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For months, analysts on television programmes have been promoting the idea that the Islamist Ennahda movement has been running Tunisia from the January 2011 revolution until 25 July this...

A Palestinian woman built a leisure centre by using waste materials on the beach of the blockaded Gaza Strip.

In a few weeks Morocco will hold legislative elections to decide who will lead the government for the next five years, amid expectations of a fierce competition between the...

Seven candidates will be vying for Iran's presidency in the elections scheduled on June 18, including five conservatives and two reformists, Anadolu Agency reports. Many top reformist candidates, including a key...

One cold night in December 2019, Shatha Hassan, 23, was woken by her brother Mohamed to tell her that the Israeli army had slapped a siege on their home...

The task to unify the Libyan army and integrate all the battalions under one command has become the most serious and controversial issue for discussion in light of ongoing...

For several years, Nasser Al-Qudwa was a familiar face defending the Palestinian cause as the former envoy to the UN. It was not strange that 68-year-old Al-Qudwa was elected...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is proud of the fact that he was one of the first people called by Donald Trump when he entered the White House four...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced plans to hold legislative elections on 22 May and presidential polls on 31 July, for the first time in 15 years. Concerns, however,...

Giles Trendle, acting managing director of Doha-based Al-Jazeera's English-language news channel, spoke to Anadolu Agency about mounting pressure on Qatar — which remains embroiled in a weeks-long political dispute...

Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel's northern branch and a Palestinian resistance icon, said his just-ended nine-month jail stint had only served to steel...