US lawmakers are urging President Joe Biden to personally advocate for the release of two children of a former top Saudi intelligence official, Saad Al-Jabri, who are being detained...

The United States will reportedly be sending around 17,000 archaeological antiquities back to Iraq, after they were illegally smuggled from the country over the decades. According to Iraqi Culture...

A Turkish opposition leader has offered Austria €3 billion ($3.56 billion) to take all the Afghan refugees residing in Turkey, in reaction to the Austrian prime minister's suggestion last...

Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh yesterday called on the European Union to revive the political process under the International Quartet's auspices in a way that brings justice for the...

An Israeli columnist has linked the ongoing Israeli spyware scandal to previous Israel arms sales made to regimes that carried out genocides and war crimes. Commenting on the spyware...

The United States expressed its concerns over recent reports that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is acting to restrict Palestinian freedom of expression. While briefing the UN Security Council on the situation...

Turkey this week launched an investigation into statements issued by the mayor of the northwestern city of Bolu after he said he would charge foreigners – refugees, immigrants and...

A rocket landed near the US embassy in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone without causing any casualties this morning, Anadolu reported. The agency quoted an Iraqi police officer as...

Republican congressmen on Tuesday introduced a bill aiming to stop the US administration's flow of funds to the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), a...

The founders of Ben & Jerry's ice cream have stated that they are "proud Jews", that Israel was one of their first overseas markets and that they are "supporters...

Some Afghan irregular migrants have alleged that they were beaten in custody by Iranian soldiers before being released at the Turkish border, Anadolu Agency reported. Gulab Jemili, an Afghan who illegally...

The US sanctioned on Wednesday a slew of Syrian entities, including eight Syrian regime prisons and five senior officials in charge of the facilities, Anadolu Agency reported. The Treasury Department said...

European arms companies are "instrumental" in mass displacement and fuelling the refugee crisis, according to a report by Transnational Institute (TNI). TNI's report, Smoking Guns, revealed that weapons sold...

Morocco has arrested an Uyghur activist following a warrant issued by China accusing him of terrorism. Concerns are growing that BelgiumUyghur/ will now be extradited to China, which has...

Coming under fire for Ben & Jerry's decision to stop selling ice cream in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, parent company Unilever sought to assuage concerns of several American Jewish groups...

Egypt's Hedaya Malak has won her country's first medal at this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo, in the women's 67kg taekwondo event, earning a bronze after defeating Paige McPherson...

Moroccan boxer Youness Baalla was disqualified from the Olympics yesterday after he attempted to bite his opponent's ear. The Boxing Task Force, which is in charge of running the Tokyo competition,...

Libyan militia leader, Al-Kani, accused of major human rights violations and sanctioned by the United States, was shot dead in Libya's eastern Benghazi province yesterday, AP reported officials saying. According...

Turkish, Azerbaijani and Pakistani parliament speakers accepted the Baku Declaration in a ceremony held at the Azerbaijani Parliament yesterday, Anadolu reports. Turkish Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop and his Pakistani and Azerbaijani...

A delegation of six Iranians living in the US visited Israel last week to show solidarity and support for the occupation state, the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) reported. Members...

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday discussed how to ease COVID-19 travel restrictions, which have stranded around 400,000 Pakistani workers back home, foreign ministers of the two countries told...

A close aide of former US President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to working as a foreign agent for the United Arab Emirates. The 74-year-old billionaire investor was charged...

"Turkey will not be a border guard or a refugee camp of the EU", officials said after Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz's remarks that Turkey is a "more suitable place" for...

Jordan's Saleh Elsharabaty has won the kingdom its second Olympic medal in history after becoming the taekwondo silver medallist in Tokyo yesterday. Elsharabaty was beaten by his "brother" Russian...

Gladiator actor Mike Mitchell has died in Turkey at the age of 65. The Scottish actor is believed to have died of natural causes while on a boat in...

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, yesterday urged Tunisian President Kais Saied to adhere to democracy during discussion on the developments in the north African state. Blinken told Saied...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday raised its travel warning level for Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories due to the rising number of COVID-19...

A Jewish Israeli journalist said at the weekend that the establishment of a Palestinian state would "cripple" US interests in the Middle East. Yoram Ettinger added that the land...

Yemen's recognised government has doubled the US dollar exchange rate used to calculate customs duties on non-essential goods in areas under its control effective Monday, a senior government official...

US President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Monday will seal an agreement formally ending the US combat mission in Iraq by the end of 2021,...

US House Representative Rashida Tlaib has caused a stir after pointing out on Twitter that illegal Israeli settlements currently receive tax-exempt status in America, a contravention of international law....

Sudanese judoka Mohamed Abdalrasool has withdrawn from the Olympics Games in Tokyo after being absent from a scheduled fight against an Israeli opponent. Abdalrasool was set to face Israel's...