Middle East Headlines

Mona Moukhala from Bourj Abu Haidar wishes she could buy new dresses for her young daughters for Eid al Fitr, the celebration marking the end of nearly 30 days of Ramadan for Muslims....

"Border Police battalions from Judea and Samaria will now be transferred to Lod immediately. We will restore law and order in Lod and all parts of the country," Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tweeted on Tuesday night....

Eighteen other residents were injured in the Israeli strike in Gaza, among them a woman and 10 children...

Hamas launched rockets, Israel struck back. Enter the TImes: "Israel Hits Gaza with Airstrikes as Hamas Increases Rocket Fire" Op-ed....

The complaint filed on behalf of more than 200 Indian workers alleges 'shocking violations' of US labour laws....

Gangs of Arab rioters roam the streets of Lod, setting a synagogue and dozens of vehicles on fire....

Hamas launched rockets, Israel struck back. Enter the TImes: "Israel Hits Gaza with Airstrikes as Hamas Increases Rocket Fire" Op-ed....

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Tuesday evening and the two agreed to immediately transfer Border Police brigades from Judea and Samaria to Lod. Read more...

Fiercely critical of Abraham Lincoln and at times racist, the newspaper's leader columns did not always get it right...

At least nine people, most of them children, were killed yesterday when a lone teenage gunman opened fire at a school in the central Russian city of Kazan, officials said....

US authorities have identified a relatively new gang of cyber criminals as being behind the ransomware attack which paralysed a key fuel pipeline....

The Philippines has detected its first two cases of a coronavirus variant first identified in India, its health ministry said yesterday, even as confirmed daily Covid-19 infections fell to a near eight-week low....

The White House yesterday announced a series of steps aimed at boosting US Covid-19 vaccination rates, including a partnership with ride-hailing services Uber and Lyft, as it seeks to achieve President Joe Biden's July 4 reopening deadline....

Qatar has stressed the importance of having a unified decision from all members of the Arab League to move actively on the international arena to support the Palestinian people and end Israeli aggression, a lot of which can be categorised as war crimes, a...

The designated authorities referred 388 people to the prosecution for violating the preventive and precautionary measures enforced by the country to contain the spread of Covid-19, the Ministry of Interior said on Tuesday....

In the Al-Jafeenah camp for internally displaced people outside the Yemeni city of Marib, Jamal al-Jaberi, forced to flee fighting near his home, is counting on the United States to help broker a peace deal and end the seven-year war....

The future of the Golden Globes was plunged into jeopardy as NBC cancelled its broadcast of next year's prestigious awards, while major Hollywood studios and stars such as Tom Cruise and Scarlett Johansson slammed the organisers' record on diversi...

The Msheireb Downtown Doha premises were lit up in red to show solidarity with Palestine. Image courtesy of Msheireb Properties Twitter page...

Colombia's three largest cities are bracing for an extended third peak in coronavirus cases and over-stretched intensive care units after nearly two weeks of anti-government protests, local authorities said....

British soldiers unjustifiably shot or used disproportionate force in the deaths of nine of the 10 innocent people killed in an 1971 incident in Belfast that sparked an upsurge of violence during Northern Ireland's 'Troubles', a judge-led inqu...

The head of the Arab League condemned yesterday deadly Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip as "indiscriminate and irresponsible" and said Israel had provoked an earlier increase in violence by its actions in Jerusalem....

The insidious virus is still raging across the world with all its ferocity.For a perspective, global cases are nearing 160mn with deaths exceeding 3.3mn. More than 1.31bn doses of vaccines have been given so far....

US manufacturers are stuck with hundreds of millions of unsold face masks due to low-priced imports, they say....

IDF aims to fully destroy terrorist ability to launch rockets at Israeli cities...

Hostilities between Hamas and Israel escalated on Tuesday, with no imminent end to the violence. Hamas leader said that Israel had "ignited fire in...

Hamas fired a barrage of rockets at Israel's economic hub Tel Aviv on Tuesday in retaliation for an Israeli strike that destroyed a 12-storey building in Gaza, as the foes trad......

Mansour Abbas in statement to the Arab public following two days of violence: We must prevent further escalation....

Rocks were thrown on Tuesday evening at a vehicle in Lod. Magen David Adom paramedics evacuated the driver, a 56-year-old man in serious condition, for treatment at Shamir-Assaf Harofeh Hospital....

Lebanon registered 20 more coronavirus deaths and 544 new cases over the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said Tuesday, as the country was set for a three-day lockdown over the Eid al-Fitr holiday....

Mansour Abbas calls for calm Ra'am chairman Mansour Abbas on Tuesday evening published a statement to the Arab public following two days of violence. "I am calling for calm. We must prevent further escalation that could claim human lives o...

Siren in Hof Ashkelon...

The IDF attacked many terrorist targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including about 100 launchers and a high-rise building used by Hamas...

Red Color siren sounded in Ashkelon...

The IDF attacked many terrorist targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including about 100 launchers and a high-rise building used by Hamas...

"A voice to lead a vision for future"; this is the theme for the 2021 world Nurses Day. Iran has commemorated the international occasion as this year like the previous year the occasion is marked with a new awareness among the public and officials...

Defense Minister Benny Gantz delivered a joint statement with PM Netanyahu, IDF Chief-of-Staff,and Shin-Bet head, Nadav Argaman....

Defense Minister Benny Gantz delivered a joint statement with PM Netanyahu, IDF Chief-of-Staff,and Shin-Bet head, Nadav Argaman....

Caught in a broad tech selloff, Wood's Ark Innovation exchange traded fund has fallen for nine of the past 10 sessions....

Sirens in Sderot and Ibim...