Arab and International

The Kremlin said Monday that cooperation with Turkey is a top priority, confirming a meeting between the Russian and Turkish presidents on Thursday over escalating tensions in Syria. Russia attaches “great importance to cooperation…

Iraq's Prime Minister-designate Mohammad Tawfiq Allawi has withdrawn his candidacy after the parliament failed to approve his new government. Allawi asked the Iraqi presidency to excuse him from forming a new government in a speech on…

Zionist settlers uprooted 200 olive trees from Palestinian lands near the village of Al-Mughair, east of Ramallah in the West Bank. Palestinian sources reported that the “Adi Aad” settlers, who were on the village’s lands, had uprooted…

The Assistant Speaker of the Iranian Shura Council for International Affairs, Hossein  Amir-Abdollahian, said that it may emerge later that the spread of the Coronavirus is an US biological war against its major global competitors (China…

Washington and Kabul said in a joint statement on Saturday that the United States and its allies will withdraw all their forces from Afghanistan within 14 months if the Taliban abide by an agreement due to be signed in Doha on Saturday.…

The US and the Taliban agreed to swap thousands of prisoners in a “confidence building measure” as part of a landmark deal on Afghanistan’s future signed in Doha on Saturday. “Up to 5,000 prisoners of the (Taliban)… and 1,000 prisoners…

The Washington Post reported , Saturday, that in the annals of disastrous revolutions, the popular uprising that swept the Middle East in 2011 now appears to be among the worst. The so-called Arab Spring disrupted tyrannies — a good thing,…

Iran has dismissed a "hypocritical" claim made by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about making an offer to Tehran to help the Islamic Republic fight the new coronavirus, saying such remarks pursue political purposes and aim to distract…

Saudi Arabia says it has temporarily suspended entry for individuals aiming to perform Umrah pilgrimage or to visit the Prophet's Mosque in Medina over concerns of the spread of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. The Ministry of…

The Norwegian Directorate of Health expects up to one in four Norwegians to be infected with the coronavirus COVID-19. This may result in other necessary hospital treatment being postponed. Directorate of Health head Bjørn Guldvog…

US Democratic presidential candidates attacked Republican President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak on Thursday, as US authorities face growing criticism for not doing enough to prevent a widespread outbreak of the…

Gold prices rose on Thursday as the rapid spread of coronavirus outside China fuelled demand for safe-haven assets and boosted interest-rate cuts from major central banks, while palladium reached a record high due to fears of a shortage of…

Zionist enemy forces launched on Thursday a campaign of raids and arrests in separate parts of the occupied West Bank, amid confrontations. Palestinian sources reported that the enemy forces arrested an released prisoner after raiding and…

Iraq’s Ministry of Health and Environment said Thursday that it has detected a sixth case of coronavirus for a young Iraqi man in Baghdad who returned home from Iran. The number of cases recorded for the new the virus has jumped to…

Italy’s new coronavirus spread south on Tuesday to Tuscany and Sicily, as authorities reported a surge in the number of infected people and Rome convened emergency talks with European health ministers. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has…

Sen. Bernie Sanders, the apparent frontrunner in the Democratic presidential race, said he would not attend this year’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, saying that the group offers a platform to leaders who…

Iran has denounced the Israeli regime’s attacks on civilians and targets of the resistance front in Gaza and Syria, criticizing the international community’s inaction on Tel Aviv’s repeated atrocities in Palestine and its violation of the…

The Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen (OSESGY) is hosting a consultative meeting with a group of Yemeni public and political figures in Amman, Jordan, on 26-27 February 2020. The meeting brings together a…

A top U.S. health official said the spread of coronavirus in the country now appears to be inevitable. Nancy Messonnier, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Immunization and…

The Egyptian Presidency’s Office on Tuesday announced three-day mourning throughout the country over the death of the former Egyptian president Mohammed Hosni Mubarak, according to a spokesman for the presidency office. Mubarak died on…

Iran's Health Ministry says the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in the country has reached 12, while the number of confirmed infections stands at 64. The ministry's spokesman Iraj Harirchi was speaking at a press conference in…

Experts from the World Health Organization have visited the locked-down central Chinese city at the epicentre of the deadly global coronavirus outbreak, Chinese authorities said Monday. The trip over the weekend is the first reported…

The second round of the 5+5 Libyan Joint Military Commission (JMC) talks to reach a lasting ceasefire and to restore security to civilian areas concluded on 23 February at the Palace of Nations in Geneva. The talks took place in the…

Israeli jets have bombed several locations across the Gaza Strip after Palestinian resistance groups fired rockets towards Israel in retaliation for the murder of a Palestinian earlier in the day.   The Palestinian Information Center…

A number of human rights centers have renewed their call to international human rights and humanitarian societies and organizations for an international investigations on the Razeen Prison. It is classified as the third worst Arab prison,…

The main stock exchanges’ shares in Saudi Arabia on Sunday continued to record heavy losses for the second day in a row, affected by the recent attacks on Aramco facilities in Yanbu. The index of Saudi stock exchange fell 0.3 percent, as…

South Korea raised its alert on the coronavirus to the highest level Sunday after reporting three more deaths and 169 new infections. The country has seen a rapid surge in the number of coronavirus cases since a cluster of infections…

The World Health Organization warned Saturday that African health systems would be ill-equipped to respond to the deadly coronavirus outbreak should cases start to proliferate on the continent. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus…

Israeli occupation forces launched on Sunday and Saturday evening a massive arrest campaign among Palestinian citizens in the occupied Palestinian territories, where they arrested three Palestinians from the West Bank and four others from…

The fighter jets of the Israeli army penetrated on Saturday the Lebanese air spaces, leadership of Lebanese army said on a statement. According to SANA Agency, six fighter jets belonging to the Israeli army penetrated the Lebanese air…