Middle East

Baghdad: Iraq on Saturday tightened security measures on the borderline with neighbouring Syria after a jailbreak by militants (IS) in a Kurdish-controlled...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks in Moscow with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi, the leaders plan to discuss joint projects in...

New York: The UN Security Council approved the electoral process for the Libyan parliament and the road map agreed on it, which is valid until June,...

New York: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for an end to violence in Sudan to allow mediation efforts."First and foremost, we want to...

Tehran: Iran is ready to reopen its embassy in Saudi Arabia, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday.Remarking at a weekly press conference, Saeed...

Beirut: Drivers of taxis and mini buses blocked all the main roads in Beirut and important transport corridors across Lebanon on Thursday, protesting the...

Nicosia (Cyprus): A new coronavirus variant Deltacron has emerged in Cyprus which has a similar genetic background to the Delta variant, as well as some of...

Ankara (Turkey) Turkish Airlines, Turkey's flagship carrier, has decided to suspend passengers flights to Kazakhstan over the unrest in the Central Asian...

Muscat: An earthquake has been monitored in Southern Iran on Monday, the Earthquake Monitoring Centre (EMC) at Sultan Qaboos University said.

Several explosions rocked a Palestinian refugee camp in the Lebanese port city of Tyre on Friday night, according to residents who spoke to the Associated...