Middle East Headlines

Residents of the Mieh Mieh Palestinian refugee camp Monday protested the absence of compensation that they believe they should receive for the damage inflicted on the camp by devastating clashes earlier this year....

There is one change today in the locations of mobile radars. Instead of Orbital Highway, it is University Street. Keep an eye on your speedometer to avoid fine and also to reach safe....

Manama, Dec. 17 (BNA): Gulf International Bank (GIB) today announced the holding of a special celebration at its Manama headquarters for employees marking Bahrain National Day....

Tehran (ISNA) - Qatar's Foreign Minister criticized U.S. sanctions on Iran and called for better engagement among Persian Gulf Cooperation Council members to solve regional crises....

Israel may present the coordinates for tunnels that it alleges Hezbollah dug into its territory at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council scheduled for later this week, local media reported Monday....

KUWAIT -- The State of Kuwait plays an integral role in promoting peace and security both on the regional and international levels, British Minister of State for Middle East and North Africa Alistair Burt says. KUWAIT -- The first ice hockey championship ...

BRUSSELS, Dec 17 (KUNA) -- The European Union (EU) Monday adopted a decision to mandate the EU border management assistance mission in Libya (EUBAM Libya) to actively support the Libyan authorities in contributing to efforts to disrupt organised criminal ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A new mass-grave was found in Raqqa which contains corpses of tens of victims of the US-led coalition's fighter jets....

VIENNA, Dec 17 (KUNA) -- The OPEC daily basket price stood at USD 59.07 a barrel Friday, compared with USD 58.67 the previous day, the cartel said on Monday. The monthly average of the OPEC basket price hit USD 65.33 per barrel in November, compared with ...

Plaintiff had worked in Austin since 2009, but anti-BDS law added clause to contract that she says violates her First Amendment rights, reports The Intercept...

RAMALLAH - The United Nations and the Palestinian Authority appealed on Monday for $350 million in aid for Palestinians next year, saying much more was needed but they had to be realistic after a year of funding cuts. The 2019 Humanitarian Response Plan f...

KUWAIT, Dec 17 (KUNA) -- National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanim sent Monday cables of congratulations to the chairman of Bhutan's National Council Tashi Dorji and the Speaker of Bhutan's National Assembly Jigme Zangpo on the occasion of t...

High Court approved Israeli government's request for a six-month delay to plan that would have stripped Chief Rabbinate of its power...

How international journalists found themselves in the centre of a bloody conflict they were determined to cover....

Katowice, Dec. 17 (BNA): The Kingdom of Bahrain, represented by the Supreme Council for Environment, participated in the high profile ministerial meeting for the UN framework agreement on climate change (COP24) which is held in Katowice, Poland, until Dec...

LONDON -- Police have spoken to three Chelsea fans after receiving reports of anti-Semitic chanting on a train following the team's Premier League match at Brighton. The incident took place on Sunday, three days after Chelsea issued a harsh condemnati...

Thanks youNewsdeskDIWAN-LD KUWAIT-CROWN PRINCEHis Highness Crown Prince meets Kuwaiti Amb. in NigeriaKUWAIT, Dec 17 (KUNA) -- His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received newly appointed Kuwaiti ambassador in Nigeria Abdu...

US authorities say nearly 3,000 people have now crossed in illegally and are being held in custody....

Tehran, Dec 17, IRNA The following headlines appeared in the English-language newspapers in the Iranian capital on Monday:...

Iraqi religious leaders have laid the cornerstone to rebuild Mosul's landmark Al-Nouri Grand Mosque, which was blown up in the battle with Daesh (ISIS) militants in 2017....

KUWAIT, Dec 17 (KUNA) -- Kuwait's stock exchange, known as Boursa Kuwait, ended Monday's trading with the benchmark index gaining 2.9 points to reach 5162.5 points, an increase of 0.6 percent. The All Share trade volume hit 97.7 million shares con...

Almost 200 nations, including the world's top greenhouse gas producers, China and the United States, have adopted a set of rules meant to breathe life into the 2015 Paris climate accord by setting out how countries should report their emissions and ef...

KUWAIT, Dec 17 (KUNA) -- His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received the new Nigerian Ambassador to Kuwait at Bayan Palace on Monday, with Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah atte...

Tehran (ISNA) Iranian film "Life without Life" directed by Kaveh Moeinfar won two awards at the 4th Bloodstained Indie Film Festival in Japan....

Asian equities were broadly higher on Monday. European markets fell on Monday despite optimism in Asia. US index futures were indicated flat in the earliest hours of today's pre-open session and then slowly fell as the opening bell approached....

Japanese police were investigating Monday the cause of a powerful blast that ripped through a restaurant in the country's north overnight, injuring 42 people and damaging surrounding buildings....

Russia denies it is at war with in eastern Ukraine, but says its regime 'has all the characteristics of being Nazis and neo-Nazi'...

Israeli engineers on Monday added the final element to a spacecraft destined for the moon - a digital time capsule - and said they aimed to land the craft early next year, somewhere between the landing sites of Apollo 15 and 17. It will be the first missi...

TEHRAN, Dec. 17 (MNA) The incident of the city of Strasbourg in France was a very primitive scenario for facing the deep social and political crisis that the Macron government is facing....

TEHRAN, Dec. 17 (MNA) Ismail Haniya, the senior political leader of Hamas, will soon embark on an Asian and African tour to discuss Palestinian developments with leaders of different countries....

Netanyahu visits IAI: ' We develop weapons systems with special capabilities that no other country has.'...

A powerful bomb exploded outside private Greek television station Skai, causing extensive damage but no injuries....

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - A new footage was released by Yemeni Al-Masirah TV channel shows Ansarullah troops attacking Saudi forces' positions making several panic-stricken kingdom soldiers run away from their lines near the border after receiving heavy fire ...

Saudi consumers in recent days launched a boycott campaign of Turkish products to protest against what they called ldquo;Ankararsquo;s position on...

Tesfebarhan Tesfasion breaks silence, tells police he killed 13-year-old Sylvana Tsegai to get back at her mother, report saysTesfebarhan Tesfasion breaks silence, tells police he killed 13-year-old Sylvana Tsegai to get back at her mother, report says...

From border protests to flaming kite attacks to airstrikes on Gaza, 2018 saw another year in a cycle of violence that made headlines around the world and shows no signs of stopping...

An Israeli court has sentenced a Palestinian teenage boy to 35 years in jail over an alleged stabbing attack....

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov commented in a Moscow radio interview on Monday: "As for Pompeo, you know, I have The post Lavrov: I feel that Pompeo no longer runs US foreign policy appeared first on DEBKAfile ....

Mohammad Khabali started to retrace his steps. Security camera footage shows three soldiers moving ahead, to within 80 meters of him. Suddenly two shots are heard. The mentally disabled young man collapses, dead...

Binyamin Netanyahu, prime minister and defense minister, commented during a tour of Israel's Aerospace Industries on Monday, that the missiles The post Netanyahu: Missiles produced here can reach any point in the region appeared first on DEBKAfile ....

Study finds Beijing's 'no-questions-asked' policy on sales of military UAVs has helped alter how regional players, including Iran, use air powerStudy finds Beijing's 'no-questions-asked' policy on sales of military UAVs has helped ...

Jewish Home faction holds its weekly meeting at Givat Asaf, where two IDF soldiers were murdered Thursday....

Head of the Beit El Council announced that the residents of the town will prevent the opening of the entry and exit checkpoint from Ramallah...