The Arab Monetary Fund has signed a $1-billion agreement to support Yemen's economic reform programme to its Saudi-backed government, Saudi state media said on Sunday. The new package by the Abu Dhabi-based fund, which includes countries from the Middle East and North Africa, will provide s   Details..>>

U.N. Security Council members urged Yemen's Houthis to renew a truce that expired in October and to engage in substantive talks to end the more than eight-year-old conflict. "I want the parties to the conflict to not only renew the truce but – crucially – to commit to taking steps   Details..>>

At least 21 people were killed and several others injured when a fire broke out in a building where residents attended a party in the Gaza Strip, health and civil emergency officials said on Thursday. Footage circulated on social media and witnesses said the whole residential building caught fire   Details..>>

 The Navy says it seized enough material to fuel more than a dozen ballistic missiles when warships from the 5th Fleet intercepted a fishing vessel heading from Iran to Yemen. The Navy found more than 70 tons of ammonium perchlorate, commonly used to make rocket and missile fuel as well a   Details..>>

At least six people were killed and 53 injured in an explosion on Sunday in a popular tourist area of Istanbul. Videos posted on social media showed bodies lying on the ground in the city’s busy Istiklal Street following the blast at around 4:20 p.m. local time. Confirming casualty num   Details..>>

Syrian regime rocket fire killed nine people including three children at makeshift camps for displaced people in the country’s last major rebel-held bastion early Sunday, a war monitor said. The dead included three children among seven civilians, and two unidentified individuals, said th   Details..>>

Iran’s foreign minister on Saturday acknowledged for the first time that his country has supplied Russia with drones, insisting the transfer came before Moscow’s war on Ukraine that has seen the Iranian-made drones divebombing Kyiv. The comments by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein   Details..>>

Scores of Syrian refugees headed home Saturday from eastern Lebanon in the second convoy in less than two weeks as Beirut attempts to organize a mass refugee return to the war-torn country. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the “voluntary return” Saturday included   Details..>>

Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has called on Yemen’s warring rivals to extend a UN-brokered cease-fire and provide protection to civilians in the war-torn country. "It is now just over a month since the expiry of a UN-mediated truce in Yemen that started on 2 Apr   Details..>>

Over 50,000 people have been trained to provide security at the World Cup in line with FIFA standards, and international security personnel will operate under a unified Qatari command, an Interior Ministry spokesperson said. During the tournament, Qatar won’t be issuing normal visas and   Details..>>