Mena Today

Gunfire was heard on Tuesday in the vicinity of the Al-Maashiq presidential palace in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, witnesses told Reuters on Tuesday.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar met the president of Somaliland on Tuesday, 10 days after Israel became the first country to formally recognise the breakaway region in the Horn of Africa as an independent and sovereign state.

Passenger traffic at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv rose 33% in 2025, the Israel Airports Authority reported on Tuesday, reflecting the return of foreign carriers after many airlines halted flights during the two-year Gaza war.

The Swiss commune of Crans-Montana has admitted Tuesday to catastrophic negligence that led to the New Year's Eve inferno at Le Constellation bar, which killed 40 people and injured 116 others. 

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is set to visit Beirut on Saturday, according to Saudi channel al-Hadath and confirmed by a diplomatic source to L'Orient-Le Jour, as Lebanon attempts to recalibrate its relationship with Tehran.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar visited Somaliland on Tuesday on a trip that was denounced by Somalia, 10 days after Israel formally recognised the self-declared republic as an independent and sovereign state.

When the United Arab Emirates withdrew its troops from Yemen last week under a deadline from Saudi Arabia, it also left behind the remote Yemeni island of Socotra and the roughly 600 tourists who had flown in but could no longer fly out.

While much of the Western world has already packed away their Christmas decorations, millions of Orthodox Christians across the Middle East are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ today, January 6th. 

Mastercard has granted Qatar’s QNB Group a license to expand card issuing and acquiring services in Syria, allowing the bank to offer Mastercard payment solutions to individuals and businesses locally and internationally.

Toppled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro pleaded not guilty on Monday to narcotics charges after President Donald Trump's stunning capture of him rattled world leaders and left officials in Caracas scrambling to regroup.

A delegation led by Aidarous al-Zubaidi, the leader of Yemen's main separatist group STC, will soon travel to Saudi Arabia, two sources told Reuters on Monday, a potential sign of progress towards ending a conflict between separatists and Yemen's internationally recognised government.

The Bank of Israel’s Monetary Committee, chaired by Governor Prof. Amir Yaron, cut the benchmark interest rate from 4.25% to 4% in a move that surprised most economists, who had expected policy to remain unchanged.