Middle East Headlines

Britain and Germany add their voices to international condemnation of Israel over demolition of illegal Arab homes near Jerusalem....

BAGHDAD, July 23 (KUNA) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdulmahdi said Tuesday that four ministers have been referred to the judiciary over financial and administrative corruption charges. Till mid-June, the total number of penal cases referred to trials fo...

WASHINGTON, July 23 (KUNA) -- US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Tuesday with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan during which Pompeo emphasized the "continued importance" of the two countries working together "to advance shared priorities,...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Israeli forces began evacuating families and demolishing several houses in East Jerusalem's Sur Baher neighborhood. [VIDEO]...

Iran establishes bases throughout America that serve as outposts to promote terrorism. How can we fight this?...

The Visa Support Services Department of the Ministry of the Interior has launched a new service, which allows Qatari citizens and residents and companies to authorise manpower agencies to complete the recruitment procedures of domestic workers through Qat...

House of Representatives approves resolution opposing boycotts of Israel by overwhelming majority of 398 to 17....

Israeli warplanes have reportedly pounded an strategic area in southwestern Syria, leaving several people dead and injured....

A former French economy minister, Thierry Breton, was robbed and beaten in his Paris home along with his wife and live-in chauffeur, sources close to the police investigation told AFP on Tuesday....

Suspects in a 2011 kidnapping of seven Estonian cyclists Tuesday provided details of how the operation took place, in the first hearing of the case this year....

After some Democrats expressed concern the measure could cause infighting, it is approved by a vote of 398-17, with five abstentionsAfter some Democrats expressed concern the measure could cause infighting, it is approved by a vote of 398-17, with five ab...

Pakistan willing to give up nukes 'if India does'...

Britain and Germany added their voices to growing international condemnation of Israel Tuesday over the demolition of Palestinian homes near Jerusalem, saying the destruction was "particularly egregious"....

India's foreign minister issued a strenuous denial to an infuriated opposition in parliament yesterday, after US President Donald Trump said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had invited him to mediate in the bloody conflict with Pakistan over Kashmir....

The newsprint had browned a bit, but it remained in excellent condition. The ink still came off on our fingers as we paged through the stories and photos and ads and opinion pieces, reports Heidi Stevens...

The US House of Representatives has passed legislation to oppose the global boycott movement against Israel, deepening Democratic divisions on relations with the key US ally....

SANA news agency and state TV report the 'Israeli aggression' struck Tal al-Hara hill but only caused material damage....

In Beed district, where the daily wage for female farmers is $3, women are having hysterectomies in their twenties....

Late last week a team of surgeons at Hamad Medical Corporation's (HMC) Hamad General Hospital performed a complex brain surgery on a ten-year-old girl from Bahrain. The completion of the complicated surgery is significant as it marks the first time th...

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor yesterday took a swipe at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the developments in Karnataka saying the party that banned cattle auctions had conducted one successfully in the southern state....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Israeli work crews began demolishing dozens of Palestinian homes in an East Jerusalem neighborhood. [PHOTOS]...

The coalition government in Karnataka fell yesterday after beleaguered Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy lost a trust vote in the assembly by six votes....

The coalition government in Karnataka fell yesterday after beleaguered Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy lost a trust vote in the assembly by six votes....

Tour de France cyclists competed in scorching temperatures and a French nuclear power plant prepared to shut down yesterday as western Europe baked in a new heatwave already breaking longstanding records....

Qatar took part in a meeting chaired by the European Union in Brussels of a broad group of international partners to follow up the political situation in Sudan. HE the Special Envoy of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Combating Terrorism and Mediation ...

Palestinian rights groups call non-binding resolution 'misguided' and 'very troubling'....

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg said yesterday that it is okay for some members of the French parliament to ignore her and other children's warnings about global warming, but she implored them to listen to scientists....

Parents, educators and researchers attended a hands-on training workshop focused on children's safety at Qatar National Library recently. Sidra Medicine's Life Support Training team, led by Nadim Osseily, presented the session on drowning preventi...

QIC Insured, the retail arm of Qatar Insurance, is offering business insurance to the food and beverage (F&B) segment of Qatar's small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector. In response to the rising number of restaurants, cafeterias, and other ent...

Firefighters aided by overnight rain brought under control yesterday massive wildfires raging for four days in a central region of Portugal where dozens of people died in huge blazes in 2017....

Electric bicycles and scooters are taking a lot of heat. Concerns about traffic fatalities, terrorised pedestrians, and urban lawlessness have led a growing chorus of politicians and media commentators to conclude that the technology should be banned outr...

The Entertainment City at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Centre will reopen on August 9 to provide Eid al-Adha holiday-goers with another one-of-its-kind entertainment experience, it was announced....

Spanish caretaker Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez lost a first parliamentary confidence vote yesterday as he seeks to remain in power after an inconclusive general election....

Britain's incoming prime minister Boris Johnson faces an overflowing inbox when he takes office today: delivering Brexit, building a relationship with Donald Trump, deciding what to do about Iran — and governing without a majority in parliament....

Qatar Charity (QC) has received food baskets from students of Stenden University of Applied Sciences-Qatar (SUAS-Q), which are to be distributed among workers in the country. This comes as part of the 'Our Good for our People' campaign and in line...

Ooredoo announced yesterday that it is seeing strong success on transforming business collaboration with the most advanced unified communications solutions. Qatar organisations are rapidly adopting Ooredoo's business collaboration solution instead of ...

MOSCOW, July 23 (KUNA) -- Russia said on Tuesday that Israel's annihilation of tens of Palestinian homes in the town of Sur Baher in East Jerusalem constitutes a violation of the international law. The Israeli practices in the occupied Palestinian ter...

Boris Johnson, the Brexiteer who has promised to lead Britain out of the European Union with or without a deal by the end of October, will replace Theresa May as prime minister after winning the leadership of the Conservative Party yesterday....

The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) along with Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) and Qatar Cancer Society (QCS), partnered once again to strengthen their existing efforts to raise awareness about skin cancer througho...

The Ministry of Municipality and Environment's (MME) Public Gardens Departments and Al Shamal Municipality has announced that Al Shamal Park will be exclusively open to women and children under 12 years....

High school students with a passion for science had the opportunity to explore careers in medicine at two summer enrichment programmes offered by Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar (WCM-Q)....

Doha Festival City (DHFC), Qatar's unique, world-class retail, entertainment and dining destination, collaborated with the Mawater Centre to bring classic and modified cars for guests to view as part of the mall's host of summer activities....

The war in Yemen can be stopped because the warring sides still support a UN peace deal brokered in Stockholm last December, UN envoy Martin Griffiths said yesterday....

A U.S. Navy ship may have brought down a second Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz last week, a U.S. official said Tuesday, adding that the military did not have definite confirmation....

A political commentator believes the US is simply trying to keep tensions high in the Persian Gulf region....

Hundreds of Sudanese university students chanting "civilian rule, civilian rule" rallied in downtown Khartoum yesterday seeking justice for fellow pupils killed in months of political unrest....