A 6.4-magnitude earthquake that rattled Iran on Sunday has led to power outages in some parts of next-door Iraq, the Iraqi Electricity Ministry has reported. According to a Wednesday statement released by the ministry, local electricity production was affected after Sunday’s quake ruptured a...

Israel’s Supreme Court has approved the ownership of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) of 522 dunums (1,000 square meters) of Palestinian land near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to Israeli media on Wednesday.  Israeli newspaper Hayom said court judges rejected an appeal...

Saudi Arabia pledged $50 million in aid Wednesday to the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), which has been hit by the withdrawal of all U.S. funding. The announcement was made at a news conference in Riyadh by the director of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief...

Iran's nuclear chief said Tuesday he was warning the European Union's top diplomat that Tehran's patience was running out on the bloc's pledges to keep up oil trade despite U.S. sanctions. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, said the Islamic Republic could...

Prominent Shia cleric and politician Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of Iraq’s Sairoon movement, has called on Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi to finalize his cabinet lineup.  In a Tuesday statement released on social media, al-Sadr said Iraq should not be “governed from overseas” and...

The head of Iran's judicial authority Monday warned restive workers against creating "disorder," while calling on the government to address their problems. Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani spoke amid efforts to resolve a weeks-long strike at a major sugar factory in western Iran and popular...

Iraq's parliament will vote in its next session scheduled Tuesday on whether to approve the remaining eight candidates for Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi's cabinet, the speaker's office said Monday. Lawmakers last month only confirmed 14 out of the 22 ministers Abdul Mahdi initially...

Israeli police forces rounded up 32 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out in East Jerusalem, according to a police statement on Monday.  In a statement, police said the individuals have been arrested for “suspicion of recruitment and serving in the Palestinian security...

Iranian authorities said Monday that the number of injured in the magnitude 6.3 earthquake in western Iran the previous night has risen to 716. No fatalities were reported from the temblor. According to Iran's state television, most of the injured were immediately released from...

A magnitude-6.4 temblor rocked western Iran near its border with Iraq, state media reported on Sunday. The epicenter of the quake was western Kermanshah province, Iran's state television said. There were no immediate reports of causalities or damage. The shake was also...

The death toll from flash floods in northern Iraq has climbed to 18, according to Iraqi Health Ministry on Sunday. In a statement, the ministry said the number of wounded people has reached 180. Meanwhile, local media reported that as many as 300 homes have been badly damaged by...

Egypt and Sudan, which face cross-border threats from militias operating in Libya, agreed Sunday to set up joint military patrols on their border, Sudan's chief of staff said following talks between the countries' defence ministers. Libya, with which Egypt and Sudan have a joint border,...

An Egyptian court Sunday upheld death sentences for nine people convicted of the murder of a top prosecutor in a car bombing three years ago, a judiciary source said. Hisham Barakat was killed in June 2015 when a bomb struck his convoy in Cairo after jihadist calls for attacks on the...

The partial reopening of Baghdad's high-security Green Zone to through traffic, planned for Sunday, has been postponed for several days, a government official said. The enclave has been home to Iraq's parliament, government offices, United Nations agencies and western embassies since...

Israeli police arrested the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem for the second time in as many months, a spokesman said Sunday, after reports of an investigation related to a land sale. Adnan Gheith was arrested in east Jerusalem overnight, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said in a...

Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh on Saturday called for building a regional alliance to counter challenges facing the Palestinian cause.   "The Israeli occupation is the common enemy of the Islamic nation and the responsibility of the nation is to besiege the enemy and expose...

The Arab League has strongly condemned a decision by Israeli authorities to bar the minister and governor of Jerusalem from travel.  “The travel ban amounts to a crime that is only being committed by occupation authorities,” Said Abu Ali, Assistant Secretary-General of the Arab League,...

Iran “strongly rejected” Friday U.S. accusations that it has a chemical weapons program and accused Washington of breaching its own commitments to the international watchdog. The U.S. allegations are the latest salvo against Iran from the administration of President Donald Trump, who earlier...

Israel's army censor warned Thursday against publishing photos released earlier in the day by Hamas, of eight people it claimed were part of a recent Israeli special forces operation in the Gaza Strip that turned deadly. Hamas’ armed wing called for information on the people in the...

The United States accused Iran Thursday of failing to declare a toxic arms program to the global chemical warfare watchdog, in breach of international agreements. U.S. envoy Kenneth Ward told the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague that Tehran was...