USA dominated the global arms market in 2019, while the Middle East appeared for the first time among the 25 largest arms manufacturers, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Monday. The US arms industr...
A Palestinian youth was wounded by Israeli Israeli gunfire north of occupied al-Quds. According to the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), Israeli forces fired at a young man at the entrance to the Qalandia checkpoint north of occupied al-Quds city, inj...
Israeli forces have closed a number of the main entrances to the villages in the occupied Golan Heights of Syria, barring the locals from reaching their farms, where the Tel Aviv regime wants to set up wind turbines. Syria's official news agency, SA...
China’s top diplomat on Monday called for the resumption of talks with the incoming US administration of president-elect Joe Biden, as relations between the world’s two largest economies continued to nosedive. Speaking during a video call with the ...
Iran’s president says despite the economic war launched by the administration of US President Donald Trump against Tehran, Washington has failed in its efforts to shrink the Islamic Republic’s oil exports to zero. Addressing an official meeting on S...
The Iranian authorities announced on Sunday cargo ship sank off Umm Qasr Port in southern Iraq, according to Iranian media outlets. “Fars” news agency quoted Nourollah Asadi, the director-general of Iran’s Bushehr Province’ Ports and Maritime Depart...
A US B-52 bomber released an emergency distress signal after the aircraft suffered from a single engine failure while flying over the UK. The US Airforce B-52 strategic bomber, callsign CAKE11, was spotted entering a holding pattern shortly aft...
The novel coronavirus has killed at least 1,519,213 people since the outbreak emerged in last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on Saturday. At least 65,865,820 cases of coronavirus have been registere...
Turkish warplanes bombed areas on Duhok province’s Gara Mountain, said an official, causing fear among villagers a few kilometers away. “Two areas were bombed near the villages of Spindar and Grgash,” said Sami Barwari, the head of Deraluk town, on ...
The Zionist forces launched on Sunday a campaign of arrests and raids, interspersed with confrontations between the enemy forces and Palestinian youths in separate areas of the occupied West Bank. Palestinian sources reported that the town of Qabati...
Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani revealed Friday that "there is now a movement to resolve the Gulf conflict," noting that the solution to the Gulf dispute "must be comprehensive." The Qatari minister added, " hoped "...
Occupied Palestine: Israeli forces have attacked Palestinians taking part in protests against Israeli settlement construction in several areas across the West Bank, killing a minor and leaving dozens of protesters injured. Protesters took to the str...
The British Maritime Trade Operations Authority confirmed on Saturday that it has knowledge of an attack on a ship off the coast of Yemen, according to Reuters. Later, the authority updated the notice on its website to say, “The incident is now over...
The UAE could not hide its fear that the US administration would surrender to the pressure exerted on it to halt the deal to export F-35 fighters to Abu Dhabi. The Emirati ambassador to Washington, Yusef Al-Otaiba, claimed in a series of tweets post...
The top US spy chief has accused China of preparing for "an open-ended period of confrontation with the US," in another effort by the outgoing administration of Donald Trump to further escalate tensions with Beijing in its final days in the White Ho...
Moderna plans to have 100 to 125 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine available in the first quarter of 2021, the vast majority of which will go to the United States, the biotechnology company announced Thursday. Between 85 and 100 million of the ...
China on Friday hit back at the US for blacklisting of more Chinese companies, calling on Washington to “stop abusing the concept of national security.” The US must stop abusing the concept of national security, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman...
A prominent British medical official warned that the new Corona virus would continue forever, calling on citizens to take the vaccine. Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Professor Jonathan Van Tam, said in a press statement: “We will never eradicate the...
In the last days in office, the Trump Administration is reportedly seeking to ramp up pressure against Iran, this time by cutting Iran’s overflight revenues. According to the New York Times, the Trump Administration officials have held talks in Doh...
Dozens of protesters gathered on Wednesday before the United Arab Emirates (UAE) embassy in the UK capital during a ceremony marking the occasion of UAE National Day, Middle East Monitor reported. The protesters indicated that while the UAE celebrat...