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Eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar sought on Sunday to open a new front by moving forces towards the city of Misrata, which is allied to the country’s internationally recognised government, officials and residents said. Libyan commander Khalifa ...

Iranians should not allow U.S. President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” approach to harm national unity ahead of parliamentary elections, President Hassan Rouhani said in a speech, lashing out at hardliners over mass disqualification of candidates. Iran’s clerical rulers ...

Sweeping cyberattacks targeting governments and other organisations in Europe and the Middle East are believed to be the work of hackers acting in the interests of the Turkish government, three senior Western security officials said. The hackers have ...

Israel on Sunday announced that it would permit Israeli citizens to travel to Saudi Arabia for the first time, under certain conditions that include Israeli entrepreneurs seeking investments, in a signal of warming ties. Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh ...

Projected revenues in Lebanon’s 2020 budget may be unrealistic because of a contraction in the country’s economy, the chairman of the parliamentary budget committee said on Monday, as protesters hurled rocks at police near to where the draft ...

Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riad al-Malki said the Palestinian leadership is discussing with the brotherly Arab countries practical steps to respond to the US administration’s announcement regarding the ‘deal of the century’, at all levels. ...

Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif said on Monday that US President Donald Trump’s threat to target Iran’s cultural and civilization centers amounted to “Cultural Terrorism” and continuation of US disregard of International Law. Zarif made the remarks in a ...

Iran said it had asked the U.S. and French authorities for equipment to download information from black boxes on a downed Ukrainian airliner, potentially angering countries which want the recorders analysed abroad. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, ...

Two U.N. officials will report on Wednesday that there is enough evidence suggesting that Saudi Arabia had hacked Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos’ phone and both the kingdom and the United States should investigate, a person familiar with ...

Secretary-General of Lebanon’s Council of Ministers Mahmoud Makiya announced on Tuesday evening the formation of the new Lebanese government headed by Hassan Diab, an engineering professor and former education minister. The new cabinet line-up, which comes nearly three ...