Middle East
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 ...Palestinians torn as Israel seeks Gulf tourists in Jerusalem
When the United Arab Emirates agreed to normalize relations with Israel, the Palestinians decried the move as a “betrayal” of both Jerusalem, ...Turkey-backed Syria fighters retaliate for deadly airstrike
Syrian opposition groups allied with Turkey lobbed hundreds of missiles and artillery rockets at government posts in northwestern Syria on Tuesday, in ...Erdogan doubles down in backlash against Macron’s Islam comments
The backlash against President Emmanuel Macron’s comments on Islam intensified Sunday, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan again urging him to have ...














