Negotiations held in Cairo to reach a ceasefire in Gaza were on the verge of a "significant breakthrough," two Egyptian security sources told Reuters on Monday. There was no immediate comment from ...

The tomb of former Syrian president and longtime dictator Hafez al-Assad in the city of Qardaha, western Syria, has reportedly been exhumed, with his remains moved to an undisclosed location, ...

A rare 1970 audio recording of a conversation between former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has gone viral this week, reigniting debate over Arab unity, the ...

An F/A-18 fighter jet slipped off the hanger deck of an aircraft carrier deployed to the Middle East, as sailors were towing the aircraft into place in the hangar bay of the USS Harry S. Truman on ...

Sudanese paramilitaries executed at least 31 civilians, including children, in the capital’s twin city of Omdurman, local medics said on Sunday. It was "the largest documented mass killing in the ...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday started its hearings, expected to last five days, centred on Israel's obligations to Palestinians in Gaza amid growing malnutrition, bombardment, and ...

A new DNA study into Phoenician and Punic civilisations has revealed a surprising twist – that most Carthaginians (Puinic people) were not actually from the Levant and instead shared genetic ...

The once-fertile agricultural lands of the Gaza Strip, especially along the eastern border, have been reduced to barren wastelands, ravaged by the ongoing Israeli military operations. Fields and ...

Catholic cardinals agreed on Monday to begin a conclave on 7 May to elect a new pope, and highlighted clerical sexual abuse as one of the key challenges facing Pope Francis's successor. Cardinals ...

Morocco's Justice and Development Party (PJD), which oversaw the country's normalisation agreement with Israel in 2020, has placed support for Palestine at the heart of its political agenda, as it ...

Lights flickered back to life in Spain and Portugal early Tuesday after a massive blackout hit the Iberian peninsula stranding passengers in trains and hundreds of elevators while millions saw phone ...

Worldwide military expenditure saw its steepest rise in 2024 since the end of the Cold War, reaching $2.7 trillion as wars and rising tensions drove up spending, researchers said Monday. Military ...