Thousands of Turks gathered near Hagia Sophia early on Friday for the first prayers there since President Tayyip Erdogan declared the monument, revered by Christians and...
The Syrian military said the country’s air defenses responded Monday to Israeli air raids in south Damascus that wounded seven soldiers and caused material damage, and...
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi discussed with U.S. President Donald Trump by phone on Monday the Libya conflict and talks about Ethiopia’s giant Blue Nile Dam, the...
Saudi Arabia’s 84-year-old ruler, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, has been admitted to hospital in the capital Riyadh, suffering from inflammation of the gall bladder, state news...
Iran’s coronavirus count stands at roughly 269,000 but the actual number of COVID-positive persons is nearly 90 times higher, President Hassan Rouhani suggested. Critically, millions more...
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi will travel to Saudi Arabia and Iran back-to-back next week, carefully balancing ties to regional rivals in his first foreign trip...
Israel reached a new daily record of confirmed coronavirus cases, the country’s Health Ministry said Thursday, as a new nationwide lockdown to curb the pandemic appeared...
Bankers have “smuggled” up to $6bn out of Lebanon since October, circumventing controls introduced to stem capital flight as the country plunged into its worst financial...
Russia and the West are in a showdown over continuing the delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria’s mainly rebel-held northwest after the current UN mandate expires...
An explosion was heard in western Tehran on Friday, state broadcaster IRIB said, citing online reports that a senior official in that part of the city...
Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday it had completed the first batch of its flour milling sector privatization, according to a statement by the state grain buyer...