The Middle East Donald Trump inherited from his predecessors in January 2017 was a place in tatters. The Islamic State (IS) was in control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Civil wars raged in Yemen and Libya. Iran and Turkey, each dreaming of (...)
A lot of the characters are the same for President-elect Joe Biden but the scene is far starker as he reassembles a team of veteran negotiators to get back into the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
President Donald Trump worked to blow up the (...)
Syria said on Sunday it would import more crude oil to cover fuel shortages it blames on Western sanctions that disrupted regular Iranian oil shipments that had for years compensated for the country's loss of domestic oil production as a result of (...)
Lebanon's top Christian cleric has urged President Michel Aoun to set up a reconciliation meeting with Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri to form a cabinet and end the country's political deadlock.
The country's fractious politicians have been (...)
The United Nations Security Council approved on Friday the appointment of veteran diplomat Jan Kubis as the U.N. Libya envoy, diplomats said, nearly a year after the last mediator stepped down.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had proposed (...)
Lebanon's parliament on Friday approved a law that paves the way for the government to sign deals for coronavirus vaccinations as it battles a steep increase in infections.
Lebanon said in mid-December it was expecting to sign a deal for supplies of (...)
Bahrain's Bank ABC completed its purchase of the Egyptian subsidiary of Lebanon's Blom Bank for $480 million on Thursday, two banking sources said.
The transaction included all Blom Bank Egypt's physical and non-physical assets as well as customer (...)
Bahrain's Arab Banking Corporation (Bank ABC) finalised the acquisition of Blom Bank's unit in Egypt for $480 million, two banking sources told Reuters.
All physical and non-physical assets and customer accounts are included in the deal, the sources (...)
Egypt's Ministries of International Cooperation and of Tourism and Antiquities have signed a COVID-19 tourism recovery technical assistance cooperation package with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and the the United (...)
Interpol has issued a wanted notice for two Russians and a Portuguese man over explosive material that had been shipped to Beirut and stored at the city's port for six years until it exploded in August, the state-run National News Agency reported (...)
Lebanon's Sunni Muslim leader Saad Al-Hariri had a business lunch with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday in Istanbul, in a meeting that neither man tried to keep secret. Soon after the talks, which lasted for a couple of hours, were (...)
When Omar Hazem, a young Egyptian engineer working in Qatar since 2015, knew that Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain had agreed to restore full diplomatic ties with Doha at the 41st Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) meeting last (...)
The leader of Lebanon's biggest Christian political party on Sunday ruled out joining a new government led by Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri, a new hurdle for efforts to pull the country out of political paralysis.
Politicians have been at (...)
As of 6 January, Egypt has been among the countries with the highest reported number of coronavirus-related deaths in the Eastern Mediterranean region, after Iran, Iraq and Pakistan, the World Health Organisation's Regional Office for the Eastern (...)
Talks held on the Qatari crisis during the Arab Quartet's boycott of Doha over the last three years had reached a dead end. This last round, however, proved to be a different story.
“Fruitful discussions have taken place during the past period, (...)
The U.S. killing of top general Qassem Soleimani will not deter Iranian resistance, a senior commander said on Friday as tensions mounted in the build-up to the first anniversary of the drone strike.
The United States killed Soleimani, leader of the (...)
Lebanon can ration $2 billion in reserves left for subsidies to last six more months, the caretaker prime minister said on Tuesday, as the country's financial meltdown raises fears of rising hunger.
Lebanon's worst crisis since its 1975-1990 civil (...)
Lebanon has secured about 2 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, which will cover 20% of the country's nationals, the health minister said on Monday.
Hamad Hassan told Reuters two weeks ago the country was about to sign a deal for (...)
أغلقت السلطات الأمنية في مقاطعة ويلسون في ولاية تينيسي الأمريكية، مساء الأحد أحد الطرق السريعة، بعد الاشتباه في شاحنة بيضاء تصدر رسالة تحذيرية مماثلة لتلك التي أصدرتها السيارة المستخدمة في تنفيذ انفجار بمنطقة ناشفيل الجمعة الماضية، حسبما ذكرت "ديلي (...)
أغلقت شرطة مقاطعة ويلسون في ولاية تينيسي الأمريكية، الطريق السريع بعد الاشتباه في شاحنة بيضاء تصدر رسالة تحذيرية مماثلة لتلك التي خرجت من السيارة المستخدمة في تنفيذ انفجار ضخم بمنطقة ناشفيل المجاورة يوم الجمعة، وخلف أضرارا مادية كبيرة.
ويفحص عملاء (...)
More than 300 Syrian refugees were forced to flee an informal camp in northern Lebanon as a blaze raged through and burnt tents to the ground, U.N. and Lebanese officials said Sunday.
The fire late Saturday raged for four hours as firefighters tried (...)
شهدت مباراة الإخاء الأهلي عاليه أمام التضامن في الجولة العاشرة من الدوري اللبناني، واقعة جدلية.
الإخاء الأهلي فاز بهدفٍ دون رد سجله داني الجردي في الدقيقة 77، لقطة تم اعتبارها مخالفة لقواعد اللعب النظيف.
لاعبو فريق الإخاء كانوا بصدد إعادة الكرة إلى (...)
تخطف الفنانة هبة طوجي، قلوب جمهورها اللبناني، بسهرة غنائية استثنائية تحتفل خلالها بأعياد الكريسماس رفقة الموسيقار أسامة الرحباني في العاصمة بيروت.
سهرة من السحر تضع خلالها هبة مسك الختام على سنة صعبة جدًا مرت بها البشرية تزامنًا مع وباء كورونا الذي (...)
تخطف الفنانة هبة طوجي قلوب جمهورها اللبناني بسهرة غنائية استثنائية تحتفل خلالها بأعياد الكريسماس رفقة الموسيقار أسامة الرحباني في العاصمة بيروت.
سهرة من السحر تضع خلالها هبة مسك الختام على سنة صعبة جدًا مرت بها البشرية تزامنًا مع وباء كورونا الذي (...)
Lebanon's caretaker finance minister said it would contact a consulting firm on Wednesday to resume a forensic audit of the central bank, a key condition for foreign aid that has hit a roadblock.
Parliament agreed this week to lift banking secrecy (...)
