US arms sales to foreign governments rose 13 percent to $192.3 billion in the year ending Sept. 30, the State Department said on Thursday, a result of looser restrictions on sales coupled with high-level efforts to close deals, Reuters reports.
UNRWA has taken the “painful” decision to stop paying the rent for 1,612 Palestinian families in Gaza whose homes were demolished during Israel’s 2014 assault on the Strip, the organisation’s head of operations said.
Israeli occupation forces raided a Palestinian school in the northern Jordan Valley region of the West Bank this morning, reported WAFA, disrupting classes and confiscating property.
Lebanese President Michel Aoun says he will do his best to find a solution to the political stalemate that is blocking the formation of a new national unity government in the Arab country more than six months after a general election.
Yemeni officials say a massive Saudi push against Hudaydah on the west coast of Yemen has been defeated, with a number of Sudanese mercenaries killed or captured.
Senior Lebanese scholar has rejected the so-called “Deal of the Century” as biggest crime of the modern era warning the Arab and Islamic leaders of threats ahead of the oppressed nations.
Prominent Lebanese clerics attended conference on ‘religions, messages of peace to serve humanity’ to warn against extremism and stressing necessity of peaceful coexistence and tolerance.
Amid claims of fraud rising three days after the midterm elections closed, US state of Florida has ordered recount of votes for the Senate and governor.
Bahraini court has issued jail terms for six other anti-regime activists after life imprisonment sentence issued for prominent Shia leader Sheikh Ali Salman and two other colleagues.
Palestinian young man has succumbed to his wounds inflicted by Israeli live fire amid protests at border between the occupied lands and the besieged Gaza Strip.
Secretary General of Hezbollah resistance movement in Lebanon, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah vows that the Israeli invasions against the Arab country will be certainly responded.
US President Donald Trump has reportedly reached consensus with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, on the need for more European military spending despite an earlier Trump tweet that had slammed Macron’s recent call for a European army without reliance on the US as “very insulting.”
Turkish journalist has revealed parts of the last audio taped from Jamal Khashoggi the dissident Saudi journalist murdered in the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate as he was begging for his life.
The Syrian government has demanded an independent and international mechanism to investigate the crimes being perpetrated against civilians by the US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.
The charred remains of 14 more people have been found in and around a Northern California town overrun by flames from a massive wildfire, officials said on Saturday, raising the death toll to at least 23.
President Hassan Rouhani says the US administration is seeking to exert pressure on the Iranian people through imposing "inappropriate" sanctions that he said would affect their livelihood.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has once again reaffirmed Iran's full compliance with its commitments under the 2015 landmark nuclear deal.
Jamal Khashoggi, killed on October 2 at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, lost his life because of disclosing Saudi Arabia's funding of an anti-Iran TV channel, a Guardian journalist has revealed.