The Iraqi security forces arrested six terrorists in two separate operations in al-Anbar governorate. Al-Anbar operations commander, Naser al-Ghannam, said in a statement earlier today, Tuesday, that the security forces apprehended two “dangerous” terrorists in cooperation with al-Anbar intelligence. Al-Ghannam added that a second operation carried out by the 10th …

PM called off first official trip to UAE last week at the last minute, blaming Jordan for failing to approve flyover; Jordan confirms closing its airspace over diplomatic spat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that he was deterred from flying to the United Arab Emirates through Saudi airspace last …

The announcement comes a year after the Trump administration slashed $73 million in assistance over concerns the Houthis were diverting the aid. The United States is restoring aid to Houthi-held parts of northern Yemen “to help meet the region’s critical needs,” the US special envoy for the war-torn country confirmed …

Thirty-one member countries at the UN Human Rights Council issued a rare rebuke of Cairo’s crackdown on peaceful dissent. The United States joined 30 other countries on Friday to express concern over “the trajectory of human rights in Egypt” and the Egyptian government’s use of counterterrorism laws to crush peaceful …

Egypt and the United Arab Emirates are calling for Syria to be accepted back into the Arab League as analysts say that its suspension has done little good. Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have called for Syria’s return to the Arab League nearly 10 years after its membership was …

Abdul Hamid Dbeibah has vowed to unify the war-torn country and lambasted the presence of foreign mercenaries. Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, Libya’s new prime minister, was sworn in on Monday ahead of United Nations-sponsored elections set for December that aim to reunite the war-wracked country a decade after the overthrow of …

Moderate Islamist parties in Algeria, which have been weakened by factionalism and internal disagreements over the years, are unlikely to increase their base in the upcoming general and local elections. Algeria’s moderate Islamist parties are unlikely to be able to capitalize on the snap general and local elections that President …

A US peace plan for Afghanistan, involving intra-Afghan talks in Turkey, could offer Ankara a chance to raise its international profile and break the ice with Washington. US President Joe Biden is still keeping his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan waiting for a phone call, but Washington has recently cheered …

In his first months in office, President Joe Biden’s team has signaled that Syria’s civil war won’t be among his top foreign policy priorities. “We failed,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said of the Barack Obama administration’s approach to Syria. “Not for want of trying, but we failed.” …

The two main political parties in Northern Ireland announced a deal last month to restore the region’s power-sharing government, which had ceased to function three years ago. Within 24 hours of the announcement of the deal on Jan. 10, which was brokered by the British and Irish governments, Northern Ireland’s …