Egypt is believed to be working towards reactivating its mediation between the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, and Israel for a new prisoner exchange deal, Al Quds Al Arabi...

An Egyptian court yesterday sentenced Mahmoud Ezzat, the Muslim Brotherhood's acting general guide, to life in prison, local media reported. State-owned Al-Ahram newspaper said the Second Terrorism Circuit court sentenced Ezzat...

Benjamin Netanyahu warned yesterday that the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran is paving the way for Tehran to acquire a nuclear weapon. He made his comments during a memorial...

The United Nations yesterday warned of the "imminent collapse of the health situation in Yemen," stressing that tut is "untolerable." "20.1 million people in Yemen are in need of...

Tunisia's Ministry of Religious Affairs announced on Thursday that citizens are allowed to perform prayers in mosques, including the Friday prayer, outside of curfew hours. This came in a...

On 5 January, 2020, the Iraqi Parliament passed a resolution calling for the evacuation of foreign forces, including US troops, from the country.

Uganda announced on Wednesday the signing of an agreement with Egypt to exchange military information. This came in light of the escalating tension between Egypt and Ethiopia over the...

The defence team of the head of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel Sheikh Raed Salah has slammed the Israel Prison Service's decision to transfer him...

At least two Somali soldiers were killed and several others wounded in an attack by Al-Shabaab terrorists on an army base in the Middle Shabelle region today, an official...

Leader of the far-right Religious Zionist party MK Bezalel Smotrich on Thursday threatened to expel an Arab MK and other Muslims who do not accept the rule of Jews...

Russia said today it wants good relations with the US but remains ready for "the worst scenarios", Anadolu Agency reports. Despite all the unfriendly moves by Washington, President Vladimir...

At least four civilians, including two children, were killed with two children severely injured in an attack by Bashar Al-Assad regime forces in north-western Idlib province, sources said today,...

Egypt and Jordan welcomed a US decision to restart economic, development and humanitarian assistance for Palestinians which includes funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Anadolu Agency...

Turkey is close to completing preparations for starting a grand project of digging of a canal connecting the Black Sea north of Istanbul to the Marmara Sea to the...

The current leader of the Daesh terrorist group was an "eager" informant of the US military in Iraq, new records released this week have shown. Abu Ibrahim Al-Hashimi Al-Qurashi replaced Abu Bakr...

Greece and Qatar have begun talks about enhancing cultural ties with each other, which will include a "Greece-Qatar Culture Year". The details were given after the official two-day visit...

Israel yesterday approved the construction of hundreds of illegal settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem, a first since US President Joe Biden took office in January, Haaertz reports. According...

A member of the Supreme Political Council in Yemen, the executive body of the Houthi-led government based in Sanaa, has warned Turkey against any intervention in the country. Should...

The Arab region expects Turkey to play a mediation role, particularly in Syria and Libya, the former Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said yesterday. According to Anadolu, Siniora, who held the prime minister's office between 2005 and 2009, was speaking in an online panel discussion on the "Changing Situation of the Middle East and the Prospects of Cooperation and Peace," organised by the Ankara-based Middle East Research Center (ORSAM) on Tuesday Siniora touched on the rising problems in the world, saying that "international resolutions are ignored and cooperation among countries is still more uncertain than ever." Instability in the region encouraged some "regional and global powers to use the Arab countries as a battlefield," rather than engaging in cooperation, giving "regional powers, Iran and Israel in particular, a growing role in furthering the destabilisation of the region by direct aggression or instigating internal conflicts," Siniora said. He urged regional powers to work together and utilise...

Egypt's foreign minister has said that Cairo is keen on the security and stability of Lebanon and the formation of a new government to resolve the state of political deadlock....

Dabirul Islam Choudhury OBE has just celebrated his 101st birthday at his London home with his son. It would have been a huge celebration surrounded by many of his...

Facebook has removed hundreds of fake accounts linked to an exiled Iranian opposition group, the Associated Press reported. The social media platform said in a statement on Tuesday that it removed...

The Coordinating Body of the Iraqi Resistance Factions yesterday warned that it would direct large and accurate strikes against US forces in Iraq if no clear date is set...

The former president of Rabbis for Human Rights was violently assaulted by far-right Israeli settlers yesterday. Video footage of the brutal attack near the Maale Ahuvia illegal settlement outpost,...

Lebanese figures have called on French President Emmanuel Macron to freeze the assets of Lebanese economists and politicians in French banks in order to put pressure on them to...

The Yemeni Journalists' Syndicate (YJS) has documented 24 violations of media freedoms and journalists' rights during the first quarter of 2021. The body said in a statement issued on...

The official Anti-Corruption and Funds Recovery Committee in Sudan has revealed that it has recovered assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars from former president Omar Al-Bashir. The committee...

Palestinian prisoner Emad Al-Battran last night suspended his 47-day hunger strike after an Israeli pledge to set a time limit for his administrative detention. According to the Palestinian Prisoners'...

Amnesty International's MENA advocacy director has called on US President Joe Biden to denounce human rights in Egypt and demand change. "Tens of thousands of people have been swept...

Iran has made 55 kilogrammes of uranium enriched to up to 20 per cent, indicating quicker production than the ten kilogramme a month rate required by an Iranian law...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun held a phone conversation with Syria's Bashar Al-Assad to discuss the demarcation of the Lebanon-Syria maritime borders, Anadolu reported yesterday. According to Lebanese caretaker Foreign Minister Charbel...

Nick Kaufman, a former prosecutor at the ICC, stressed yesterday that it is impossible to offer bribes to the new international tribunal's prosecutor Karim Khan, Israel's Army Radio said. Kaufman reiterated...