The civilian official overseeing the Pentagon's campaign to defeat the Islamic State group in the Middle East was forced to resign in the latest jolt to Pentagon leadership in the waning weeks of the Trump administration.
The Pentagon said in a (...)
The coronavirus pandemic is pushing the number of people worldwide who need humanitarian assistance to survive to new highs, the United Nations said on Tuesday, dramatically increasing the ranks of extreme poverty in just one year.
One in 33 people (...)
An air strike killed a commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards at the Iraq-Syria border sometime between Saturday and Sunday, Iraqi security and local militia officials said on Monday.
They could not confirm the identity of the commander, who they (...)
Despite Covid-19 making even a one-off event, let alone a whole festival difficult, the fifth Sharm Al-Sheikh International Theatre Festival for Youth (SITFY, 16-20 November) took place in the South Sinai resort city. The event was initially (...)
The European Union (EU) is escalating its stance against Turkey, but how far it will go in this regard appears questionable. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) agreed on a resolution last Thursday that includes a call for the pan-European (...)
The cultural activities have started gradually to reopen in the country. The reopening has included theatres, museums, galleries, national circus, which operate under the culture ministry. In its first stage, the resumption of activities will be (...)
Delegations from Syria's government, opposition and civil society are meeting in Geneva for the latest round of talks toward revising the war-battered country's constitution.
The U.N. envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, was hosting the various sides (...)
Five years after terror attacks in Paris killed 130 innocent civilians, Europe is still suffering at the hands of Islamist extremists. The recent attack in Vienna, claimed by Isis, demonstrated the determination of those who seek to spread their (...)
Egypt reiterated its rejection to link terrorist acts with Islam during a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held on Friday and Saturday.
The two-day event was held in the Nigerien capital (...)
التقى الدكتور فيصل المقداد، وزير الخارجية والمغتربين السوري، ظهر اليوم السبت، سفير الجمهورية الإسلامية الإيرانية لدى سوريا، السفير جواد ترك آبادي، وبحثا آفاق العلاقات بين البلدين وسبل تعزيزها، بالإضافة إلى مجمل التطورات على الساحتين الإقليمية (...)
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi praised on Thursday Kuwait's wise and balanced policies amid the challenges facing the Arab nation in his meeting with Kuwaiti foreign minister Ahmed Nasser Al-Sabah in Cairo, the Egyptian presidency (...)
The United Arab Emirates has stopped issuing new visas to citizens of 13 countries, including Iran, Syria and Somalia, according to a document issued by a state-owned business park.
The document, which was sent to companies operating in the park and (...)
The Middle East is not the main theme of former US president Barack Obama's new autobiography by any means, but in his book A Promised Land he nevertheless provides vivid details about the Arab Spring, one of major challenges of his first term in (...)
At last, after six weeks of fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia and Azerbaijan have set aside their arms and begun to implement a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement. Ankara, unable to have a say in that, has been equally frustrated in its (...)
Egypt is known for its rich cultivated land, and Egyptians have known how to grow crops efficiently on it since ancient times. During the time of the ancient Egyptians, people lived on the banks of the Nile growing crops like wheat and barley, along (...)
Locals in a northern Lebanese town called on authorities Tuesday to evict all Syrians from the area a day after a Syrian citizen allegedly shot dead a local man in a personal dispute.
The announcement in the Christian mountain resort town of Bcharre (...)
Clashes between Kurdish fighters and Turkey-backed opposition gunmen in northern Syria left at least 11 fighters dead in some of the most intense fighting in weeks between the two sides, an opposition war monitor and a Kurdish spokesman said (...)
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday defended his tour of Gulf Arab states and the Trump administration's continued efforts to squeeze Iran, even as a new U.S. administration led by Joe Biden prepares to enter the White House in (...)
The global pandemic and ensuing lockdown have taken their toll on the mental and physical well-being of millions of kids in the Middle East and North Africa, the UN children's agency said Friday.
In a survey of more than 7,000 households in seven (...)
Nurses hover over a patient to insert a breathing tube as his condition suddenly deteriorates. ICU beds fill up almost overnight. As one patient dies of the coronavirus and is wheeled out, another is whisked in to take his place. An exhausted doctor (...)
Israeli warplanes struck Iran-linked targets in Syria overnight after troops uncovered roadside bombs along the frontier in the Golan Heights, the Israeli military said Wednesday.
The military said the improvised explosive devices had been placed by (...)
IN HIS FIRST visit to the Greek Capital since the signing of a maritime demarcation deal, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi met with Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis last week to discuss the situation in (...)
Any discussion of Arab Americans must consider, at the outset, both the deep diversity as well as the shared attitudes and concerns that exist within the community. As is the case with most ethnic groups, Arab Americans are not a monolith. They hail (...)
At a press conference on Monday, a new round of the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF, 2-10 December) was announced. According to festival director Mohamed Hefzy, “The programming team is proud to present a selection of the year's most (...)
Changes in US policy towards Syria after the election of President-elect Joe Biden in November's US presidential elections remain unclear in scale and direction, and there has been little clarity on the team Biden will choose to manage the Syria (...)
