Good morning and welcome to The New Arab's live coverage. Here are the latest updates from the region: - The US and Iran have continued trading fire in the Gulf, with the US shooting down four...
A well-known Lebanese environmental activist, known for her turtle conservation work, was wounded in an Israeli airstrike in the south of the country earlier this week. Mona Khalil was reportedly rushed to hospital after a strike on her beachfront...
GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian fisherman was shot and killed by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Sunday morning, amid reports of ceasefire violations across various areas of the Gaza Strip. Local sources reported that fisherman Mohamed Abu Jiyab was martyred while working...
BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip - Story By Nasma Al-Harazeen Standing amid the ruins of what was once his family home, 20-year-old Yousef Al-Shafee searches for traces of a life that disappeared during the war. The house in Beit Lahiya, northern...
I want to draw your attention to two news items that may complicate, if not derail, President Trump’s hopes of securing a peace agreement with Iran. Pakistan, as Pepe Escobar and I reported last week, continues to play a central...
Political victories achieved through strict party discipline and powerful financial support often result in a deepening of internal divisions, the consequences of which only become noticeable over time. Back in my days as a young public school teacher in Kentucky,...
Taiwan’s coast guard said Sunday it has deployed vessels “to respond appropriately” to a Chinese operation in waters east of the island democracy, which it said “violates international law”. File Photo: Taiwan Presidential Office via Flickr. It comes after Chinese...
By: Majid Maqbool - - - - In his book How to Sell a Genocide (Pluto Press), media analyst Adam H. Johnson, who clearly delivers from the left side of the political spectrum, delivers a scathing critique of...
History, it is said, does not repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes. This may explain the sense of déjà vu that crept over me when I read about the case of Mr Raymond Wong – a...
On a sprawling promenade in West Kowloon, a gay choir lit up the stage with a chorus of harmonies. Children listened attentively at a storytelling session led by a drag queen dressed in pink from top to bottom. Pink Dot...
Iraq have called up Ahmed Hassan Makenzie to their 2026 World Cup squad to replace Ahmed Yahya, who has been ruled out of the tournament with a hamstring injury, the national team announced on Saturday. "Based on the medical report, head...
The U.S. government will attempt to redirect Iranian assets to Gulf states for rebuilding and repairs of future damage caused by Iran, a source familiar with the matter said on Saturday, a day after a wave of attacks by Iran...
A drone strike hit a market in central Sudan on Saturday, killing 11 civilians and wounding dozens more, a rights group said, as escalating aerial attacks deepen the toll of one of the world's worst humanitarian crises . The attack...
Iran's former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi , who was the focus of a 2009 mass protest movement and has spent the last 15 years under house arrest, has been hospitalised after his health deteriorated, an advisor said on...
Iraq's World Cup striker, Aymen Hussein, was held and questioned for nearly seven hours at Chicago's O'Hare airport after arriving with the squad early on Saturday, an Iraqi sporting official said. Hussein was finally allowed in, but the team's...
GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem stated that the “criminal (Israeli) occupation committed a horrific massacre against children and women inside the tents of displaced people in Gaza City on Saturday afternoon, in a continued criminal escalation of the genocidal war...
KHAN YUNIS, (PIC) Between the rubble of houses in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, and under a sky heavy with warplanes, the young man Muhannad Osman Farwana, twenty-five years old, was preparing to start a long-awaited...
Prosecutors on Saturday opened a probe into a 95-year-old billionaire and honorary head of Koc Holdings, Turkey 's biggest conglomerate, over a joke about a Kurdish woman widely denounced as sexist and racist. The blunder was made by Rahmi Koc...
Free and fair elections are the foundation of liberal democracy, and South Korea has long been regarded as one of Asia’s democratic success stories. Power changes hands peacefully between conservative and progressive governments, civic engagement remains robust, and even presidents...
Lebanese army chief Rodolphe Haykal left Lebanon for Pakistan on Saturday where he will meet his counterpart Asim Munir, the Lebanese military said, with a source telling AFP the visit is linked to broader Iran-US talks. In a statement,...
The father of seven-month-old Palestinian infant Sam Fahd Abu Hekel, who was killed by Israeli gunfire in Hebron on Friday, has rejected the Israeli military's account of the shooting, saying he stopped his vehicle...
An Israeli strike killed at least seven Palestinians including two women in Gaza on Saturday, health officials said, as mediators restarted talks in Cairo with Hamas and other factions over safeguarding a strained ceasefire agreement. Medics said seven people...
Gaza's civil defence service reported that Israeli strikes killed 10 people on Saturday amid a fragile ceasefire in effect since last October. In Gaza City, a drone strike killed eight people and wounded 15 others in the Jawazat camp for displaced...
For the first time, a Lebanese television channel hosted an Israeli journalist on air, in a move that has sparked debate in Lebanon as Israeli attacks on the country continue. Barak Ravid, a correspondent for Israel's Channel 12...
GAZA, (PIC) Thousands of patients in the Gaza Strip are facing life-threatening danger due to the ongoing Israeli blockade that denies them medical travel to seek life-saving treatment outside the enclave. The Israeli war and blockade have already led to the near‑total...
Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi arrived in Tehran on Saturday for talks with Iranian officials, as questions mount over whether Islamabad is seeking to revive stalled negotiations between Iran and the US . Iran's Students News...
This live blog has now ended. Make sure to follow us for the latest news on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram . Iran launched fresh aerial attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait early Saturday,...
GAZA, (PIC) At least six Palestinians were killed and others wounded on Saturday evening in an Israeli airstrike on the al‑Rimal neighborhood in central Gaza City. According to media sources, six Palestinians were killed and more than 15 were injured when an...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) forced a Jerusalemite citizen to demolish his own home in Silwan district, south of the Aqsa Mosque, on Saturday. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center reported that Ashraf Burqan started demolishing his house, located in...
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has launched a campaign urging British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to stop a property exhibition event due to take place in London later this month, arguing that it facilitates the sale of homes...
Lebanon launched the rehabilitation of its second airport on Saturday, in preparation for an opening within months, at a time when the country faces constant fighting between Hezbollah and Israel . Lebanon currently has one international airport , located...
US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner travelled to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee on Thursday for consultations with technical experts who could play a role in nuclear negotiations with Iran ,...
NABLUS, (PIC) A horde of extremist Jewish settlers went on the rampage through the town of Huwara south of Nablus, attacking the municipality building, Palestinian citizens, and homes, while others vandalized swaths of agricultural lands in the al‑Massoudiya area northwest of...
Thousands of Albanians protested Thursday evening in Tirana for a fourth consecutive day against a coastal tourism complex allegedly linked to US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner . Some held banners reading "Edi Rama resign", while others featured a...
The release of frozen Iranian funds has become a key issue in negotiations between Tehran and Washington aimed at ending their war , a senior Iranian official said. Iran has been subject to asset freezes and sweeping sanctions by the...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Asra Media Office (AMO) warned on Saturday of worsening health conditions among Palestinian detainees at Israel’s Ganot prison, citing continued medical neglect and delays in providing necessary treatment. In a statement, the AMO said several prisoners are suffering from...
As new revelations continue to break regarding US military losses during its war on Iran, Tehran has publicly announced the results of a widespread crackdown on agents working on behalf of foreign intelligence agencies. Thousands have been detained in the...
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WEST BANK, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has strongly denounced the killing of seven-month-old infant Sam Fahd Abu Haikal and the injury of his parents after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire directly at them south of al-Khalil City in the...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission revealed the registration of 1,659 attacks carried out by the Israeli occupation forces and settlers against Palestinians, their lands, and their properties during the past month of May. The head of the Commission,...
GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem criticized the Palestinian Authority on Saturday over its lack of official action in response to Israel’s escalating war and ongoing massacres against civilians in Gaza. Qassem said the PA’s official silence over the Israeli violations in...
Iran lashed out at the United States on Saturday for refusing visas to some of its World Cup squad support staff as the players were to leave Turkey for Mexico. The row erupted just days before the June 11...
Bethlehem, West Bank / PNN/ Israeli authorities have taken a new step toward formalizing the settlement outpost known as “Yitzev” east of the Palestinian city of Beit Sahour by designating approximately 116 dunums of land as part of the outpost’s...
Two Lebanese officers and one soldier were killed on Saturday in an Israeli strike on a military vehicle on the Khardali-Nabatiyeh road in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese army said. Later, the Israeli military said it targeted the vehicle after...
If another 7 mln barrels of Russian oil exports are added to the existing 16 million barrels under restrictions, then former International Energy Agency head Nobuo Tanaka Mr. Tanaka is most likely right, Executive Secretary of the presidential commission on...
Bethlehem / PNN/ Eighty-five members of the US House of Representatives have called on the Trump administration to use all available diplomatic tools to halt the Israeli settlement project known as E-1 in occupied East Jerusalem. They warned that implementing the...
The architect of the African Union’s reparations framework for the historic UN resolution explains why demands for historical justice are inseparable from the struggle for Black sovereignty Last month, at commemorations marking the 25th anniversary of France’s Taubira law recognising the...
The Gulf countries of Bahrain and Kuwait were targeted in renewed aerial attacks by Iran early Saturday after the United States said it had struck the Islamic republic. The tiny island kingdom of Bahrain, home to the headquarters of...
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