Middle East Headlines

The governor of the Central Bank of Iran says some of Iranian funds locked up in foreign bank accounts have been released and further freeing is in the pipeline....

Israel is now banning groups that call the regime an apartheid entity from lecturing at schools....

Iran's permanent mission to the United Nations slams the arrest of US-based independent political scientist Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi by FBI agents on baseless charges....

Outgoing US President Donald Trump imposes new sanctions on a Russian pipe-laying vessel involved in the Moscow-led Nord Stream 2 multinational gas pipeline project on his last day in office....

The drills by the Iranian Army's Ground Force has continued, with Chinook choppers taking divers to Makran coast waters to attack hypothetical enemies....

A coronavirus vaccine project being jointly pursued by Iran and Cuba enters phase II of its clinical trials, with no side effects having been reported so far....

Iran's president says Trump registered state terrorism on America's official record by openly accepting responsibility for the assassination of General Soleimani....

US President Donald Trump has granted clemency to former White House aide Steve Bannon....

Sudan's transitional government deploys military units to the conflict-ridden Darfur region in an attempt to help restore calm there following three days of tribal violence....

The spokesman for Yemen's Ansarullah movement says the blacklisting of the group means it has been successfully in standing against US interests....

Iran prevents Saudi Arabia and the UAE from participating in the Conference on Disarmament over the regimes' war crimes against Yemen....

Bayer Leverkusen have returned to winning ways in the German Bundesliga, after earning a 2-1 crucial victory over Borussia Dortmund at home....

US President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for the US's top intelligence position pledges to release an unclassified report on who directed the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi....

On the very last day of President Donald Trump's administration, a polarized United States remains on edge over the prospect of election-related violence....

Russia rejects calls from the West to release opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who has returned to the country following recuperation in Germany from alleged poisoning....

Joe Biden is working on behalf of the white elite to prevent a revolt by the working class, political commentator Wilmer Leon has said....

Berlin voices regret at the US' plan to impose sanctions on a Russian vessel involved in construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany....

The Pentagon has deployed active-duty US troops skilled in handling chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological and explosive weapons for Joe Biden's inauguration....

Venezuela is to indict former opposition congressmen who plotted with the US in robbing Venezuela's oil assets abroad....

2021 has so far been miserable for millions of business people and their staff across the 27-country European Union. Lots of outlets are being forced to close their doors to prevent the spread of COVID-19 with only essential retailers allowed to remain op...

With only one way out of the pandemic, no building in Britain is being overlooked in a bid to vaccinate the nation. This church in North West England the latest experiencing its own conversion from church to vaccination center, one of ten opening this wee...

The Iranian nation is never intimidated by such shows of force as overflights of US B-52H bomber aircraft, says Iran's foreign minister. Mohammad Javad Zarif posted a tweet on Sunday hours after the US Central Command announced a "presence patrol&...

Several Iraqi forces have apparently been killed in airstrikes against the positions of the Arab country's military units in Jurf al-Sakhar, Babil province, local sources and media reports said....

US President Donald Trump has installed a former GOP operative and loyalist as the top lawyer at the National Security Agency (NSA)....

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has fired a final volley at China as he sinks into oblivion, says Professor Dennis Etler....

Human Rights Watch says Israel must provide coronavirus vaccines to Palestinians....

An official source at Syria's Foreign and Expatriates Ministry vehemently rejects untrue reports about convening any SyrianIsraeli meetings....

Three ironic cartoons revealing prejudice and hypocrisy on the issue of democracy and US "double standards" were issued by China Global Television Network (CGTN)....

The Iranian foreign minister says the Islamic Republic seeks neither tension nor war....

A majority of Americans have blamed US President Donald Trump for inciting his loyalists for violence at the Capitol earlier this month, according to a new poll....

The Iranian Parliament has hosted an international webinar of parliaments that support the Palestinian cause....

'Setting a record in agility and the ability to respond quickly and decisively to any threat is one of the predicted goals of this exercise,' says a commander....

To the Yemenis, the real terrorists are the ones who have created insecurity in the region with the help of their allies....

'Israel should provide COVID-19 vaccines to the more than 4.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,' HRW said....

With almost 100,000 children under the age of five at risk of dying, Yemen slides into a deeply dire situation....

Iran's ambassador to the United Nations says the US should stop its hostility toward Tehran and recognize the Islamic Republic as a regional power....

Manchester City have steamed into 2nd place in the Premier League following a 4-0 thrashing of Crystal Palace at the Etihad Stadium....

The Armenian Patriarch Nourhan Manougian arrived at the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Monday....

A second major fire blazed through the Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh on Monday....

Britain's tightened border controls came into effect on Monday (January 18) morning to prevent new strains of COVID-19 coming into the country....

Washington has designated the Houthis as a 'terrorist' organisation....

Iran's parliament speaker says the US and Israel are playing out a scenario aimed at disintegrating Muslim countries in the region....

Turkish and Azerbaijani forces are set to launch joint military exercises....

Iran's senior military commander downplays the US's most recent bout of flying its bombers over the Persian Gulf....

China displays artefacts from an unmanned Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the Moon....

Russia's military says it is dispatching additional units of military police to Hasakah Province in northeastern Syria....

China warns US against "nasty" behavior over Taiwan, threatening to impose sanctions on American officials....

South Korea has moved its naval unit operating near the Strait of Hormuz from the waterway "to foster a positive mood" ahead of negotiations with Iran, Yonhap news agency reports....

Samsung's heir receives new 30-month prison term in bribery trial....

The speaker of Yemeni Shura Council has denounced the US designation of Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah movement as a terrorist group....