Israeli army forces killed 312 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip last year, according to a Palestinian NGO on Wednesday, reports Anadolu Agency. A total of...

Dozens of Iranian retirees staged a protest Wednesday in Tehran against what they describe as "inadequate" pensions, says Anadolu Agency. Protesters, mostly retired teachers and nurses, gathered outside the...

A senior official in Sudan's ruling National Congress Party (NCP) on Wednesday condemned alleged calls by Sudan's National Front for Change (NFC) for a "coup" against the regime of...

While the Algerian Defense Ministry announced the army having killed 32 armed radicals and arrested 132 others, local human rights organization revealed that authorities have been actively exercising inhumane...

This Iraqi MP fired a gun into the air on New Year's Eve and people are furious

Saudi Arabia announced plans on Wednesday to build an entertainment complex in the capital Riyadh, the latest in a series of state-backed efforts to encourage public leisure activities after...

Five Yemeni hip-hop dancers thought their problems had ended when the Islamist militants who had banned them from performing were defeated in the port city of Mukalla nearly three...

British MPs have today requested the Saudi Authorities for permission to visit female activists detained in the Kingdom. The request has been made following allegations of torture by human...

The rapid developments in the Arab world towards the end of 2018 suggest that we are witnessing the beginning of the end of the counter-revolutions which sought to kill...

There will be no tears now Israel and the US have withdrawn from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). Both countries have undermined the organisation's credibility...

"A historic mistake" is how Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu responded to calls for early elections last November. A few weeks later, he spoke, in exaggerated confidence of the...

A Yemeni warlord who has also been a fundraiser for Al-Qaeda and at one point is believed to have belonged to Daesh is being armed by the United Arab...

Israel has vastly increased its illegal settlement activity since US President Donald Trump took office, with settlement planning reaching its highest level since 2013. According to newly-released data compiled...

Hasan Minhaj criticised Silicon Valley for “swimming in Saudi cash” and urged tech companies to stop taking investment from the kingdom

Honduras will hold talks with Israel, joined by the United States, aimed at opening an embassy in Jerusalem, the countries said yesterday, as the small Central American nation looks...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed his government sell drones to Brazil in return for moving the country's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Arab48 reported yesterday. According...

After a dramatic split between Israel's opposition parties, the party leaders have traded insults and ushered in a reshuffling of alliances. Former leader of the opposition Tzipi Livni, for...

Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces have arrested 28 Palestinians, most Hamas members, in different areas across the occupied West Bank, the Committee of Prisoners' Families said in a statement...

The Palestinian Housing and Works Ministry handed over 124 new apartments to Palestinians who lost their homes during Israel's 2014 offensive on the Gaza Strip, Felesteen.ps reported yesterday. Housing...

Israeli occupation forces arrested 175 Palestinian women and girls in 2018 and summoned hundreds in for interrogation, the Palestine Prisoners' Centre for Studies said yesterday. In a statement reported...

Tunisia's President described 2019 on Monday evening as "a decisive and electoral year par excellence." Beji Caid Essebsi added that 2018 had been "tough" in a televised New Year...

UAE and Egyptian military officers have toured the contested Syrian city of Manbij and its outskirts ahead of plans to deploy their forces in the region after the withdrawal...

The Sudanese Reform Now Movement (Islah) announced yesterday that it is withdrawing from government and pulling its representatives from all legislative councils. Party leader Ghazi Salahuddin Atabani demanded the...

Deputy head of the Iraqi Turkmen Front said Baghdad has no will to solve the dispute over land ownership in Kirkuk, the Anadolu Agency reported. A statement issued by...

Refugee narratives beyond those which reach the mainstream media are fraught with complexities, while humanitarian aid remains insufficient. Ilana Feldman's treatise "Life Lived in Relief — Humanitarian Predicaments and...

Saudi authorities executed two Egyptians and a Pakistani citizen on the first day of 2019. The country's Interior Ministry carried out the death sentence against the two Egyptians for...

Leader of Israel's Labor Party Avi Gabbay yesterday announced that the country's largest opposition bloc has broken apart four months ahead of the country's elections which are scheduled for...

The Israeli army has completed the construction of a marine fence located along the besieged Gaza Strip, Israel's Channel 10 reported yesterday. The 200 metre long wall is six metres tall...

Some 19,666 people were killed in Syria in 2018, the Syrian Observatory on Human Rights (SOHR) announced yesterday. The organisation said that last year registered the lowest death toll since...

Some 47,000 of children who are forced in to marriage in Egypt are illiterate, the state-run Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) revealed yesterday. In a report, CAPMAS...

Major General Khalifa Haftar has sent additional troops to south Libya after his forces were attacked on the Chadian border on 28 December. Chadian opposition fighters seized military vehicles...

Women hold 20 per cent of funds held in Saudi banks, worth more than $53 billion. "Women benefit from more than 66 investment funds, as well as other funding...