Two rockets were fired at central Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, which houses foreign embassies and government buildings, yesterday but there were no casualties or damage caused, Reuters reported security services...

Qatar is to prosecute three officials at its beIN Sports network over charges of spying for Saudi Arabia and Egypt, Al-Watan Voice reported yesterday. This came following a TV...

Eight newborns died early this morning after a fire broke out in a government hospital in the southeast of Algeria. Local television channels reported the news citing the Civil...

Hamas has fined the son of one of its officials 5,000 Jordanian dinars ($7,052) for the misuse of a Saudi Hajj grant, a statement revealed yesterday. In a statement...

British tourists are leaving from Turkey’s southwestern Mugla province following the collapse of UK tour operator Thomas Cook, as reported by Anadolu Agency.  Nearly 1,000 tourists have started returning...

The Egyptian lawyer, Leila Maklad, filed an urgent request to the Egyptian Attorney General to revoke the Egyptian nationality from the actor, film producer and real-estate investor Mohamed Ali...

A Sudanese politician accused the UAE of seeking to re-enact the scenario of Yemeni separatist transitional council in Sudan through supporting demonstrations calling for secession as well as recruiting...

Student protests in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state in western Sudan, have been ongoing on Monday for a third consecutive day calling for bread, fuel and justice....

Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif announced that the Houthi militia has weapons belonging to the late Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, with Saudi funding, and that they...

The military court in Blida, southern Algeria, started on Monday the trial of several former regime figures and symbols, including Said Bouteflika, brother and adviser of former President Abdelaziz...

US President Donald Trump on Monday gave strong backing to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as Sisi grapples with protests at home, saying the United States and Egypt have...

China’s exports to Egypt has risen to $7.94 billion during the period from January to July, the Chinese General Administration of Customs (GAC) announced yesterday. “The trade volume between...

Over 650 Egyptians were arrested from across arrested across Egypt in the latest wave of demonstrations against Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, local rights sources reported yesterday.  The sources told Arabi21 that...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his centrist rival Benny Gantz on Monday held their first formal talks since Israel’s deadlocked election and a politician with the power to broker...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said it is one of his administration’s key goals to make Turkey a leading education hub for visiting students, reports Anadolu Agency. Speaking at...

French President Emmanuel Macron said he would meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Monday and US President Donald Trump on Tuesday as he seeks to defuse tensions between Washington...

US President Donald Trump responded positively to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s idea of creating a new nuclear deal with Iran, saying that he respected Johnson and was not...

Thousands of Saudis flocked to public celebrations across the country on Monday to mark national day, which featured a rare military parade and an air of heightened patriotism following...

The detained British-flagged tanker Stena Impero is “free to leave,” Iran’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Hamid Baeidinejad, said on Twitter on Monday, says Reuters. “The British-flagged tanker ‘Stena...

Two dozen mainly European countries voiced concern on Monday at alleged torture, unlawful detentions and unfair trials of critics, including women activists and journalists, in Saudi Arabia, reports Reuters....

Syria said on Monday the work of any new constitutional committee should be free of foreign intervention, suggesting Damascus remains insistent that a long-awaited step in a stalled peace...

The International Press Institute (IPI) has expressed its alarm over the Egyptian government’s response to this weekend’s popular protests. The global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists...

UK Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry slammed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s human rights record in a searing speech today. In an address at the Labour Party Conference...

With human rights groups and journalists getting ready to mark the anniversary of the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is expected  to...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has raised the prospect of giving military assistance to Saudi Arabia days after the US announced that it too was increasing its military build...

Egyptian prosecutors in the northeastern city of Ismailia ordered the release of workers who were arrested last week after striking and holding protests, the New Khaleej news site reported. The workers were...

A former senior Free Syrian Army (FSA) leader has been arrested and detained by the Syrian regime after returning to its territory under claims of amnesty and reconciliation. Abu...

Some 25,000 inhabited flats in the Gaza Strip are in need of urgent reconstruction while a further 60,000 need renovation works to meet the minimum standards for residential buildings,...

Seven civilians including two children were killed today following three Saudi air strikes which hit a mosque in the Yemeni province of Amran, north of the capital Sanaa. According...

Israeli police have arrested three youths over the alleged gang rape of a 14-year-old schoolgirl at her school in the illegal Jewish settlement of Nitifot in the occupied West...

Saudi authorities have expelled an adviser to the Riyadh-based Yemeni government of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, reports reveal. The Saudi authorities have requested Mutaher Enan leave the kingdom...

A Palestinian family will tomorrow appeal a decision to evict its members from their home in Sheikh Jarrah, occupied East Jerusalem. According to human rights NGO Ir Amim, the...