A new strain of COVID-19 has been identified, likely originating in the UK. It isn’t the first new strain of COVID-19 to emerge this year, and medical experts believe vaccines will still work against it. Nevertheless, several countries closed their borders to the UK on Monday. Saudi […]
Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, the ruler of Kuwait who drew on his decades as the oil-rich nation’s top diplomat to push for closer ties to Iraq after the 1990 Gulf War and solutions to other regional crises, died Tuesday. He was 91.
Sitting in a tent in a camp of nearly 4,000 refugees in Turkey, a Syrian mother had gone two days without eating in order to provide the family’s remaining rice to her three children.
Hundreds of believers from every ministry sphere are teaming up to achieve one goal: reaching millions in the Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan with the Good News of Christ. In the coming days, MNN will speak with Gospel project leaders to learn which unreached […]
The Middle East stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to Afghanistan. It is home to nearly 300 million people who live in 21 countries and who speak four main languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, and Turkish. That’s further broken down into roughly 60 mother tongues, all with […]
The Pentagon disclosed on Friday that 34 U.S. service members suffered traumatic brain injury in Iran’s missile strike this month on an Iraqi air base, and although half have returned to work, the casualty total belies President Donald Trump’s initial claim that no Americans were […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the Mideast’s longest-ruling monarch who seized power in a 1970 palace coup and pulled his Arabian sultanate into modernity while carefully balancing diplomatic ties between adversaries Iran and the U.S., has died. He was […]
In the wake of increased tensions in the Middle East after President Donald Trump ordered the killing of top Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, the United States will send about 3,000 more soldiers to the Middle East to bolster existing forces.
HOUSTON (AP) — George H.W. Bush came back to Washington for a final time Monday, heading for the Capitol to lie in state as the nation paid tribute to the 41st president for a lifetime of service that began in the Navy during World War […]
WASHINGTON – He was president for only four years, but George H.W. Bush shaped U.S. history for decades, taking on tough jobs from Beijing to the CIA, ousting Iraqi forces from Kuwait, sealing a breakthrough budget deal that cost him an election and fathering a […]
HOUSTON (AP) — George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted in the throes of a weak economy that led voters to turn him out of office after a single term, has […]
At least 16 Palestinians were killed and hundreds injured on Friday by Israeli security forces confronting one of the largest Palestinian demonstrations along the Israel-Gaza border in recent years, Gaza medical officials said.
