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The United Arab Emirates on Thursday named a veteran technocrat with experience in both renewable energies and the oil business to be the p...

Iran has sentenced a former senior defence official to death after convicting him on charges of spying for Britain, state-linked media repo...

The UN human rights chief has accused Iran of weaponising the death penalty to frighten the public and crush dissent. The statement follows...

Dozens of Iranians gathered Sunday outside the French embassy in Tehran protesting against cartoons of the Islamic republic's supreme leade...

With winter temperatures plummeting, energy prices soaring and power cuts a daily occurrence, people in the Gaza Strip are increasingly tur...

Lebanon's military tribunal on Thursday charged seven suspects in last month's attack that killed an Irish peacekeeper when a group of arme...

The arrival of football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday as the newest member of the state-owned club Al Nassr marks...

Iran has released top Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti on bail, state media reported on Wednesday, weeks after she was detained for critic...

Iran warned France on Wednesday it would respond after "insulting" cartoons depicting Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei were pub...

In this special edition of Middle East Matters, we focus on the Kurds. Spread across four nations, they are the world's largest stateless e...

Israel's extreme-right firebrand Itamar Ben-Gvir visited Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound Tuesday for the first time since becoming nati...

A group of prominent exiled Iranian pro-opposition figures have issued a coordinated message predicting 2023 will be a year of "victory" wi...

Two Syrian migrants died Saturday when their boat sank off Lebanon's northern coast. 200 other people were rescued. Growing numbers of peop...

Israel’s military fired missiles toward the international airport of the capital Damascus early Monday, putting it out of service and killi...

The UN General Assembly on Friday asked the International Court of Justice to consider consequences for Israel over its occupation of Pales...

Nearly 1,700 journalists have been killed worldwide over the past 20 years, an average of more than 80 a year, according to an analysis pub...

Fawzia Koofi, a former vice-president of the Afghan parliament, said the Taliban is trying to erase women from public life in Afghanistan....

Already dogged by criticism at home and abroad, a new Israeli government is set to be sworn in on Thursday, the final stroke in Prime Minis...

The defence ministers of Russia, Turkey and Syria met in Moscow on Wednesday, the first such talks since a war broke out in Syria, the Russ...

Six members of Kurdish-led security forces and two jihadists were killed Monday in a failed Islamic State group assault near a prison for e...

With a giant evergreen tree, colourful balloons in the streets and selfies in the Church of the Nativity, Christmas tourism has returned to...

Leaders from the Middle East and Europe gathered in Jordan Tuesday in a conference focused on bolstering security and stability in Iraq.

Jordan hosts a Middle East summit Tuesday bringing together regional and international players hoping to help resolve regional crises, part...

Three police officers were killed in a restive area of southern Jordan on Monday while trying to arrest suspects in last week’s slaying of...

Islamic State group jihadists said Sunday they had carried out an attack in northern Iraq killing nine police officers, setting off a roads...