ARAB NEWS

MADRID, JERUSALEM: Spanish military planes air dropped 26 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip on Wednesd...

LONDON: Amid escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, Jordan is looking to bolster its defenses against possible incursions by...

HARBANUSH, Syria: Ahmed Al-Hakim’s 27-year-old brother was tortured to death in prison in Syria’s militant-run northwest, sparking rare pr...

CAIRO: Egypt’s foreign minister on Wednesday urged a visiting US delegation to resume its financial support for UNRWA, the UN aid agency f...

TUNIS: A Tunisian court on Wednesday sentenced four people to death and two people to life in prison on charges of participating in the mu...

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Hezbollah said it launched dozens of rockets at Kiryat Shmona, an Israeli town over the border, early on Wednesday in re...

WASHINGTON: Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Tuesday he stressed with US officials the importance of US-Israeli ties and of m...

BEIRUT: At least seven people were killed in an Israeli strike on Nabatieh in Southern Lebanon, two security sources told Reuters early on...

UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini had warned last month that the funding crunch was so great the organization might not be able to operate be...

GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories: The United States said Tuesday it would continue airdrops of aid to besieged Gaza, despite pleas from...

BEIRUT: Israel carried out airstrikes near the northeast Lebanese towns of Ras Baabelk and Hermel on Tuesday, four security sources told R...

CAIRO: The Arab League and the Arab Parliament have welcomed the UN Security Council’s Monday resolution calling for an immediate ceasefir...

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was in Tehran on Tuesday for talks with Iranian officials, state media reported, a day after the UN Security C...

BEIRUT: At least nine pro-Tehran fighters, including an Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander, were among 13 people killed in air strikes...

BAGHDAD: An Iraq court has acquitted a police officer previously convicted and sentenced to death for leading a group that gunned down wel...

CAIRO: Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said on Monday it has informed mediators that it will stick to its original proposal on reaching a...

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, said on Monday that countries should pressure Israel to stop attacking Lebanon f...

CAIRO: Sameh Makki’s soup kitchen is barely 100 meters from the market, but it can take two hours to make the journey through Sudan’s war-...

DUBAI: Leveling off in July 2023 and returning to normal on a global scale after a spike in consumption following the COVID-19 pandemic, t...

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s government spokesman Basim Al-Awadi outlined the agenda for Prime Minister Muhammad Shia Al-Sudani’s upcoming Washington v...

Gaza Strip: The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees has said that Israel had definitively barred it from making aid deliveries...

BEIRUT: An attack by the Daesh group killed at least 11 people hunting desert truffles in northern Syria on Sunday, a war monitor said, af...

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: The faithful walked slowly in a procession past the stone facade of Gaza’s only Catholic church on Pal...

GAZA STRIP: The Palestinian Red Crescent said on Sunday that Israeli forces were besieging two hospitals in southern Gaza, days after the...

BOLU, Turkiye: A pro-Kurdish candidate, who lost his arm in prison during a police raid after a hunger strike in 2000, has turned three de...