World / Middle East

Anadolu Agency films FETO-linked businessmen in US 28 Jul 2018 - 09:00 pm

NEW YORK: Anadolu Agency has captured on film the luxurious lives of two Turkish businessmen in California, who are being sought by Turkey...

Israeli Arab lawmaker quits 'racist' parliament over Jewish nation-state law 28 Jul 2018 - 09:00 pm

Jerusalem: - An Israeli Arab lawmaker resigned on Saturday and branded the parliament "racist" after it passed a controversial new law which declares...

Funerals held for Gaza boy killed at border by Israel fire 28 Jul 2018 - 05:44 pm

Gaza CITY, Gaza Strip: A Palestinian teen died Saturday of wounds sustained by Israel army fire at a border protest a day earlier,...

Iraq cleric Sistani urges government action on corruption amid further protests 28 Jul 2018 - 04:24 am

BAGHDAD: Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called for a government to be formed as soon as possible to tackle corruption...

Syrians celebrate retaking town near Israel-occupied Golan 28 Jul 2018 - 04:10 am

Quneitra: Syrian officials on Friday celebrated the recapture of this symbolic southern town near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, raising a flag and playing...

Israel to build new settler homes in occupied West Bank after deadly knife attack 28 Jul 2018 - 04:10 am

Kobar, Palestinian Territories: Israel is to build hundreds of new homes in a settlement in the occupied West Bank where a Palestinian stabbed...

Israeli police raid al-Aqsa mosque after clashes; two dead in Gaza 28 Jul 2018 - 01:05 am

JERUSALEM/GAZA: Israeli troopers entered Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque, the third-holiest shrine in Islam, and carried out arrests on Friday in what police described as...

Iraqi Airways suspends pilots who fought in-flight over food 27 Jul 2018 - 10:42 am

Baghdad: Iraqi Airways has suspended two of its pilots for getting into a fight -- over a food tray -- during an international...

Syrian flag raised in Quneitra on Syrian side of Golan Heights 27 Jul 2018 - 05:43 am

GOLAN HEIGHTS/AMMAN: Pro-Assad forces raised the Syrian flag in the largely ruined city of Quneitra on Thursday, regained from surrendering rebels as the...

Israeli cartoonist fired after drawing Netanyahu as pig 26 Jul 2018 - 07:17 pm

JERUSALEM: A Jerusalem-based magazine has laid off a cartoonist for rendering an image of Israel's prime minister and Likud lawmakers as pig characters...

UN Palestinian agency to axe 250 jobs after US funding cuts 26 Jul 2018 - 02:35 am

Gaza City, Palestinian Territories: The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees announced Wednesday it was cutting more than 250 jobs in the Palestinian...

More than 220 dead in IS attacks on southern Syria's Sweida 26 Jul 2018 - 01:28 am

Beirut: A string of suicide blasts and raids claimed by the Islamic State group killed more than 220 people in southern Syria on...

Dozens dead in IS attacks on Syria's Sweida city, villages: Report 25 Jul 2018 - 10:08 am

Beirut: A string of suicide attacks in Syria by the Islamic State group has killed at least 40 people, mostly pro-regime fighters, in...

Syrian forces reach Golan Heights 25 Jul 2018 - 01:10 am

BEIRUT: Israel shot down a Syrian fighter jet it said had breached its airspace on Tuesday while advancing Syrian government forces retaking territory...

Erdogan calls Israel 'fascist' in new Netanyahu row 25 Jul 2018 - 01:06 am

Istanbul: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday called Israel a “fascist” state for a controversial law passed last week in parliament defining Israel...

Trump, Iran drama escalates -- via Twitter 24 Jul 2018 - 09:35 pm

Washington: Tensions are mounting between Donald Trump and Iran -- the US president's raw tweet threatening Tehran was met Monday with a similarly...

US: Middle East states not doing enough for Palestinians 24 Jul 2018 - 09:35 pm

United Nations: US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday criticized Middle Eastern countries for not doing enough to help Palestinians...