Egypt’s famed writer Nawal el-Saadawi, who died Sunday aged 89, spent a lifetime vexing politicians and clerics with her fight against the oppression of women and religious taboos. The author of over 55 books—as well as physician and psychiatrist—was briefly jailed by the late...

Saudi Arabia’s state-backed oil giant Aramco announced Sunday that its profits nearly halved in 2020 to $49 billion, a big drop that came as the coronavirus pandemic roiled global energy markets. Saudi Arabian Oil Co. released its annual financial results a year after the pandemic...

The Palestinian Health Ministry began administering the first doses of coronavirus vaccines it received from the global COVAX initiative to health care workers and older residents in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Sunday. The World Health Organization and its partners running the...

At least seven civilians were killed after more than six rockets launched by Syrian regime forces hit a hospital in Syria’s Aleppo on Sunday, a war monitor said. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the hospital is located in the town of Atarib, reports dpa news...