Iran’s military kicked off a ground forces drill on Tuesday along the coast of the Gulf of Oman, state TV reported, the latest in a series of snap exercises that the country is holding amid escalating tensions over its nuclear program and Washington’s pressure campaign against Tehran....

Qatar has called for Gulf Arab countries to hold talks with Iran, the foreign minister said in an interview aired Tuesday, after Doha reconciled with its neighbours following a rift. Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, who has previously called for dialogue with Iran,...

 President Donald Trump began his final full day in the White House Tuesday with a long list of possible pardons to dish out before snubbing his successor Joe Biden's inauguration and leaving for Florida. On Wednesday at noon, Biden will be sworn in and the Trump presidency will end,...

The Palestinian Authority could receive Russia's main COVID-19 vaccine, known as Sputnik V, within days, a PA official said on Tuesday. The PA health ministry last week issued "emergency approval" for administering Sputnik in areas of the occupied West Bank where the Palestinians exercise...

Qatar Investment Authority is generating strong returns on a multi-billion dollar bet it made on distressed debt and highly rated bonds at the start of the COVID-19 crisis, two sources familiar with its move said. QIA, a sovereign wealth fund with assets of $300 billion, owns department...

TUNIS: Tunisia was rocked by a fourth night of street clashes between riot police and youths in mostly working class neighbourhoods, and there were calls on social media for more rallies on Tuesday. More than 600 people had been arrested by Monday over the disturbances in which teenagers...

The Lebanese pound ticked slightly higher against the dollar Tuesday, trading at LL8,850 on the black market

The head of Lebanon's main coronavirus hospital Tuesday called for the extension of the current total lockdown beyond Jan. 25

Rafif Zainia, Syrian IT engineer, has designed an application that enables companies to collect and analyze customer feedback from social networking sites. The app “Emocial” helps companies collect information, and measures customer satisfaction in order to develop their products...

Two Syrians have been charged in Germany for alleged links to a terrorist organization on suspicion they were involved in the killing of an army officer in their homeland in 2012, prosecutors said Monday. Khedr A.K. was charged with membership in a terrorist organization while Sami A.S....

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization chief on Monday lambasted drugmakers' profits and vaccine inequalities, saying it’s “not right” that younger, healthier adults in wealthy countries get vaccinated against COVID-19 before older people or health care workers in poorer countries and...

A lot of the characters are the same for President-elect Joe Biden but the scene is far starker as he reassembles a team of veteran negotiators to get back into the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. President Donald Trump worked to blow up the multinational deal to contain Iran’s nuclear program...

Russia's most prominent opposition figure has been arrested and detained for 30 days, after returning to Moscow for the first time since he was poisoned last year. Mr Navalny, 44, said a court ruling from a police station was a mockery, urging people to stage street protests. He was held...

The World Health Organization and Beijing could have acted faster when COVID-19 first surfaced in China, a group investigating the global response has concluded. In its second report, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response said that an evaluation of the “chronology of...

Israel’s education minister is banning groups that call Israel an “apartheid state” from lecturing at schools — a move that targets one of the country’s leading human rights groups after it began describing both Israel and its control of the Palestinian territories as a single “apartheid”...

The United States again flew B-52 bombers over the Middle East with Iran responding it should spend its military budget on healthcare for Americans rather than intimidation tactics. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Sunday the “presence patrols” were flown “as a key part of CENTCOM’s...

Heavy rains in Syria's Idlib province that started in the night and continued into the day have flooded 110 tents belonging to displaced civilians, affecting 50,000 people as of Monday. Civilians who fled attacks by the Bashar Assad regime and its backer Russia and now live in safe areas...

Russia will not "chase" US military out from Syria or engage in hostilities, but it does engage in a dialogue with Washington, trying to ensure compliance with certain rules, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday, commenting on the US sanctions against Syria, combined with the US...

The first direct flights since 2017 between Qatar and its former rivals Egypt and the UAE took to the skies on Monday, following the end of a regional crisis. Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) joined Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in cutting ties with Qatar in June 2017, accusing it of...

Counterterrorism operations crippled PKK's drug trafficking as nearly 11 tons of drugs belonging to the terrorist group were seized by the security forces in 2020. As terrorist activities in the region have diminished remarkably, the security forces had the opportunity to focus more on other...