Iran's foreign minister on Friday extended condolences for the deaths caused by forest fires raging across Turkey over the past few days, Anadolu Agency reported. "I was very affected by the...

German NGO Sea-Watch said on Friday it had rescued nearly 100 migrants in the Mediterranean overnight, many of whom were injured, some with severe "fuel burns" – chemical burns...

Denmark could face legal action for its attempt to deport Syrian refugees from the country, a report has revealed. In March, the Danish government declared that the Syrian capital Damascus and...

An agreement was signed today between Turkey's Yunus Emre Institute (YEE) and Zagreb police academy to provide Turkish language education to police candidates. The Turkish culture centre in the...

Harrowing accounts of torture by Saudi officials were filed in a Canadian court recently in the ongoing case involving Riyadh's former top intelligence officer, Saad Al-Jabri. The 63-year-old is locked in a...

The Supreme Court of Spain yesterday closed the investigation into Brahim Ghali, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Río de Oro (Polisario),...

Following his recent legal victory against anti-Islam activist and founder of the far-right English Defence League, Tommy Robinson, Syrian schoolboy Jamal Hijazi, has pledged to use the money he won in damages to...

Firefighters were battling blazes for a third day

Egypt announced on Thursday that it had signed an agreement with Russia to expand the Russian industrial zone in the country's Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone). "The Russian industrial zone...

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) announced it had received a 2000 per cent increase in donations in a day in support of its rescue missions for refugees, the...

Federal prosecutors in Germany charged a Syrian doctor living in the country with crimes against humanity yesterday. The allegations include torturing people inside military hospitals following their detention over...

Scores more people were hospitalised after suffering burns

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...

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...

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz yesterday denied claims that malware manufactured by Israel's NSO Group had been used to spy on the phone of French President Emmanuel Macron, Channel 13 reported....

Following complaints from journalists, politicians and human rights defenders of being tracked by Israeli spyware Pegasus, the Israeli government has launched an investigation into Pegasus parent firm NSO, Israeli...

The German senate has announced that it would receive 500 Syrian and Iraqi refugees residing in Lebanon this year. In an official decree, Berlin explained that the decision aims...

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...

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...

A British university's affiliations to a Bahraini institution accused of human rights abuses has been highlighted in a parliamentary report following a plea by an 11-year-old boy who insisted that his...

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...

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...

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...

Maras was abandoned after a 1984 UN Security Council resolution stipulating that only its original inhabitants could settle in the town.

A 60-year-old Iranian citizen has been charged in Sweden with suspected war crimes committed in Iran in 1988 when around 5,000 political prisoners were executed on government orders, Stockholm...

"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...

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...