Tag: Mideast

DUBAI: The modern Middle East has been plagued by ruinous wars: country versus country, civil wars with internecine and sectarian bloodletting, and numerous eruptions...

AACHEN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron are calling for de-escalation in the Middle East after an alleged Iranian rocket barrage...

RIYADH: New US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday on the first stop of his hastily-arranged visit to the Middle...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday at the start of talks with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas that he had discussed the Middle East conflict...

ABU DHABI: The first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi will come up on 55,000 square metres of land and the groundbreaking ceremony on Sunday...

  GENEVA: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Monday that recent developments in the Middle East could create “an irreversible one-state reality” that would bury the...

AMMAN: US Vice President Mike Pence is defending President Donald Trump’s move to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel, a decision that has touched...

WASHINGTON: US Vice President Mike Pence set off for the Middle East on Friday for a trip overshadowed by controversy over plans to move...

Turkey's regional allies on Saturday condemned a deadly but foiled coup attempt by a faction of the army against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's rule. Iranian...

Australia on Friday raised its terror threat level to “high” for the first time in a decade on growing concern about Australian fighters returning...

The Bank of Khyber (BoK) has planned to open its branches in Afghanistan and Middle East under expansion plan to capture the fast growing...

Israel will not attend a conference on creating a Middle East free of nuclear weapons scheduled to take place in Finland, the head of...

Pope Benedict XVI prayed on Sunday that Middle East leaders work toward peace and reconciliation, stressing again the central theme of his visit to...

Saudi authorities announced on Friday that the Shawaal moon could not be sighted, and Eid-ul-Fitr would be celebrated on Sunday. Qatar, Jordan, Egypt,...

Pop icon Madonna kicked off her 2012 world tour on Thursday with a call for peace from a Tel Aviv stage. “I chose to...

Iran angrily stayed away Monday from a UN atomic agency forum on creating a Middle East free of nuclear weapons, amid growing tensions over...

Two American envoys will Tuesday head back to the Middle East for talks with Israel and the Palestinian Authority on the latter’s push for...