Diplomatic pandemonium in shattered Lebanon as aid effort expands
Top diplomats criss-crossed Beirut on Friday to supervise growing aid efforts and weigh in on Lebanon's political future, following a deadly port explosion blamed...
Palestinians cry betrayal as Israel-UAE deal shakes up the Middle East
World leaders voiced hope Friday that a historic deal between the UAE and Israel could kickstart moribund Middle East peace talks, even as the...
Ertugrul’s Engin Altan wishes Pakistan Happy 74th Independence Day
Turkish actor Engin Altan Duzyatan aka Ertugrul visited the Embassy of Pakistan in Turkey to convey his greetings on the 74th Independence Day of...
Israel and UAE strike ‘historic’ US-brokered deal for peace
Israel and the UAE agreed Thursday to normalise relations in a landmark US-brokered deal under which the Jewish state would halt further annexation of...
Israel turns the heat on Gaza following balloon attack
Israel slapped new punitive measures on Gaza on Wednesday, slashing the permitted coastal fishing zone as airborne fire bombs continued floating into Israel, setting...
Bill targeting Netanyahu over bribery,fraud rejected by Israel’s parliament
Israeli lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a bill targeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that sought to block candidates under indictment from forming a future government. In...
Lebanon’s judiciary grills ministers over Beirut blast
Lebanon's judiciary will question several ministers, a judicial official said Wednesday, over a massive chemical blast at a Beirut port warehouse that ravaged the...
Iraq grows impatient with Turkey as drone strike kills two officials
Iraq cancelled a ministerial visit and summoned Turkey's ambassador as it blamed Ankara for a drone strike that killed two high-ranking Iraqi officers on...
Iran confident that US push for arms embargo extension will be unsuccessful
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani expressed "great hopes" Wednesday that a US bid to extend an arms embargo on his country will fail, warning of...
Rejiggering Gulf Security: China’s Game of Shadow Boxing
China and Saudi Arabia are engaged in a complex game of shadow boxing to shape a future security framework for the Gulf designed to...
Demands for regime change: protesters at war with Lebanon’s political elite
Lebanon on Tuesday marked a week since its worst ever peacetime disaster with a mix of grief and rage, as survivors remembered the dead...
Gaza goods crossing closed by Israel over balloon attacks
Israel closed its goods crossing with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after militants in the Hamas-run territory fired rockets into the Mediterranean and launched...