ARAB NEWS

TEHRAN: Iranian naval destroyer has sunk while it was being repaired in a port near the Strait of Hormuz, state media reported Sunday.St...

CAIRO: Al-Azhar — Sunni Islam’s oldest and foremost seat of learning — and the Muslim Council of Elders are seeking to organize a global c...

TEHRAN: Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian will be sworn in before parliament in early August as the Islamic republic’s ninth president, state media...

RAFAH: Two months ago, before Israeli troops invaded Rafah, the city sheltered most of Gaza’s more than 2 million people. Today it is a du...

GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories: Tank tracks still fresh on his field in southern Gaza’s coastal area of Al-Mawasi, Nedal Abu Jazar la...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and Jordan had airdropped 30 tonnes of ready-to-eat food for besieged Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the King Salman...

CAIRO: Egypt’s state-affiliated Al Qahera News TV said on Saturday that the country will host Israeli and US delegations to discuss “outst...

ATHENS, Greece: Iran reformist Masoud Pezeshkian’s victory over his hardline rival Saeed Jalili in the country’s presidential runoff on Sa...

ALGIERS: Algeria and Italy on Saturday signed a 420-million-euro deal ($455 million) for an agricultural project in the North African coun...

DUBAI/CAIRO: Hamas has accepted a US proposal to begin talks on releasing Israeli hostages, including soldiers and men, 16 days after the...

ALGIERS: Femicide and domestic violence against women in North Africa are increasingly reported online and by the media but rights groups...

DUBAI: Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran’s runoff presidential election Saturday, besting hard-liner Saeed Jalili by promisin...

JERUSALEM: Israel’s spy chief held talks with Qatari mediators on Friday in the latest effort for a truce and hostage release deal for Gaz...

JERUSALEM: Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades and advanced plans to build tho...

AL-ARISH, Egypt: On a floating hospital near Gaza, doctors aren’t just treating physical wounds — they’re providing emotional support too...

DAMASCUS: Luna Shibl, an advisor to Syrian president Bashar Assad, died on Friday after she was involved in a car accident last Tuesday, s...

JERUSALEM: The Israeli military said Friday it was conducting counterterrorism activity that included an airstrike in the area of the West...

Geneva: The World Health Organization chief has warned that a dire lack of fuel in the Gaza Strip could have a “catastrophic” impact on al...

JEDDAH: The last two candidates in Iran’s presidential election run-off have held their final rallies before voters go to the polls on Fri...

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday ordered his spy chief to Qatar for talks with mediators on a Gaza war cease...

CAIRO: More than 136,000 people have fled Sudan’s southeastern Sennar state since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces began a series of...

CAIRO: The Arab League will continue its efforts to promote peace and reconciliation in Libya, said Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the organization’s...

GAZA: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene his security cabinet on Thursday evening to discuss new Hamas positions on a...

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Hezbollah said it launched more than 200 rockets and explosive drones Thursday at Israeli military positions as tensions...

AL-MUKALLA: The UN’s Yemen envoy, Hans Grundberg, said on Wednesday that the ongoing prisoner exchange between the Yemeni government and t...