Gaza Strip gets first new hospital in a decade, two more due this year
The Gaza Strip's struggling healthcare system will get some much needed help in 2016 after the first new hospital in a decade opened its...
Arab alliance: Yemen 1 mln cholera cases report exaggerated
The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Friday an announcement by the International Committee of the Red Cross that cholera cases in the...
Gulf states plan military retaliation to Putin's bombing of rebel positions in Syria
Analysts say Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey are now likely to increase military aid to the anti-Assad groups they support. This comes as a...
Israel-Palestine peace process 'kidnapped by religious zealots'
The current violent conflict between Palestinians and Israelis makes one reminisce about better days — when Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres...
Coronavirus’ first victim in Iraq
The local health department in Iraq announced on Wednesday that reported that an elderly man in the Kurdish province of Sulaimaniya.
Iraq has so far...
Elon Musk offers to make ventilators amid Coronavirus battle
Elon Musk’s, Tesla’s chief executive, offer to make ventilators for Coronavirus sufferers was welcomed by hundreds of Twitter users on Thursday after the United...
Afghan forces battle to push back Taliban in Helmand
Afghan forces battled on Wednesday to push back Taliban fighters who have overrun Sangin in Helmand province and officials denied insurgents' claims that police...
Libya’s women footballers struggle on and off pitch
Libya's national women's football team is not only struggling on the pitch but also battling a conservative society that frowns on women playing sports...
New Saudi-Iran crisis threatens wider escalation
The last time Saudi Arabia broke off ties with Iran, after its embassy in Tehran was stormed by protesters in 1988, it took a...
A month on, signal in Beirut rubble raises hope for survivor
BEIRUT (AP) — A pulsing signal was detected Thursday from under the rubble of a Beirut building that collapsed during the horrific port explosion...
