In Lebanon, deposits of a fuel substance appeared on the coast in beaches in the country's south, detected at first by people taking a stroll. Most of what appeared to be tar deposits landed on the coast of Tyre. The management of Tyre's coast nature reserve said the spill could...

Anis Naccache, a former pro-Palestinian militant who participated in the 1975 kidnapping of oil ministers in Vienna, died Monday after battling COVID-19, a Palestinian official and Lebanese media said. He was 69. Naccache, a Lebanese citizen, participated in attacks around the world but...

The belly of the Emirates plane that touched down in Dubai early Sunday from Brussels was stuffed with precious cargo: tens of thousands of doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The arrival was part of an effort by the Middle East's biggest airline to pivot from shuttling people to...

Turkish judicial authorities remanded four terror suspects in custody on Monday. Turkey’s border forces in the southern Hatay province had captured the suspects who were trying to illegally enter Turkey from Syria. They were later produced before a court. The suspects, identified as...

Iran must refrain from any provocation as Washington steps up efforts to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran, the head of US forces in the Middle East told AFP. "I would think this would be a good time for everybody to behave soberly and cautiously, and see what happens," General...

Israel and Egypt's energy ministers agreed Sunday to build a gas pipeline from the offshore eastern Mediterranean Leviathan field to Egypt, aimed at boosting exports to Europe, an Israeli source said. Yuval Steinitz and his Egyptian counterpart Tarek El Molla "agreed on the construction of...

The Syrian pound sank to a new record low on Sunday with a scramble for dollars in a country hit by sanctions and facing a severe foreign currency crunch, dealers and bankers said. Traders said it cost as much as 3,450 Syrian pounds to buy 1 dollar on the street on Sunday, more than 18%...

Some fled after the US-led invasion, others during sectarian bloodshed and more following militant attacks. Iraq's last two violent decades have hollowed out its Christian community which dates back two millennia. After first settling in the fertile plains of Nineveh province before heading...

A Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC) member, Muhammad al-Faki Suleiman, has urged new talks on normalization relations with Israel as a new Sudanese government is due to be formed. Suleiman told Anadolu Agency that the normalization agreement is "a foreign policy matter linked to our...

Israeli forces rounded up 20 Palestinians in overnight raids across the occupied West Bank, according to a Palestinian NGO on Monday. “Twenty Palestinians were detained by the Israeli military last night,” Amani Sarhana, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Prisoner Society, told Anadolu...

Forget about oil and arms. Coronavirus vaccines are emerging as the newest currency of choice in the Middle East. Israel’s reopening of its economy, combined with a murky prisoner swap with Syria and the arrival of a batch of vaccines in the Gaza Strip, have all underscored how those with...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s president says mutual interests with the United States outweigh their differences and has called for more cooperation with President Joe Biden's new U.S. administration. In a video message late Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan acknowledged that...

LONDON (AP) — The British government declared Sunday that every adult in the country should get a first coronavirus vaccine shot by July 31, at least a month earlier than its previous target, as it prepared to set out a “cautious” plan to ease the U.K.'s lockdown. The previous aim was...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog met Sunday with Iranian officials in a bid to preserve his inspectors' ability to monitor Tehran's atomic program, even as authorities said they planned to cut off surveillance cameras at those sites. Rafael Grossi's...

The white paint has not yet dried, but as Sukhdeep Singh walks through the house where he used to live in the Austrian town of Baden, he is already picturing the refugees who -- thanks to him -- will soon be calling it home. It was where he himself lived after he left his native Punjab...

The head of the UN nuclear watchdog met Iran's atomic energy chief in Tehran Sunday, hours before a deadline set by the Islamic republic to limit inspections by the agency if US sanctions are not lifted. The visit comes amid stepped-up efforts between US President Joe Biden's...

Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka said she felt comfortable being a role model for the next generation after her fourth Grand Slam victory solidified her position at the forefront of a new era for tennis. But the Japanese star, a four-time major-winner at the age of just 23, insisted...

At least six people were wounded in a new car bomb attack rocking the opposition areas near the Turkish border, local activists said Saturday.   The blast of Sajo village near Azaz town has followed  a series of attacks by powerful Kurdish YPG militia on Turkish-held areas in...

Novak Djokovic lost his first career Grand Slam final at the U.S. Open. Then he won his second, which came at the Australian Open. And look where he is now, more than a dozen years later: One victory from a ninth championship at Melbourne Park and his 18th major title overall, which would...

MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court on Saturday rejected Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s appeal of his prison sentence, even as the country faced an order from a top European rights court to free the Kremlin’s most prominent foe. A few hours later, a judge in a separate case ordered...