Middle East Headlines

Taiwan reiterated it won't succumb to pressure from China after days of military drills in the air and seas surrounding the island, with hostilities set to...

When Israeli rockets slammed into her neighborhood in a crowded refugee camp in the Gaza strip on Saturday night, 9-year-old Leen Matar said she was so...

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyed called on the international community to help stop Israel's offensive while holding up photos of...

Renault SA Chief Executive Officer Luca de Meo said the uptake of the new Megane E-Tech EV model shows the French carmaker is on the right track with its...

Police on Sunday detained dozens of people in Indian-controlled Kashmir as they dispersed Shia Muslims who attempted to participate in processions marking...

An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced four to life in prison over an attack on Baghdad airport early this year that damaged two empty civilian planes on the...

Gaza's top hospital director warned Sunday that medics are facing multiple crises amid deadly violence between Palestinian militants and Israel, with drugs...

Ukrainian officials said Russian forces shelled the area around Europe's largest nuclear plant for a second day, hours after the head of the UN's atomic...

Bangladesh on Sunday sought cooperation from China to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar during a visit by Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who promised...

Ending his most recent COVID-19 isolation, President Joe Biden on Sunday left the White House for the first time since becoming infected with the...

Egyptian mediators have proposed a Gaza truce that would take effect at 10 p.m. (1900 GMT) on Sunday, an Egyptian security source said, adding that Israel...

Amnesty International apologized on Sunday for "distress and anger" caused by a report accusing Ukraine of endangering civilians which infuriated President...

Pope Francis on Sunday welcomed the departure from Ukrainian Black Sea ports of the first ships carrying grain previously blockaded by Russia, saying the...

More than 30 people fled a Lebanon detention center at dawn on Sunday, security forces said, after sawing their way through a window, according to a...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Sunday for a stronger international response to what he described as Russian "nuclear terror" after...

Furniture and home goods e-commerce platform Homzmart has closed one of the past year's biggest funding rounds for a Middle Eastern and North Africa...

The Omani government posted a budget surplus of 784 million rials ($2.04 billion) at the end of the first half of 2022, Oman's state news agency reported...

The Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) has begun exporting petroleum coke and diesel products from its Clean Fuels project, the state-run...

Four ships carrying Ukrainian foodstuffs sailed from Ukrainian Black Sea ports on Sunday as part of a deal to unblock the country's sea exports, Ukrainian...

Syria's internal commerce ministry has announced a petrol price hike of around 130 percent in the war-torn country facing fuel shortages and extended power...

Chinese and Taiwanese warships played high-seas "cat and mouse" on Sunday ahead of the scheduled end of four days of unprecedented Chinese military...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in South Africa on Sunday to kick off a three-nation visit aimed at countering Russian influence on the...

Emergency workers are searching for stranded motorists and clearing roads inside California's Death Valley National Park after flash flooding triggered by...

Chinese President Xi Jinping may not have been able to stop Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, but he ordered his country's military to rehearse a much more...

At least 29 Palestinians, including six children and two senior commanders of the Islamic Jihad militant group, have been killed in the weekend surge of...

China's export growth unexpectedly picked up speed in July, offering an encouraging boost to the economy as its struggles to recover from a COVID-induced...

Global food prices dropped significantly in July, marking the fourth consecutive monthly decline since hitting record highs earlier this year from the war...

China has shortened the suspension time for inbound international flights on routes found to have COVID-19 cases starting on August 7.The country's...

The Islamic Jihad said it had fired rockets at Jerusalem from the Gaza Strip on Sunday, as the conflict between the Palestinian militants and Israel...

A major cyber attack is delaying response times on the NHS 111 telephone service in the UK that's used for medical emergencies, the Telegraph reported.The...

The United Arab Emirates has called for calm in the Gaza Strip amid ongoing violence, urging de-escalation to prevent civilian casualties.For the latest...

Tom Alberg, co-founder of the venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group and an early investor in Amazon.com Inc., has died. He was 82.Alberg died Friday,...

Twenty members of the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad were arrested overnight by Israeli security forces in the West Bank, the army announced on Sunday, as...

Police in the US state of New Mexico said Saturday they are investigating the murders of three Muslim men that they suspect are related to a fourth...

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement (PIJ) on Sunday confirmed the killing of one of its senior armed commanders in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza...

The US fully supported Israel's right to defend itself, the State Department said on Saturday, and it urged all sides to avoid further escalation as...

The first shipment of Ukrainian grain since Russia's invasion will no longer arrive in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli on Sunday as planned,...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Saturday that his government was working with Israel and the Palestinians to "restore peace and stability"...

Saudi Arabia condemned and denounced the Israeli attack carried out in the Gaza Strip, a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on...

Security forces in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region fired tear gas and rubber-coated bullets Saturday to disperse anti-government protesters and detained...

Elon Musk on Saturday challenged Twitter Inc Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal to a public debate about the percentage of bots on the social media...

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz on Saturday said Islamic Jihad leaders "will pay the price" as Israeli jets continued to hit targets in Gaza on...

President Joe Biden has tested negative for COVID-19 after testing positive with a breakthrough case for days, the White House physician said on...

Jagdeep Dhankhar was elected as India's vice president, giving the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi control of the South Asian nation's...

Five Turkish banks have adopted Russia's Mir payments system, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on his return from talks with President Vladimir...

Russian forces began an assault Saturday on two key cities in the eastern Donetsk region and kept up rocket and shelling attacks on other Ukrainian cities,...

Iran's foreign minister called on Saturday for a "realistic response" from the United States to Iranian proposals at indirect talks in Vienna aimed at...

The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said Saturday that the Palestinians are "not alone" in their fight against Israel as they faced a...

A second fuel storage tank near Cuba's supertanker port in Matanzas exploded on Saturday morning following a blaze which burned through the night after...

Parts of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant were "seriously damaged" by military strikes that forced one of its reactors to shut down, the plant's...