The Iranian navy's largest ship has caught fire and sunk near the Gulf of Oman.  A blaze broke out on board support vessel Kharg on Tuesday afternoon while it was on a training mission near the port of Jask, according to Iranian news agencies.....

The World Health Organization has granted emergency use authorization of the Chinese manufactured Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine for those 18 years of age and older...

Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Nawaf Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah held talks with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh in the Kuwaiti capital on Tuesday, during his official visit to the country...

Political calls and meetings intensified in Lebanon during the past 48 hours in what was described as possibly “the last attempt” to salvage the process of forming a new government, as the World Bank said authorities’ policy response to challen...

Replicating the Jerusalem model, Tel Aviv aims to create a Jewish majority with illegal settlements in occupied Golan Heights...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said he will discuss the recent tensions between the US and Turkey with his American counterpart Joe Biden in the upcoming NATO leaders’ summit...

Israel has managed to penetrate into Iran’s “heart”, said Yossi Cohen, the outgoing head of the Israeli national intelligence service, Mossad...

Countries such as Canada, the US, Israel and several European countries, including the UK, have achieved relatively high vaccination rates among adults and are seeing significant declines in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections...

An Egyptian court has postponed a compensation case over the Ever Given container ship’s blocking of the Suez Canal to allow more time for negotiators to agree a deal...

Allegations of arbitrary detentions, extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances are part of what appears to be an ongoing pattern of serious violations of human rights by Indian government forces in the Jammu and Kashmir region, according to ...

The head of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas in Gaza said Monday there is "a real chance to make progress” on a prisoner swap with Israel...

Lebanon’s army carried out large-scale military exercises on Monday to test its readiness to deal with a nationwide crisis...

Saudi Arabia recorded 15 new COVID-19 related deaths on Monday, raising the total number of fatalities to 7,362...

Egypt has rejected Ethiopia’s intention to build a number of dams in different regions of the country, the foreign ministry said on Monday...

China has accused the United States of taking a 'dangerous stance' in calling for a full investigation into the possibility that COVID--19 escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, warning that Washington 'could meet its Waterloo in this battle'...

The European Commission has proposed for member states to exempt vaccinated travelers from COVID-19 quarantine when traveling between EU nations as it urges them to slowly lift pandemic restrictions...

President Joe Biden laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Monday to mark Memorial Day, remarking on the "precious" lives buried at Arlington National Cemetery...

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have said that they expected the US and Danish governments to present explanations over allegations of spying by Washington on European allies with Copenhagen's aid...

The military costs of Israel's onslaught on the Gaza Strip, from the price of the missiles launched from the Iron Dome missile defense system to other military hardware, should be compared with the military cost for the Palestinian resistance faction...

Egypt has announced the lifting of some coronavirus restrictions, as a government spokesman said the country planned to jab 500,000 people a day so that 50 percent of the population was vaccinated by the end of this year...