Libya’s UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) on Tuesday accused forces loyal to commander Khalifa Haftar of killing irregular migrants. Mustafa el-Mecei, the spokesman for the GNA’s Burkan al-Ghadab...

Israeli forces injured 11 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent said Wednesday. In a news release, it said Israeli forces wounded five people with rubber...

Algeria’s interim president has sacked Abdelmoumene Ould Kaddour as the chief executive of state energy company Sonatrach, state TV said on Tuesday, creating uncertainty for investors who had started...

The participants in a consultations summit on Sudan in Cairo agreed, on Tuesday, to extend the African Union’s deadline to hand over power to a transitional government in Sudan...

Sudanese press reports said on Tuesday that huge secret safes belonging to the ousted President Omar Al-Bashir and his brothers had been seized at one of his offices, days...

The United Nations confirmed on Monday that the Government of National Accord is the only recognised government in Libya, days after US President Donald Trump’s telephone conversation with retired...

US President Donald Trump’s administration has reached out to at least 21 of its allies for troops and logistical support to prevent a resurgence of Daesh in Syria, but...

American middle-class consumers are enjoying the most robust wage growth in a decade, but higher gasoline prices are eating a good chunk of that increase for many, and it...

Turkish Supreme Election Council (YSK) will investigate over 41,000 ineligible voters following a contest by the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party to the Istanbul poll results of last month’s...

The long-awaited Mideast peace plan, hailed as a solution to the Palestine-Israel conflict by US President Donald Trump, will be revealed after the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Trump’s...

Egypt’s government is drawing up a plan to turn over as many as 150 crumbling historic buildings to the private sector to refurbish and lease out for profit, the...

Forces supporting Libya’s internationally recognized government pushed back troops loyal to eastern commander Khalifa Haftar more than 60 km southwest of the capital Tripoli on Tuesday, Reuters reporters said....

Migrants in a detention facility in the Libyan capital Tripoli have reportedly been seriously wounded in a random shooting, the UN migration agency IOM said on Tuesday. IOM gave...

Nearly 90 per cent of Egyptian voters have approved in a referendum constitutional changes that could see President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stay in power until 2030, the election commission...

Oil prices hit their highest in about six months on Tuesday as sources said Gulf OPEC members were ready to raise output only if there was demand before offsetting...

An Israeli cabinet minister condemned US Democratic Party presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on Tuesday for describing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government as racist over its treatment of Palestinians. While...

Several Algerian governors have been sacked following the collapse of a building in the Algerian city of Kasbah, which killed five members of the same family. Rescue teams arrived...

The Islamist faction in Jordan, which is associated with the Muslim Brotherhood group, has made a series of consecutive electoral wins in the country’s professional syndicates in less than...

Sudan’s deposed President Omar Al-Bashir is suffering from “bad health” while in detention, social media reports said on Sunday. “Al-Bashir suffered a minor stroke a few days ago,” activists...

The Israel Defence Forces has opened an investigation into an incident in which its soldiers shot a Palestinian teenager while he was blindfolded and handcuffed. Sixteen-year-old Osama Hajahjeh was...

Egyptians have been bribed with food parcels and vouchers at polling stations in a bid to encourage voters to take part in the country’s constitutional referendum on measures that...

China and Turkey have both said that they will continue to import oil from Iran in defiance of the Trump administration, which has threatened to impose sanctions on any...

The outgoing French ambassador to the US has said that Israel is an “apartheid state” and that the status quo provides no incentive for its government to make concessions...

The US State Department offered a reward yesterday of $10 million for information leading to the disruption of the finances of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group. The fund is for those...

In what looks to be further signs of Syria’s reintegration into the region, Damascus has granted permission for regional aviation giant Qatar Airways to use the country’s airspace. Syria’s...

The British government has cancelled cash transfers to humanitarian organisations in the northeast of Syria, for fear that money meant to help refugees could end up in the hands...

Over $60 million has been embezzled from the public purse in Mosul by officials close to the recently sacked governor, Iraq’s anti-corruption Integrity Commission announced yesterday. $40 million of...

Fierce fighting intensified in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, leading to the death of more than 254 people and the injury of 1,228 others, but the cost of these battles...

Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said yesterday that his government had sent delegations to Jordan and Egypt in order to prepare for transferring patients to hospitals abroad,...

The number of crimes against families of Daesh members has increased in Mosul, Wadallah Al-Khafaf, a judge at the Criminal Court in Nineveh, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur. Al-Khafaf explained that...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is recruiting Arab leaders to support the peace plan being laid down by the US administration, dubbed the “deal of the century”. Writing for...

Head of Miles of Smiles Delegations Dr Essam Yousef announced yesterday that a shipment of medicines and medical supplies will enter the besieged Gaza Strip soon. In a press...