More than 750 academics and public figures from Israel, Palestine and elsewhere have signed an open letter equating Tel Aviv’s occupation of the West Bank with apartheid, signaling what supporters say is a "watershed moment" for how Israel’s occupation is viewed.
Russia has proposed to Qatar a switch to the use of national currencies in trade settlements, Russian Ambassador to Doha Dmitry Dogadkin said, adding that the sides are already working on the idea.
Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company, Aramco, says it will plough ahead with new investments in China. This as the company has announced a 38 percent drop in profit as lower oil prices and production cuts bite.
The US Navy has deployed more than 3,000 sailors and Marine forces to West Asia under the pretext of protecting ships and vessels crossing the main waterways.
Iraq plans to ask Interpol to issue international alerts seeking the arrest of former senior officials including an ex-finance minister and an ex-intelligence chief over the suspected theft of more than $2.5 billion from the country's Tax Commission.
An Israeli missile attack near Syria’s capital, Damascus, has killed at least four Syrian soldiers and wounded four others, SANA news agency has reported.
A delegation of the US House Democrats will visit Israel and the occupied West Bank this week to discuss prospects for a two-state solution, Israel's judicial reforms and Iran nuclear program, among other issues.
Saudi Arabia has signed a strategic agreement with Turkish defense firm Baykar Tech to localise the manufacturing of drones in the kingdom, state-owned Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) posted on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
An international and independent child rights organization has reported that Israeli military forces have killed more than three dozen Palestinian children during separate incursions in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip since the beginning of 2023.
Russian and Syrian air forces struck at a militant command center in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib that was responsible for coordinating attacks on civilian and military targets, a senior Russian officer has stated.
Lebanon's caretaker premier Najib Mikati has stated there was no cause for "concern or panic" about his country's security situation, after Britain, Germany and Persian Gulf countries issued new travel warnings following the outbreak of violence.
Thousands of Israelis demonstrated on Saturday in Tel Aviv and other cities across occupied Palestinian territories against the hard-right government's judicial overhaul, opponents see as a threat to "democracy".
The Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) says it has obtained a document which shows the terrorist Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) has worked hand in glove with the ISIS terror group seeking to assassinate commanders of resistance movements in Syria.
Hundreds of former Israeli military officials have warned of the collapse of the regime in Tel Aviv, amid mass rallies against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right cabinet and its extremist policies.
An Israeli man was critically wounded in a shooting attack on a central street in Tel Aviv on Saturday, paramedics have confirmed. It comes a day after Israeli settlers fatally shot a Palestinian teen in the occupied West Bank.
Saudi Arabia is hosting a summit in Jeddah, in which senior officials from some 40 countries – except Russia – will try to draft key principles on how to end Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Taliban rulers of Afghanistan have shut down the offices of the Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation, a major Iranian charitable organization, in the Afghan cities of Kabul, Mazar-e-Sharif and Herat.
The Daesh terror group on Thursday confirmed the death of its leader Abu Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi, and named Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Quraishi as his replacement.
Syrian commandos and Russian air forces have conducted a joint tactical training exercise, the Russian Defense Ministry has announced. The night drill in the Syrian province of Hama was the first of its kind for the two allies, according to the statement on Thursday.
