At least two political dissidents have been killed in Saudi Arabia when regime forces raided a village in the kingdom’s oil-rich and Shia-populated Eastern Province, as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against pro-democracy campaigners, Muslim preachers and intellectuals continues unabated in the country.

The Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights has strongly condemned the deadly Saudi-led airstrike in the country’s mountainous northwestern province of Sa'ada, which claimed the lives of more than a dozen people, describing it as a blatant violation of humanitarian principles.

General Command of the Syrian Army announced that it has cleared up more than 320 square kilometers of land and liberated more than 40 towns and villages in South and Southeastern Idlib after pushing back Tahir al-Sham al-Hay’at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) from their military positions in the region.

Iraqi President Barham Salih sent a letter to the parliament on Thursday to voice his readiness to resign in a bid to open up for public choice after protests over unemployment and low-quality public services.

Iraqi President Barham Salih sent a letter to the parliament on Thursday to voice his readiness to resign in a bid to open up for public choice after protests over unemployment and low-quality public services.

Israel has reportedly halted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to annex the Jordan Valley in the wake of a decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch a probe into the regime’s war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Dozens of Christian Palestinians attend midnight mass in the Gaza Strip to celebrate Christmas, a community of about 1,000, that needs to apply for Israeli permission to travel to Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank to celebrate the birth of Jesus.

A UK-based charity has revealed that Britain's arms sales to Saudi Arabia and its allies in their aggression on Yemen have seen an almost 50-percent rise over the past five years.