Ramallah/Tel Aviv, Aug. 22, (dpa/GNA) – Three people have been killed in an Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank, the Health Ministry in Ramallah said…
Middle East
Iran’s new foreign minister aims to warm ties with the West
Tehran, Aug. 22, (dpa/GNA) – Iran’s new Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is planning a rapprochement with the West in the face of international sanctions and political isolation.…
Sixteen civilians reported killed in clashes in Syria
Cairo, Aug 11, (dpa/GNA) – At least 16 people have been killed since violent clashes began several days ago, between pro-Iranian fighters and the…
Hamas names new leader as Iran threat puts Middle East on edge
Beirut, Aug. 7, (dpa/GNA) – Yehya al-Sinwar, the head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, has been chosen to replace the late Ismail Haniyeh as the top…
Residents of Hezbollah stronghold leave homes, fearing onset of war
Beirut, Aug. 2, (dpa/GNA) – Residents of Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold on the outskirts of the capital, began leaving their homes and looking for other…
Border between Israel and Lebanon heats up as they exchange fire
Beirut/Tel Aviv, Jul. 30, (dpa/GNA) – Israel struck 10 “terror targets” including a weapons depot for the pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement on Tuesday, killing one of the group’s…
Dozens feared dead after boat carrying 45 migrants capsizes off Yemen
Cairo, Jul. 25, (dpa/GNA) – Only four survivors have been found after a boat carrying 45 refugees and migrants capsized off the coast of Yemen, the United…
Militants bomb girls’ school in north-western Pakistan
Islamabad, Jul. 22, (dpa/GNA) – A girls’ school was blown up by suspected militants in north-western Pakistan near the Afghan border, in yet another incident targeting female…
Number of Palestinian children killed in West Bank surges, UN says
Geneva, Jul. 22, (dpa/GNA) – At least 143 Palestinian children and young people have been killed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem over the past nine months,…
Syria: Assad’s Baath party wins majority in parliamentary polls
Damascus, Jul. 18, (dpa/GNA) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s party and its allies have swept an expected majority of seats in the war-torn country’s parliamentary election. The…
Devastating storm in Afghanistan leaves some 40 dead, hundreds hurt
Islamabad, Jul. 16, (dpa/GNA) – A powerful storm ripped through Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province on Monday, leaving nearly 40 people dead and at least 347 injured, according…
Sixteen missing after oil tanker capsizes off Oman coast
Beirut, Jul. 16, (dpa/GNA) – Sixteen crew members were missing after their Comorian-flagged oil tanker capsized off the coast of Oman, the sultanate’s Maritime Security Centre (MSC) said…
Death toll rises to six in shooting near a mosque in Oman
Beirut, Jul. 16, (dpa/GNA) – The death toll from a shooting near a Shiite mosque in Oman’s capital on Tuesday has risen from four to six and now includes…
UN warns nearly 500,000 face ‘catastrophic levels of hunger’ in Gaza
Tel Aviv, Jul. 12, (dpa/GNA) – Almost half a million people in the Gaza Strip are suffering from “catastrophic levels of hunger,” the United Nations warned on…
Official: Most UNRWA schools in Gaza Strip hit during war
Gaza, Jul. 10, (dpa/GNA) – Two thirds of schools run by the Palestinian relief organization UNRWA in the Gaza Strip have suffered damage since the start of…
Reports: Israeli army kills four militants in West Bank
Ramallah/Tel Aviv, Jul. 5, (dpa/GNA) – Several armed militants have been killed in an Israeli military operation in Jenin in the West Bank, Israeli and Palestinian media…
Iranians vote in run-off election between hardliner and reformist
Tehran, Jul. 5, (dpa/GNA) – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei kicked off the run-off election for the Iranian presidential elections by casting his own ballot on…
Iranians head to the polls to elect new president
Tehran, Jun. 28, (dpa/GNA) – Iran is set to elect a new president on Friday, with some 61 million voters called upon to choose a successor to…
Heatwaves prompts UAE, Saudi Arabia to shorten Friday prayers
Cairo, Jun. 28, (dpa/GNA) – Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are shortening the traditional Friday prayers due to intense heat, until the end of…
Police in Pakistan detain 23 people for deadly mob lynching
Islamabad, Jun. 24, (dpa/GNA) – Police in north-western Pakistan have arrested at least 23 individuals who were allegedly part of a mob that lynched a man to…