Ten days after the deadly Beirut explosion, rescue workers recovered the remains of firefighters killed while battling the initial blaze, as authorities appointed a well-respected judge to lead the investigation. Beirut, brought to its knees by the cataclysmic explosion, has seen the...

Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza rallied Friday against Israel's agreement with the United Arab Emirates. Under the agreement brokered by US President Donald Trump, Israel and the UAE will normalise diplomatic ties, brought together by a confluence of interests against Iran. A...

Turkish bombardment killed three Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq, a local official said Friday, as Baghdad seeks to rally support to end Ankara's offensive on its soil. Turkey launched a cross-border ground and air operation in mid-June against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels in the...

President Tayyip Erdogan warned Greece Friday that Turkey will retaliate against any attack on its survey vessel Oruc Reis in the eastern Mediterranean in an escalating row between the NATO allies over gas and oil exploration in the region. Turkey and Greece are vehemently at odds over...

 Israel has not abandoned its plan to annex the West Bank despite Thursday's agreement to sign a peace deal with the United Arab Emirates, the US Ambassador to Israel said. "It's not off the table, it's just something that will be deferred until we give peace every single chance,"...

The UN Security Council started voting Thursday evening on a US resolution that would indefinitely extend the UN arms embargo on Iran, a measure that faces strong opposition from Russia and China and is almost certain to be defeated. The results of the email voting because of the COVID-19...

Fresh Israeli air strikes hit Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday, Israel's army said, as a week of hostilities between the Jewish State and the Palestinian enclave raged on. Israel says the strikes, and other measures including halting the territory's fuel supply, are in retaliation...

White House advisor Jared Kushner predicted a "very good chance" of Israel and another Arab country announcing a peace deal within the next three months after Thursday's announcement of normalization between Israel and the UAE. "I do think there's a very good chance," Kushner, who is...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi Thursday welcomed a deal between the United Arab Emirates and Israel on normalizing ties that includes an Israeli agreement to halt further annexation of Palestinian lands. "I followed with interest and appreciation the joint statement between the...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Thursday warned of a "heavy price" if a Turkish vessel searching for oil and gas in disputed Mediterranean waters was attacked and hinted that one incident had already occurred. Existing tensions between Turkey and Greece escalated when Ankara this...

Iraq has urged its Arab allies to help persuade Turkey to withdraw its troops from Iraqi territory, where they have been raiding Kurdish militant positions, the foreign ministry said Thursday. Its comments come two days after a Turkish drone strike killed two high-ranking Iraqi officers in...

 A prominent rights group Thursday accused Yemen's Houthi rebels and rival Saudi border guards of killing several dozen Ethiopian migrants in an incident at the border earlier this year. The statement from New York-based Human Rights Watch quoted Ethiopian migrants who said Houthi...

US President Donald Trump, in a surprise announcement, said Thursday that Israel and the United Arab Emirates had reached a peace agreement. The normalization of relations between the UAE and Israel is a "HUGE breakthrough" Trump tweeted, calling it a "Historic Peace Agreement between our...

A senior leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood died Thursday in an Egyptian prison where he was serving multiple sentences including on terror-related charges, his lawyer said. Essam al-Erian, 66, was arrested in 2013 following the army's ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi on...

Turkey's president on Thursday blamed Greece and the Greek Cypriot administration for increasing tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean by excluding Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). "It's not Turkey that is increasing tensions in the Mediterranean, but rather the...

Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli is readying its harbor to temporarily replace that of Beirut, which was leveled in last week's massive explosion, officials said Thursday. Tripoli port's capacity is smaller than the capital's, through which the vast majority of Lebanon's food and...

Israel Thursday said it will stop shipments of fuel into Gaza in response to Palestinians in the enclave launching incendiary balloons that have torched tracts of farmland on the Israeli frontier. Palestinians in Islamist Hamas-ruled Gaza in recent days have launched dozens of helium...

Iranian forces boarded a tanker in international waters, using a helicopter and two ships to take over the vessel, the US Central Command said in a tweet on Wednesday. "Today in international waters, Iranian forces, including two ships and an Iranian "Sea King" helicopter, overtook and...

Turkey on Wednesday confirmed 1,212 new cases of the coronavirus bringing the tally to 244,392, according to Health Minister Fahrettin Koca. The country also confirmed 934 more recoveries, pushing the total to 227,089, said Koca. Meanwhile, 18 more people lost their lives to the virus...

Lebanon may be in line for $298 million in emergency aid after the Beirut port blast, but the more than $30 billion that some estimate it may need to rebuild its shattered economy will not be forthcoming without reform. Such change could be stalled by the resignation of Lebanon's...