The American magazine Foreign Policy reported that since the beginning of the mid-term elections in the United States, conservative media outlets have fiercely targeted Somali-American congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who...

A senior police officer was found dead in his car in Turkey’s Mediterranean resort city of Antalya, security sources said today. Ali Karaaslan, the deputy police chief in Antalya,...

Twenty-one prisoners, most of them members of Daesh jailed on terrorism charges, broke out of a prison in northern Iraq, Kurdish security officials said today. Fifteen were recaptured. The...

Interpol has removed Yousef al-Qaradawi, head of the Doha-based International Union of Muslim Scholars, from its “wanted” list, reports Anadolu Agency. A source from al-Qaradawi’s office confirmed receiving an...

Saudi Arabia is seeking an alliance with six countries bordering the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, a strategic area vital to global shipping and increasingly an arena...

As Nazareth was decked out for Christmas, a group of weavers gathered in the cobblestone alleys of Israel’s largest Arab city, intent on preserving their Palestinian heritage at a...

Lebanese leaders expressed fresh confidence on Wednesday about reaching a deal to form a new government, with President Michel Aoun saying results of his efforts to break the months-long...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended the Trump administration’s handling of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Wednesday, stressing Saudi Arabia’s importance as a US ally...

Turkey will launch a new military operation in northern Syria within days, targeting Kurdish militia fighters who are supported by U.S. troops east of the Euphrates river, President Tayyip...

Yemen’s warring parties agreed on Wednesday to reopen Sanaa airport in the Houthi-held capital, sources said, as Western nations pressed the two sides to accept confidence-building steps before the...

Washington will push the UN Security Council to toughen its stance against Iran working on ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons and carrying out ballistic missile launches, US...

Doubts have grown over the future of one of Saudi Arabia’s most ambitious projects in the aftermath of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the country’s Consulate in...

British spokesman for the Middle East and North Africa Edwin Samuel yesterday tweeted about the suffering of Palestinians in the occupied territories, prompting controversy among Palestinians and Arabs about the...

An Egyptian man has filed a case against his wife for subjecting his daughters to female genital mutilation (FGM) without his or his daughters’ consent. In a phone interview...

Egypt is planning to amend its controversial civil society law, ratified by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi about a year and a half ago. The Egyptian cabinet said in a...

There has been a sharp decline in the number of American Jews participating in the “Birthright” trips to Israel this winter, reported Haaretz, describing “a downturn of this magnitude,...

A quarter of a million Syrian refugees could return home next year, although many still face problems with documentation and property, the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) announced...

Israel is to build an embassy complex in occupied Jerusalem, a year after US President Donald Trump announced his plans to relocate the American Embassy to the city. Israel’s...

An Israeli conscientious objector has been sent to prison for the seventh time, reported +972 Magazine. Adam Rafaelov was sentenced by an Israeli military disciplinary body to ten days...

Israeli minister Ophir Akunis toured Israeli settlements yesterday and “declared his support” for the annexation of the so-called Gush Etzion settlement “bloc” and “Judea and Samaria ...

Tunisia’s Interior Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that the two main assassins of engineer Mohammad Zawari were Bosnians who entered the country through the port of Halq Al-Wadi on 8...

Egypt Minister of Finance Mohamed Ma’it said the government cannot create new jobs but the private sector can. “The government has five million employees who cannot even find a...

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) together with some 270 NGO and humanitarian partners have launched the...

A member of the Yemeni government delegation participating in consultations with the Houthis in Sweden yesterday denied reaching an agreement with UN envoy, Martin Griffiths on a framework for...

An Egyptian prosecutor in Alexandria has ordered human rights lawyer Mohammed Ramadan to be detained for 15 days for sharing a picture of himself wearing “a yellow vest” in...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday promised that he would never evict illegal settlers from the occupied Palestinian territories as long as he is in office, local media reported....

The number of Egyptians living in the country has reached 98 million, Rapporteur of the National Council of Population Dr. Amr Hassan said. Hassan added that the Egyptian population...

A Tunisian court yesterday sentenced a civil society activist to three months in prison after being charged with insulting President Beji Caid Essebsi. According to local radio station Shams...

Rabi Abd Al-Ati, member of the Political Bureau of the ruling National Congress Party in Sudan, denied any possible relationship between his country and Israel, Arabi21 reported yesterday. Speaking...

Five Palestinians were wounded yesterday morning after Israeli occupation forces stormed Al-Bireh and confiscated surveillance cameras in the area, the Palestinian Red Crescent said. More than 40 armoured military...

Protected by the Israeli occupation forces, a group of Israeli Jewish settlers yesterday stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque and performed religious rituals in its courtyards, Ma’an News Agency reported. Firas Al-Debbis,...

The chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee said, Tuesday, he planned to introduce this week a joint resolution condemning Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the...