Middle East


Teenage girl murdered after refusing arranged marriage to cousin, Iraqi women’s rights group claims

A young Iraqi girl who has reached the age of wearing a hijab, is clothed in the head covering worn by many Muslim women for the first time during a ceremony organised at the Basra International Stadium in Iraq's southern city of Basra on December 11, 2025.

Beirut accuses Tehran of violating Vienna Convention in complaint to UN

People drive past a Lebanese national flag fluttering in a square in central Beirut on October 21, 2024.

Ship seized off UAE's Fujairah being pulled toward Iranian waters

A photo illustration taken in Nicosia on May 4, 2026, shows a person in front of a large screen displaying vessel movements in the Strait of Hormuz on a ship-tracking website.