Iraq, Iran sign deal to tighten border security

Iraq and Iran signed a border security agreement yesterday, a move Iraqi officials said aimed primarily at tightening the frontier with Iraq’s Kurdish region, where Tehran says armed Kurdish dissidents pose a threat to its security.
19 March 2023, 18:00 PM

Palestinian, Israeli officials meet in Egypt

Israeli and Palestinian officials were meeting in Egypt yesterday for talks aimed at calming surging violence that has stoked fears of further escalation once the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins later this week.
19 March 2023, 18:00 PM

100 killed this year

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian Friday in what the army described as an attempted “stabbing attack”, bringing the number of people killed in the conflict this year to 100.
18 March 2023, 18:00 PM

Israeli raid in West Bank kills three

Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in a raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank yesterday, the Palestinian health ministry said.
16 March 2023, 18:00 PM

Won’t meet Erdogan

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he will only meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan if Turkey withdraws troops from northern Syria, according to a Russian media interview published yesterday.
16 March 2023, 18:00 PM

KSA could invest in Iran ‘very quickly’

Saudi Arabia could start making investments in Iran “very quickly” after they agreed to restore diplomatic ties, the Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan said yesterday, despite sweeping US sanctions against the Islamic republic.
15 March 2023, 18:00 PM

Flash floods kill at least 13 in Turkish quake zone

Flash floods killed at least 13 people living in tents and container housing set up across Turkey’s quake-hit region yesterday, piling more pressure on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of crunch elections.
15 March 2023, 18:00 PM

Hunger rising sharply in Syria: WFP

Hunger and malnutrition are rising sharply in Syria and more than half its population is short of food after 12 years of war, economic pressures and last month’s earthquake, the World Food Program said yesterday.
15 March 2023, 18:00 PM

Iran’s behaviour to be under microscope

Saudi Arabia will watch Iran’s behaviour during the two-month window agreed upon to restore relations, Saudi columnists said yesterday, reflecting continued wariness in the longtime rivalry between the region’s Sunni Muslim and Shia powers.
12 March 2023, 18:00 PM

West Bank: Israeli troops kill three Palestinian gunmen

Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinian gunmen in a pre-dawn firefight in the occupied West Bank, Israeli and Palestinian sources said yesterday, amid a surge in violence in the region.
12 March 2023, 18:00 PM

Broader signs of a changing global order

Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations in a China-brokered deal that could have wide-ranging consequences but building on it, analysts say, will prove the main challenge.
12 March 2023, 18:00 PM

2 Palestinians shot dead in West Bank

Three Palestinian were shot dead after they fired at Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank near Nablus, the Israeli army said on Sunday, as violence in the region continued
12 March 2023, 06:40 AM

Iran says deal reached to buy Russian fighter jets

Iran has finalised a deal to buy Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets from Russia, state media reported, as defence cooperation between the two countries deepens.
11 March 2023, 18:00 PM

Iran, KSA agree to restore ties

Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to restore ties and to reopen respective diplomatic missions after talks in China, state media in both countries reported yesterday, seven years after relations were severed.
10 March 2023, 18:00 PM

Israeli settler kills suspected attacker in West Bank

A settler killed an alleged assailant in the occupied West Bank yesterday after a gunman wounded three people in Tel Aviv, in a surge of Israeli-Palestinian violence that shows no sign of abating.
10 March 2023, 18:00 PM

Jenin Shootout: Israeli forces kill three Palestinians

Three Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank yesterday, the Palestinian health ministry said, with an Israeli official saying they had opened fire first.
9 March 2023, 18:00 PM

Taliban governor of Afghan province killed in blast

A blast tore through the Taliban governor's office in Afghanistan's northern Balkh province on Thursday, killing him and two others, police said.
9 March 2023, 12:04 PM

Smiley, dimpled sphinx statue found in Egypt

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a sphinx statue “with a smiley face and two dimples” near the Hathor Temple, one of the country’s best preserved ancient sites, the tourism and antiquities ministry said.
8 March 2023, 18:00 PM

7 dead in Syria drone strike on arms factory

Seven people including several civilians were killed yesterday when a drone strike targeted a weapons factory belonging to Iran-backed factions in government-held eastern Syria, a war monitor said.
8 March 2023, 18:00 PM

Syria mission worth the risk

The nearly eight-year-old US deployment to Syria to combat Islamic State is still worth the risk, the top US military officer said on Saturday, after a rare, unannounced visit to a dusty base in the country’s northeast to meet US troops.
5 March 2023, 18:00 PM