Middle East Headlines

The first group of UAE travelers honked and cheered their way into Abu Dhabi from Dubai at midnight Sunday after the UAE capital canceled COVID-19 testing...

The family of one of the nine men executed by the Iran-backed Houthi militia on Saturday has shared their son's final letter in which he said reiterated...

The execution of nine civilians in Yemen, including a 17-year-old minor, at the hands of the Iran-backed Houthis should be considered a terrorist crime,...

Police vastly outnumbered protesters around the US Capitol on Saturday at a sparsely attended rally by supporters of the people who breached the building...

The new head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran has said he wants to speed up the conversion of the country's Arak heavy water reactor into a...

The United Arab Emirates will give favorable treatment to a locally-owned conglomerate after it pledged on Saturday to hire thousands of citizens, days...

Firefighters battling to protect the world's biggest tree from wildfires ravaging the parched United States said Friday they are optimistic it can be saved...

Lebanese authorities have seized 20 tons of ammonium nitrate -- the same chemical behind a deadly explosion last year at Beirut's port -- in the eastern...

The Biden administration worked Saturday on plans to send many of the thousands of Haitian immigrants who have gathered in a Texas border city back to...

Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) is set to participate in Saudi Arabia's Riyadh Season Cup in January 2022, Saudi Press Agency SPA reported on Friday.For the...

British officials have identified a single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease.The Animal and Plant Health...

The chief minister of Punjab, an Indian state on its northwest border with Pakistan, resigned on Saturday, deepening a crisis within the main opposition...

Saudi Arabia recorded 68 new coronavirus infections, 77 recoveries and five virus-related deaths in 24 hours, the Kingdom's health ministry reported on...

Malaysia on Saturday expressed concerns that Australia's plan to build nuclear-powered submarines under a new pact with Britain and the United States could...

The United Arab Emirates diagnosed 471 new COVID-19 cases, 604 recoveries and two virus-related deaths in 24 hours, the National Emergency Crisis and...

Several hundred demonstrators gathered in Tunis on Saturday to protest against Tunisian President Kais Saied's seizure of governing powers in July, which...

Thousands of hunters marched in France on Saturday to defend "rural values" and traditional bird hunting which the country's top administrative court has...

The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts comprising the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission were due to splash down in the Atlantic off Florida on Saturday,...

Iran will not allow ISIS to establish a presence on the country's border with Afghanistan, President Ebrahim Raisi warned on SaturdayWe will not allow...

Work to shore up the Notre-Dame de Paris has been finished, allowing restoration to start at the cathedral two years after a fire destroyed the attic and...

While the exact length of long-COVID is unknown, a new study has found that children who contract the virus will rarely experience after-effects lasting...

A bell was inaugurated at a church in Mosul on Saturday to the cheers of Iraqi Christians, seven years after ISIS overran the northern city.Dozens of...

At least two people were killed and 19 more were wounded in separate explosions in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Saturday, according to a health...

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on Saturday that authorities had executed nine menwho were convicted of involvement in the 2018 killing of Saleh...

Abu Dhabi's Emergency, Crisis and Disasters Committee announced new rules for home quarantine for international travelers and those who come into contact...

Australia's police arrested 235 people in Melbourne and 32 in Sydney on Saturday at unsanctioned anti-lockdown rallies and several police officers were...

Abu Dhabi has announced that it will remove the requirement to get tested for COVID-19 before entering the emirate starting September 19, Emirates News...

China announced naval and aerial military exercises were conducted in areas southwest of Taiwan Friday, the second time in a month.For the latest headlines...

Life-sized carvings of camels and horses hewn into rock faces in Saudi Arabia could be around 7,000 years old, according to new research that suggests they...

Japanese former foreign minister Fumio Kishida, a key contender to become prime minister, said on Saturday he would work to distribute COVID-19 medications...

Robert Durst's long, bizarre and deadly run from the law ended when a Los Angeles County jury convicted him in the murder of his best friend more than 20...

The Pentagon has retreated from its defense of a drone strike that killed multiple civilians in Afghanistan last month, announcing that a review revealed...

Police in Florida said they are working with the FBI to find 23-year-old Brian Laundrie, whose girlfriend disappeared during a cross-country trek in a...

A small earthquake shook the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area Friday night, but there weren't any immediate reports of major damage or injuries.The...

Newly formed Tropical Storm Odette slogged off the mid-Atlantic coast late Friday and was expected to weaken Saturday night as it approaches eastern Canada...

The UN Security Council held emergency consultations Friday on Somalia's worsening political crisis, which could threaten long-delayed national elections...

France recalled its ambassadors to the US and Australia on Friday, days after a deal was struck between the latter two countries, blindsiding Paris and...

The US military Friday admitted that the Aug. 29 drone strike in Kabul did not kill any terrorists and called the strike a "tragic mistake."The strike...

The man the US and its allies hoped would be a moderate voice in Afghanistan's Taliban government has been sidelined after a dramatic shootout in the...

Police warned of threats of violence at a planned Saturday rally at the US Capitol by Donald Trump supporters, and the National Guard put 100 troops on...

The UK government Friday relaxed pandemic restrictions on travel into England, overhauling its complicated "traffic light" watchlist with a simpler regime...

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Iranian fuel shipments imported by the Hezbollah movement constitute a breach of Lebanon's sovereignty, according...

Top officials from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates met in the Red Sea Friday, a Saudi official said.Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,...

The third chartered flight bringing civilians from Afghanistan to Qatar since US forces withdrew last month took off on Friday with around 170 passengers...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has no plans to meet with his new Iranian counterpart next week at the annual gathering of world leaders at the United...

US President Joe Biden will sign an executive order Friday allowing for sanctions against the warring parties in Ethiopia's Tigray region if they fail to...

The World Health Organization's director general on Friday expressed deep concern about the impact of Lebanon's economic meltdown and multiple crises on...

The UN ambassador representing Afghanistan's ousted government has asked to remain in the country's seat at the world body in New York, a UN spokesperson...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will visit Russia later this month for talks with President Vladimir Putin about the violence in northwestern Syria, where...

Iran joined a rapidly expanding central Asian security body led by Russia and China on Friday, calling on the countries in the Shanghai Cooperation...