A huge fire raged in Beirut port on Thursday, AFP correspondents said, sparking alarm among Lebanese still reeling from a devastating dockside explosion that disfigured the capital last month. Thick black columns of smoke rose into the sky, as the army said the blaze had engulfed a...

 Coronavirus cases in the wider Middle East from Morocco to Pakistan have topped two million, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The caseload for the 21 countries has more than doubled since July 1, the UN agency said. Regional director Ahmed Mandhari warned that even...

Palestinian grape farmers are boasting a bumper crop this year, helped in part by coronavirus lockdowns that gave many of them more time to till their vines in the occupied West Bank. But the pandemic's economic ravages have also slashed sales of the fruit, depressing the hilly breadbasket...

Yemen's Houthis carried out an attack on an "important target" in the Saudi capital Riyadh using a ballistic missile and four drones, a spokesman for the Iran-aligned group said on Twitter Thursday.