Middle Eastern News

Israel’s environment ministry announced Wednesday it will not renew the license of an ammonia container in the port city of Haifa as it poses a potentially deadly threat to residents. The container, which holds 12,000 tons of the toxic, corrosive liquid, puts the public “at […]

HARI SREENIVASAN: But first: Nearly five million Syrians have fled their homeland for relative safety in surrounding Middle Eastern countries. Some hope to emigrate to Europe and elsewhere, and undergo processing at United Nations’ centers throughout the region. Those hoping to come to the U.S. […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s defense minister on Wednesday hailed the military’s performance in Syria, saying new Russian weapons have proven their worth in the conflict. Sergei Shoigu told the Russian parliament that the military has tested 162 types of weapons in Syria, and only 10 […]

International funding for Lebanon in 2016 amounted to USD 1.9 billion, as shown by the funding update released by the Office of the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon. This amount includes a total of USD 1.57 billion disbursed by donors in 2016 […]

Syrian warplanes bombarded a besieged rebel-held district of Homs, southern Deraa and insurgent areas in Damascus’s outskirts on Saturday in what appeared to be intensifying assaults in the west of the country, monitors said. Much of western Syria is covered by an ongoing but shaky […]

United States-backed airstrikes launched Friday took out an Islamic State group headquarters located in a hospital in western Mosul, U.S. military officials said Saturday. In a statement released Saturday, the U.S. task force in Iraq and Syria said IS militants had been using a building […]

MOSCOW — Russia considers the second round of Syria peace talks, held this week in Kazakhstan, a success, a senior Foreign Ministry official said Saturday. The director of the ministry’s Middle East and North Africa department, Sergey Vershinin, told Russian state media the talks in Astana […]

A bomb threat on Friday on a Greece-bound airplane that flew from the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut and landed in Athens Airport turned out to be fake alarm. An anonymous call was made earlier on Friday giving Athens airport’s air traffic control tower […]

BAGHDAD — A car bomb at a Baghdad auto dealership killed at least 51 people and wounded more than 60 on Thursday, Iraqi officials said. Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Saad Maan confirmed the toll from the attack, which took place in the mainly Shi’ite al-Bayaa […]