Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo has reached a new milestone in his career this week, 750 goals for club and nation. Juventus forward Ronaldo netted one goal against Ukrainian opponents Dynamo Kyiv as the Italian club won Wednesday's UEFA Champions League match 3-0 in Turin....

Turkish military exports to Azerbaijan increased by a staggering 610 per cent over the course of 2020, according to data recently released amid the defeat of Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. The data released by the Turkey Exporters Union shows that the amount of Ankara's military...

Facebook on Thursday said it would remove posts containing false claims about the Covid-19 vaccine as it tries to manage the flow of disinformation on its platform. The social media giant regularly removes incorrect and potentially harmful information about the virus and has since October...

Syria’s health officials said on Thursday that 1056 students and teachers have been infected by coronavirus since the beginning of the education semester. Hatoon Al-Tawashi, the Director of School Health, said the infections were distributed between 500 students, and 556 for teachers,...

About 300 British troops have arrived in the troubled West African state of Mali at a time when the epicentre of the Islamic State group (IS) appears to have moved from the Middle East to Africa. In a three-year mission named Operation Newcombe they are joining a force of around 15,000 UN...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used his final NATO meeting this week to sharply criticise Turkey, saying its purchase of a Russian weapons system was "a gift" to Moscow, according to five diplomats and officials. At the confidential foreign ministers' video conference on Tuesday,...

Lebanon is on the verge of not being able to feed itself, a British minister warned on Thursday, as the country's financial crisis hikes poverty and inflation. James Cleverly, the Foreign Office minister for the Middle East, called it "a man-made problem which could have been prevented",...

Iran said its novel coronavirus caseload surpassed one million on Thursday, as the authorities consider easing restrictions in many parts of the Middle East's hardest hit country. The Islamic republic had recorded 49,348 Covid-19 deaths and 1,003,494 infections since announcing its first...

A Turkish soldier was killed in Turkish-controlled northern Syria on Thursday during clashes with Kurdish militia forces deemed "terrorists" by Ankara, the defence ministry tweeted. "One fellow heroic soldier fell martyr in clashes" as fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG)...

Famine-like conditions have re-appeared in parts of Yemen and almost half the population is experiencing high levels of food insecurity, new United Nations data showed on Thursday, with aid agencies warning time is running out to prevent mass starvation. Around 45% of Yemen’s population is...

 The United States on Thursday imposed fresh Iran-related sanctions, blacklisting an entity and an individual as Washington continues to ramp up pressure on Tehran during U.S. President Donald Trump’s final months in office. The U.S. Treasury Department in a statement said that it had...

Although Idlib should be peaceful due to a Russian-Turkish brokered ceasefire in March, the northwest Syrian province remains subject to almost daily assaults by regime artillery and Russian war planes. While the past months' bombardments have been less intense than in previous years, they...

Life in Lebanon has become so difficult for Syrian refugee Ahmad, he says he recently contemplated suicide. The 54-year-old father of three cleans shops at a mall in exchange for rent-free accommodation in a cramped room in the town of Daraya, southeast of Beirut. His daughters...

Pain breaks through the smile that Ameer al-Halbi tries to maintain while speaking with Middle East Eye. "At this point, I still don't know if I'm going to file a complaint. I need to rest, I'm exhausted." On 28 November, the Syrian photographer went to a rally against the...

As the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise across Europe, countries introduced plans to stem the spread of the virus. European Union, on the other hand, urged citizens to stay vigilant and cautious during winter, especially around the holiday season at the end of 2020. France...

Soon after the beating of Black music producer Michel Zecler, followed by violent police action to clear a migrant camp in Paris, the passage of a controversial global security bill by the lower chamber of French Parliament, giving more powers to police, has raised hackles among journalists and...

Iran will fully comply with a 2015 deal aimed at preventing it from developing nuclear weapons if both the United States and Europe honour their original commitments, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday. U.S. President Donald Trump quit the pact in 2018, saying it...

Hundreds of civil servants yesterday demonstrated in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, in the northern Kurdistan region of Iraq, demanding the government pay their delayed salaries, Anadolu news agency reported. Eyewitnesses said the employees have not received their salaries for two months and...

There is a good chance that the European Union and Britain could strike a Brexit trade deal within days, Ireland said on Thursday, as the two sides race to avoid a turbulent climax to the Brexit divorce in less than four weeks. The United Kingdom leaves the EU's orbit on Dec. 31, when a...

Turkey’s health minister has announced a vaccination plan starting with an experimental "inactivated vaccine" later this month to combat the COVID-19 pandemic amid a surge in infections and deaths. Fahrettin Koca had previously announced an agreement with Chinese biopharmaceutical company...