Any new attack would be ‘another failure’: Iran
23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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‘Keep dreaming’
20 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Iran executes man over espionage
19 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Netanyahu says will run for PM in next year's election
19 October 2025, 02:53 AM
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Nuclear deal with west / Iran ‘terminates’ all mechanisms
18 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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‘Just a wasteland’
18 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Israeli forces kill 11-year-old in West Bank
17 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Palestinians touring Europe to boost state recognition
15 October 2025, 18:58 PM
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Aid trucks roll into Gaza
15 October 2025, 18:50 PM
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Iran says Trump's call for peace 'at odds' with US actions
14 October 2025, 06:08 AM
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Palestinian rocket fire draws Israeli air strikes in Gaza
Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel, drawing Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military has said.
22 November 2020, 13:01 PM
Israel strikes widely in Syria, sending signal of aggressive post-Trump posture
Israel has launched air raids against what it called a wide range of Syrian and Iranian targets in Syria, sending a signal that it will pursue its policy of striking across the border despite US President Donald Trump’s election defeat.
18 November 2020, 14:01 PM
Iran says US move against it would face ‘crushing’ response
Any US attack on Iran would face a “crushing” response, an Iranian government spokesman has said, following reports US President Donald Trump asked for options for a strike on Iran’s main nuclear site but decided against doing so.
17 November 2020, 16:52 PM
Kuwait won’t renew work, residency permits for expats aged 60 years and above
Decision to take effect from January 1, 2020 with maximum 3 months’ deadline for departure
14 November 2020, 18:11 PM
Death toll nears 100
A shipwreck off the Libyan coast has killed 20 people, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said, just hours after news of a separate incident in which at least 74 migrants died.
13 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Islamic State claims responsibility for Jeddah attack
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an attack on a non-Muslim cemetery in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah which wounded several people, without providing any evidence.
12 November 2020, 15:59 PM
Bahrain PM, world's longest-serving, dies at 84
Bahrain's Prince Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa, the world's longest-serving prime minister who had held the post since independence in 1971, died today at the age of 84, state media announced.
11 November 2020, 09:11 AM
Coronavirus: Cemeteries in Iran overwhelmed by virus deaths
For over half a century, a massive graveyard on the edge of Iran’s capital has provided a final resting place for this country’s war dead, its celebrities and artists, its thinkers and leaders and all those in between.
11 November 2020, 06:57 AM
Trump administration advances $10 billion defense sale to UAE: source
The US State Department sent Congress an informal notification of plans to sell $10 billion of defense equipment, including precision-guided munitions, non-precision bombs and missiles to the United Arab Emirates, a US congressional aide has said.
7 November 2020, 14:58 PM
UAE to relax Islamic laws for personal freedoms
The United Arab Emirates has announced a major overhaul of the Islamic personal laws in the country -- allowing unmarried couples to cohabitate, loosening restrictions on alcohol, and criminalising “honour killings”.
7 November 2020, 14:33 PM
Saudi Arabia to relax foreign workers’ sponsorship terms in March 2021
Saudi Arabia announces new plans to ease foreign workers’ contractual restrictions, improving a controversial seven-decade-old sponsorship system known as kafala.
4 November 2020, 13:32 PM
Iran says UN arms embargo on Tehran has been lifted
Iran said a longstanding UN embargo on arms sales to and from the Islamic republic expired Sunday in line with a 2015 landmark nuclear deal with world powers from which Washington has withdrawn.
18 October 2020, 10:45 AM
Saudi Arabia allows citizens, residents to perform prayers in Al-Haram Mosque - state TV
Saudi Arabia allowed its citizens and residents inside the kingdom to perform prayers in one of the most holy religious sites in Islam, Al-Haram mosque in Mecca, for the first time in seven months, state television reported early today.
18 October 2020, 08:06 AM
Israel halts granting visas to UN human rights employees
Israel has stopped granting visas to UN human rights workers, forcing them to stop their work and leave the country, according to a report by Middle East Eye (MEE).
16 October 2020, 06:11 AM
Saudi Chamber of Commerce chief calls for a boycott of ‘everything Turkish’
Saudi Arabia’s Chamber of Commerce head Ajlan Al Ajlan has called for a boycott of “everything Turkish”, including imports, investment, and tourism, reports Gulf News.
3 October 2020, 19:41 PM
Lebanon asks Interpol to arrest Russian ship captain, owner over port explosion
Lebanon has asked Interpol to issue arrest warrants for the Russian captain and owner of the ship that brought the explosive material that detonated at Beirut port in August, killing nearly 200 people, according to state media reports.
2 October 2020, 17:35 PM
Israel’s Mossad head meets top Bahrain security officials: BNA agency
The head of Israel’s foreign intelligence service Mossad met Bahrain’s heads of national intelligence and strategic security during a visit to Bahrain, Bahrain’s state news agency (BNA) has reported.
1 October 2020, 16:53 PM
Lebanon and Israel agree framework for talks to end border dispute
Lebanon and Israel have agreed to a framework for US-mediated talks aimed at ending a long-running dispute over a border that has been the frontline of several conflicts.
1 October 2020, 13:37 PM
Kuwait’s new emir takes oath
Kuwait’s new emir was sworn in at parliament yesterday as the country prepared to lay to rest late ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, who helped steer the US-allied Gulf state through some of the Middle East’s most turbulent decades.
30 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Saudi Arabia to cut spending next year, sees economy bouncing back
Saudi Arabia plans to cut spending by 7.5% in next year’s budget to 990 billion riyals ($263.94 billion) but expects the economy to return to growth as its management of the coronavirus crisis improves.
30 September 2020, 16:36 PM