The scene shocked many and highlighted the violence of this year's olive harvest in the Israeli-occupied West Bank: a young masked man clubs an older…
Hamas said on Friday it had received “clear guarantees” from Egypt, Qatar, and Türkiye, along with “direct assurances from the United States,” that the Gaza…
After two years of war, Gaza is buried under more than 61 million tons of debris and three quarters of buildings have been destroyed, according to UN data…
Iraq is weeks away from parliamentary elections that will set the country’s course during one of the Middle East's most delicate moments in years. While the…
Sources in Idlib province told Asharq Al-Awsat that “things are on track to be resolved” following a security operation targeting the “Katibat al-Ghuraba” …
A new United Nations Secretary-General will be elected next year for a five-year term starting on January 1, 2027. Here are the potential candidates so far…
Iran's economy is at risk of simultaneous hyperinflation and severe recession, officials and analysts say, as clerical rulers scramble to preserve stability…
Lebanon stands at a political and security crossroads amid mounting external pressure, a deadlocked political landscape, and escalating military tensions…
As a tenuous ceasefire took hold in Gaza this month, Israel launched more airstrikes on southern Lebanon — 11 months into a ceasefire there. The bombardment…
Months before his assassination, former Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah believed that the “support war” his party had launched against Israel in…
Amid the joy of being released after 20 months of suffering in Israeli prisons, Mohammed Abu Moussa could tell something was wrong. Descending from the bus…
Weeks of nationwide Gen Z protests in Madagascar sparked by power and water shortages escalated and led to a military coup that forced President Andry…
Demonstrations in more than a dozen cities have jolted Morocco for weeks, with the young people behind them showing they can translate digital discontent into…
Not long after midnight on December 8, 2024, dozens of people gathered in the darkness outside the military section of the Damascus International Airport…
After nearly a decade of pre-trial detention in Lebanon, Hannibal al-Gadhafi, one of longtime Libyan ruler Moammar al-Gadhafi’s sons, was ordered by a Lebanese…
There was no mistaking the reek of death that rose along the Syrian desert highway four nights a week for nearly two years. It was the smell of thousands of…
The Tomahawk cruise missile, set to be at the center of talks between Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has been a mainstay of the US…
During the two-year Israeli war on Gaza that followed Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack, the group faced growing internal challenges, including clashes with armed…
The dispute over the return of bodies, the issue that nearly blew up US President Donald Trump’s peace plan, is only the first landmine. More major challenges…
Just hours after some 20 Russian drones entered Polish airspace last month, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said it was time for Europe to…
Under Gaza’s ceasefire deal, Israel freed dozens of doctors, nurses, paramedics and other medical personnel seized during raids on hospitals. But more than 100…
Iraqi and Lebanese clerics have, for the first time, revealed that the office of Iraq’s top Shiite authority, Ali al-Sistani, sent a letter to Hezbollah in…
During the Gaza war, Hamas faced not only military setbacks but also growing internal challenges to its rule in the enclave from old rivals, many of them…
A nephew of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has returned to the West Bank after four years of self-exile, outlining a roadmap to secure peace in Gaza…