to continue importing gas and electricity from Iran, Iraqi officials say. The Associated Press cited what it called three senior members of Iraq’s government as saying that the US State Department has conveyed its …

At least eight people were killed and dozens of others were wounded in a car bomb explosion in Afrin in Aleppo Governorate, in northwestern Syria. A source in the local administration of the city told “Sputnik” News Agency that, “6 people were killed and 11 others wounded, one of them …

Qatar is reportedly expected to acquire submarines from Italy and turn into the first Gulf Arab country to operate those watercraft. The American business magazine Forbes reported that a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Italian company Fincantieri, Europe’s largest shipbuilder, covers the “supply of cutting-edge naval vessels and submarines” …

At least 33 people were killed in eastern Turkey Wednesday by a second avalanche which buried a team of rescuers searching for people hit by the first the day before. The bodies of 33 rescue workers and civilians were discovered in Van province, where they had been helping dig out …

A reservoir containing an estimated 80 trillion cubic feet of shallow gas, and spanning around 5,000 square kilometers, was discovered on Monday, UAE authorities reported. The reserve, located between Abu Dhabi and Dubai, is the fourth largest in the world, and the first major natural gas discovery in 15 years, …

Israel says it has reached an agreement with Sudan to jointly work towards normalization of ties, after leaders of the two sides held a secret meeting in Uganda, drawing angry reactions from all Palestinian factions. The meeting took place between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the …

The Islamic State terrorist group said on Monday it blew up a gas pipeline in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula, claiming it was connected to Israel. Security sources earlier said the pipeline hit was a domestic one that connects to a power station in El-Arish, powering homes and factories in central …

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has visited the mausoleum of Imam Khomeini to pay tribute to the founder of the Islamic Revolution as the 10-day celebrations marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution begin in Iran. The Leader made the visit early on Saturday, which marks …

Authorities in Turkey have arrested at least 10 people for their alleged ties to the so-called Islamic State, security sources said. Police in Turkey’s capital Ankara “carried out raids” at specific addresses where the suspects lived, the sources said, according to state-run Anadolu Agency. “The suspects were in contact with …

Palestinian officials will seek to galvanize opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump’s controversial plan for Middle East peace at the UN Security Council in the coming weeks, Palestine’s ambassador to the UN said Wednesday. Speaking with reporters in New York, Riyad Mansour said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas would address the …

Several Arab media have claimed that in recent hours a second US plane crashed near Iraq’s al-Anbar province, learned alghadeer.com. According to media’s sources, the aircraft is of the US Air Forces, Spartan C-27J transport aircraft and there were four people on board. According to the Russian Avia.pro website in …

Syrian army forces are in full control of a strategic town in the country’s northwestern province of Aleppo following an intense military operation against foreign-sponsored terrorist militants. Syria’s Arabic-language al-Masdar news agency, citing an unnamed military official from Division 30 of the Republican Guard, reported that government troops liberated Khan …

A Saudi publishing house supposedly specializing in releasing various translations of Muslims’ holy book Qur’an has printed an error-ridden Hebrew version of Islam’s holy book including some egregious alterations and even omissions. The copy was issued by the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur’an (MEMO), which …

Iran’s money from exports of gas and electricity has piled up to $5 billion in a bank account in Iraq, but Tehran cannot transfer it because of the US sanctions, an official says. Iraq relies on Iran for trade and natural gas that generates as much as 45% of its …

The Palestinian Authority asks the Arab League to hold an emergency meeting on Saturday over US President Donald Trump’s plan to unveil his Israel-Palestine peace agreement, the so-called deal of the century, to the public, Palestinian Ambassador to Egypt Diab Al-Louh said on Tuesday, as reported by the official WAFA …

Turkey has called off rescue operations in eastern areas hit by Friday’s earthquake after emergency workers recovered the body of a final person they were searching for in a collapsed building, bringing the death toll to 41, authorities say. The magnitude 6.8 quake caused 37 deaths in Elazig province, about …

US President Donald Trump said Monday that his Israeli-Palestinian peace plan — already rejected by the Palestinians — has a “chance” and will be unveiled Tuesday. “I think it might have a chance,” he said alongside visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. Trump told reporters the …

Turkey has called off rescue operations in eastern areas hit by Friday’s earthquake after emergency workers recovered the body of a final person they were searching for in a collapsed building, bringing the death toll to 41, authorities say. The magnitude 6.8 quake caused 37 deaths in Elazig province, about …