Tag: Middle East

Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) agreed on Thursday to a “full normalization of relations” in an historic deal brokered by United States President Donald Trump.

Following catastrophic explosions one week ago in the port of Lebanon's capital, Beirut, which subsequently led to mass anti-government protests, Lebanon’s government yielded to public demands and announced its resignation ...

Violent protests broke out in Beirut over the weekend as public fury grew following two massive explosions that devastated Lebanon’s capital city last week, killing at least 158 people and ...

Two powerful explosions rocked the port of Beirut, capital of Lebanon, on Tuesday evening in a blast that sent out seismic waves capable of shattering windows and leaving buildings in ...

On January 28, 2020, US President Donald Trump released his administration’s Isreali-Palestinian peace plan at the White House. The deal, unveiled alongside Isreali Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was outright rejected ...

On January 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Syria’s capital, Damascus, to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. This unannounced visit was only Putin’s second trip to Syria since ...

On January 8, three Katyusha rockets fell inside Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, inside of which are US government buildings and foreign missions. According to the Iraqi military, the rockets ...

In his first televised address to the nation after Iran’s attack on US military bases, US President Donald Trump stated that “Iran appears to be standing down” and that his ...

President Donald Trump reportedly met with the Saudi Arabian deputy minister of defense Prince Khalid bin Salman on January 6 amid escalating tensions in the Middle East, following a US ...

A Ukrainian Boeing 737 bound for Kiev from Tehran taking off from Imam Khomeini International Airport has crashed after takeoff due to technical problems in the early hours of the ...

According to Pentagon officials, Iran has launched 15 ballistic missiles at two Iraqi military bases that house US troops in the early hours on January 8. The attack came as ...

The daughter of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani has warned the US and Israel of a “dark day” ahead. “Crazy Trump, don't think that everything is over with my father's martyrdom. ...

President Donald Trump has warned Iran that the United States has 52 targets in sight which are “at a very high level and important to Iran and Iranian culture.” Trump ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed “severe revenge” after an airstrike by the United States on a pair of cars at Baghdad International Airport killed Iranian Quds Force ...

An overnight air raid by the US military has led to the death of Major General Qasem Soleimani, the leader of the Quds Force, a unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary ...

Iranian-backed protesters in Iraq tried to burn down the US embassy in Baghdad, Iraq on December 31 in reaction to five airstrikes by the United States in Iraq and Syria ...

A temporary ceasefire has been agreed to by the Taliban’s ruling council on Sunday, December 29, opening up the possibility for a peace agreement. The United States had set a ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won a landslide victory on Thursday, December 26 in the country’s primary election for leadership of the ruling Likud party. The primary was an ...

After the alleged June 2019 attack on its oil tanker, Kokuka Courageous, Japan vowed to send a warship and patrol planes to the Middle East to protect its vessels, including ...

Human rights advocates are calling on Saudi Arabia to lift a travel ban on the Saudi-American doctor, Walid Fitaihi. Despite Fitaihi’s release by the Saudi government after a 20-month detainment, ...

A recent article by The New York Times claims that ToTok, an emerging Emirati messaging application, is a spy tool for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government. This has led ...

Iranian authorities reportedly blocked mobile internet access to overseas sites a day before a new nationwide protest is set to commence on December 26. Hikes in gasoline prices have called ...

Twitter announced on Friday, December 20 that it had suspended thousands of accounts allegedly linked to a state-sponsored disinformation campaign in Saudi Arabia. The social media network said it had ...

Five people have been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia after a court found them to be directly responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last year. ...

Lebanon’s newly appointed prime minister (PM), Hassan Diab, has begun consultations with parliamentary blocs on Saturday, December 21 to discuss the next steps in forming a new government. “Lebanon is ...