Middle East
Damascus Accuses Israel of Killing Former Member of Syrian Parliament
Syria accused Israeli forces on Saturday of shooting dead Medhat Al-Saleh, a former member of the Syrian parliament who spent 12 years in jail...
Iran Court Upholds Jail Term for UK-Iranian Aid Worker, Lawyer Says
An Iranian appeals court has upheld a one-year prison term for British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on security offenses, her lawyer was quoted by an Iranian news website as saying on Saturday. "The appeals court has...
Saudi Arabia’s PIF Launches Offshore Platform Tourism Project
Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, announced on Saturday the launch of "THE RIG", which it said would be the world's first tourism destination on offshore platforms. The fund, the engine of Crown...
EU’s Borrell Says Iran Wants to Meet Officials in Brussels Over Nuclear Deal
EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell said on Friday that Iran wants to meet in Brussels with EU officials who are coordinating indirect talks between the United States and Iran along with some other parties...
Iran Blames Israel for Deadly Violence at Beirut Protest
i24 News – Iran condemned the killing of protesters in Lebanon, describing Thursday's shootings as...
Iran Not Ready to Resume Vienna Talks, Wants to Discuss Texts First: EU Official
Iran is not ready to return to talks with world powers over its nuclear program...
Deadly Shooting Rocks Beirut as Tensions Over Blast Probe Erupt
Gunfire in Beirut killed at least five Lebanese Shi'ites in what authorities said was an...
Oracle Opens First of Two Cloud Data Centers in Israel
Oracle on Wednesday opened the first of two planned public cloud centers in Israel, which...
Qatar Rules Out Normalizing Relations With Israel
i24 News - Qatari Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim...
Damascus Accuses Israel of Killing Former Member of Syrian Parliament
Syria accused Israeli forces on Saturday of shooting dead Medhat Al-Saleh, a former member of the Syrian parliament who spent 12 years in jail in...
Iran Court Upholds Jail Term for UK-Iranian Aid Worker, Lawyer Says
An Iranian appeals court has upheld a one-year prison term for British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on security offenses, her lawyer was quoted by an...
Saudi Arabia’s PIF Launches Offshore Platform Tourism Project
Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, announced on Saturday the launch of "THE RIG", which it said would be the world's first...
EU’s Borrell Says Iran Wants to Meet Officials in Brussels Over Nuclear Deal
EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell said on Friday that Iran wants to meet in Brussels with EU officials who are coordinating indirect talks between...
Iran Blames Israel for Deadly Violence at Beirut Protest
i24 News – Iran condemned the killing of protesters in Lebanon, describing Thursday's shootings as seditions backed by Israel, state-run Press TV said on Twitter...
Iran Not Ready to Resume Vienna Talks, Wants to Discuss Texts First: EU Official
Iran is not ready to return to talks with world powers over its nuclear program yet and its new negotiating team wants to discuss the...
Deadly Shooting Rocks Beirut as Tensions Over Blast Probe Erupt
Gunfire in Beirut killed at least five Lebanese Shi'ites in what authorities said was an attack on protesters who were going to take part in...
Oracle Opens First of Two Cloud Data Centers in Israel
Oracle on Wednesday opened the first of two planned public cloud centers in Israel, which will enable companies and other Israeli customers to keep their...
Qatar Rules Out Normalizing Relations With Israel
i24 News - Qatari Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani on Wednesday ruled out an Abraham Accords-style normalization...
EU Coordinator of Nuclear Talks to Visit Iran: Iranian Foreign Ministry
The European Union envoy coordinating talks on reviving the Iran nuclear deal, Enrique Mora, will visit Tehran on Thursday, the Iranian foreign ministry said on...
Iranian Expert: Israel Has Been Launching Operations Against Iran From Azerbaijan
JNS.org - Iranian international affairs journalist and political analyst Mostafa Khoshcheshm claimed in an Oct. 2 interview on Iranian Ofogh TV that Israel is collaborating with...
Bahrain Holds First Jewish Wedding in 50 Years
JNS.org - The Association of Gulf Jewish Communities (AGJC), the people-to-people network of Jewish communities from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries that are developing...
Cleric Sadr Wins Iraq Vote, Former PM Maliki Close Behind: Officials
Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's party was the biggest winner in an Iraqi election on Monday, increasing the number of seats he holds in parliament,...
Analysis: Arabs Ease Assad’s Isolation as US Looks Elsewhere
While Bashar al-Assad is still shunned by the West, which blames him for a decade of brutal civil war in Syria, a shift is under...
