كرّمت رئيسة مجلس إدارة هيئة الشارقة للكتاب بدور بنت سلطان القاسمي، الفائزين بجوائز معرض الشارقة للكتاب في دورته ال43، وجائزة الدورة السابعة من جائزة الشارقة للترجمة (ترجمان).
جاء ذلك خلال حفل خاص أقيم ضمن فعاليات اليوم الأول من المعرض، الذي تنظمه (...)
An Iran-backed Iraqi militia group announced drone and missile attacks on "vital targets" in Israel on Sunday.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed responsibility for the strikes but did not provide specific details about the targeted (...)
During the Viking Age (late 8th to 11th century), Norse seafarers, known as Vikings, embarked on remarkable voyages across Europe, bringing them into contact with diverse cultures, including Muslim Arabs. While there are no records of Viking (...)
BAGHDAD — Iraq's Al Shorta managed to secure a 1-1 draw against Saudi Arabia's Al Nassr Club in their opening match of the AFC Champions League Elite 2024/25 League Stage on Monday.
Playing without key players Cristiano Ronaldo and Aymeric Laporte, (...)
RIYADH — Al Nassr FC has announced on Sunday that the team's captain, Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo, is suffering from a viral infection, as stated by the club's doctor. Ronaldo has been advised to rest and will not accompany the team to (...)
The United States and Iraq have reached a tentative agreement on the withdrawal of U.S.-led coalition forces, with hundreds of troops expected to leave Iraq by September 2025 and the remaining forces by the end of 2026, Reuters reported, citing (...)
BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani held wide ranging talks with Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan at the Presidential Palace in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Thursday.
The two leaders discussed bilateral (...)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walked free for the first time in 12 years after a US judge signed off on his unexpected plea deal on Wednesday morning.
Assange walked out of the courtroom as a free man into the bright Saipan sunshine, raising one (...)
DAMMAM — The first direct flight from King Fahd International Airport in Dammam to Najaf Airport in Iraq has arrived on Saturday, marking a step towards diversifying destinations within Iraq and supporting travel between the two countries.
Saudi (...)
Iraqi social media star Ghufran Sawadi, better known as Umm Fahad, was shot dead outside her home in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, on Friday night, a Baghdad police source told CNN.
The attack took place in the Zayouna area east of Baghdad, and was (...)
DAMMAM — Saudi Arabia has announced new direct flights between Dammam and the Iraqi city of Al Najaf.
The General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said on Friday that the move was in line with the Kingdom's national aviation strategy aimed at (...)
A military base in Iraq housing a pro-Iranian militia has been damaged in an explosion, killing one and wounding eight, security officials there have said.
Iraq's military reported no drones or fighter jets in the area before or during the (...)
The day after the stabbing attack on a bishop, a forensics expert was sweeping a fingerprint brush over a nativity scene by the entrance of the Sydney church.
A small car parked outside Christ The Good Shepherd Church had its window screen smashed (...)
US President Joe Biden has said that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
The country's parliament recently passed a measure — backed by PM Anthony Albanese — calling for the return (...)
Iran has vowed to retaliate after it accused Israel of bombing its embassy complex in Syria on Monday, in a deadly escalation of regional tensions over the war in Gaza that once again appeared to raise the risk of a wider Middle Eastern (...)
A senior commander of an Iran-backed militia has been killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad.
A leader of Kataib Hezbollah and two of his guards were in a vehicle when it was targeted in the east of the Iraqi capital. All three of them died.
The (...)
A powerful Iran-backed Iraqi militia suspected of a drone strike in Jordan that killed three US soldiers says it has suspended operations against US forces.
Kataib Hezbollah, which is part of an umbrella group that claimed Sunday's attack, said this (...)
The US government has released the names of three US soldiers killed by a drone attack in Jordan on Sunday.
Sgt William Jerome Rivers, 46, Specialist Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, and Specialist Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, were killed when a drone (...)
Iran has denied involvement in a drone attack on a US base near Jordan's border with Syria that killed three US troops.
The US blamed the attack on "radical Iranian-backed militant groups" which also left dozens injured.
US President Biden vowed (...)
The US carried out airstrikes in Iraq targeting facilities used by Iranian-backed militias in the country on Tuesday following repeated attacks on US forces, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced in a statement.
The strikes targeted three (...)
A number of US military personnel have been injured in a missile attack on an airbase in western Iraq.
The US military's Central Command said an Iran-backed militia targeted the Al Asad airbase, which hosts American troops, with ballistic missiles (...)
Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Monday launched ballistic missiles at what it said was a spy base for Israel's intelligence agency Mossad in northern Iraq, and at "anti-Iran terror groups" in Syria, in the latest escalation of hostilities that (...)
ISIS has claimed responsibility for the deadly twin blasts near the burial site of slain military commander Qasem Soleimani in southern Iran.
At least 84 people were killed and 284 injured in the blasts on Wednesday, state-run news agency IRNA (...)
An Australian man whose family argue he is being "held hostage" in Iraq has now spent 1,000 days in prison.
Robert Pether was jailed in 2021 on fraud charges, but the UN has described it as an arbitrary detention.
After three Christmases behind (...)
RIYADH — A Saudi citizen and a Kuwaiti national, who went missing recently in the Iraqi governorate of Anbar, have been found dead, according to Kuwait's foreign ministry sources.
"Two bodies found by Iraqi authorities are believed to be those of a (...)
