Amnesty International has condemned the state of “impunity” enjoyed by the Egyptian security forces five years after the violent dispersalof the sit-in organised in Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahdha Squares...

The Egyptian Interior Ministry yesterday announced that 13 people affiliated with the bannedMuslim Brotherhood were arrested for inciting “demonstrations and chaos”. The ministry said in a statement that six...

Well-informed sources have told Al-Quds Al-Arabi that the nearly 20 negotiators including politicians and deputies (about 12 deputies) have reached a near dead end that threatens the continuation of...

Tunisia’s food trade balance turned to a surplus of $ 66.9 million in the first half of 2018, compared to a deficit of $ 276.4 million in the corresponding...

Egyptian journalist Mahmoud Hussein of Al Jazeera has spent 600 days in prison in Egypt with no official charges or conviction, surpassing the permitted maximum length of pretrial detention...

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday voiced his determination not to allow Yemen to become a platform for non-Arab forces that threaten the security and stability of the Arab...

Tens of thousands of Algerian nationals have applied for the French citizenship in the last year and a half, local media reported. As many as 70,000 Algerians applied for...

Britain is one of the most “strict” countries in dealing with the Muslim Brotherhood, the British Ambassador to Egypt has revealed. John Casson made his comment during a “Question...

The Tunisian Ennahda parliamentary bloc has condemned what it called “the systematic campaign of distortion” targeting the movement and its leaders. The bloc said in a statement published on...

Israel’s finance minister today confirmed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in Egypt in May to discuss a long-term ceasefire in the Gaza Strip....

About 3.000 demonstrators in Tunis to remember the Tunisian Women's Day and to ask for Equality and rights for Tunisian women, organised by Secularist movements

Israel’s nation-state law discriminates against the country’s Palestinian minority, British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said Monday, Anadolu reports. Corbyn made the remarks on Twitter in reply to Israeli Prime...

Caesarean deliveries in Algerian hospitals and obstetric clinics have been increasing year after year. This fact has led the World Health Organisation (WHO) to issue a warning to Algeria about...

Adel Karmous, a member of the High Council of State, has said that if the issue of Russian intervention in Libyan affairs is posed, it will not be opposed...

Palestinian Union of Muslim Scholars mourns the death of Moulana Sheikh Ihsaan Hendricks, the anti-apartheid activist who died on Friday in Cape Town. In a statement, the Palestinian Union...

An Egyptian criminal court dropped a lawsuit in which Ahmed Ezz, a business tycoon who was associated with ousted president Hosni Mubarak, was accused of money laundering and corruption....

Algerian police yesterday arrested a number of political and human rights activists and journalists who protested in central Algiers against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s bid for re-election for a fifth...

Libya and Canada have agreed on the importance of the provision of a solid constitutional basis for holding parliamentary and presidential elections and on holding both elections simultaneously, the...

The navy of the UN-recognised Libyan Government of National Accord announced that it had rescued 60 migrants northwest of the city of Sorman yesterday. A patrol rescued the migrants,...

An Egyptian criminal court has sentenced the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie to life along with a number of the group’s leading members on a charge...

The deputy head of the Political Department in Hamas, Essam Al-Dalis, said that Egypt submitted a new draft to Hamas on its vision of reconciliation which is different from...

Egyptian security forces have thwarted a suicide bomb attack on a church just outside of Cairo, state television said on Saturday. A militant wearing a suicide vest was prevented...

Egypt’s public prosecutor has detained a disgraced monk on charges of killing a bishop at a desert monastery, his lawyer said on Saturday, in a case that has rocked...

Sudanese Foreign Minister Al-Dirdiri Mohamed Ahmed will visit Turkey next week, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Saturday reported Anadolu Agency.  “During the visit, the first meeting of the...

Leader of the Ennahda movement Rachid Ghannouchi said that there are plotters working to abort the revolution in his country, Anadolu reported on Thursday. His remarks came during a speech in...

International solidarity is needed to take the voice of the Palestinians’ “Great March of Return” to the world, Tunisian MP Solaf Kostantini. Speaking to Felesteen newspaper, Kostantini said the...

The prominent South African scholar Mawlana Shaykh Ihsaan Hendricks al-Nadwi passed away on Friday night at the age of 54 years after a lengthy illness. International human rights and...

The Advisory Council of Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) has approved an amendment to its statutes so as to allow the nomination of its leader, President Omar Al-Bashir,...

Companies and banks in Morocco have been warned against trading with Iran following the US’ imposition of sanctions on the Islamic Republic, knowledgeable sources have said. According to a...

The widow of former Libyan president, Muammar Gaddafi, has filed a complaint to the Geneva-based Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) against the imprisonment of her...

The United Arab Emirates plans to build an oil pipeline connecting Eritrea and Ethiopia, an Ethiopian official said. The pipeline will run from Eritrea’s port city of Assab to...

Egypt will obtain a license to build the Dabaa nuclear plant by mid-2020, the Russian deputy minister of industry and trade said Georgy Kalamanov added that Russian experts are currently...