Israeli occupation forces have arrested some 2,700 Palestinians since US President Donald Trump announced his administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Commission revealed yesterday....

The US has resettled just 44 Syrian refugees into the country since October, down from approximately 6,000 in the same time frame last year, according to CNN. Figures are...

Iran’s feud with the US is set to get worse after Tehran announced yesterday that it will start reporting foreign currency amounts in euros rather than US dollars, as...

The Houthi armed group shot down a US spy drone over Hudaydah yesterday, the Houthi-run Ansarollah reported. A military source in the air defence unit claims that a “US...

Some 145 officers from Sierra Leone’s Formed Police Units (FPU) have been deployed in Somalia’s port city of Kismayo, Garowe Online reported yesterday. The new batch of officers will...

US Senator and former Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has criticised Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman for not doing enough to help people in the besieged Gaza Strip....

Syrian opposition leader, Michel Kilo has warned that replacing US troops in Syria with Arab forces could lead to a long-term Arab-Iranian war on Syrian soil. Speaking in an...

Last week, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told reporters in New York that Saudi Arabia is considering extending its agreement with Russia to reducing oil production for 10...

A Dubai princess who announced that she was escaping the UAE via a video message has been “brought back”, a source has said. “What I can confirm is they...

The Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) has been criticised for firing an employee over a statement criticising Israeli forces’ use of live fire against journalists in the occupied...

Saudi Arabia is holding talks with the US over sending troops into Syria as part of a wider international coalition, the Kingdom’s Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir has said. “We...

An American citizen languishing in a US detention facility without charge in Iraq since September last year is going to be transferred to another country, the Guardian reported yesterday....

Turkey will be responsible for NATO’s rapid response unit within the next few years, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced yesterday, according to Hurriyet Daily News. The announcement was made...

The US has been unable to independently confirm that a team of inspectors has arrived at the site of a suspected chemical attack in Syria’s Douma district, the State...

The Moroccan-US joint military training, known as the African Lion Manoeuvres 2018, have been launched in Morocco under the orders of King Mohammed VI and will continue until April...

A strike on Syria last week was carried out by Israel in an effort to target Iranian positions in the country, a senior official told the New York Times....

A number of Palestinian groups and activists in the United States issued a warning on Monday about holding a meeting of the Palestinian National Council (PNC) without a national...

The Council on International Relations – Palestine has condemned the Honduran National Congress for voting to move the country’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Israeli-occupied Jerusalem. The congress backed...

Hamas yesterday denied reports that it has received a proposal offering for the EU to run the Gaza Strip, Quds Press reported. Senior Hamas political leader Atef Adwan told...

Syrian anti-aircraft defences shot down missiles fired at the Syrian air base of Shayrat in Homs province late on Monday and another base northeast of the capital, Damascus, Syria’s...

The White House said Sunday that the US President, Donald Trump still wants to pull the US troops out of Syria “as soon as possible”. White House Press Secretary,...

The Thomson Reuters Foundation reports that women believed to have links to the Daesh militant group suffer “harrowing” sexual exploitation and discrimination in Iraq’s refugee camps, a leading rights group...

The European Union failed to agree on new sanctions against Iran on Monday amid Italy’s opposition and fears that punishing Tehran for its missile programme and regional role would not...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is concerned about the possibility of a direct American-Russian confrontation on Syrian soil. Steinmeier told Bild am Sonntag newspaper yesterday that “despite the great relief...

The Syrian regime launched a renewed assault on opposition groups in the province of Homs yesterday, according to Syrian news agency Zaman Al-Wasl. At least three civilians, including one...

The Palestinian Authority has praised the choice of the occupied city of Jerusalem as this year’s “capital of Arab tourism”, Quds Press reported on Sunday. The decision was announced...

Moroccan newspaper has quoted what it considers as well-informed sources as saying that the Moroccan army has decided to retrieve its squadron of aircrafts from Saudi-led Arab Coalition, which...

Saudi King Salman Bin Abdul Aziz today announced a £150,000 million donation to support Jerusalem’s Islamic endowment programmes and to fund the maintenance of the Islamic heritage and holy...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi today called for the ending of “the Palestinian division” and for “an immediate” international investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria....

A Russian bid for the United Nations Security Council to condemn US, British and French air strikes on Syria over a suspected chemical weapons attack failed on Saturday after...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu coupled praise for US-led strikes on Syrian targets on Saturday with a warning that Iran’s presence there further endangers Syria. US, British and French forces...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said coordinated air strikes on Syria by the United States, France and Britain on Saturday were a crime that would bring no benefit....