Iran on Monday blamed Israel for a sabotage attack on its underground Natanz nuclear facility that damaged the centrifuges it uses to enrich uranium there, warning that it would take revenge for the assault.
The comments by Foreign Ministry (...)
Lebanon's caretaker public works and transport minister said on Monday he had signed a document expanding Lebanon's claims in its maritime border dispute with Israel.
The amendment would add around 1,400 square kilometres to the exclusive economic (...)
Iran's nuclear program has been targeted by diplomatic efforts and sabotage attacks over the last decade, with the latest incident striking its underground Natanz facility.
The attack Sunday at Natanz comes as world powers try to negotiate a return (...)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Iran has never given up efforts to obtain nuclear weapons and that Israel will not allow Tehran to build them.
The Israeli leader, addressing reporters with visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd (...)
Organised in the private mansion of the Cornette de Saint Cyr auction house in Paris, France's first ever international modern and contemporary art fair dedicated to the Middle East and North Africa titled 'MENART FAIR' will take place between 27 (...)
A senior cabinet minister said on Monday he had signed a document expanding Lebanon's claims in a row with Israel over their maritime border that has held up hydrocarbon exploration in the potentially gas-rich area.
The amendment would add around (...)
The Biden administration announced its intention last Thursday to bring back US funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the UN Agency that provides comprehensive humanitarian aid to the Palestinians.
Although US President (...)
Hours after the first round of talks to revive Iran's nuclear deal started in Vienna last week, TV cameras attended a ceremony at the Natanz uranium-enrichment plant in Iran to witness the announcement of an increase in the use of advanced (...)
There are few doubts about who carried out the cyber-attack on Iran's Natanz nuclear site last week. Usually, these highly effective operations are carried out by Israel.
While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, suspicion fell (...)
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin arrived in Israel on Sunday on the first visit by a senior representative of the Biden administration, whose stance on Iran has worried Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.
Austin was due to meet (...)
An electrical power problem caused an incident at Iran's Natanz underground nuclear facility on Sunday, Iranian Press TV reported, a day after Tehran launched new advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges at the site.
"The incident caused no (...)
A video circulating online shows Israeli police punching a member of parliament and wrestling him to the ground at a protest against planned evictions in east Jerusalem on Friday.
The video shows a scuffle between Israeli police and Ofer Cassif, the (...)
Israel will tell the International Criminal Court it does not recognise the authority of the tribunal, which is planning to investigate possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on (...)
Israel attacked targets near Damascus on Thursday and Syria's air defences shot down a number of rockets over southern districts of the capital, Syrian state media reported.
SANA news agency quoted a military source saying the attacks wounded four (...)
Jordan's king Abdullah II addressed the rare public rift within the royal family for the first time on Wednesday, saying the ``sedition'' that caused him anger and pain has been buried, but major challenges loom for the Western-allied monarchy as it (...)
An Iranian cargo ship believed to be a base for the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and anchored for years in the Red Sea off Yemen has been attacked, Iranian state television acknowledged Wednesday.
The state TV acknowledgment, citing foreign (...)
The Biden administration announced on Wednesday it would provide $235 million in US aid to the Palestinians, restarting funding for the United Nations agency supporting refugees and restoring other assistance cut off by then-President Donald (...)
Abu Dhabi state carrier Etihad Airways began direct commercial passenger flights from the United Arab Emirates capital to Tel Aviv in Israel - the latest direct air link between the two countries that established diplomatic relations last year.
UAE (...)
Efforts to bring the United States and Iran back into the 2015 nuclear deal stepped up a gear this week as the two countries, the Europeans, Russia and China met in Vienna to discuss how to breathe new life into the deal.
US President Joe Biden came (...)
International and regional concerns about developments in Jordan receded by midweek, after reconciliation in the Royal Family ended with the former crown-prince vowing allegiance to the king and constitution.
This was the result of mediation by a (...)
The funeral of former Egyptian prime minister Kamal Al-Ganzouri took place last Friday in a military ceremony headed by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi.
Al-Ganzouri passed away on Wednesday 31 March after having kept a low profile for over a year and (...)
Three major developments took place in the Middle East last week. Taken together, they transform the region from a strategic point of view.
The first was a declaration by the Saudi foreign minister that relations between his country and Israel would (...)
The recent Suez Canal crisis uncovered a hidden facet of the economic interests of other countries, who raced to make gains at the expense of Egypt's predicament when the canal was blocked by the giant Japanese cargo ship the Ever Given for a (...)
Iranian authorities have arrested an "Israeli spy", an Iranian news website reported on Monday without giving the person's nationality.
"An Israeli spy has been arrested in Iran's East Azerbaijan province ... also other spies who were in contact (...)
Israeli prosecutors accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of treating favours as "currency" on Monday at the opening of a corruption trial which, along with an inconclusive election, has clouded his prospects of remaining in office.
Netanyahu, (...)
