Mena Today

The European Union is ready to send an observation mission to the Palestinian legislative elections expected at the end of November, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas announced Tuesday.

Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces have staged a counteroffensive to retake the coast around the Bab el-Mandeb shipping route and other strategic territory seized last month by the Iran-aligned Houthis, in a complex conflict with shifting alliances.

A flydubai co-pilot stabbed his captain with an emergency "crash axe" in what UAE prosecutors have called a terrorist attack, with the plane plunging 16,000 feet in 30 seconds before it was brought under control by passengers and a stand-by crew.

Five months ago, Naftali Bennett looked like the man to beat Benjamin Netanyahu. On October 27, he enters Israel's election as the leader of a shrinking list, overtaken in the opposition camp by a former army chief with no political baggage.

A teenage girl wounded eight female students on Tuesday in a knife attack at a middle school in Istanbul, one of them critically, authorities said.

Light attack aircraft and military vehicles have arrived at the new China-Laos joint training facility announced last Tuesday, according to satellite images reviewed by Reuters.

An envoy of President Donald Trump said he attended an event over the weekend with the head of Sudan's army, which is fighting a war with paramilitary forces that has created one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.

Bruno Retailleau, the candidate of France’s conservative Les Républicains, is due in Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening to set out his programme for the 2027 presidential election before French expatriates, as the race to succeed Emmanuel Macron moves onto the ground where overseas voters can be reached.

Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces staged a lightning advance on Monday to retake the coast around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait up to the city of Mocha, the government said, pushing the Iran-backed Houthis out of most of the areas they seized last month.

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan held an emergency meeting of the Mecca defense pact on Monday to discuss how to support Saudi defenses against attacks launched by Yemen's Houthis.

Qatar, Jordan and Kuwait on Sunday condemned Israel's completion of work on the so-called "Sufa 53 Line" in Syria's Quneitra province. The three states said the project violates Syrian sovereignty, international law and the 1974 Disengagement Agreement.

Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, arrived Monday in Aqaba, Jordan, on a working visit to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for the Aqaba–Al-Shidiyeh–Maan Railway Project.