Despite an Egyptian court releasing Ezzat Ghoneim over two weeks ago the human rights lawyer and director of the NGO Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms has been missing...

The newly-elected president of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), Zingiswa Losi, has called on the South African government to downgrade its relations with Israel, the Afro-Palestine...

Israel’s critics often describe the country as being above the law, but until now this has never been brazenly declared by its government. Documents published this week shows a...

Morocco will continue to oppose any renewal of relations with Iran after the two countries severed diplomatic ties in May. Moroccan government spokesman Mustafa Al-Khaliji justified the stance by...

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) yesterday appointed a new chair of its Gaza probe after the previous chair resigned just one month into the role. The new...

The United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, said Wednesday that reconstructing Syria could take up to more than half a century. Speaking to reporters...

A delegation of Arab members of the Israeli parliament met with the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kate Gilmore, on Wednesday and asked her to press Israel...

Palestinian poet Dareen Tartour was released from an Israeli prison yesterday after serving a five-month sentence, Haaretz has reported. Tartour, a 36-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel from Al-Reineh, just...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday that Syrian armed factions have rejected an agreement reached by Turkey and Russia on setting up a demilitarised zone between the...

Israeli police have closed an investigation into Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, citing insufficient evidence of corruption, the Times of Israel has reported. Danon has been investigated...

Israeli authorities indicted a prominent Palestinian activist on Thursday on charges of “incitement to terrorism” and “expressing solidarity with a terrorist organisation”, reported Haaretz. The decision to indict was...

Israel’s Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon are pushing a legal amendment to give the culture minister authority to retroactively suspend funding for cultural...

Israeli authorities in occupied East Jerusalem are advancing plans for settlement expansion in Palestinian neighbourhood Sheikh Jarrah, reported NGO Ir Amim. A sign was hung Thursday in the Um...

Palestinian children under Israeli military arrest face “institutionalised and routine” rights abuses, said NGO Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP) on Tuesday, with 273 children in military detention as of...

The Israeli authorities yesterday banned the renovation of a sports stadium in the Palestinian town of Issawiya, northeast of East Jerusalem. A member of the follow-up committee in Issawiya,...

Commander of the Sudanese Al-Hazm II Brigade in Yemen, Brigadier General Hafez Al-Haj, has denied media reports that Sudanese troops have withdrawn from the Saudi-led Arab coalition in Yemen....

The Russian President Vladimir Putin will not meet with Israeli Air Force Commander, Major General Amikam Norkin, who is in Moscow to deliver information on the downing of a...

An Egyptian court on Thursday freed on bail the sons of ousted President Hosni Mubarak and others accused of illicit share trading, whose arrest last week was cited as...

State-owned Emirates and Etihad, two of the Middle East’s top airlines, denied a Bloomberg report on Thursday which quoted unnamed sources as saying Emirates was seeking to take over...

The UN said Thursday that no steps had been taken by Israel to stop the building of illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, Anadolu reports. At a Security Council meeting, Special...

The Trump administration imposed sanctions on the Chinese military on Thursday for buying fighter jets and missile systems from Russia, in breach of a sweeping US sanctions law punishing...

Former Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali said in an interview published on Hakaek Online that he plans to run for the next presidential elections, adding that he could join...

Turkey sharply cut its growth forecasts for this year and next on Thursday, a reduction that failed to mollify investors who wanted a more sober assessment of the fragile...

Tunisia has witnessed repeated attacks by citizens on security forces that reached murder and defamation through videos widely circulated on social media. Last week, eight attacks on security officers...

The International Monetary Fund’s interventions in the amended income tax bill, announced by the Jordanian government on 11 September, sparked an early confrontation between the government and parliament. Deputy...

For the past few months, Israelis have been given the chance to visit the living quarters and see the home life of Palestinian families – through virtual reality. The...

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Lebanon has suspended food rations and aid for 8,000 Syrian families, local activists said yesterday according to Syrian news agency Zaman...

An Egyptian government agency has released historical documents related to the Camp David Accords for the first time since they were signed by Egypt and Israel in 1978. The...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is believed to be preparing to cut all funding to the Gaza Strip in an effort to end the power struggle between his Fatah...

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has assured Saudi Arabia that his country will always stand with the Kingdom through difficult times and will ensure its protection against attacks. In...

The US House of Representatives passed two separate Israel related bills this week, endorsing what is being described as the largest aid package in American history and the appointment...

Egypt’s Suez Canal revenues rose 12 per cent during the first eight months of 2018, reaching $3.819 billion compared to $3.408 billion during the same period last year, the...