Saudis make Mohammed bin Salman prime ministerSaudi Arabia crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has been named prime minister with the immediate aim of granting him sovereign immunity from prosecution in the USWed Sept 28 2022 - 18:12
Red Cross survey finds 40 per cent of Gaza’s young people have no hope of finding a job over the next 15 yearsAlmost half the young people in Gaza suffering stress, anxiety and depression according to Red Cross surveyTue Sept 27 2022 - 16:27
Iran accuses US of exploiting unrest as protests continue over death of Mahsa Amini injuredndTeachers’ union calls for national boycott of classes as 60 people killed in demonstrations across the countryMon Sept 26 2022 - 20:08
Iran protests enter seventh day with growing demands for end to law on headscarvesUnrest began a week ago following the death of Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by morality policeFri Sept 23 2022 - 19:00
Regime under pressure as Iran protests take on broad agendaUnrest over the death of Masha Amini, who was detained for not wearing the hijab appropriately, has spreadThu Sept 22 2022 - 15:34
Iran protests continue over death of woman arrested by morality policeUnrest follows the death of Mahsa Amini (22), who fell into a coma after she was arrested by morality police for improperly wearing a headscarfTue Sept 20 2022 - 15:58
Angry depositors in Lebanon resort to bank raids to get their money from frozen accountsBanks have blocked $100bn in deposits since 2019 financial crash and imposed strict limits on withdrawalsFri Sept 16 2022 - 17:54
Negotiations on revival of Iran nuclear deal reach stalemateAgreement, which limits Iran’s nuclear programme in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, was abandoned by US in 2019Thu Sept 15 2022 - 16:34
Greek Cypriot reaction to queen’s death is mainly muted or hostile Official condolences are offered, but resentment from colonial times remainsTue Sept 13 2022 - 20:27
Middle-Eastern women subjected to ‘new’ murderous crimeFour women - three in Egypt and one in Jordan - have been murdered since June. Each had spurned the advances of their male killersFri Sept 09 2022 - 21:16
Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East ‘major sources’ of greenhouse gasesCyprus-based climate experts warn that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the world averageThu Sept 08 2022 - 15:23
Al-Qaeda militants kill 21 troops in south YemenAttack in southern Abyan province is attributed to group known as AQAPWed Sept 07 2022 - 16:06
Iran calls for end to investigation into past nuclear activitiesTehran says inquiry should be shelved if an agreement on its nuclear activity is to be revivedMon Sept 05 2022 - 19:36
US dismisses Iran proposals on nuclear agreementDeal would lift sanctions on Iran in turn for reinstatement of limits on Tehran’s nuclear programmeFri Sept 02 2022 - 16:38
Saudi woman sentenced to 45 years over social media postsSentence of 34 years on similar charges was recently handed down to British residentWed Aug 31 2022 - 12:27
Iraq unrest: Who is Moqtada al-Sadr?Shia groups are fighting each other following the political resignation of the influential clericTue Aug 30 2022 - 15:47
US responds to Iran’s nuclear deal proposalsUS says “we are closer than ever” to reviving the dealThu Aug 25 2022 - 16:06
Syrian opposition activists alarmed as Turkey moves to normalise relations with DamascusPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeks reconciliation with Bashar al-Assad after decade of violenceTue Aug 23 2022 - 18:15
US dismisses criticism over delayed Iran deal responseEU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell calls on US to hasten its response to proposals for a resumption of Iran nuclear dealTue Aug 23 2022 - 15:01
Return of UAE ambassador to Iran a sign of easing tensionsUAE decision to send an ambassador to Iran after a six-year break a sign of improved relations between the two nationsMon Aug 22 2022 - 16:18
Depositor takes extreme measures to access his own money in Lebanon Bizarre incident in crisis-torn Lebanon as armed man takes hostages to access his own bank fundsWed Aug 17 2022 - 15:35
Tehran submits to EU written response on final version of plan for lifting sanctionsEU foreign policy chief Josef Borrell expected to reply by ThursdayTue Aug 16 2022 - 16:20
Gulf opens between Turkey and Syria’s Turkish-backed opposition Turkish foreign minister says Turkey, the Syrian government and the opposition have to reconcile if there is to be peace in the war-ravaged countryMon Aug 15 2022 - 15:34
Biden calls on Syria to release US journalist missing for 10 yearsUS knows ‘with certainty’ journalist and ex-marine Austin Tice has been held by the Syrian regime, president saysThu Aug 11 2022 - 15:48
Al-Sadr secures key Shia support for early elections in IraqInfluential Shia cleric aims to form ‘national government’ with radical reform agendaWed Aug 10 2022 - 15:28
Lebanon anger at missed Ukraine delivery of cerealsUkraine’s Beirut embassy said the arrival was `postponed’, but official told Agence France Presse `the ship will only go to Lebanon if a trader buys the cargo’Mon Aug 08 2022 - 16:27
Putin-Erdogan follow-up meeting is a sign of mutual needs and wantsTurkey and Russia reconvene in Sochi to thrash out geopolitical differences around Nato and Syria amid Moscow’s invasion and Ankara’s domestic strifeFri Aug 05 2022 - 17:00
Biden welcomes extension of Yemen ceasefire but ‘truce not enough’President calls on warring sides to seize the opportunity and resolve seven-year-old conflictWed Aug 03 2022 - 16:08
How Ayman al-Zawahiri helped al-Qaeda spread and spawn radical offshootsIslamic State has formed scores of independent offshoots which rival and often battle each otheTue Aug 02 2022 - 19:00
Collapse of grain silos in Beirut’s port revives trauma felt by survivors of devastating 2020 explosionFamilies living near port were given face masks as fires caused by fermenting grains smouldered for weeks, weakening the base of silosMon Aug 01 2022 - 18:20
Iraq’s parliamentary sessions indefinitely suspended after protestSadrist demonstrators announce a Baghdad Green Zone sit-in until further noticeSun Jul 31 2022 - 17:45
Family reiterates call for independent US inquiry into killing of journalist in West BankCall for ‘meaningful action’ from Washington on shooting dead of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu AklehFri Jul 29 2022 - 19:33
EU sees revival of 2015 US-Iran nuclear deal as an opportunity not to be missed Josep Borrell makes forceful case for return to Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action which Trump administration abandoned in 2018Wed Jul 27 2022 - 16:38
Russian foreign minister’s trip to Africa an attempt to shore up support Analysis: Visit an effort to resist western manoeuvres aimed at isolating Moscow over Ukraine warMon Jul 25 2022 - 16:28
Shelling of Kurdish tourist resort strains relations between Turkey and IraqUN condemns attack in which nine Iraqis killed and more than 20 wounded in Dohuk provinceThu Jul 21 2022 - 16:30
Iran and Russia warn Turkey against military offensive against Syrian Kurdish forces in SyriaErdogan and Putin fail to agree at Tehran summit a safe route across Black Sea for Ukrainian grainWed Jul 20 2022 - 17:05
Nicosia Letter: Ochi an enduring symbol of Cyprus’s rich complexity Long a rainbow country, Cyprus is the EU member with the highest number of refugees and migrants per capitaMon Jul 18 2022 - 21:11
Biden fails to restore warm US relations with Saudi ArabiaAnalysis: Arab autocrats appear to have turned to Chinese and Russian autocrats as their policies are consistent and long-termMon Jul 18 2022 - 18:26
Founding member of expatriate Saudi opposition group killed in LebanonSaudi citizen allegedly stabbed by his two brothers during a family dispute, according to Lebanese internal securityMon Jul 11 2022 - 15:35
Palestinian security forces accused of torture Mistreatment may amount to crimes against humanity, report statesFri Jul 08 2022 - 05:00
One million pilgrims converge on Mecca for largest hajj since pandemicProspective pilgrims from Muslim-majority countries angry as Saudi Arabia cuts quotas to keep to one million limitWed Jul 06 2022 - 16:28
Talks between Iran and US on Tehran’s nuclear programme end without breakthroughBoth sides blame the other for a lack of political will to finalise a draft text tabled in March during negotiations in ViennaThu Jun 30 2022 - 17:58
More than 306,000 civilians killed in Syrian conflict during first decade, says UNA daily average of 83 died violently between March 2011 and March 2021, data showsWed Jun 29 2022 - 17:46
EU to act as go-between as Iran and US agree to resume indirect nuclear talksQatar mooted as venue for talks following breakthrough by EU foreign policy chiefMon Jun 27 2022 - 21:16
Saudi crown prince visits Turkey, ending period of estrangement following Khashoggi murderMohammed bin Salman continues kingdom’s traditional practice of chequebook diplomacyWed Jun 22 2022 - 20:14
New visa scheme causes confusion for thousands of western pilgrims bound for hajjSaudi imposition of visa scheme and limit on attendance reducing numbers from abroad able to make pilgrimage to MeccaMon Jun 20 2022 - 20:08
Gaza’s children live in fear after ‘15-year lockdown’Psychosocial wellbeing of children falls to ‘alarming levels’ due to Israel’s blockade and repeated military operations, report findsWed Jun 15 2022 - 15:00
Cyprus reassures Palestinian leader Abbas over its ties to IsraelIsrael-Palestine settlement must adhere to ‘two-state solution’, says Cypriot presidentTue Jun 14 2022 - 17:11
UN nuclear watchdog warns of ‘fatal blow’ to a revived Iran nuclear dealIran censured by IAEA for failing to explain uranium particles at three undeclared sitesThu Jun 09 2022 - 16:54
Putin to meet Erdogan amid tensions over Syrian border plansMoscow seeking to convince Turkish president to drop his plan to drive Kurdish forces from 30km-wide border zone in SyriaWed Jun 08 2022 - 17:00
