The family of a prominent Lebanese publisher and harsh critic of the Shiite militant Hezbollah group who was shot dead said Friday they want a forensic doctor they hired to determine whether he was tortured before he was killed. The development came amid much speculation that the...

President Joe Biden's announcement that the U.S. will end its support of a Saudi-led coalition's yearslong war against Yemen's Houthi rebels likely will increase pressure on the kingdom to end its campaign there. However, reaching an enduring peace for the Arab world's poorest country still...

Yasmina El Habbal long dreamed of giving birth to a daughter and planned to name her Ghalia, Arabic for "precious." She never got married, and never did. But in an Egyptian orphanage at age 40, she finally found her Ghalia: a fussy baby girl with large brown eyes who promptly fell asleep in...

At a crucial moment in the fragile peace process, the raging Afghan conflict has entered a critical phase with a devastating string of targeted assassinations of government officials, and religious, political and civil figures, analysts said. As the Afghan government and Taliban negotiators...

Lebanon should extend its full lockdown and 24-hour curfew another week as numbers of new COVID-19 cases remain "stubbornly high", Dr. Firass Abiad said Friday.

Iran's president Thursday applauded a ruling by the International Court of Justice that it can hear Iran’s case against the U.S. seeking to end sanctions, calling it a “big victory" for the Islamic Republic. A report by state-run IRNA news agency said President Hassan Rouhani...

An alliance of Arab parties in Israel finalized its breakup on Thursday, setting up the possibility that a small Islamist party could hold the key to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remaining in office and avoiding prosecution on corruption charges. The Joint List, an alliance of four...

An Iranian official identified as an undercover agent was convicted Thursday of masterminding a thwarted bomb attack against an exiled Iranian opposition group in France in 2018 and sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Belgian court, which rejected his claim of diplomatic immunity....

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has provided a grant of $14 million to South Sudan for boosting agriculture and reduce the nation's dependence on oil. During the MoU signing ceremony on Wednesday, AfDB representative Benedict Sorie Kanu said the grant will support the Agricultural...

Days after a massive explosion ripped through Beirut’s port and disfigured the Lebanese capital, family members of some of the 211 people killed in the blast demanded an international probe. It was a swift vote of no confidence in the authorities’ ability to investigate one of the largest...

Gulf Arab states on Thursday launched new restrictions over fears of the coronavirus resurging across their countries. With populations including largely young and healthy foreign laborers, many Gulf countries have avoided the higher death tolls seen elsewhere around the world. However,...

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi Wednesday called on rival Lebanese leaders to resolve their differences and accelerate the formation of an “independent” government capable of confronting challenges that are threatening the crises-ridden country’s stability.

Prominent Lebanese activist Lokman Slim was found dead in his car in south Lebanon on Thursday, security sources said.

The Taliban have been on a diplomatic blitz since peace talks with the Afghan government stalled in Qatar last month and the Biden administration said it plans to review a U.S.-Taliban agreement signed last February. The flurry of activity — including Taliban visits to Iran and Moscow,...

Anti-aircraft missiles were fired at an Israeli drone flying over southern Lebanon on Wednesday but did not make contact with the target, according to an Israeli military spokesman. Two Lebanese security sources told Reuters that Lebanon's Hezbollah had fired at the drone. One of the...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denounced student protesters as “terrorists and vowed to crackdown on demonstrations opposing the appointment of a government loyalist to head Istanbul’s most prestigious university. Students and faculty members of Bogazici University have spent...

Some 2,000 people have travelled from the Gaza Strip over the past two days as Egypt opened the Rafah crossing for the first time in 66 days. In addition to the 1,927 who left the enclave, 828 re-entered the Strip, while 79 were not permitted to travel by Egyptian authorities, the...

US President Joe Biden’s administration has pulled an aircraft carrier out of the Gulf in a move to potentially ease tensions with Iran, which had soared under former President Donald Trump. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group had sailed from...

The G7 group of world’s major economic powers and the EU on Wednesday released a joint statement to denounce the coup in Myanmar and called on the military to release all those “unjustly detained”. “We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom...

Due to fears of reprisal and violence, there have been no street protests in Myanmar against the military’s power grab over the past three days. However, people seem to have chosen civil disobedience as the way to express their opposition to Monday’s coup against a civilian administration...