Palestinians cry betrayal as Israel-UAE deal shakes up the Middle East

World leaders voiced hope Friday that a historic deal between the UAE and Israel could kickstart moribund Middle East peace talks, even as the...

Israel and UAE strike ‘historic’ US-brokered deal for peace

Israel and the UAE agreed Thursday to normalise relations in a landmark US-brokered deal under which the Jewish state would halt further annexation of...

Israel turns the heat on Gaza following balloon attack

Israel slapped new punitive measures on Gaza on Wednesday, slashing the permitted coastal fishing zone as airborne fire bombs continued floating into Israel, setting...

Bill targeting Netanyahu over bribery,fraud rejected by Israel’s parliament

Israeli lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a bill targeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that sought to block candidates under indictment from forming a future government. In...

Lebanon’s judiciary grills ministers over Beirut blast

Lebanon's judiciary will question several ministers, a judicial official said Wednesday, over a massive chemical blast at a Beirut port warehouse that ravaged the...

Iraq grows impatient with Turkey as drone strike kills two officials

Iraq cancelled a ministerial visit and summoned Turkey's ambassador as it blamed Ankara for a drone strike that killed two high-ranking Iraqi officers on...

Rejiggering Gulf Security: China’s Game of Shadow Boxing

China and Saudi Arabia are engaged in a complex game of shadow boxing to shape a future security framework for the Gulf designed to...

Demands for regime change: protesters at war with Lebanon’s political elite

Lebanon on Tuesday marked a week since its worst ever peacetime disaster with a mix of grief and rage, as survivors remembered the dead...

Lebanese citizens baying for government blood amid blast

Two members of Lebanon's government have quit over a deadly blast that unleashed public rage against the country's ruling class, with protesters and police...

No takers for Israel’s aid offer to Lebanon

For some it's a gesture of goodwill, to others sheer hypocrisy: Israel's offer of humanitarian aid to Lebanon after the massive Beirut blast is...

Lebanon president rejects international investigation into Beirut port blast

Lebanon's president Friday rejected any international probe into the catastrophic port blast, saying a missile or negligence could have been responsible as rescuers desperately...

Ghosts of Kashoggis past? Saudi Prince MbS embroiled in fresh assassination charge

A former senior Saudi intelligence official said in a US lawsuit Thursday that the country's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tried to have him...