Middle East Archive

The Democratic Republic of Congo's deadly Ebola outbreak is now the second largest in history, behind the devastating West Africa outbreak that killed thousands a few years ago,

A Honduran court has found seven people guilty of the murder of prize-winning indigenous and environmental rights activist Berta Caceres in 2016, while acquitting an eighth suspect in

JEDDAH, ANKARA: The UN Special Envoy for Syria signed off from his posting on Thursday ruing “a missed opportunity” to help end the country’s conflict at talks in

Shenzhen, China - China has suspended He Jiankui - the scientist who claims to have produced the world's first gene-edited babies, and he now looks set to face

Georgia's ruling party-backed candidate, who favours balancing the ex-Soviet republic's relations with Moscow and the West, has won the presidential runoff, according to partial results published on the electoral body's website on

ANKARA: Turkey on Thursday lambasted an “unacceptable” decision by a British court to reject a request from Ankara to extradite a prominent businessman accused of providing financial support

New York City - A Jewish professor's office at a university in New York City has been vandalised with anti-Semitic graffiti, including swastikas and an anti-Semitic slur, underlining recent

Buenos Aires, Argentina - Every Thursday since 1977, a group of women march around the Plaza de Mayo, the square in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, where the

AMMAN: Libya military commander Khalifa Haftar is in Jordan for crucial reconciliation talks with Libya’s Fayez Sarraj head of the Presidential Council, Arab News has learned.Senior government sources told

Yemen's warring parties have suggested they will attend the United Nations-sponsored peace talks in Sweden next week as efforts aimed at ending a conflict that has pushed millions

Shadi Farrah, one of the youngest Palestinian children imprisoned in Israel has been released. Now 15, he spent almost three years in jail on the charge of plotting

BAGHDAD: A former Iraqi trade minister and two senior ministry officials have been sentenced in absentia to seven years in jail on graft charges, a Baghdad court said

Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer of US President Donald Trump, has pleaded guilty to lying to the Congress about a work he did on a Trump real