Middle East
Middle East News: Get all the latest updates on Middle East crime & Middle East politics. Also get all latest news onWorld news, Political news, refugee camp news, War News at The Siasat Daily.
-
Iran FM meets UN nuclear chief ahead of fresh US talks in Geneva
Geneva: Iran’s top diplomat met with the head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency on Monday, February 16, ahead of a second round of negotiations with the United States (US) over Tehran’s…
-
Saudi Arabia ready for Ramzan 2026 as millions set to visit Makkah, Madinah
Riyadh: Saudi authorities have completed wide-ranging operational, religious and municipal preparations for Ramzan 2026, as Makkah and Madinah prepare to receive millions of worshippers and Umrah performers during one of the busiest…
-
Renowned UAE-based Indian photographer Ramesh Shukla passes away
Abu Dhabi: Renowned United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based Indian photographer Ramesh Shukla, widely regarded as the man who visually chronicled the early history of the Emirates, passed away on Sunday, February 15. He…
-
Warmer temperatures, below-average rainfall forecast in Makkah, Madinah this Ramzan
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s National Center for Meteorology (NCM) has issued its preliminary climate outlook for the holy month of Ramzan 1447 AH/2026, predicting above-average temperatures and below-normal rainfall across the Makkah and…
-
Gulf countries condemn Israel’s ‘illegal plan’ to convert West Bank land into state property
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait have condemned an Israeli decision to convert land in the occupied West Bank into what authorities term “state property”, warning that the move violates international law and…
-
Body of Indian migrant reaches home four months after death in Saudi Arabia
Ranchi: The body of a migrant worker from Jharkhand’s Giridih district killed in Saudi Arabia in October last year has arrived at Ranchi Airport, but his family refused to accept it over…
-
Gaza’s Nasser Hospital condemns MSF decision to suspend operations
Gaza Strip: One of Gaza’s last functioning large hospitals condemned the decision by Doctors Without Borders to pull out of operations over concerns about armed men, claiming on Sunday that the facility…
-
Over 6,000 killed in RSF assault on Sudan’s El-Fasher: UN
Khartoum: More than 6,000 people were killed in over three days when a Sudanese paramilitary group unleashed “a wave of intense violence … shocking in its scale and brutality” in Sudan’s Darfur…
-
Netanyahu seeks tough Iran deal terms, warns Gaza war could resume
Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that any potential agreement with Iran must include the removal of nuclear material, a halt to uranium enrichment and restrictions on ballistic missiles, voicing scepticism…
-
Israel to begin West Bank land registration amid control concerns
Tel Aviv: Israel will begin a contentious land regulation process in a large part of the occupied West Bank, which could result in Israel gaining control over wide swaths of the area…
-
Saudi Arabia calls for sighting of Ramzan crescent on Feb 17
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court has called on citizens and residents to check the sighting of the crescent moon of the holy month of Ramzan 1446 AH-2026 on Tuesday evening, February 17. In…
-
We rape Palestinian women also, IDF soldier confesses to livestreamer
A conversation between an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier and an American livestreamer triggered sharp reactions after the former said Israeli troops are not only killing Palestinian women and children in Gaza…
-
US, Iran to hold new round of nuclear talks in Geneva this week
Geneva: Iran and the United States will hold a second round of talks over Tehran’s nuclear programme next week, the Swiss Foreign Ministry has said. Oman, which welcomed the first round of…
-
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy holds talks with Iranian opposition figure in Munich
Munich: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday, February 14, that he met Reza Pahlavi, son of Iran’s last Shah and a prominent opposition figure, on the sidelines of the Munich Security…
-
Widespread arrests roil Iran weeks after security forces crushed protests
Tehran: The Iranian security agents came at 2 am, pulling up in a half-dozen cars outside the home of the Nakhii family. They woke up the sleeping sisters, Nyusha and Mona, and…
