Diplomatic steps go ahead despite Turkish court ruling to issue arrest warrants for Israelis involved in flotilla raid. Jerusalem – A ruling issued by an Istanbul court earlier this week seemed at first... Read more »
Egypt’s former military chief Abdel Fattah al Sisi has won the majority of the votes in the country’s presidential election, according to results announced by his campaign. Sisi’s campaign said early Thursday that... Read more »
Officials blame hot weather but analysts say boycott and apathy are responsible for low voter numbers. Egyptians have been given an extra day to cast their ballots in the country’s presidential election,... Read more »
Bahrain’s Interior Ministry criticized a U.S. State Department report about the general situation in the country as “lacking neutrality and objectivity,” refuting a total of 42 U.S. claims in detail. Bahrain witnessed... Read more »
At least 14 people were killed from a suicide bomb attack in Iraq’s capital Tuesday Iraqi officials told AFP that a suicide bomber detonated himself outside of a Shiite mosque in the downtown... Read more »
The presidential election session failed once again Thursday over lack of quorum, as Speaker Nabih Berri reiterated that Parliament would remain in open session until the end of the week to vote for a... Read more »
Trip comes at a time of stalled peace talks and an increase in anti-Christian ‘price tag’ attacks by Jewish extremists. Beit Jala, West Bank – Pope Francis’ trip to the Holy Land this week... Read more »
Kuwait’s top ruler will visit Iran for the first time at the end of this month, representing the latest sign that relations between Tehran and its Arab neighbors truly are thawing. Iran’s... Read more »
The future of the Salafi al-Nour is fraught with uncertainty. When Egypt’s military intervened last summer to oust Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected president, al-Nour party was widely seen as... Read more »
Syrian warplanes raided Wednesday the outskirts of the eastern Lebanon border village of Arsal where rebels are believed to be hiding, security sources said. The sources told The Daily Star Syrian jets fired a number... Read more »
A Bahraini police post in a small Shiite village near the capital was attacked by assailants throwing Molotov cocktails overnight, an interior ministry official said Tuesday. State security forces “repulsed the terrorist attack... Read more »
A delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is in Tehran to discuss with Iranian officials a safeguards approach for the country’s Arak heavy water plant in line with an agreement reached between... Read more »
Qatar Airways will double the number of weekly flights to Gassim from four to eight from May 15, while Madinah flights were recently increased from five to seven per week.The airline has also... Read more »
Iran’s Committee on Internet Crimes says the Facebook co- founder Mark Zuckerberg is a Zionist and banned his recently acquired messaging system WhatsApp. Iran’s criminalization of WhatsApp on Friday. According to the... Read more »
Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Saturday 102 supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi to 10 years in prison, and two others to seven years, on charges of murder and rioting. The defendants were arrested... Read more »
With no end in sight for Syria’s war, a new camp was set up to accommodate the increasing numbers of Syrian refugees. Azraq refugee camp, Jordan – A group of Syrian children flock... Read more »
Official figures show more than 1,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed and nearly 1,400 others wounded in violent attacks across Iraq last month. According to the latest figures released by the Iraqi... Read more »
Activists on the ground say that a government airstrike has hit a school in Aleppo. The strike killed at least nine people, including three children, (AP). The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says there was... Read more »
At least 10 people have been killed when twin bombings struck a town northeast of the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad, a day before the country’s parliamentary elections. Security and medical officials said... Read more »
Etisalat, the leading telecommunications operator in the UAE, said it has signed a multi-currency club deal worth 3.15 billion euros ($4.35 billion) with a group of seventeen international, regional and local banks.The move is aimed... Read more »
Amid crackdown on opposition, judge also confirms death sentences for 37 alleged Muslim Brotherhood supporters. The Egyptian court that previously sentenced 529 Muslim Brotherhood members to death has sentenced an additional 683... Read more »
Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour says Amman backs recent reconciliation deal between the resistance movement of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Ensour also praised Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh for signing the unity... Read more »
Saudi Arabia has commissioned the first phase of the world’s largest desalination project, being built at a cost of SR27 billion ($7.2 billion) in Ras Al Khair, a report said.The plant for production... Read more »
At least 21 people were killed in an air strike near the Syrian city of Aleppo Thursday. (AFP) “The number of people killed in an air strike this morning against the market... Read more »