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Israel's defence minister has ordered the military to begin preparations for the "voluntary" expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, seizing on...

US Republican lawmakers in both the House and Senate have introduced bills to prohibit using the term "West Bank" in official US government...

At least 40 children were killed by bombings over three days in several parts of Sudan, a UNICEF official said Wednesday, calling it a "star...

US President Donald Trump's proposal that the US occupy the Gaza Strip prompted confusion and skepticism from some of his fellow Republicans...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will not attend an upcoming G20 meeting in South Africa, the top U.S. diplomat said on Wednesday, days a...

Syria's General Authority for Land and Sea Ports said on Wednesday that it had agreed to a new contract with French shipping and logistics g...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told President Donald Trump on Wednesday to avoid ethnic cleansing in Gaza after the U.S....

US President Donald Trump's administration appeared to backtrack Wednesday after his proposal to occupy Gaza and expel the Palestinians spar...

Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini was named the 50th hereditary Imam, or spiritual leader, of Nizari Ismaili Muslims on Wednesday after the will of h...

Six human rights organisations have sent a joint letter on Wednesday to British Foreign Secretary David Lammy criticising the UK's ongoing a...

Lebanon has filed a lawsuit against the HSBC bank in Switzerland over an embezzlement and corruption case involving Riad Salameh, the former...

In the winding alleys of southern Iran, artist Adel Yazdi has taken it upon himself to turn his rustic old neighbourhood into a cultural and...

Saudi Arabia's interior ministry has announced on Wednesday it executed two citizens convicted of several charges related to "terrorism".T...

After nearly 14 years of closure due to war and unrest, the St. Anna Jacobite Church, affiliated with the Armenian Orthodox Diocese of Alepp...

Iraq's Federal Supreme Court has issued an order to suspend the implementation of three controversial laws recently passed by parliament - a...

Political sources in Baghdad have warned that dozens of development projects overseen by American organisations in Iraq are at risk of suspe...

A Moroccan court has released Ismail Lghazaoui, a prominent pro-Palestine activist, following an international outcry that called for his fr...

Sweden on Wednesday was recovering from the deadliest mass shooting in its history after 10 people - as well as the suspected gunman - were...

Israel's newly appointed Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, revealed this week a significant discrepancy between the actual war losses in Gaza and...

A Spring That Did Not Blossom (Interlink Books, 2024) is Nejmeh Khalil Habib’s first collection of short stories to be translated into Engli...

Lebanon President Joseph Aoun on Tuesday told Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani that he hopes TotalEnergies wil...

The US Department of Defense is developing plans to withdraw all US troops from Syria, NBC News reported on Wednesday, citing two US defence...

The Trump administration on Tuesday announced that it was going to put on leave all directly hired employees of the US Agency for Internatio...

Latifa Al-Daroubi, the wife of Syria's transitional President Ahmed Al-Sharaa, made her first public appearance on Tuesday during a high-pro...

A loveless landslide. That was the verdict as the dust settled on last year's general election results. Labour secured two-thirds of Westmin...