Middle East
Beirut marks one year since port blast with anger and mourning
Lebanon marked the first anniversary of the catastrophic Beirut port explosion on Wednesday, with residents expressing anger and sadness in a city ...At least 35 killed in Iraq COVID ward fire
At least 35 people have been killed in a fire at a COVID isolation ward in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya, ...Iran takes steps to make enriched uranium metal; U.S., Europe powers dismayed
Iran has begun the process of producing enriched uranium metal, the U.N. atomic watchdog said on Tuesday, a move that could help ...Ethiopia resumes filling Nile mega-dam reservoir, angering Egypt
Ethiopia has started the second phase of filling a mega-dam’s reservoir on the upper Blue Nile, Egypt and Sudan said, raising tensions ...OPEC+ resumes oil policy talks amid Saudi-UAE standoff
OPEC+ ministers resume talks on Monday after failing to reach a deal on oil output policy in two days of talks last ...U.S. carries out air strikes against Iran-backed militia in Iraq, Syria
The United States said on Sunday it carried out another round of air strikes against Iran-backed militia in Iraq and Syria, this ...Egypt, Jordan and Iraq leaders meet at Baghdad summit
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi and Jordan’s King Abdullah met in Baghdad on Sunday during the first ...U.S. seizes Iranian news sites under unclear circumstances
The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it seized 36 Iranian-linked websites, many of them associated with either disinformation activities or violent ...Iran’s Raisi calls for effective nuclear talks, rules out Biden meet
Iran’s President-elect Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday he will not allow nuclear negotiations for the sake of negotiations, in his first news ...Israel’s Bennett warns against nuclear talks with Iran’s “hangmen regime
Israel condemned on Sunday the election of hardline judge Ebrahim Raisi as Iranian president, saying his would be a “regime of brutal ...














