Middle East Archive

Pakistan plays an increasingly important role in the world's geopolitical dynamics as the only predominantly Muslim country with nuclear weapons. But with a new government faced with an

IBB, YEMEN: A Yemeni farmer lounged on the ground by the side of the road, gazing at the beauty of the green mountain landscape, where the terraces were

Dhaka, Bangladesh - Millions of Bangladeshis head to polling stations to vote in Sunday's parliamentary elections amid concerns expressed by rights bodies over "restrictive electoral environment". Voting started

Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano island, which erupted and collapsed a week ago triggering a deadly tsunami, is now only about a quarter of the size it was before

DUBAI: A rescue helicopter crashed in Ras Al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday evening killing all of the crew, the country’s civil aviation authority said. Local

The northern city of Manbij is one of the last remaining flashpoints in Syria's war And yet another example of the complicated Syrian jigsaw puzzle. It was under

Dhaka, Bangladesh - Millions of Bangladeshis are set to vote in Sunday's parliamentary elections amid concerns expressed by rights bodies over "restrictive electoral environment". Voting will start at

A coalition of professional associations in Sudan has again called for a march on the eve of the country's 63rd anniversary of independence to demand that President Omar

CAIRO: Egypt’s Interior Ministry said on Saturday that security forces killed 40 militants in three separate incidents in North Sinai and Giza, a day after a bombing on a

Yemen's Houthi rebels have started to redeploy inside the port city of Hodeidah as part of the United Nations-sponsored peace agreement signed in Sweden earlier this month, a

The two-year-old son of a Yemeni woman who sued the Trump administration to let her into the country to be with the ailing boy has died, the Council

Bangladesh's telecoms regulator has ordered mobile operators to shut down high-speed mobile internet services until midnight Sunday, the day of a national election. The measure is effective immediately, a spokesman for the Bangladesh Telecommunication

A new small arms survey has estimated that there are 750,000 pistols and rifles in private hands in Kenya, more than the police and military combined. Experts say