Bahrain’s Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa and Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi arrived in Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah ahead of Saturday’s Gulf Cooperation Council summit. They were welcomed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman upon their arrival in Jeddah.

Senior Iranian and Egyptian officials held a secret meeting in Oman on June 27, during Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s visit to the sultanate, informed sources tell The Media Line. Egypt assured Iran during the meeting that the Negev Summit is not directed against Iran and will not include any…

Ennahda leader Rashid Ghannouchi, the judge Bashir al-Akrami, Mansour Rashid, Najah Hajj Latif, and security leaders, including Wahid Toujani, Mehrez Zouari, Mustafa Ben Omar, Atef El Amrani and Al-Azhar Longo, have been reported for different crimes, including money laundering. The Defence Committee spoke of the existence of a secret financial…

A rocket strike on a five-story apartment building in the eastern town of Chasiv Yar on Saturday night killed 15 people and left two dozen people feared trapped in the rubble. President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said the strike was “another terrorist attack” and that Russia should…

Iranian authorities have arrested a prominent reformist activist and two filmmakers on charges of acting against national security, local media said on Friday. Mostafa Tajzadeh, a former reformist deputy interior minister turned activist, was detained on charges of “acting against national security and spreading lies to disturb public opinion,” the…

Iraq is often featured for its wars and conflicts, but the country also boasts a rich natural environment. Spanning jagged mountains in the north to pristine deserts in the south, it offers a habitat to 84 endangered mammals, birds, reptiles and fish species. Wildlife conservationists are trying to strengthen laws…