BBC and Al Jazeera broadcaster Jamil Azar has died. The broadcaster, who initially started his career as a maths and biology teacher in 1954, eventually joined BBC World Service Arabic Radio in 1965.

Longtime Al Jazeera Arabic anchor and journalist Jamil Azar, a pioneer of the network since its establishment three decades ago, has passed away. Director-General Sheikh Nasser bin Faisal Al Thani ...

This live page has now been closed. You can find our new live page here. President Donald Trump says the United States will run Venezuela until a “safe transition”, adding that the US will be “very ...

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United States President Donald Trump has said Washington is “locked and loaded” to respond if Iran kills more protesters, after cost-of-living demonstrations in the country turned deadly. Protesters ...

Yemen’s southern separatist movement says it aims to hold a referendum on independence from the north in two years as Saudi-backed forces are fighting to regain territory the separatists seized last ...

Abdullah Nattat was once an energetic young man working as a singer and a performer, hosting wedding celebrations and entertaining children. The 30-year-old now sits in a wheelchair, both of his legs ...

Protests about the soaring cost of living in Iran have entered their sixth day after the rial plunged to a record low against the United States dollar in late December. After a number of deaths as a ...

Flights from Aden international airport in Yemen were halted on Thursday amid continuing tensions between the Southern Transitional Council (STC) separatist group and the Saudi Arabia-backed ...

New York, United States – Sprawling crowds, a seven-block-long party and chants to “tax the rich” in the world’s wealthiest city marked Zohran Mamdani’s public inauguration as New York City mayor on ...

Several countries in the Middle East and Asia have called on Israel to allow “immediate, full, and unhindered” deliveries of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip as winter storms lash the bombarded ...

Palestinian rights advocates are praising New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for revoking pro-Israel municipal decrees within hours of his inauguration, a move that was promptly condemned by the ...