Middle East

Armenians were voting in a parliamentary election on Sunday, with opinion polls putting the party of acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and that of former President Robert Kocharyan neck-and-neck. The ...

Western officials warned Tehran on Sunday that negotiations to revive its nuclear deal could not continue indefinitely, after the sides announced a break following the election of a new hardline ...

Israel condemned on Sunday the election of hardline judge Ebrahim Raisi as Iranian president, saying his would be a “regime of brutal hangmen” with which world powers should not negotiate ...

The European Union’s foreign policy chief told Lebanon’s leaders on Saturday they were to blame for the country’s political and economic crisis and some could face sanctions ...

Iran’s Foreign Minister said on Saturday that hardline judge Ebrahim Raisi was the country’s new elected president and everyone would have to work with him from now on. ...

Saudi Arabia has executed a man for offences rights groups say he allegedly committed while under the age of 18, despite the kingdom’s insistence that it has abolished death sentences ...

Israeli aircraft struck Hamas sites in Gaza on Wednesday after incendiary balloons were launched from the Palestinian enclave in the first such attacks since the end of 11 days of cross-border ...

Iran has made 6.5 kg (14 lb) of uranium enriched to up to 60%, the government said on Tuesday, detailing a move that rattled the country’s nuclear talks with world powers by ...

Israel told its citizens they could stop wearing masks indoors on Tuesday, ending one of its last main restrictions as new COVID-19 infections continued to wane even as vaccinations tapered ...

Far-right Israeli groups will march in East Jerusalem on Tuesday in a flag-waving procession that risks igniting tensions with Palestinians in the contested city and rekindling violence between Israel and ...

Lebanon’s currency crashed on Sunday reaching a new low against the dollar, as the country’s financial meltdown continues: Food is unaffordable, hospital are closed, petrol is unavailable, the ...

Benjamin Netanyahu’s record 12-year run as Israel’s prime minister ended on Sunday with parliament approving a new “government of change” led by nationalist Naftali Bennett, an improbable scenario ...

France said on Sunday it would provide Egypt with some €1.8 billion ($2.2 billion) in financing for projects including the Cairo metro, power generation and water management, in what officials called a ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year hold on power was set to end on Sunday when parliament votes on a new government, ushering in an administration that has pledged ...

Israeli special forces killed two Palestinian security officers in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Palestinian authorities said, in what an Israeli source described as possible misidentification during an operation ...

The past five rounds of the Vienna talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal led to an agreement over the removal of some 1,000 US sanctions on Iran, but about 500 others are ...

The rules to enforce wearing face masks indoors in Israel will be lifted starting June 15, Israel’s Health Minister Yuli Edelstein announced on Sunday. Israel has already lifted the obligation ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a newly formed Israeli coalition that is poised to unseat him was the result of “the greatest election fraud” in the history of democracy. Hours ...

By Zainah El-Haroun Israeli police detained two prominent Palestinian activists on Sunday who have become the face of a campaign to halt Palestinian evictions from a flashpoint East Jerusalem neighbourhood. ...

An Israeli zoo proudly announced the birth of a new baby rhino on Sunday. The baby male, who has not yet been named, was spotted trotting alongside his mother, 11-year-old ...

Israel‘s opposition leader moved closer to unseating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he officially told the country’s president that he has reached agreements with political allies to form ...

The trading system of Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul securities market has broken down, Saudi state TV reported on Wednesday, giving no further details. The exchange in a separate statement said ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party on Tuesday challenged the legality of a bid by a rival rightist to head a new Israeli government, but the last-gasp attempt at extending ...

Saudi Arabia‘s Islamic Affairs minister on Monday defended an order to lower the volume on mosque loudspeakers, saying families had been complaining that competing speakers were keeping their children ...