Lebanese caretaker Defense Minister Brigadier General Maurice Sleem has called upon the international community and the United Nations to “move quickly and put an end to the renewed Israeli provocations,” after a gas drilling ship arrived in disputed waters in the Mediterranean Sea to conduct hydrocarbon exploration for Israel. Sleem said Israel’s activities …

French President Emmanuel Macron has condemned the Tel Aviv regime’s insistence on illegal settlement construction and land expropriation policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, asserting that Paris supports the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people. During a telephone conversation with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas, Macron expressed his concern in the face …

A high-ranking official with Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement says the United States is preventing the Arab country from offshore crude oil and natural gas exploration and production, stating that Beirut possesses the ability to tap its own energy resources to cover its domestic demands. “The US is the main opponent …

Iraqi security forces have captured more than a dozen Daesh terrorists, including a number of top commanders, hours after five civilians were killed and several others injured in an attack in the eastern Province of Diyala. The Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) announced in a statement on Sunday that it had arrested 14 people responsible for planning …

The Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) says the Saudi-led coalition has banned a Yemen-bound ship carrying tons of fuel from docking at Hudaydah Port in violation of a UN-brokered ceasefire agreement to end the siege and war on the impoverished country. Essam al-Mutawakel, a spokesman for the YPC, said in a …