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The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) on Friday condemned the defence deal recently signed between Israel and Morocco, which lays the foundation for security cooperation, intelligence...

Ethiopia has announced new restrictions on the sharing of information about the war in the north of the country, which stipulate that battlefront updates can only come from the...

The Turkish Foreign Minister, on Friday, discussed the latest situation in Ethiopia with his Ethiopian counterpart over the phone, according to diplomatic sources and Anadolu News Agency reports. Mevlut...

Russia, on Friday, chided the United States for threatening a diplomatic escalation with Iran at the UN nuclear watchdog next month unless it improves cooperation with the agency, saying...

Israel, on Friday, imposed a travel ban on most African states, after reporting cases of a new and potentially vaccine-resistant coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, Reuters reports....

Germany, on Friday, called on Iran to "fully cooperate" with the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and "answer all open questions" about its nuclear program, Anadolu News Agency...

The Sudanese Congress Party, on Friday, said political detainees in the country have staged an open-ended hunger strike to protest their detention since 25 October and the "denial of...

Somalia's international partners, on Friday, called for the ongoing elections for the Lower House of Parliament to be completed in a transparent, inclusive, and credible manner before the set...

The United Nations mission in Libya, on Friday, condemned an attack on a court in the south-western city of Sebha, Anadolu News Agency reports. "Alarmed by" the reported attack...

Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the former ruler, Muammar Gaddafi, was ineligible to run the upcoming election in December, compounding the turmoil surrounding the vote, Libya's election commission...

Israeli occupation authorities appear to have stalled plans to build 9,000 settlement units on the site of the deserted Qalandia Airport in the occupied West Bank, according to a...

Palestinians in Israeli occupied West Bank favour one bi-national state over a two-state solution, a new opinion poll conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre (JMCC) shows. Support...

Thousands of Jordanians rallied in protest against a deal signed with Israel that will reportedly see the two countries swap electricity for water,

British Member of Parliament, Crispin Blunt, yesterday warned the UK against proscribing the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, saying it will have "a terrible chilling effect on putting anything into...

A woman or girl is being killed by someone in their family every 11 minutes in the world, UNODC Executive Director, Ghada Waly said on Thursday and Anadolu News...

Nationwide protests erupted Thursday in Sudan against the military takeover late last month, Anadolu News Agency reports. The protests that expanded to many regions in the country came despite...

Leader of Iraq's Sadrist movement, Muqtada Al-Sadr, said on Wednesday that he will not participate in any coalition government, reiterating his position on forming a "national majority" government. Al-Sadr,...

Twenty-seven prominent NGOs in Greece warned, Thursday, that refugees and asylum seekers face hunger following the government's decision in October to halt services to those whose asylum applications have...

The UK government labels Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories as countries which are "concerning" due to their human rights issues, an updated assessment by the Foreign Commonwealth and...

Palestinian groups, on Thursday, denounced the visit of Israeli Defence Minister, Benny Gantz, to Morocco which witnessed the signing of military agreements, Anadolu News Agency reports. Ismail Radwan, a...

The Tunisian navy rescued 487 migrants today from an overloaded boat that ran into difficulty in rough seas in the Mediterranean as they tried to reach Europe, Reuters reports. The vessel...

Iran wants the lifting of all sanctions in a verifiable process, its foreign minister said today, three days before nuclear talks resume in Vienna, Reuters reports. Monday's indirect talks between...

The Israeli Central Court in Jerusalem yesterday sentenced a Palestinian teen from the occupied city of Jerusalem to ten years imprisonment and issued him a fine of 17,000 Israeli...

Israel has banned the sale of controversial NSO Group spyware to 65 countries, including Arab states that recently normalised ties with the occupation state. The UAE, Morocco and Saudi...

The Israeli authorities released the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem on Thursday hours after detaining and interrogating him, only to place him under renewed house arrest. A statement issued by...

Satellite images appear to show the UAE has opened an air bridge to provide the Ethiopian government military support in its fight against oppositionists in Tigray, Al Jazeera reported yesterday. More...

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz's to Morocco, and the signing of military agreements "targets Algeria", local media outlets reported Speaker of the Algerian Council of the Nation (Upper House), Saleh...

Israel should work with the United States on the Iranian nuclear file, adding that there is a need for international mobilisation in this regard, Defence Minister Benny Gantz said yesterday....

Moroccan authorities yesterday suspended all commercial flights with France to curb an increasing number of coronavirus cases. The Moroccan Monitoring Committee of COVID-19 said in a statement that the...

Egypt and Israel have signed a memorandum of understanding to increase natural gas supplies from Israel to Egypt, with the aim of re-exporting, the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum announced...

Iranian drones targeting Saudi Arabia fly over Bahraini airspace, the Israeli envoy to Manama said yesterday. Itay Tagner told the US' Axios that Iran had opened a "front against...

Unilateral actions should be avoided in Libya to ensure the24 December elections there take place in a lawful and peaceful atmosphere, said Turkey's National Security Council on Thursday, and...