Yemen’s government will permit citizens living in areas controlled by Huthi rebels to travel on Huthi-issued passports, an official told AFP, removing a barrier to long-awaited commercial flights out of the capital Sanaa. Yemen’s embassy in Washington said on Twitter that Yemeni authorities had accepted “a UN proposal to use…

Iran abruptly raised prices as much as 300% for a variety of staples such as cooking oil, chicken, eggs and milk on Thursday. Scores of alarmed Iranians waited in long lines to snatch up bundles of food and emptied supermarket shelves across the country in the hours before the price…

Human Rights Watch wrote to the Interior Ministry on April 12 asking about the measures the ministry was taking to ensure people with disabilities could exercise their right to vote. While Lebanon’s electoral law requires the Interior Ministry to take measures to ensure that people with disabilities can vote, in…

Saudi Arabia’s flag carrier, Saudia, has restarted flights to the Turkish city of Istanbul, after being halted for two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The airline’s flights to Istanbul were halted over the past two years due to the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic and the measures imposed by countries in…

Heavy clashes between suspected Al-Qaeda militants and Yemeni security forces in the province of Dhale have left 10 people, including two officers and seven militants, dead, local officials and media reports said. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, also known as AQAP, has been significantly weakened during the past six years…

Thousands of Syrians have been waiting near an iconic bridge in Syria since a presidential amnesty was issued earlier this week, to see if their loved ones might be among those released as a result of the amnesty decree. A presidential amnesty decree issued by Syrian President Bashar al Assad…

The US Congress edged closer on Wednesday toward completing a long-stalled bill authorizing hundreds of billions of dollars to boost the country’s ability to compete with Chinese technology, with Senate votes on motions addressing issues including energy policy and Iran sanctions. Congress has been working on China competition legislation for…

Turkish President Erdogan’s two-day trip to Riyadh will most likely boost bilateral ties but what’s more crucial is that it could change the security situation for the entire region, from Iran to the war in Yemen. Bilateral relations between Turkey and Saudi Arabia had been on ice since the killing…