Middle East
Iran executes journalist who encouraged 2017 protests
Iranian dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam, who was convicted of fomenting violence during the 2017 anti-government protests, was executed on Saturday, Iran’s state ...Israel and Morocco agree to normalise relations in latest Trump-brokered deal
US President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Morocco is now the fourth Arab state this year to recognize Israel in a diplomatic ...Kuwait election sees two-thirds of parliament lose seats
Kuwaitis elected a new parliament in an election that saw two-thirds of lawmakers and the country’s only female legislator lose their seats, ...Bahrain becomes 2nd country to authorize Pfizer’s COVID vaccine
Bahrain said on Friday it has granted emergency use authorisation for the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, becoming the second country after Britain to ...Saudi Arabia and Qatar near deal to help end Gulf crisis
Rivals Qatar and Saudi Arabia, along with neutral Oman and Kuwait, said Friday progress had been made towards resolving the Gulf crisis ...Almost half of Yemenis in acute food insecurity, new data shows
Famine-like conditions have re-appeared in parts of Yemen and almost half the population is experiencing high levels of food insecurity, new United ...Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh assassinated near Tehran
an said one of its most prominent nuclear scientists was assassinated on Friday in an attack on his car outside Tehran that ...Pompeo visits West Bank settlement, in parting gift to Israel’s Netanyahu
Mike Pompeo on Thursday paid the first visit by a U.S. secretary of state to an Israeli settlement in the occupied West ...US announces plans to cut troop levels in Afghanistan, Iraq
The US will slash troop levels in Afghanistan and Iraq to their lowest levels in nearly 20 years of war after President ...Ethiopia’s PM vows ‘final and crucial’ offensive in Tigray
Ethiopia’s prime minister on Tuesday declared “the final and crucial” military operation will launch in the coming days against the government of ...














