ARAB NEWS

LONDON: Egypt instructed all of its airlines to avoid Iranian air space for a three-hour period in the early morning on Thursday amid tens...

JERUSALEM: Israel vowed to “eliminate” new Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, the alleged mastermind of the October 7 attack, whose appointment fur...

CAIRO: Egypt’s state grains buyer, the General Authority for Supply Commodities, announced on Tuesday a massive tender for 3.8 million met...

DUBAI: Dubai International Airport saw a record 44.9 million travelers pass through its cavernous terminals in the first half of this year...

WASHINGTON: About a dozen F/A-18 fighter jets from the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier have flown to a military base in the Middle...

ANNAPOLIS, United States: Both Iran and Israel should avoid escalating conflict in the Middle East, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken s...

JENIN, Palestine: Palestinian officials said Israeli forces killed 12 people in three separate raids in the northern West Bank on Tuesday,...

BEIRUT: Hezbollah’s response to Israeli attacks will be strong and effective, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the powerful Lebanese...

TEHRAN: Iran has yet to make any arrests linked to the suspected Israeli killing of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, the Ir...

TEHRAN: An Iranian appeals court has halved the prison sentence handed down against pop star Shervin Hajjipour, whose song became the anth...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will visit Russia on Aug. 12-14, Russia’s RIA state news agency reported on Tuesday, citing a diplomat...

NAJAF, Iraq: After seeing his once-lush rice field shrink in recent years due to relentless drought, Iraqi farmer Muntazer Al-Joufi fought...

JERUSALEM: Diplomatic pressure mounted Monday to avert an escalation between Iran and Israel following high-profile killings that have sen...

TUNIS: A Tunisian court on Monday sentenced four potential candidates for presidential election to eight months in prison and banned them...

AL-MUKALLA: Yemen’s Houthi militia has turned down an appeal from Abdul Wahab Qatran, an outspoken legal activist freed from jail, to fly...

CAIRO: Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit has warned against the region being dragged into a spiral of escalating violence in...

DUBAI: Iran is not looking to escalate regional tensions but believes it needs to punish Israel to prevent further instability, the foreig...

TUNIS: Tunisian President Kais Saied, who seized wide-ranging powers two years after his 2019 election, on Monday submitted his official c...

CAIRO: Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a phone call on Sunday that preventing re...

JERUSALEM: Israel’s army said Sunday it had not changed “as of now” its policy for protecting civilians, as Iran and Hezbollah are expecte...

ANKARA: The founder of Turkiye’s defense consultancy SADAT, widely viewed as Ankara’s secret weapon in wars across North Africa and the Mi...

AMMAN: Jordan’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Supply on Sunday held the first meeting of a new working group aimed at empowering women-o...

DUBAI: The UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment announced a new initiative to boost the efficiency of agricultural advisory serv...

AMMAN: Jordan’s foreign minister Ayman Safadi is set to make a rare visit to Iran on Sunday for talks with his Iranian counterpart Ali Bag...

BEIRUT: Urgent calls for foreign nationals to leave Lebanon grew on Sunday with France warning of “a highly volatile” situation as Iran and...