A senior UK diplomat has described the Balfour Declaration as “unfinished business” in light of the ongoing Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory. Ambassador Jonathan Allen, UK deputy permanent...

A United States drone strike in Yemen yesterday killed five Al-Qaeda fighters. A truck carrying members of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was obliterated by the US drone strike,...

Abdelhak El Khiam, the head of the Moroccan Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), has confirmed Morocco’s readiness to help train imams in Europe in order to prevent extremism....

A number of Palestinian patients at the Darwish Nazzal Hospital in Qalqilya, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, were injured yesterday and suffered severe suffocation, especially...

The Kurdish leadership in northern Iraq said that the German Defence Minister, Ursula von der Leyen, confirmed that her country will continue to support the Peshmerga forces. According to...

Iraq has ordered the arrest of Kurdistan Regional Government Vice President Kosrat Rasul after he called government troops sent to Kirkuk this week “occupying forces”. Spokesman for the Supreme...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday received Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in his presidential complex in the capital Ankara, the Anadolu Agency reported. The two presidents discussed bilateral relations....

Four gunmen stormed the house of prominent Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, in Israel’s Jadeidi-Makr village and stole his personal belongings on Tuesday, according to a statement issued by the...

The Israeli soldier, Elor Azaria, was convicted of manslaughter, and jailed for 18 months, for the March 2016 killing of Abdel al-Fattah al-Sharif in the occupied West Bank

Ibrahim Halawa, an Irish-Egyptian who was imprisoned in Egypt for four years, has been released after a court acquitted him of all charges last month, the Irish Times reported...

The German government has condemned the latest steps taken by Israeli authorities to expand settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). In a statement released by the German Foreign...

The Tunisian High Court has reduced the sentence of an Algerian man and a Tunisian girl after they were accused of public indecency, stripping and hugging in the street....

Turkish police have detained prominent activist and businessman Osman Kavala at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport, Turkish media and a senior European parliamentarian said on Thursday. Kavala, whose Anadolu Kultur centre...

Sudan has doubled its 2017 gold production targets in just nine months, Sudan’s Ministry of Minerals announced yesterday. In a report the Ministry declared that 74.6 tons of gold...

US President Donald Trump risks driving Iran towards nuclear proliferation and worsening a standoff with North Korea if Washington ends a nuclear deal with Iran, former Secretary of State...

European Union leaders on Thursday reaffirmed their full commitment to the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, hoping that the US Congress would not let it collapse...