Middle East Archive

Islamabad, Pakistan - Indian fighter jets on Tuesday crossed into Pakistani territory, conducting what the foreign ministry termed a "non-military pre-emptive action" against armed group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), dramatically escalating tensions

DUBAI:  A UK ban on Hezbollah, outlawing the entire Lebanon-based group as a terrorist organization, can’t come soon enough for regional political analysts. “It is better late than

SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Arab and European leaders ended their first summit on Monday pledging to launch a “new era” of cooperation on issues ranging from counter-terrorism to migration.About 40

Hanoi, Vietnam - Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un are due to meet in Hanoi in Vietnam this week, more than eight months after their landmark first summit in Singapore.

CAIRO: Kuwait celebrated on Monday its national day, marking the anniversary of its 58th Independence and its 28th Liberation Days. The National Day commemorates the creation of Kuwait

RABAT: Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan on Monday visited a stables in Morocco where horses provide a source of therapy for disabled youths, before sampling local

Guatemala City - Cristina Yaqui was 19 years old when her husband Simon Saq'boch was abducted by the Guatemalan military from the municipality of Patzun in the Guatemalan

PARIS: Iraqi courts will prosecute 13 French citizens captured while fighting for Daesh in Syria, Iraq's President Barham Salih said Monday. The fighters, who were turned over to Iraq

ALGIERS: Algeria’s prime minister on Monday insisted voters would determine if ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika gets a fifth term at the ballot box, after major protests against his

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met Iranian officials in his first visit to the Islamic Republic since the start of the Syrian conflict, Syrian state media reported.  Assad met

NEAR BAGHOUZ, Syria: US-backed forces evacuated over 40 truckloads of people from Daesh’s last Syria redoubt on Monday, as they sought to clear out civilians before a final

Fourteen French nationals accused of fighting for the Daesh group were transferred to Iraq by US-backed forces squeezing the extremists’ final Syrian bastion, an Iraqi government source told

A group of former US national security officials are set to release a statement arguing there is no justification for US President Donald Trump to use a national

Beirut, Lebanon - "Write to us if you are a domestic worker, or know a domestic worker, who is being abused in Lebanon. We will try to help."