At least 120,000 people have been displaced in three major Syrian cities because of fighting since early October, the United Nations said Monday. The UN humanitarian affairs agency said...

America is putting pressure on the Palestinian Authority by reducing the aid it provides to the government, Quds Press reported member of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) Ahmed Majdalani...

The US-based watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for an investigation into at least two Russian airstrikes in Syria that hit the village of Ghantou and the town...

The EU and the Balkans’ summit on the refugee crisis will be useless without the participation of Turkey, the Anadolu Agency reported the Greek prime minister as saying yesterday....

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon has travelled late on Sunday to the United States for a three- day working visit, an Israeli channel reported. Israel’s Channel Seven reported that...

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Daesh is said to earn as much as $50 million per month from the sales of crude oil obtained from oilfields under...

US Secretary of State’s latest comments regarding the situation in Jerusalem are “useless” and aim to “reinforce Israeli control over Jerusalem”, the Anadolu Agency reported the Islamic Movement in...

The government of Myanmar is triggering anti-Muslim riots and there is “strong evidence” genocide is taking place, an Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has revealed. Al Jazeera obtained eyewitness and...

The US is re-enforcing Israel’s existence at Al-Aqsa Mosque, Felesteen newspaper reported the mosque’s Imam Sheikh Ekrima Sabri as saying yesterday. Discussing Israel’s placing of cameras around the mosque’s...

The annual military aid provided by America to Israel is expected to increase by nearly $1 billion by the end of this decade, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. According to...

Spokesperson of the US State Department John Kirby said on Wednesday that scholarly evidence does not support view of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the Holocaust, Anadolu reported....

Qatar’s Foreign Minister Khalid Al-Attiyah said his country has not ruled out military intervention in Syria if Saudi Arabia and Turkey proposed it pointing out that his country has...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has adopted a resolution condemning Israel for restricting the freedom of worship at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque and for mishandling holy...

The family of a victim of the 2010 Israeli raid on the Mavi Marmara aid flotilla has sued former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak for his role in the...

Qatar’s Foreign Minister Khalid bin Mohamed Al-Attiyah on Tuesday stated that “Qatar has been looking for alternatives under the United Nations umbrella to save the Syrian people.” Al-Attiyah comments...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met late Tuesday his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow, a Kremlin source said Wednesday. “The Syrian President al-Assad visited Moscow yesterday night and met...

Human rights activists in Canada have produced a documentary in English that shows the conditions in secret prisons and the torture taking place in the UAE. They have highlighted...

US Secretary of State John Kerry rejected a French proposal on Monday which calls for the deployment of international observers in Jerusalem to oversee the status quo in Al-Aqsa...

US President Barack Obama announced Sunday the official “adoption” of the nuclear deal between P5+1 countries and Iran. It marks the launch of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action...

New York City’s mayor, Bill De Blasio, on Saturday kicked off a brief visit to Israel that he has described as a solidarity mission at a difficult time. De...

The White House has insisted that there is “no evidence” that Cuba has sent troops to fight with the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. “We’ve seen no evidence...

At least five people, pardoned in late September by Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi, are still being held in jail three weeks later, Human Rights Watch (HRW) revealed said....

The stabbing of a Palestinian by a 17-year-old Israeli in Dimona was an “act of terror”, the State Department said Wednesday. “We’ve had a chance to look at that...

Mohamed Soltan, who went on a 490 day hunger strike in protest against being illegally detained by the Egyptian military for campaigning for freedom, last night awed an audience...

The Turkish foreign ministry summoned the US Ambassador to Turkey John Bass and Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov separately yesterday and warned them about Turkey’s position towards the Syrian Kurdish...

Egypt intends to borrow $3 billion from the World Bank to support the general budget, the country’s finance minister announced on Wednesday. “The government is open to all options...

#BlackPalestinianSolidarity Lauryn Hill, Danny Glover, Cornel West, Angela Davis, and Alice Walker, are among more than 60 leading Black and Palestinian artists and activists to feature in a new...

The US government said on Tuesday that Iran might have breached a UN Security Council resolution when it tested long-range ballistic missiles at the weekend, Anadolu has reported. According...

YouTube yesterday closed the main Hamas channel in the occupied West Bank after pressure by the Israeli authorities, Palestinian Safa news agency reported. In a statement, Hamas said the...

The US’s “train and equip” programme for Syria “did not work”, President Barack Obama said in a TV interview broadcast yesterday night. Obama said he had been sceptical of...

American and Russian defence officials on Saturday discussed – through video conference – what steps to take for de-confliction and safe separation of US-led coalition countering Daesh and Russian...

The State Department said Friday that recent attacks by Palestinians against Israelis are “acts of terror” but failed to apply the same standard when violence is committed against Palestinians...