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Mar 3, 2021 The Democratic Solutions Organization (Demos), a civil society organization operating in northern and eastern Syria with the aim to...
Mar 3, 2021 Iranian officials have rejected the move by several European countries to censure Iran at the upcoming meeting of the International...
Mar 3, 2021 The presidential decree issued by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on March 1 has removed yet another obstacle standing in the way...
Mar 3, 2021 Early this January, armed assailants shot the former mayor of Umm al-Fahm, Suleiman Aghbariah, leaving him seriously wounded. In...
Mar 3, 2021 International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda initiated a war crime investigation into Israeli actions in Palestinian...
Mar 3, 2021 RAMALLAH, West Bank — The archaeological site of Khirbet Balama contains the ruins of an ancient fortified Canaanite city. The...
Mar 3, 2021 The Dutch government has put a trade mission in Qatar on hold due to concerns about workers' conditions in the Gulf state ahead of the...
Mar 4, 2021 Israel’s leadership has been preparing itself for some time for International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda's decision to...
Mar 4, 2021 The more radical sectors of Iran’s embattled Reform movement say past experience has taught them not to “hire a candidate” from...
Mar 3, 2021 The Biden administration opened talks with Houthi rebel leaders late last month in a bid to end Yemen’s civil war, Reuters reported...
Mar 3, 2021 An Israeli ship that suffered an explosion blamed on Iran is back at sea. The MV Helios Ray was sailing southeast off the coast of Oman...
Mar 3, 2021 Only pilgrims who have received a COVID-19 vaccine will be allowed to attend the upcoming hajj, Saudi Arabia Health Ministry announced...
Mar 3, 2021 A Palestinian human rights group has accused the Palestinian Authority of giving COVID-19 vaccine doses to their friends and family...
Mar 3, 2021 An American military contractor died of a “cardiac episode” after taking shelter during a rocket attack on Iraq’s al-Asad air base...
Mar 3, 2021 Kuwait’s new government was sworn in on Wednesday. Prime Minister Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah took office along with his entire Cabinet,...
Mar 3, 2021 Even before the first ambassador from the United Arab Emirates arrived in Israel, economic relations between the two countries had been...
Mar 3, 2021 1. Politics plays a role in Israel’s response to cargo ship attack Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is holding off, for now,...
Mar 3, 2021 CAIRO — Russia officially announced on Feb. 25 that Egypt had received five Sukhoi Su-35 advanced combat aircraft. The Russian...
Mar 3, 2021 RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli prisons deprive Palestinian prisoners who are serving long or life sentences of the right to be alone...
Mar 3, 2021 ISTANBUL — Turkey’s annual inflation rate rose for the fifth month in a row, growing to 15.61% in February up from 14.97% in...
Mar 2, 2021 Spokesperson for the Iranian government Ali Rabiee has said the “time is not ripe” for the United States to join meetings over the...
Mar 2, 2021 Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit said yesterday that any transfer of coronavirus vaccines to another country should be...
Mar 2, 2021 ISTANBUL — Following years of democratic backsliding and amid a rolling crackdown on dissident groups sparked by a 2016 coup...
Mar 2, 2021 As impoverished Yemen edges closer to famine, activists and lawmakers are ramping up pressure on the White House to restore tens of...
Mar 2, 2021 The US Defense Department said one militia member was killed and two were wounded in an airstrike last week on an outpost in eastern...
Mar 2, 2021 The United States has announced sanctions on two military leaders of Yemen’s Houthi rebel movement following a spate of attacks on...
Mar 2, 2021 After nearly two years in Iraq's parliament, the Yazidi Women Survivors Law passed on Monday in a landmark for formal recognition of...
Mar 2, 2021 Heysem Topalca, a fugitive who allegedly played a key role in the Turkish intelligence operations in Syria before vanishing into thin...
Mar 2, 2021 In the puzzle that is known as the Iran nuclear deal — the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — the United States holds...
Mar 2, 2021 CAIRO — Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry announced Feb. 24 Egypt's support for the Sudanese proposal to improve the...
Mar 2, 2021 The Jerusalem International Airport, the oldest airport in Palestine, formerly known as Qalandia Airport, lies on a road connecting the...
Mar 2, 2021 Nothing prepared Yakir Lance — an ultra-Orthodox fellow who lives in the heart of Tel Aviv — for his encounter with a secular cab...
Mar 2, 2021 The Lebanese pound has again fallen to an all-time low on the black market as the economic crisis continues. The exchange rate...
Mar 2, 2021 The blast that shattered the silence on Feb. 26 in the Gulf of Oman, ripping holes in the port and starboard sides of an Israeli-owned...
Mar 3, 2021 A US Navy destroyer on Monday docked in Port Sudan, on the African country’s Red Sea coast, as Washington looks to expand its ties...
Mar 3, 2021 Iraq has begun administering vaccines against COVID-19. The campaign comes ahead of Pope Francis' visit and during a period of...
Mar 2, 2021 Two Americans have been extradited to Japan in relation to Lebanese businessman Carlos Ghosn’s escape from the country. Former US...
Mar 1, 2021 The Pentagon on Monday sought to distance its enduring ties with Saudi Arabia’s military from the Biden administration’s move to...
Mar 1, 2021 Israel’s High Court of Justice has ruled that conversions to Judaism from non-Orthodox are acceptable for immigration to Israel. The...
Mar 1, 2021 Syria reported Israeli airstrikes in the country on Sunday. The strike may have been in retaliation for an attack on an Israeli ship in...
Mar 1, 2021 Iran’s government has turned down a proposal for talks with the United States and the European Union over reviving the 2015 nuclear...
Mar 1, 2021 Turkey’s statistics agency announced Monday that the Turkish economy grew 1.8% in 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic, beating all...
Mar 1, 2021 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blames Iran for the blast that hit an Israeli-owned cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman last week....
Mar 1, 2021 In just a few weeks, on March 23, Israelis will be headed to the polls for their fourth election in two years. In the past, they looked...
Mar 1, 2021 According to a Feb. 28 report by Israeli news site Ynet, Defense Minister Benny Gantz had met secretly in Jordan with King Abdullah...
Mar 1, 2021 Last week Israel concluded a deal with Syria, via Russia, to return an Israeli woman who crossed the border to Syria earlier this...
Mar 1, 2021 The latest news over the nuclear crisis between Iran and the United States is that Iran has rejected an offer to meet with American...
Mar 1, 2021 While the fiancée of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is demanding that the kingdom’s crown prince be punished after a US...
Mar 1, 2021 ALEPPO, Syria — The Turkish army and Russian forces’ recent military moves have raised the concerns of the Syrian Democratic Forces...
Mar 1, 2021 Donald Trump Jr. slammed US President Joe Biden at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this weekend over Biden's...
Mar 1, 2021 The Biden administration is defending its decision to not personally sanction Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, despite a US...
Mar 2, 2021 As global businesses find creative ways to survive the pandemic, several Dubai restaurants are offering discounts to vaccinated patrons....
Mar 1, 2021 The US Defense Department released aerial surveillance video of a ballistic missile attack launched by Iran early last year on an Iraqi...
Mar 1, 2021 ERBIL, Iraq — Despite concerns that the sharp drawdown of international troops over the past year might negatively impact...
Mar 1, 2021 ALEPPO, Syria — Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which controls Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, this month launched a campaign of...
Mar 1, 2021 At the end of Salah al-Din Street in Jerusalem, just north of the Old City, a sign reads in French “Tombeau des Rois” or the “Tombs...
Mar 1, 2021 Turkish social media gurus and policy geeks are all asking each other: Do you Clubhouse? Although the IOS application has been around...
Feb 28, 2021 GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The first phase of the coronavirus vaccination campaign kicked off in the Gaza Strip on Feb. 22. Two...
Feb 28, 2021 CAIRO — Egypt and Israel agreed Feb. 21 to connect Israel’s offshore Leviathan natural gas field to liquified natural gas (LNG)...
Mar 1, 2021 The United Nations has sanctioned a Houthi official in Yemen for alleged human rights abuses against women. The UN Security Council...
Feb 28, 2021 The Ministry of Health in the Syrian opposition's self-styled interim government announced July 10, 2020, the first COVID-19 case in...
Feb 28, 2021 RAMALLAH, West Bank — It remains unclear whether or not the Palestinian legislative elections, scheduled for May 22, will be held in...