The United States on Monday imposed fresh Iran-related sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic’s oil sector, including the Iranian Ministry of Petroleum, in Washington’s latest action to increase pressure on Tehran. The US Treasury Department in a statement said it was slapping sa   Details..>>

An airstrike on a rebel training camp in northwestern Syria on Monday killed more than 50 Turkish-backed fighters and wounded nearly as many, a Syrian opposition spokesman and a war monitor said. The airstrike in the northwestern part of Idlib province, the last rebel enclave in Syria, targete   Details..>>

UNESCO plans to send a mission to Yemen's Socotra archipelago to report to it about the situation on the archipelago which is on the world heritage list, government officials said on Sunday. The move comes amid growing fears over threats to the archipelago's unique biodiversity following the s   Details..>>

The Saudi-led military coalition engaged in Yemen said on Monday it intercepted and destroyed an explosives-laden drones launched by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement towards Saudi Arabia, Saudi state news agency reported. In recent days the coalition said it had intercepted and destroyed sever   Details..>>

 The EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell on Sunday condemned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for making what he described as “unacceptable” comments about his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron. On Saturday, France had said it was recalling its envoy to Turkey for con   Details..>>

Sudan and Israel will discuss agreements to cooperate on trade and migration issues in the coming weeks, the Sudanese foreign ministry said on Sunday, signalling steps to implement a normalization pact after decades of hostilities. The US-brokered accord made Khartoum the third Arab government   Details..>>

 Yemen’s soldiers and separatists agreed on Friday to put into place a “comprehensive and permanent” truce in the southern province of Abyan and other contested areas, local army commanders said on Saturday. The fresh announcement about halting hostilities comes as Maeen   Details..>>

The military spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi movement said in a tweet on Saturday it had targeted the Jizan and Abha airports and the Khamis Mushait base in Saudi Arabia with drones. Earlier on Saturday and in two statements on Friday, the Saudi-led coalition had said it had intercepted and   Details..>>

Egyptians began voting Saturday in the first stage of a parliamentary election, a vote that is highly likely to produce a toothless House of Representatives packed with supporters of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi. The elections are taking place as the Arab world’s most populous country   Details..>>

  Ethiopia vowed Saturday not to “cave in to aggressions of any kind” after US President Donald Trump lashed out over the country’s Nile River mega-dam and suggested Egypt might destroy it. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s office defended the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance   Details..>>