A Turkish court on Tuesday added new defendants to the case against Saudi officials charged over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, state media reported, in a trial that...

Two bomb blasts killed at least seven people and wounded scores on Tuesday in areas of northwest Syria near the Turkish border and under heavy Turkish influence, witnesses and...

Israeli military bulldozers destroyed Palestinian land today based in Ras Karkar village, west of Ramallah, to build a sewage pipeline. Nu'man Nofal, a farmer from the village, told Wafa news agency,...

Egyptian artist Mohamed Ramadan is to be tried at court next month following a public backlash against an image of him posing with an Israeli singer during a visit...

Parties to the conflict in Libya held a formal meeting in Tangiers, Morocco, on Monday to unify the parliaments based in Tripoli and Tobruk. On Saturday, 75 deputies from...

Algeria has signed a contract to buy 14 Russian Sukhoi Su-57 bombers as the arms race with its neighbour Morocco intensifies, a Moroccan news site reported. Media outlets quoted...

Qatar says it has identified the parents of a baby who was abandoned last month in a bin at Doha's airport, Al Jazeera reports. Last month, CCTV footage was released purportedly showing...

Nineteen-year-old Israeli woman, Hallel Rabin, who refused to complete her military service in the occupied Palestinian territories rejecting any involvement in what she called "killing, violence and destruction" has been...

Turkey summoned the envoys of the European Union, Germany and Italy to protest against a German attempt to search a Libya-bound, Turkish-flagged commercial ship, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday....

US President-elect Joe Biden appointed a longtime Palestinian-American Capitol Hill aide as the deputy director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs. Born to Jordanian-Palestinian immigrants in the US, Reema...

Iran's recently appointed ambassador to Sanaa met with Yemen's Houthi-led National Salvation Government's (NSG) Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation Adulmalik Al-Thawr yesterday to discuss expanding agricultural cooperation. According to Mehr...

Matt Hancock made the statement during an interview with LBC radio yesterday morning, without providing further detail on the government’s plan for the Christmas period.

Over 300 students have signed a statement expressing deep concerns over the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, calling on UK universities to unequivocally protect their right...

A leading Syrian opposition group has stated its refusal to hold constitutional talks with the Kurdish militias, labelling them terrorist groups who do not deserve to sit at the...

The Commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, General Ismail Qaani, is reported to have visited the Lebanese capital Beirut where he met with the Secretary-General...

Emma Stone’s 2015 Oscar gown by Lebanese designer Elie Saab will be auctioned off in aid of Beirut

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said that Turkey has played a key role in the fight against terrorism and particularly Daesh, in response to German lawmaker's claim that Turkey...

The economic repercussions of the coronavirus has led to an increase in the unemployment rate in the besieged Gaza Strip by 17 per cent, with 82 per cent of...

A video is circulating on social media of lavish dog quarters being built inside one of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s palaces

An Egyptian court has put almost 30 people on a terrorism watch list and accused them of joining the Muslim Brotherhood. Not long after the 2013 coup, the Muslim Brotherhood...

The US is exerting efforts to undermine the formation of Lebanese government, Anadolu reported a close aide of Lebanese President Michel Aoun saying. The aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity,...

Seven Yemeni fishermen have drowned off the coast of Somalia after their boat capsized due to a tropical storm on Sunday, Anadolu news agency reported. The agency quoted the Director General...

Women's participation in the workforce in Iraq is less than 15 per cent, the World Bank has said. In a report, the global monetary body said less than 15...

The healthcare system in the Gaza Strip is near collapse as a result of Israel's stifling siege and the rise in coronavirus cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has...

The administrative coordinator of the Daesh militant group has been arrested at Baghdad International Airport, the spokesperson for the Commander in Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces said yesterday....

Amnesty International yesterday renewed its call on Egyptian authorities to "immediately" release prominent human rights defenders detained since last week. This came following the announcement of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal...

The six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have recorded more than one million cases of infection with the novel coronavirus, according to Reuters. The news service tallied...

Former Chairman of Nissan Carlos Ghosn should receive compensation from the Japanese government for "illegally arresting and detaining him", officials at the UN said yesterday. "Ghosn's deprivation of freedom...

Saudi Arabia wants to be part of any deal between the incoming US administration and Iran, Foreign Minister Faisal Bin Farhan told America's CNBC on Saturday. Bin Farhan said that any...

US-brokered Israeli-Lebanese talks on the countries 'maritime borders have reached a dead end due to conflicting positions, Israel Hayom reported yesterday. On Sunday, following the fallout of the talks, Israeli Energy...

A former spokesman for the Moroccan government, Mustapha El-Khalfi, has said that there is a "new phase" in the Western Sahara issue, after recent tension in the region. "Morocco...

Secretary of Fatah's Executive Committee, Jibreel Al-Rajoub, has claimed that Hamas' insistence on carrying out all elections together was the reason for the failure of talks in Cairo, the Shehab news...