Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has rejected multiple approaches by Donald Trump to discuss the US president's upcoming proposal for peace with Israel, three officials said Monday. The Trump administration reached out several times in recent months, including via third parties, but Abbas r   Details..>>

The Houthi forces have made significant gains against the Saudi-backec Yemen government forces. Progress has been made within the triangle of the Sanaa, Marib and Jawf governorates. Following heavy fighting on Friday, Houthi forces seized the Nehm district, which lies east of the capital San   Details..>>

A volley of rockets landed near the US embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad Sunday, two security sources told AFP, in the latest unclaimed attack on American installations in the country. AFP reporters heard loud thuds emanating from the western bank of the Tigris, where the US embassy and mos   Details..>>

China on Sunday ordered a temporary ban on the trade in wild animals as the country struggles to contain a deadly virus believed to have been spawned in a market that sold wild animals as food. Raising, transporting or selling all wild animal species is forbidden “from the date of the an   Details..>>

  Attacks on two Saudi oil facilities earlier this year came from the north and were carried out by drones similar to ones developed by Iran, according to a report published by the US and seen by Reuters. A US assessment and analysis of weapons debris reportedly found at one of the attack   Details..>>

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar could not be expected to respect a cease-fire called between his forces and pro-government troops in Libya. Commenting on reported violations of the truce, Erdogan said: “It is not possi   Details..>>

Shabwa Governor Mohammed Saleh Bin Adyo said yesterday at the launch of two computer laboratories in the capital Ataq that the governorate has received $31 million in crude oil sales from 13 shipments of crude produced from Al-Aqla oil field. The new laboratories – in Shabwa’s Coll   Details..>>

 A mosque in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem was burned and vandalised in a suspected hate crime early on Friday. The mosque in the Beit Safafa neighbourhood suffered damage in the attack but no one was hurt, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. Firefighters were called to the scene and q   Details..>>

Iraqi security forces raided Baghdad’s main protest site at Tahrir Square on Saturday, firing live rounds and tear gas at anti-government demonstrators who have camped out there for months, Reuters reporters said. There were no immediate reports of casualties but at least seven people we   Details..>>

  A military committee led by Saudi officers in Yemen has transported heavy weapons from bases in the southern port city of Aden, a committee member told Arab News on Friday. “We’ve moved tanks, cannons and ammunition from Aden military bases to a military outpost in Ras Abbas,   Details..>>