Egypt has been trying to deflect criticism of its human rights record and prison conditions ahead of a UN review in Geneva on Wednesday that comes in the wake...

The Israeli army carried out at least 30 airstrikes and artillery attacks Tuesday on several areas of the Gaza Strip, according to the government’s media office in the Strip,...

Princess Haya bint al-Hussein, the estranged wife of Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, appeared in a British court on Tuesday for the latest hearing in the couple’s...

France will take back 11 suspected French jihadists from Turkey, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said on Tuesday, a day after Ankara said it was deporting foreign citizens linked to...

The United Nations urged Lebanon on Tuesday to form a competent new government better able to seek international aid after weeks of protests against the ruling elite, warning the...

Turkish forces are said to have fired live ammunition at protesters during a joint patrol with Russian troops on the Syrian border. A UK-based monitoring group says two protesters...

Authorities said they detained the man who is thought to have stabbed the two men and one woman, identifying him as a 33-year-old Yemeni resident of the kingdom.

Tunisia yesterday denied reports about the return of fighters belonging to militant organisations from other countries. This came in a statement issued by the Tunisian Ministry of Interior and...

Israeli occupation forces yesterday demolished Palestinian houses in Bedouin communities east of occupied Jerusalem. Dawood Al-Jahalin, a spokesperson for the Abu Nuwwar Bedouin community, east of Jerusalem, said that the Israeli forces stormed several Bedouin...

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said yesterday that his army had lost nearly 100,000 soldiers during the eight-year war. In an interview with RT, Al-Assad said that the Syrian soldiers...

Palestinian Authority (PA) committed 619 violations against Palestinians in West Bank cities during 2018 and 2019, a report issued by the Committee of the Families of Political Detainees in...

Israeli occupation forces recently detained a ten-year-old Palestinian boy for more than three hours, according to human rights NGO B’Tselem. Qusai Al-Ja’ar, who lives in Beit Ummar, a village...

French footballer Antoine Conte has said racist abuse may force him to leave Israel, reported Xinhua. Conte, who plays for Beitar Jerusalem, suffered abuse during a match on Sunday...

Saudi authorities kidnapped a Saudi lawyer and an activist from their residence in the Switzerland city of Geneva, the rights group Prisoners of Conscience has revealed. Saudi lawyer Hassan...

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A senior British politician has said that he is “deeply concerned” to hear about the death of a co-founder and significant supporter of the Syrian White Helmets group on...

Oman Oil Minister Mohammed Bin Hamad Al-Rumhy said on Sunday that his country has been campaigning for dialogue between Gulf countries and Iran, adding that Muscat has always maintained...

Germany does not know the identities of seven suspected Daesh members Turkey is planning to deport back to Berlin, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. The German spokesman said: “We...

The US called upon the Iraqi government on Monday evening to end the violence against protesters on the nation’s streets. The call came after the killing of hundreds of...

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said yesterday that region is ready to confront the “Israeli enemy”. Nasrallah hailed remarks by Houthi leader, Abdul Malik Al-Houthi in which he threatened to...

There has been an ten per cent increase in the number of cases of kidney failure in Kuwait, the Minister of Health Sheikh Basel Al-Sabah revealed. In a press...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said yesterday that the US plans to keep troops in Syria under the pretext of protecting the country’s oil fields is “tantamount to robbery”....

The Governor of Lebanon Central Bank, Riad Salameh, said yesterday that the 2017 resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri following pressure from Saudi authorities has negatively affected the country’s...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday that the Palestinian people adhere to the principles set out by the late leader, Yasser Arafat. Speaking at a ceremony held in...

Israel targeted 2 senior Islamic Jihad officials early this morning, one in Gaza and another in Syria, follow our blog to keep abreast of the events on the ground

Their children and neighbour were wounded in the attack on the couple's home, the Ministry of Health reported

Turkey planted over 13 million saplings on Monday as part of a massive tree-planting campaign in hope for a breath for the future in a greener country. The forestation...

A promotional video published by Saudi Arabia’s state security agency categorises feminism and atheism as extremist ideas, even as the conservative Muslim kingdom seeks to promote tolerance and attract...

Lebanon’s banks held an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss a strike call by a union worried about staff security, the country’s banking association said, pledging to protect employees...

President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday Iran would regain access to the international arms market later next year if it stuck to its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers...

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian during confrontations with stone-throwing protesters in the occupied West Bank on Monday, Palestinian health officials said, drawing a UN demand for the incident...

Uber’s chief executive said on Monday the murder by Saudi Arabia, a major investor in his company, of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year could not be excused and that...