Foreign governments backed the Lebanese government’s reform targets on Tuesday, Prime Minister Saad Al-Hariri’s office cited the country’s UN coordinator Jan Kubis as saying. Hariri met ambassadors including from the United States, Russia, China, the European Union and   Details..>>

The presidents of Turkey and Russia met in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi on Tuesday, hours before a five-day cease-fire between Turkish troops and Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria was set to expire. The talks between Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russia’s Vladimir Pu   Details..>>

  Houthi authorities say an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition has killed at least five civilians, including two children, when it hit a vehicle in a northern province. Youssef al-Hadri, spokesman of the Houthi-run Health Ministry, said in a statement the airstrike took place Monday in K   Details..>>

                 Some 15 million Yemenis have had their water supplies cut exposing them to deadly diseases like cholera due to a fuel crisis, according to a report by the aid agency Oxfam. Major cities such as Ibb, Dhama   Details..>>

Lebanon’s Cabinet approved sweeping reforms on Monday, hoping to appease the thousands of protesters that have taken to the streets for the last five days to demand the government step down. Prime Minister Saad Hariri described the measures as a “financial coup,” saying no go   Details..>>

  The Saudi-led aggression has launched more than 50 air raids against Yemen in the past 48 hours, said the spokesman for the Houthi forces. Brigadier General Yahya Saree said Sunday night hat over the previous 48 hours, the Saudi and Emirati fighter jets bombarded various areas of Yemen   Details..>>

Iran rejects Turkey’s establishing of military posts inside Syria, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Monday, adding that the integrity of Tehran’s key regional ally should be respected. “We are against Ankara’s establishing of military posts in Sy   Details..>>

A UN cease-fire monitoring mission in Yemen's Hodeida on Sunday began establishing control points to monitor a truce between Yemeni warring parties, a security source in the city said. The temporary control points would be set up on four front lines in the east and south of the city to prevent   Details..>>

  A Houthi court has summoned prominent world leaders, including US President Donald Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman within a next month before slapping a lawsuit against them over alleged war crimes in Yemen. A total of 124 figures were ordered to appear in court to defend them   Details..>>

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other senior members of Congress were in Jordan on Saturday for meetings with King Abdullah II and other top Jordanian officials. Pelosi said in a statement the visit was at “a critical time for the security and stability of the region... With the deepen   Details..>>