Rival militias clashed in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Wednesday and at least five people were killed and 20 wounded, the health ministry said, splintering a four-month-old, UN-brokered ceasefire, Reuters...

The Syrian regime must take control over the country’s north, the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said yesterday. “We are convinced that the best and only solution is the...

A bomb attack claimed by Daesh killed two US troops and two civilians working for the US military in northern Syria on Wednesday, weeks after President Donald Trump said...

Yemen’s warring sides started talks in Amman on Wednesday on how to implement a prisoner exchange that will allow thousands of families to be reunited as part of UN-led...

Egypt has signed a $1.2 billion loan agreement with the Export-Import Bank of China (EximBank) to finance an electric railway project, the country’s transport minister, Hesham Arafat, announced yesterday....

A Sudanese woman stranded in Syria for the last eight years has finally made it home with her children with the help of Turkey’s government, a Turkish aid group,...

A German court ruled on Wednesday that a suspected Islamist militant who was deported to Tunisia in July must not be returned to Germany, saying it no longer believed...

Israeli television said on Wednesday that US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan would propose a Palestinian state on as much as 90 percent of the occupied West...

Daesh has been defeated in Syria, US Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday, hours after American soldiers were killed in a northern Syria bomb attack claimed by the...

Sudanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of demonstrators in Kassala, capital of the remote eastern state of the same name, eyewitnesses said, in the first protests...

Nine months after being voted into the 128-seat Lebanese parliament as one of six female lawmakers, Paula Yacoubian is urging fellow legislators to help change discriminatory laws that are...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi issued a decree yesterday prohibiting senior state officials from travelling abroad without obtaining his permission. The decision is to include the sovereign ministries and...

The scope of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s attempt to silence critics was exposed yesterday in a report by the New Yorker. Details of a global campaign –...

The Arab League said yesterday that it has not been asked to mediate between Libya and Lebanon following Tripoli’s recent announcement that it is boycotting the Arab Economic Summit...

The Egyptian government has imposed additional fees on public services including cinema tickets, train fares, casinos and telephone transmissions. The decree, signed by Egyptian Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada...

Israel may need to invade Iran to stop its entrenchment in Syria, an assessment by the Institute for National Security (INSS) in Tel Aviv has concluded. The independent think...

Health ministry officials in the Gaza Strip have warned that the serious fuel shortage for hospitals and health centres threatens the lives of hundreds of patients in the besieged...

An Afghan diplomat has revealed that Saudi Arabia and the UAE have made it clear to Washington that they will not participate in the US-Taliban peace talks if they...

A Sudanese official has exposed the extent of the country’s financial difficulties, with revelations that several of the country’s foreign diplomats have not been paid for over seven months....

Egypt’s Supreme Council for Media Regulation yesterday banned the chairman of Zamalek football club from making media appearances for two months. Mortada Mansour was banned from appearing on all media...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called on the Iraqi government to disarm 67 Shia militias and freeze their activities in preparation to them being disbanded. In response...

The outgoing Israeli Chief of Staff, Gadi Eisenkot, said yesterday that he feels “sad” he could not bring Israeli soldiers captured in Gaza back home during his term. While handing over...

Iran’s Foreign Minister has said that, despite having a good relationship with Qatar, the government in Tehran rejects Doha’s policy towards Syria. “It is important for Iran to expand...

The Palestine Prisoners’ Centre for Studies said on Tuesday that 23 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel suffer from cancer but do not receive adequate treatment or healthcare from the...

Israel yesterday handed demolition orders to ten families in Al-Bustan, in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan south of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Fakhri Abu-Dyab, a member of the Committee to Defend...

The United States government is being urged to rescind a 1978 opinion on the illegality of Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), reported The Jerusalem Post. According...

Lawyers working on Palestinian Jerusalemites’ attempts to acquire Israeli citizenship believe that the government is deliberating blocking such applications, reported Haaretz. According to the paper, “while the number of...

The Palestinian High Court of Justice removed the Palestinian Authority Attorney General on Tuesday following a complaint that he was nominated for the post illegally because he did not...

Israeli forces have killed Palestinian children during protests in the occupied Gaza Strip in “conduct amounting to war crimes”, according to a report submitted to a United Nations inquiry...

A spokesman for the Jordanian Foreign Ministry said yesterday that his country has agreed to a UN request to host a meeting between the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed yesterday that the former Israeli Chief of Staff, Gadi Eisenkot, met the commanders of several Arab armies during his term. Netanyahu made the...

The new Chief of Staff of the Israel army vowed on Tuesday that he will dedicate himself to strengthen its attack capabilities, local media have reported. “I commit to...