Qatar became the first home team to lose their opening World Cup match as Ecuador cruised to a 2-0 victory over the hosts, with Enner Valencia scoring twice in the tournament curtain-raiser on...
Iran has arrested a prominent actress who in a video removed her headscarf in public in an apparent act of defiance, state media reported Sunday, as protests sweep the country....
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sissi met on Sunday in Qatar for the first time, a picture from Turkey's presidency showed. Erdogan and Sissi...
Ecuador striker Enner Valencia stroked home a 16th-minute penalty to score the first goal of the 2022 World Cup on Sunday. Valencia coolly converted from the spot to put Ecuador 1-0 up against...
Host nation Qatar kicked off the 2022 World Cup against Ecuador on Sunday as the monthlong football showpiece finally got under way after a tortuous 12-year buildup dogged by off-field...
The revolutionary court of Tehran on Sunday sentenced to death a sixth person, the judicial authority's news website said, in connection with months of protests in Iran. ...
The head of Iran's boxing federation has said he will not return home from a tournament in Spain, amid a nationwide wave of protests triggered by Mahsa Amini's death. The...
BEIRUT — The lawyers of Beirut elected on Sunday, at the Justice Palace in the capital, four members of the Bar Council for a three-year term: Saadeddine Khatib (1,759 votes) and Maya Zaghrini...
Turkish airstrikes overnight killed at least 31 people in northern Syria, primarily in positions held by Syrian Kurdish forces, a Britain-based war monitoring group said Sunday. Nearly 25 strikes...
BEN GURION AIRPORT — Balloons in the national colors of Israel and Qatar festooned the departure gate for the first commercial flight between the countries on Sunday, permitted by Doha...
The United Nations COP27 summit in Egypt wrapped up Sunday with delegates adopting two main texts: a final declaration and a landmark deal on climate "loss and damage."...
The United States is reinforcing defense infrastructure in the Middle East, at a time of tension with Iran which likely abandoned a plan to attack Saudi Arabia due to security ties, a US official...
Bahrain has elected a record eight women and many first-time lawmakers to its 40-seat parliament, according to results announced Sunday of this week's polls held without opposition candidates....
Twelve people died on Sunday when their bus collided with a truck near the resort city of Hurghada in eastern Egypt, the Health Ministry said. In a statement, it said "12...
BEIRUT — Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai urged MPs on Sunday to elect a president as soon as possible. The country has been without a head of state since Michel Aoun's mandate ended...
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu's efforts to swiftly form a government faltered on Sunday as a prospective far-right coalition partner demanded the cabinet...
Saudi Arabia's powerful crown prince and a delegation of ministers arrived in neighbouring Qatar on Sunday morning to attend the opening ceremony of the World Cup, Saudi state media reported....
LONDON — Russia has reached agreement with Iran to begin manufacturing hundreds of unmanned weaponized aircraft on Russian soil, The Washington Post reported, citing intelligence seen...
BEIRUT — Lebanon on Saturday recorded seven new cholera cases but no additional deaths in the previous 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases of the illness to 580 and the total...
A fraught UN COP27 summit wrapped up Sunday with a landmark deal on funding to help vulnerable countries cope with devastating climate impacts — and deep disappointment over a failure to push...
Activists on Sunday expressed alarm that Iran was implementing a major crackdown in a Kurdish-populated town that has seen intense anti-regime protests in the last few days....
Turkey on Sunday launched Operation Claw-Sword air raids against outlawed Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria almost a week after a deadly blast in central Istanbul, the defense minister said....
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
