Turkish prosecutors are probing a publisher for “terror funding” over royalties paid to jailed writers, drawing free-speech ...

A decision by local authorities in the Syrian province of Latakia to stop women government employees from wearing make-up has ...

PA President Mahmoud Abbas has amended the local elections law to force candidates to recognise Israel and accept the PLO’s ...

A Jaffa cafe was barred from selling watermelon-themed items after a far-right activist complained they resembled Palestinian ...

The country’s gold reserves are considered sacrosanct in Lebanon, ringfenced by law, which bans the central bank from ...

Pieth, a Swiss attorney specializing in white-collar crime and an anti-corruption expert, chaired the Independent Governance ...

Israel’s plan to impose US private firms at Rafah would entrench its control over Gaza while undermining Egypt’s sovereignty, ...

Putin has praised Sharaa’s recent offensive against the Kurdish-led SDF in the northeast as the two look to secure build ...

Iran has revealed underwater missile tunnels and warned it could disrupt the Strait of Hormuz as tensions with the US ...

Iran said it would respond ’like never before’ to a US attack after Donald Trump threatened the country with an ’armada’ ...

Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey have formed an unofficial bloc, viewed as a way of confronting growing UAE-Israeli influence ...

Israel's parliament is expected to take its initial vote on the 2026 state budget draft on Wednesday, in a test of Prime ...