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Is "chocolate hummus" an original, creative recipe or an insult to Arab culture? That's the burning question as a chorus of voices slam the...

A new wave of feminism is beginning to emerge in the Arab world but how successful will it be? Annette Young talks to Lina Abirafeh, a spec...

Fresh clashes have broken out between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces and local Arab clans in eastern Syria, leaving at least 25 p...

The ballot hadn't been expected until spring next year. But Egypt's National Election Authority announced this week that the country would...

More than 100 people were killed and 150 were injured in a fire at a wedding party in Hamdaniya district in Iraq's Nineveh province that le...

On a bustling street in Baghdad, kiosks sell everything from fast food to paintings and perfumes. But what separates this street from myria...

This week, five Americans released from an Iranian prison arrived back home in the United States. Their release was a part of a deal broker...

Israeli forces on Tuesday killed three Palestinians during a drone-assisted raid on Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, while bor...

Prehistoric ruins outside the ancient West Bank city of Jericho have been given UNESCO World Heritage status after a vote of the World Heri...

Five US detainees flew out of Iran on Monday in a swap for five Iranians held in the US under a rare deal brokered by Qatar between the arc...

On September 16, 2022, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died after being arrested by Iran’s morality police for wearing her hijab "improperly". Her...

Morocco accepted aid from four nations – the UK, Spain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates – after a powerful earthquake ripped through the...

The European Union on Sunday told Iran to reconsider its decision to withdraw accreditation from several inspectors from the United Nations...

A U.N. conference voted Sunday to list prehistoric ruins near the ancient West Bank city of Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine,...

It is one year since the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, detained by Iranian authorities for allegedly not wearing a headscarf properly. H...

Israel's Supreme Court has opened the first case examining the legality of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial judicial overh...

The Biden administration has cleared the way for the release of five American citizens detained in Iran by issuing a blanket waiver for int...

An Israeli delegation is in Riyadh for a UNESCO meeting, an Israeli official told AFP on Monday, marking the country's first publicly annou...

Three fighters and a civilian were killed Saturday in clashes at a south Lebanon Palestinian camp, official media reported, as Prime Minist...

Nine years of war in Yemen have displaced millions of people. As negotiations drag on in Saudi Arabia between the Houthi rebels and the int...

It's sometimes called a forgotten war: fighting in Yemen has killed hundreds of thousands of people. Hunger has claimed even more lives, wh...

Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Iran arrived Tuesday in the Islamic Republic, and his counterpart landed in Riyadh, cementing a restoration of...

The UN nuclear watchdog said Monday it regretted that "no progress" had been made by Iran on outstanding issues, including installing more...

Clashes in Kurdish-held northeast Syria between the army and Turkey-backed armed factions killed 23 people on Sunday after pro-Ankara rebel...

The United Nations Security Council on Thursday renewed the mandate for its peacekeeping force in Lebanon for another year after tense deba...