Italian authorities have arrested the captain of a Lebanese-flagged cargo ship which was seized in the port of Genoa on suspicion of trafficking arms to Libya, including tanks and...

France is ready to support Lebanon financially, bilaterally or multilaterally, its finance minister said on Sunday according to a Reuters report, warning against mixing economic recovery in the small...

A Turkish soldier was killed in Syria’s Idlib region in a bomb attack by Russian-backed government forces, the defence ministry said on Saturday, Turkey’s 16th military death during a...

The United Nations has suggested that the Tal Abyad border crossing between Syria and Turkey could be used to deliver aid to civilians in northeast Syria after Russia and...

Turkey has closed its border with Iran and halted incoming flights as a precaution to stop the potential spread of coronavirus after the neighbouring country reported 43 cases of...

Pope Francis on Sunday warned against “inequitable solutions” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying they would only be a prelude to new crises, in an apparent reference to US President...

Nine people died and hundreds of buildings collapsed in southeastern Turkey on Sunday after a magnitude-5.7 earthquake struck near the border with Iran, injuring dozens in villages and towns...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced a proposal by French president, Emmanuel Macron, and German chancellor, Angela Merkel, to organise a four-way summit (Turkish, Russian, German and French)...

The stance of the European Union (EU) on the Libyan crisis raises increasing questions with regards to its selective position on the arms embargo in Libya. The EU announced...

Russian daily newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported that Turkey has prevented four Russian military aircraft, including two bombers, from crossing its airspace to Syria. Field sources knowledgeable about the Russian...

The world’s largest oil producer, Saudi Aramco, is set to gain unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $69 billion buy of a 70% stake in petrochemicals group Saudi Basic...

German authorities have confirmed that nine of the 11 dead after the far-right, racist attack on a sheesha bar in Germany are from immigrant communities including five Turks and...

Two Turkish soldiers were killed and five more wounded by a Syrian government airstrike in northwestern Syria, Turkey’s Defence Ministry said yesterday, as ongoıng clashes heightened around the Idlib...

A judge in Lebanon’s highest court yesterday overturned the death sentence of Tarek Houshieh, who was convicted of raping and murdering British embassy employee Rebecca Dykes in December 2017....

'Being a human rights defender in Yemen is extremely challenging'

Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) has shot down two Russian drones as they advance at Idlib’s eastern village of Nairab, local media reported yesterday. “SNA and Turkish forces managed...

The Moroccan-Algerian relations are going to worse as the new Algerian president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, accused a Moroccan-French lobby of obstructing the development of relations between Algeria and Paris and curbing...

Britain’s BAE Systems forecast another year of growth in 2020, saying the company was well-placed to take advantage of increased defence spending that could help to offset any future impact from...

Three thousand camels imported from Australia have been walked out of Libya’s capital Tripoli in an overnight evacuation after the port they arrived into came under artillery fire, Reuters...

Turkey and Russia are discussing possible joint patrols as one way to reach a deal to halt fighting and stem an exodus of civilians in Syria’s Idlib region, a...

Russia opposed the UN Security Council’s declaration for a ceasefire in north-west Syria, top UN diplomats said, after a tense closed-door meeting in New York, AFP reported. “Basically, Russia...

The Syrian regime and its ally Russia have targeted 67 medical facilities in north-west Syria since 26 April 2019, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) reported yesterday. In...

The Kremlin yesterday rejected threats made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to launch a military operation against Syrian regime forces in Idlib as “the worst-case scenario”. Kremlin spokesman,...

A senior Hamas delegation has met with Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov in Doha, the capital of Qatar. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Islamic Resistance Movement...

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) strongly condemned the bombing carried on by Haftar forces on the Tripoli seaport on Tuesday, which left several casualties. The UNSMIL...

Algeria yesterday issued an order to deport the country head of the Qatari telecommunications company Ooredoo for “sacking 900 Algerian workers”. An-Nahar reported that the Algerian President Abdelmajid Taboun  ordered...

The black box of a Ukrainian passenger plane accidentally shot down over Iran last month is damaged but Iran will not hand it over to another country despite pressure...

The Syrian government and its ally Russia are deliberately targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, Al Jazeera reported United Nations Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet saying yesterday. Bachelet explained how...

A Turkish court has acquitted the defendants who protested at Istanbul’s Gezi Park in 2013, releasing nine individuals who were previously accused of attempting to cause instability and overthrow...

The Libyan Joint Military Commission started the second round of UN brokered talks in the Swiss city of Geneva aimed at reaching a ceasefire in the country. The United...

Iran announced yesterday that it has released a German citizen sentenced to three years in jail in exchange for the release of an Iranian citizen detained in Germany for...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today warned that it is only “a matter of time” until Ankara launches a military operation into Syria’s Idlib province, following the failure of...