Al-Araby

A leading Algerian opposition politician broke official silence on Morocco King Mohammed VI’s recent call for reconciliation, saying Rabat’s normalisation with Israel made ending the diplomatic crisis more difficult. Abderrazak Makri, head of the Movem…

Russia will launch an Iranian remote sensing satellite into orbit next Tuesday, the two countries confirmed, two weeks after President Vladimir Putin visited Tehran. “In cooperation with Russia, the Khayyam satellite will be launched next week from the…

Iran’s intelligence ministry said on Thursday it had arrested 10 Islamic State group suspects who were planning attacks targeting religious commemorations, days ahead of the major Shia Muslim mourning ritual of Ashura. The ministry said that “10 Daesh …

The Syrian regime is planning to hold municipal elections next September, according to state media. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a legislative decree on Wednesday stating the elections will take place on Sunday 18 September, SANA reported. T…

Negotiators kicked off a fresh round of talks over Iran’s nuclear programme in Vienna on Thursday, seeking to salvage the agreement on Tehran’s atomic ambitions. Officials from world powers and Iran were meeting in the Austrian capital for the first ti…

Saudi Arabia has placed a bid to host the 2029 Asian Winter Games at the tourism resort of Trojena in its NEOM megacity, currently under construction. The Saudi Olympic and Paralympic Committee announced on Wednesday that it had submitted a letter of i…

Two years since the Beirut port explosion, which killed 218 people, all aspects of life in Lebanon has only worsened, with poverty dramatically increasing. Meanwhile, the investigation of one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history has achieve…

People around the world are mourning the two-year anniversary of the devastating Beirut port blast that shook the Lebanese capital city on 4 August 2020. Many social media users lamented the terrible losses suffered on the “bloody day” while accusing L…

Mali has ordered a private airline to evict foreign soldiers, including UN troops, from its Bamako airport base following last month’s arrest of 49 Ivorian soldiers there. All “foreign forces” must leave the Sahel Aviation Services (SAS) base at Bamako…

A gunbattle in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul left at least five people dead Wednesday, including two Taliban police and three Islamic State group gunmen, a Taliban official said. Khalid Zadran, the Taliban spokesman for the Kabul police chief, said po…