Lebanon’s public prosecutor has launched an investigation into central bank governor Riad Salameh, a judicial source said, after a Swiss legal request alleged that more than $300 million had been embezzled from the bank through a company owned by h...

A Palestinian engineer, who was in the team that designed NASA’s mini Mars helicopter Ingenuity, is proud of being part of a historic event...

Israeli military forces have shot and injured a Palestinian woman in the southern part of West Bank over an alleged stabbing attempt against the regime's soldiers, amid heightening tensions in the occupied territories...

Thousands of Americans took to the streets on Saturday in annual May Day marches to draw attention to the rights of workers, particularly immigrants...

Could the leaked Javad Zarif tape end up inadvertently giving centrists and reformists a greater chance in the upcoming elections? Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has defended his controversial leaked interview which was b...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is holding talks with factions to form a national unity government following the postponement of elections, Palestinian officials said on Saturday...

A British man has today been named as among the victims of a stampede at a Jewish pilgrimage site that tragically left 45 people dead after hundreds of worshippers became trapped in an overcrowded passageway in Israel...

More than 200 people were arrested in Istanbul on Saturday as Turkish police cracked down on protesters who defied a coronavirus lockdown to take part in a traditional May Day labor march...

As Western countries take a backseat, the UAE is gradually building a region that empowers Russia and China – much at the expense of American and European leverage...

China said it is willing to put a stop to any movement toward Taiwanese independence, after the U.S. director of national intelligence said Thursday that Taiwan's views of independence are "hardening" amid tensions...

US President Joe Biden voiced solidarity with the people of Israel on Friday after a stampede at an Orthodox religious ceremony left dozens dead...

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said late Friday that the decision to postpone planned Palestinian elections has no credible justification...

The Biden administration plans to halt travel from India amid skyrocketing COVID-19 cases in the South Asian country, the White House press secretary announced Friday...

Sanctions kill ordinary folk while elites carry on as usual.  This should be the lesson of the US and its Western allies, which impose sanctions on countries, which do not do their bidding...

The United States condemns North Korea's "increasingly draconian measures" to strengthen control over its population during the COVID-19 pandemic and will work to "promote accountability" for the Kim Jong Un regime, State Department spokesman Ned Pri...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas decided Thursday to postpone parliamentary elections scheduled for May 22...

At least 44 people were killed and 103 injured early Friday in a stampede at a Jewish religious festival in northern Israel...

Families of women and children with ties to suspected members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) who were recently repatriated to Tunisia say all of the women are in detention, Human Rights Watch said...

The United States is sending supplies worth more than $100million to India to help it fight a record-breaking surge of COVID-19 cases, the White House said in a statement on Wednesday...

The Indonesian government officially designated the West Papua National Liberation Army, an armed separatist group in far east of the archipelago, as a terrorist organization...