UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is expected to shortly name Swedish diplomat Hans Grundberg as his new Yemen envoy, diplomats said, after China informally gave the greenlight for the appointment...

The fate of ousted Tunisian Prime Minister Hicham Mechichi has become a matter of growing concern since no one knows his whereabouts, member of the International Federation of Jurists Anwar Al-Gharbi...

Tunisia's powerful labour union on Tuesday urged the president to rapidly announce a new government some nine days after he seized executive control in a move his opponents called...

Israel warned on Tuesday against travel to the United States and other countries and said it would tighten quarantine measures for inbound travelers as part of efforts to slow...

Israel's government will show proof to foreign envoys proof of Iran's involvement in the attack on the Mercer Street tanker off the coast of Oman, Israeli media reported today....

Israel is rallying global action against Iran over an attack on an Israeli-managed tanker off Oman last week but is capable of responding on its own if necessary, Prime...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said it was time to increase the price of the country's subsidised bread, revisiting the issue for the first time since 1977 when then-president...

Moroccan human rights activists on Tuesday urged Rabat not to extradite a Uyghur man to China, citing fears he might face arbitrary detention or torture, reports Reuters. Yidrissi Aishan...

Some 84,598 male and female students in all governorates across Palestine sat the Tawjihi high school exam last June

In a secret vote held yesterday, former Israeli Prime Minister and head of the Likud Party, Benjamin Netanyahu's pick for the judicial selection committee lost. Netanyahu had backed MK...

Turkey condemned Greece's decision to close 12 more primary schools belonging to the Western Thrace Turkish minority, using austerity measures and low student numbers as an excuse, the Turkish Foreign Ministry...

Parliament Speaker and leader of Ennahda Movement, Rached Ghannouchi's adviser has denied social media reports that he had been placed under house arrest. Social media users had reported that...

The military court in Tunisia yesterday cancelled arrest warrants against a lawyer and four members of parliament from the Dignity Coalition bloc. Arrest warrants issued against lawyer Mahdi Zagrouba,...

Further evidence of the alleged war crimes committed by Israel during its 11-day assault on Gaza in May, which were uncovered by Human Rights Watch last month, was reported by Haaretz today detailing...

Tunisian President Kais Saied praised brotherly and friendly countries, which he did not name, for the support they provided to the country at the security and economic levels. This...

Academics in Tunisia have today called for an end to the exceptional measures announced by President Kais Saied, which they said are "clearly" showing "early signs" of "a deviation...

Saudi Arabia has released 28 Pakistani prisoners who were languishing in the kingdom's prison system, in a drive by Islamabad to free numerous Pakistani nationals detained over petty crimes....

More than 1,100 illegal migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast and returned to Libya over the past week, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said yesterday, Xinhua News Agency reports....

"As soon as the G20 spotlight on Saudi Arabia faded the authorities resumed their ruthless pursuit of people who dare to express their opinions freely or criticize the government,"

The Egyptian Network for Human Rights (ENHR) is highlighting the case of Amir Mohsen Hammad Afrifi, who is still in prison seven years after his arrest and forcible disappearance....

Iraq has requested Syria to increase the release of its water supplies in order to compensate for a shortage, caused by the low levels of rainfall and high temperatures...

Egypt has witnessed a rise in the number of coronavirus infections over the past week, with 51 new cases yesterday. The Ministry of Health said in a statement that...

A 70-year-old engineer who was detained in Gamsa high security prison in Egypt's Ismailia Governorate has died inside his prison cell. Mohamed Anwar was detained in 2013, accused of...

Algerian authorities are "carefully" considering a reconciliation offer made by Moroccan King Mohammed VI early on Saturday which included the reopening of borders. Neither the Algerian presidency nor the...

The head of the Lebanese Forces party, Samir Geagea, yesterday called for early parliamentary elections to be held in order to resolve Lebanon's crises. Geagea's call came during a...

Tunisian lawyers yesterday announced the establishment of the Lawyers for the Protection of Rights and Freedoms, "to monitor violations and abuses of individual and public rights, and to confront...

Twenty-one-year-old university student Azra Gulendam Haytaoglu, who has been missing since 28 July, was found dead in a forest area in Turkey's Mediterranean province of Antalya yesterday. According to DHA,...

Eighty per cent of the population of the besieged Gaza Strip suffer from severe power shortages, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced yesterday. "80 per cent...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday stressed the importance of respecting the rule of law, and guaranteeing freedom, during a call with his Tunisian counterpart Kais Saied, Turkish diplomatic...

Tunisian President Kais Saied yesterday dismissed two ministers from the former cabinet. According to a presidential statement, the former Minister of Economy, Finance and Investment Support, Ali Kooli, was...

The United States said yesterday that Palestinian families threatened with having their homes demolished in occupied Jerusalem "should not be evicted". In a press briefing US Department of State...

There was strong evidence to suggest some Lebanese officials knew about and tacitly accepted the lethal risks posed by ammonium nitrate stored at Beirut port before the fatal blast...