1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (447+ words) DOHA – Qatar's former emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the architect of the country's transformation from a little-known Gulf state into one of the Middle East's most influential diplomatic and economic powers, died on Sunday at the age of…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (740+ words) TURMUS AYYA, West Bank – US Democratic lawmaker Ro Khanna said he was detained by Israeli settlers armed with US-made rifles during a West Bank visit this week that he cast as an unfiltered look at the human toll of Israeli…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (792+ words) WASHINGTON/DUBAI – The US military said it launched another round of strikes on Iran after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck a container ship traveling through the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday. A series of attacks between the US and…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (541+ words) JERUSALEM – Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak has warned that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could resort to military escalation against Lebanon that risks drawing Iran into a wider regional conflict if he concludes he is heading for defeat in Israel's…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (391+ words) TEHRAN – Iran said on Saturday it tripled production of military drones during its recent war despite sustained US and Israeli strikes on its military infrastructure, in a show of defiance aimed at projecting resilience as tensions with Washington remain high…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (369+ words) SANAA – UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg said on Saturday he had received renewed commitments from Yemen's internationally-recognised government and the Houthi movement to implement a landmark prisoner exchange agreement, a day after both sides postponed the operation and…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (323+ words) Has Islamabad become a new diplomatic player to be reckoned with in the files and issues of the Middle East, or is its role still limited and restricted to merely transmitting and exchanging messages? The Pakistani role in Libya is…...

2+ day, 29+ min ago  (665+ words) WASHINGTON/CAIRO - President Donald Trump said the US and Iran had agreed to continue talks despite an escalation of hostilities this week but he declared that the ceasefire reached between the two sides last month was over. The United States…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (488+ words) WASHINGTON/TEHRAN – Regional powers are mounting an intensive diplomatic effort to steer the United States and Iran back to negotiations after their most serious military confrontation in months threatened to derail a fledgling nuclear understanding and ignite a wider regional…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (517+ words) One year after the massacres: Druze in Syria remain under acute threat middle-east-online.com One year after the massacres: Druze in Syria remain under acute threat One year after the start of the genocidal massacres against the Druze population in…...