Thousands of protesters took to the streets in the capital and other Algerian cities on Friday to demand the postponement of a presidential election and the removal of the...

US President Donald Trump said on Friday he will send about 1,500 American troops to the MiddleEast, mostly as a protective measure, amid heightened tensions with Iran, Reuters reports. “We...

Germany on Friday urged a peaceful solution to tensions between US and Iran ahead of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to Berlin next week, Anadolu Agency reports. Speaking at...

Palestinian demonstrators on Friday converged along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone to take part in ongoing rallies against Israel’s decades-long occupation, Anadolu Agency reports. According to Gaza’s National Authority for Breaking the Siege...

Sky News journalists came under fire from a Syrian military drone yesterday in what is said to be a deliberate attack by the Assad regime. The dramatic attack captured...

Thirty-one United Nations (UN) humanitarian trucks yesterday crossed into the Syrian province of Idlib. The trucks entered through the Gilo Gozo border crossing located in the Rihaniyeh district in...

Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Yavuz Selim Kiran yesterday denied recent reports about an alleged US ultimatum issued to Ankara as a result of its recent purchase of the S-400...

A group of former Israeli judges has signed an open letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which they compared his attempts to limit the power of the...

American spy Jonathan Pollard, who was jailed for decades for selling American secrets to Israel, has criticised Tel Aviv for failing to help him move to Israel. “To make...

Some 605 Palestinian refugees have been tortured to death in Syrian regime prisons since the civil war began in 2011, the Action Group for Palestinians in Syria said in...

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed on Wednesday received a Hamas delegation led by former head of of the movement, Khaled Meshaal, and discussed a number of issues including the...

The International Union of Muslim Scholars has called on Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to immediately release all prisoners of conscience. “We are increasingly concerned...

An ex-Israeli soldier wanted in Colombia for heading a child prostitution ring and sex trafficking offences has been arrested in Portugal. Forty-five-year-old Assi Ben-Mosh – also known as Assi...

Kuwait Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Mansour Al-Otaibi, said that peace will not be achieved while Israel continues to occupy Palestinian land by force, stressing that settlements...

The US envoy to the Middle East, Jason Greenblatt, on Wednesday called for UNRWA to be dissolved and for countries which host Palestine refugees to take on the responsibility...

An Israeli settler set fire to a field in Burin

Rockets hit a luxury hotel in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, early on Friday in an attack the internationally recognised government blamed on eastern forces trying to capture the city, Reuters...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering visiting Iran as early as mid-June, NHK national television said on Friday, as international concern grows about rising tension between Iran and...

John Walker Lindh, the American captured in Afghanistan in 2001 fighting for the Taliban, was freed early from federal prison on Thursday after serving 17 years amid concerns he...

A number of employees of the Central Bank of Sudan (CBoS) have joined the country’s nationwide protests against the Transitional Military Council (TMC), calling for elections of a civilian...

Libya’s coast guard rescued 290 migrants clinging to inflatable rafts on Friday in two operations near the capital Tripoli, a naval forces spokesman said. Reuters reports, the western coast...

Five right-wing parties in the Knesset decided to form a minority government under Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, according to local news reports Friday, Anadolu reports. Representatives from the parties...

The US State Department failed to meet a deadline on Thursday to provide information to three congressional committee chairmen looking into whether an annual arms control report slanted and...

The chairman of the Chamber’s board, Ajlan Al-Ajlan, warned against the dangers of business practice in Turkey, in a Tweet. He said that several Saudi investors have complained about...

Direct Arab investments in Morocco declined by 10.5 per cent during 2018, for the third year in a row. The share of Arab investments in total foreign direct investment...

Despite the Iraqi government’s announcement that Daesh had been expelled from the country more than a year and a half ago, 1.5 million displaced people still live in the...

The government of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has averted a controversy over its bid to aid the Palestinian cause, Anadolu Agency reports. Reiterating Malaysia’s commitment to the Palestinian struggle,...

Anadolu Agency’s bureau in Gaza City has sent a letter to the Israeli army demanding an explanation for an airstrike early this month that destroyed the building in which...

US President Donald Trump’s administration plans to use a loophole and rising tensions with Iran to sell bombs to Saudi Arabia, even though Congress blocked such sales for months...

The 2022 World Cup in Qatar will be held with 32 participating teams and not an expanded 48 teams, organisers FIFA said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. FIFA President Gianni...

Yemen’s Houthi rebel group on Thursday carried out a drone attack on the Najran airport in southern Saudi Arabia, according to a television channel linked to the group, Anadolu Agency reports....

The head of the United Nations agency that has supported Palestinian refugees for seven decades hit back on Thursday at a US proposal to have host countries take over...