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Al Arabiya journalist questioned in Lebanon for interviewing Israeli official

Layal al-Ekhtiar in a undated photo.

AL-Monitor Istanbul: The women who shape the city

The dynamic duo of curator Christine Tohme and director Kevser Guler reveal “The Three-Legged Cat” as the theme for the 18th Istanbul Biennial, the leading cultural event of 2025. (Salih Ustundag, IKSV)

Israel says army to stay in evacuated West Bank camps for 'coming year'

Israeli troops at the entrance to the occupied West Bank refugee camp of Tulkarem

Agence France-Presse

Iran's Khamenei: US plan to displace Gazans 'will go nowhere'

A picture released by Khamenei's office shows him meeting Islamic Jihad chief Ziyad al-Nakhalah (second left) in Tehran

Agence France-Presse

Pique summoned in probe over Spanish Super Cup move to Saudi

Gerard Pique arrives for the Globe Soccer Awards ceremony in Dubai on December 27, 2024

Agence France-Presse

Why is Iran urging Qatar to release $6B in frozen oil payments?

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (L) and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) host the Qatari emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, in Tehran, Feb. 19, 2025.

AL-Monitor Riyadh: Lebanese artist Lana Khayat at Hafez Gallery

Hafez Gallery

Israel army says failed on Oct 7, underestimated Hamas

Ten days after Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack, Israeli troops inspect the damage to Kibbutz Beeri, the community hardest hit

Agence France-Presse

Why is crime spiking in Arab-Israeli community, as murders nearly double in 2023?

Leaders of Arab society staged a three-day sit-in in Jerusalem, May 29, 2023.

With world's eyes on Gaza, Turkey attacks Syria's Kurds again

Mourners carry the coffins of two Kurdish women killed a day earlier in a reported Turkish drone strike, during their funeral in Amuda, a town in the Hasakah governorate in northeastern Syria, on June 21, 2023.