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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Saudi dissidents launch opposition party
A group of Saudi dissidents exiled in Britain, the US and elsewhere announced the launch of an opposition party on Wednesday, the first organised political resistance under King Salman’s rule.
24 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Iran problem needs ‘comprehensive’ cure
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz yesterday called for a comprehensive solution on Iran and disarming its affiliate Hezbollah in Lebanon, and expressed support for US efforts to start talks between Israel and the Palestinians during his first address to the United Nations General Assembly.
23 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh requests Saudi govt for 3-month extension of work permit, visa for expats
Bangladesh has requested the Saudi government to extend the tenure of ‘Iqama’ (valid work permit) and visa of Bangladeshi expatriates for three more months so that workers stuck here can return to the Gulf country.
22 September 2020, 17:11 PM
Bahrain king says accord with Israel not directed against any country
Bahrain’s move to establish ties with Israel was not directed against any entity or power but aimed to bring about a comprehensive peace in the Middle East, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has said.
21 September 2020, 14:52 PM
Lebanon’s army finds firework cache at devastated Beirut port
Lebanon’s army has said it found 1.3 tonnes of fireworks during a search of Beirut port, which was devastated last month in a huge blast that was blamed on a large quantity of chemicals kept in poor condition.
19 September 2020, 11:24 AM
Human trafficking, money laundering: Kuwait court bins MP Papul’s plea for release
A Kuwait court has rejected Laxmipur-2 lawmaker Shahid Islam Papul’s plea for release and decided to postpone the trial of the accused in the case until October 1 after the hearing of a case accusing him of human trafficking, money laundering, bribing and threatening the state security.
17 September 2020, 18:09 PM
In occupied West Bank, Palestinian bloggers see local tourism as defiance
Two Palestinian travel bloggers are promoting local Palestinian tourism in the West Bank as an act of defiance against Israeli occupation.
17 September 2020, 11:37 AM
Gaza rockets, Israeli air strikes accompany Israel-Gulf pacts
Militants in Gaza launched rockets into Israel and Israeli aircraft hit targets in the Palestinian enclave in an explosive backdrop to the signing of pacts for formal ties between Israel and two Gulf Arab countries.
16 September 2020, 11:34 AM
No peace in Mideast without end to Israel occupation: Abbas
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says only an Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories can bring peace to the Middle East, as the UAE and Bahrain signed normalisation accords with the Jewish state.
16 September 2020, 07:44 AM
As Arab Gulf starts opening to Israel, Palestinians face a reckoning
Israel’s rapprochement with Gulf Arab states has left the Palestinians feeling abandoned by traditional allies and clutching an old playbook in a rapidly changing Middle East, analysts and critics say.
15 September 2020, 18:24 PM
UAE and Bahrain sign US-brokered deals with Israel, breaking longtime taboo
The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have signed agreements for normalising relations with Israel, becoming the latest Arab states to break a longstanding taboo in a strategic realignment of Middle Eastern countries against Iran.
15 September 2020, 18:08 PM
Saudi to ease int’l flight restrictions today
Saudi Arabia will partially lift its suspension on international flights from today, the interior ministry said, six months after travel curbs were imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
14 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Lebanese rivalries hinder cabinet formation on eve of deadline
Lebanon’s factional rivalries have put the brakes on moves to form a new government on the eve of a deadline agreed with France, stalling efforts to drag the nation out of a dire economic crisis.
14 September 2020, 14:02 PM
Gazans living on Emirates-funded estate rue normalisation deal with Israel
Palestinians fear the UAE’s move will weaken a long-standing pan-Arab call for Israeli withdrawal from occupied land and acceptance of Palestinian statehood in return for normal relations with Arab countries.
13 September 2020, 11:52 AM
Libya's Haftar committed to ending oil blockade: US embassy says
Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar has committed to ending a months-long blockade of oil facilities, the US embassy in the country says in a statement.
12 September 2020, 17:39 PM
Palestinians rally against Bahrain-Israel normalisation
Palestinians in Gaza have burnt pictures of Israeli, US, Bahraini and United Arab Emirates leaders in protest over the two Gulf countries’ moves to normalise ties with Israel.
12 September 2020, 13:37 PM
Trump boasted of saving Saudi crown prince: report
US President Donald Trump boasted that he saved Saudi Arabia’s crown prince from greater scrutiny over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to an explosive new book.
11 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh Navy joins efforts to put out Beirut port fire
Members of Bangladesh Navy have joined in alongside firefighters to help put out a fire that broke out at Beirut port area in Lebanon today.
10 September 2020, 16:45 PM
Big fire at Beirut port rattles residents a month after huge explosion
A large fire has erupted at Beirut port, sending a huge column of smoke above the city a little more than a month after a massive blast devastated the port and surrounding residential area of the Lebanese capital.
10 September 2020, 12:08 PM
Assange extradition hearing to resume in London
A London hearing resumed yesterday to decide if WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be extradited to the United States to face trial over the publication of secrets relating to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
7 September 2020, 18:00 PM