Middle East Headlines

Fatah, PFLP terrorists caught attempting to smuggle 11 cell phones into Opher Prison in their bodies....

KUWAIT, July 21 (KUNA) -- The Meteorological Center is keen on providing the masses with transparent and accurate weather reports, said officials Sunday. Speaking to KUNA, officials from the Kuwait Meteorological Center -- affiliated with the Directorate ...

Project aims to impart MDA knowledge and experience in communities around the world, providing them with tools for dealing with emergencies....

Two members of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) are killed during clashes with terrorists in southeastern Iran, near the country's border with Pakistan....

By Salem Al-Methen KUWAIT, July 21 (KUNA) -- Galvanized steel has been widely used in construction projects throughout Kuwait due to claims of cost-effectivity, renowned durability, and topnotch quality. The material is said to save up around 70 to 80 per...

Hanegbi says Tehran understands Jerusalem 'means business,' says no need for concern about 'cautious' American response to Gulf crisisHanegbi says Tehran understands Jerusalem 'means business,' says no need for concern about 'c...

Neither Washington nor Tehran is in a rush to arm its warplanes, but the risk that this tug of war becomes an exchange of military blows has become more real...

Aerial view of Kuwait City (Ayman Atallah KUNA)...

WASHINGTON, July 21 (KUNA) -- An excessive heat warning has been put in effect for the nation's capital due to a heatwave hitting several states across the US affecting over 100 million people. According to the National Weather Service, the temperatur...

With scarcely three months to go till Brexit, no deal on the table and skepticism in both Brussels and Westminster, next premier faces choppy political watersWith scarcely three months to go till Brexit, no deal on the table and skepticism in both Brussel...

KUWAIT, July 21 (KUNA) -- The rate of the US Dollar was stable at KD 0.303, while the Euro went down to KD 0.340 compared to last Thursday, said the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) Sunday. The CBK added, in its daily bulletin, that the rate of the British Po...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Chief Commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces Mazloum Abdi warned Turkey against carrying out any military operation against the SDF in Eastern Euphrates, and said that any attack on any region in Eastern Euphrates will enggage all border ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Vice-President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari on Sunday unveiled 8 new drugs during his a visit to the knowledge-based companies in Alborz province near Tehran....

TEHRAN (FNA)- New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) tore into President Donald Trump at an immigration town hall Saturday, saying the president's immigration policies are "about ethnicity and racism"....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Mohammad Javad Zarif reminded British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt who had reached out to Zarif through telephone to discuss the seizure of a UK-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, that the seized vessel of London was violat...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said that the seizure of a UK-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz was a response to Britain's piracy against a tanker of his country in the Strait of the Gibraltar....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Farsi-language accounts of 4 Iranian news outlets were suspended on Twitter, after they reported the seizure of a UK-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Lebanese media outlets reported that the positions of Hashd al-Shaabi (Iraqi popular forces) in Salahuddin province were attacked on Friday by an Israeli fighter jet....

Quneitra, SANA- SANA reporter said that the authorities concerned on Sunday found an amount of weapons, ammunition, medicines, Western-made bases of monitoring devices and Israeli-made vehicles left behind by terrorists in Quneitra countryside....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Why did the oceans warm and cool at such different rates in the early 20th century? New research points to an answer both as mundane as a decimal point truncation and as complicated as global politics. Part history, part climate science, ....

TEHRAN (FNA)- A leading Arab newspaper lauded Iran for displaying its power in enforcing the law against the superpowers by seizing offending oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, noting that Tehran wants mutual respect and removal of sanctions from the W ....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Ambassador to London Hamid Baeidinejad advised the British government to be wary of those internal elements trying to further escalate tensions between Tehran and London, reassuring that, however, the Islamic Republic is not afraid ....

A female suicide bomber struck outside a hospital in Pakistan on Sunday as the wounded were being brought in from an earlier shooting against police, in a complex assault claimed by the Pakistani Taliban that killed a total of nine people and wounded anot...

Hong Kong police locked down the city centre on Sunday as it braced for yet another mass protest over an extradition bill that has plunged the Chinese-ruled financial hub into crisis and triggered violent clashes....

Another huge anti-government march kicked off in Hong Kong on Sunday afternoon with seemingly no end in sight to the turmoil engulfing the finance hub...

KUWAIT, July 21 (KUNA) -- 1932 -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Said phones Sir Francis Humphrey, British senior representative in both Iraq and Kuwait and informs him of the demarcation of borders between Iraq and Kuwait. Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah l...

The assailant stood outside a restaurant asking people if they were Jewish before beating up a non-Jewish man who said he was...

Newly elected President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called the election three months ahead of schedule because the parliament was dominated by his opponents...

The blockade of Qatar, led by Saudi Arabia, has seen a slew of fake accounts open up and attempt to sway public opinion....

A senior Iranian shipping official says Iran has been conducting a maritime casualty investigation into an unsafe maneuver by the British-flagged oil tanker seized in the Strait of Hormuz....

Technology may be used to develop a mobile app to identify condition in which patients stop breathing for 10 seconds or more while they sleep, leading to health hazardsTechnology may be used to develop a mobile app to identify condition in which patients ...

Protesters renew calls for an independent inquiry over 'escalating' police abuse of power in anti-extradition protests....

'Merging with Barak and Meretz will deter certain populations from joining us and being part of the revolution,' Amir Peretz says...

Crowds gathered in Kotel plaza since night for prayers and 'selichot' for the Fast of the 17th of Tammuz today....

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) "Al Khalifa regime, who has changed Bahrain into a laboratory for testing dirty policies of Israeli regime, will sink soon," Iranian Parliamentary Director General for International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian wrote on h...

Damascus, SANA- President Bashar al-Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday exchanged cables of congratulation on the 75th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between the Syrian Arab Republic and the Federal Russian Republic. In ...

Ukrainians vote to elect a new parliament as comedian-turned-president Volodymyr Zelensky seeks to bring in political novices and consolidate his power....

After pivot to the center with Gesher, Peretz says a hard-left alliance would have 'put up the walls that prevent new groups from joining us'After pivot to the center with Gesher, Peretz says a hard-left alliance would have 'put up the walls t...