Arab and International

US President Joe Biden has called on Congress to move forward on gun-reform legislation and pass stricter gun laws including a ban on assault weapons. The call comes on the third anniversary of a mass school shooting in Parkland,…

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday said that Chinese and Russian vaccines are necessary for the world to win the "war" against COVID-19. "We should work with the Chinese and Russians so that the vaccines developed by their…

Hospitals around the United States warn that they are facing a sever shortage of crucial personal protective equipment (PPE) and other COVID-related medical supplies that could complicate testing and vaccine programs. Data on the use of…

Syrian state television reported on Monday that the air defenses had responded to an Israeli aggression in the sky of the capital, Damascus. A military source announced that the Israeli occupation entity fired missile barrages at areas…

Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren has ripped former US President Donald Trump for his “violent attack” on “democracy,” saying, “We must… convict Trump, and bar him from ever holding office again.” “There’s no getting…

A large earthquake shook a broad area across eastern Japan late Saturday night, with its epicenter off the coast of Fukushima, near where three nuclear reactors melted down after a quake and tsunami nearly 10 years ago. The Japanese…

The prominent Bahraini cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Issa Ahmed Qassem, called for the formation of an Arab and Islamic alliance, the "Ummah Alliance", to restore all rights of the nation, foremost among which is the Palestinian right. In a…

The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy has warned that two children, aged 13, might face 20 years in prison. They were arrested and interrogated on charges related to the protest in Bahrain. The Institute reported that the two…

Clashes broke out with the Zionist enemy forces, on Friday night, in the town of Al-Tur and Issawiya in occupied al-Quds. Palestinian sources reported that clashes erupted in “Al-Khallah” area in the town of Al-Tur, between the youths…

UN organizations said on Friday that half of children under the age of five in Yemen would suffer from malnutrition in 2021, and that hundreds of thousands of them may die due to the lack of humanitarian aid. The Food and Agriculture…

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced the exclusion of “Ansar Allah” from the list of foreign terrorist organizations, effective February 16. Blinken said in a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry: “Starting from February…

China's broadcasting regulator has banned the British television channel, BBC World News, from airing in the Asian country for violating regulations. The National Radio and Television Administration said in a statement on Friday that…

siaRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow is prepared to end the relationship with the European Union if the bloc introduces sanctions that put the Russian economy at risk. The foreign minister noted that Russia is…

Moscow’s diplomats in Washington have reacted furiously to the latest in a series of military drills carried out by American sailors off Russia’s southern coast, which is almost 9,000km away from the US mainland. On Wednesday, the US…

A Palestinian was killed today evening after he was deliberately run over by an Israeli settler at Kafl Haris junction to the northwest of Salfit, WAfA News Agency reported, citing Governor of Salfit, Abdullah Kmail. He said that a…

Two soldiers were killed and four others injured Thursday after clashes with PKK elements broke out in the Karah region of northern Iraq, the Turkish Defence Ministry said. As a result of the clashes in the “Eagle’s Paw 2” area, where…

A Bahraini opposition protest movement has called for the formation of a coalition consisting of all political groups as well as the people of the Arab country to overthrow the country’s political system. In a Wednesday statement ahead…

Sa'ada governor Mohammed Awad discussed on Wednesday with UNICEF Resident Representative in Yemen Philippe Duamelle the UNICEF's interventions in implementing projects in Sa'ada province. In the meeting, governor Awad referred to the…

British ministers have refused to join the US in suspending arms sales to Saudi Arabia for offensive use in war-torn Yemen, saying the UK makes its own decisions about selling weapons. On Monday, the UK Foreign Office minister, James…

A Palestinian worker was injured on Tuesday evening after being shot by Israeli occupation gunfire near the town of Barta’a, southwest of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, WAFA New Agency reported, citing sources. Sources said that…

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says reconciliation talks among political factions in Cairo must result in ending internal divisions and confront those who seek to undermine the Palestinian cause. Ismail Haniyeh, the head of…

Hashtag #USADetainsOilShips, in both Arabic and English, got the first global trend on Twitter, minutes after the campaign, which was launched at exactly nine o'clock on Tuesday evening on the social networking site “Twitter”, to denounce…

The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that the original animal carrier of COVID-19 has not yet been identified, as the organization ruled out that a ab leak caused the outbreak. The remarks were as WHO held a press conference…

Iranian Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif said that Iran's initiative to stop the aggression against Yemen is still available, and that the visit of the UN envoy to Yemen to Tehran has no relation with the recent US position on the…

US President Joe Biden has indicated that Washington will not lift sanctions against Tehran as a means to resuming negotiations, saying that Iran needs to stop its uranium enrichment activities “first.” Speaking to CBS Evening News on…

An Australian journalist who has been detained for nearly six months in China where she worked for a state-television channel has been formally arrested on suspicion of illegally supplying state secrets overseas, the two countries said on…

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran will retrace its nuclear countermeasures once the United States lifts its sanctions in a manner that could be verifiable by Tehran. “Iran will return to its JCOPA…

The global Association for Creativity and Human Sciences has chosen the Minister of Public Health and Population, Dr. Taha Al-Mutawakel, as the Personality of the Year among the 100 Best Personalities for the Year 2020, in the Arab World.…

Israeli troopers have shot and wounded at least four Palestinians in northern city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank as tensions continue to simmer in the occupied territories. The Palestinian Information Center, quoting local sources,…

The Iraqi intelligence agency announced on Sunday that 13 ISIL terrorist elements have been arrested in Baghdad. The Iraqi intelligence and security agency issued a statement on the latest achievements in the fight against remnants of…