World / Middle East

Israel navy intercepts activist boat trying to break Gaza blockade 29 Jul 2018 - 09:05 pm

Jerusalem: Israel's navy on Sunday intercepted a Norwegian-flagged activist boat trying to break its more than decade-long blockade of the Gaza Strip, the...

Resistance continues, says Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi 29 Jul 2018 - 02:01 pm

NABI SALEH, West Bank: A Palestinian teenager released by Israel on Sunday after completing a prison term for kicking and slapping an Israeli...

Iraqi PM suspends electricity minister over poor service 29 Jul 2018 - 11:30 am

BAGHDAD: Iraq's prime minister has ordered the suspension of the country's electricity minister over a power crisis and poor service. Haider al-Abadi made...

Palestinian protest icon Ahed Tamimi out of Israeli prison 29 Jul 2018 - 09:49 am

NABI SALEH, West Bank: Israel released 17-year-old Palestinian protest icon Ahed Tamimi from prison early on Sunday, after she served her eight-month sentence...

Lebanon sinks old tanks to create underwater dive ‘park’ 29 Jul 2018 - 04:48 am

Sidon: Lebanese environmentalists yesterday sank 10 old tanks and armoured vehicles to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea in a novel attempt to...

Tweets scorn Egypt's Sisi in renewed online criticism 28 Jul 2018 - 10:59 pm

CAIRO: Egyptians renewed online criticism of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday, hours after he said he was "saddened" by a similar campaign...

Israel arrests Italian graffiti artists in West Bank: Palestinians 28 Jul 2018 - 10:12 pm

RAMALLAH: Israeli border police on Saturday arrested two Italian graffiti artists who were painting a mural of a jailed Palestinian teenager, Ahed Tamimi,...

West Bank village prepares for homecoming of Ahed Tamimi 28 Jul 2018 - 10:12 pm

NABI SALEH, West Bank: On the eve of Ahed Tamimi's release from prison, the father of the Palestinian protest icon said Saturday that...

Anadolu Agency films FETO-linked businessmen in US 28 Jul 2018 - 09:00 pm

NEW YORK: Anadolu Agency has captured on film the luxurious lives of two Turkish businessmen in California, who are being sought by Turkey...

Israeli Arab lawmaker quits 'racist' parliament over Jewish nation-state law 28 Jul 2018 - 09:00 pm

Jerusalem: - An Israeli Arab lawmaker resigned on Saturday and branded the parliament "racist" after it passed a controversial new law which declares...

Funerals held for Gaza boy killed at border by Israel fire 28 Jul 2018 - 05:44 pm

Gaza CITY, Gaza Strip: A Palestinian teen died Saturday of wounds sustained by Israel army fire at a border protest a day earlier,...

Iraq cleric Sistani urges government action on corruption amid further protests 28 Jul 2018 - 04:24 am

BAGHDAD: Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called for a government to be formed as soon as possible to tackle corruption...

Syrians celebrate retaking town near Israel-occupied Golan 28 Jul 2018 - 04:10 am

Quneitra: Syrian officials on Friday celebrated the recapture of this symbolic southern town near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, raising a flag and playing...

Israel to build new settler homes in occupied West Bank after deadly knife attack 28 Jul 2018 - 04:10 am

Kobar, Palestinian Territories: Israel is to build hundreds of new homes in a settlement in the occupied West Bank where a Palestinian stabbed...

Israeli police raid al-Aqsa mosque after clashes; two dead in Gaza 28 Jul 2018 - 01:05 am

JERUSALEM/GAZA: Israeli troopers entered Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque, the third-holiest shrine in Islam, and carried out arrests on Friday in what police described as...

Iraqi Airways suspends pilots who fought in-flight over food 27 Jul 2018 - 10:42 am

Baghdad: Iraqi Airways has suspended two of its pilots for getting into a fight -- over a food tray -- during an international...

Syrian flag raised in Quneitra on Syrian side of Golan Heights 27 Jul 2018 - 05:43 am

GOLAN HEIGHTS/AMMAN: Pro-Assad forces raised the Syrian flag in the largely ruined city of Quneitra on Thursday, regained from surrendering rebels as the...

Israeli cartoonist fired after drawing Netanyahu as pig 26 Jul 2018 - 07:17 pm

JERUSALEM: A Jerusalem-based magazine has laid off a cartoonist for rendering an image of Israel's prime minister and Likud lawmakers as pig characters...