The United States has decided to keep about 600 military personnel in Syria despite President Donald Trump’s desire to stop US involvement in “endless wars”, Pentagon Chief Mark Esper...

The Iranian government has increased the price of fuel by nearly 50 per cent in an effort to offset the impact of US sanctions on the Islamic Republic. The...

Israel Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Tel Aviv will continue with its policy of assassinations against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip despite an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire. “Israel will harm anyone...

Far-right German politicians are to travel to Syria in an attempt to prove that it is a “safe country of origin” to which Syrian refugees can return, Westdeutscher Rundfunk...

Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have set up a joint strategic investment platform worth $20 billion, the presidency announced yesterday. Egyptian presidential spokesman Bassam Radi said in a...

Director of the office of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said that the security coordination with the Palestinian Authority (PA) significantly contributed to ending the Second Intifada. According...

Iraqi officials have so far only issued two arrest warrants in response to the hundreds of lawsuits filed against the government, security personnel and politicians’ crackdown on unarmed protesters....

The Turkish oil-and-gas drilling ship Fatih has started its operations off the coast of northeastern Cyprus, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said today, despite warnings from the European Union...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun has expressed his hope for the formation of a new government in the coming days, after overcoming the obstacles which may hinder its composition. “The...

Syrian regime forces yesterday launched their second military operation against the southeast of Idlib, aiming at regaining full control over the war-torn province. Russia’s Sputnik reported that the Syrian forces were...

Turkey said on Thursday it would deport an American suspected Daesh fighter to the United States after he was refused entry to Greece, and sent eight people with links...

The US on Thursday vowed to continue leading the anti-Daesh coalition on its “essential security effort” while acknowledging significant milestones the multinational body has accomplished, Anadolu Agency reports. Addressing a...

UN special rapporteur Agnes Callamard on Thursday sharply criticized German and French leaders for their “cowardly” silence on the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Anadolu Agency reports. “This incident [Khashoggi’s...

British police on Thursday said a 26-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences upon his arrival at the Heathrow Airport, Anadolu Agency reports. “Officers from the Met’s Counter...

Russia has announced the arrival of new combat helicopters and the establishment of an airbase at a site which was formerly a US-controlled stronghold in northern Syria, the state-run...

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has banned investment in G4S because of the risk of human rights violations being committed by the company in Qatar and the UAE, the Guardian...

Yuli Edelstein, speaker of the Israeli Knesset, yesterday dismissed Arab MK Ahmed Tibi from the Knesset plenum after he heckled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, local media reported. Arab member...

Families of Jordanians detained in Saudi Arabia yesterday held a protest in front of the Jordanian foreign ministry calling on the government to work for the release of their...

Palestinian MP from Hamas’ Change and Reform bloc Fathi Al-Qaraawi yesterday condemned the Israeli aggression on Gaza and stressed that the Israeli occupation will regret its attacks. Al-Qaraawi said...

Syrian refugees living in Norway have made a request to the local authorities and police to investigate the allegations of atrocities, war crimes and human rights violations committed by...

Scores of Israeli occupation soldiers raided Al-Arroub refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, Safa news agency reported yesterday. According to Palestinian news...

Twitter has shut down the account of Jawad Nasrallah, the son of Lebanese Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, Arabi21 reported yesterday. The decision came after the US put Jawad on...

The United States declared itself “deeply concerned” by a European court ruling this week obliging European states to clearly label produce originating from Israeli settlements in occupied territory. In...

Protected by the Israeli police, 244 Israelis today raided Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Palestinian Ministry of Religious Endowment said. According to a statement issued by the ministry, 99 settlers, 97...

Al-Azhar yesterday evening called on the international community to “take a humanitarian stand” against the “terrorist” practices of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people. In a statement, the...

Eight Palestinian, regional and international NGOs have submitted a substantial report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), ahead of the committee’s upcoming review...

Likud MK Gideon Sa’ar, a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, said yesterday that the security challenges faced by the state justify the establishment of a...

A well-known Islamic scholar died in a Saudi Arabian prison on Tuesday having been detained since 2016 after sending a “secret advice letter” to the Royal Court, reported Prisoners...

The Egyptian authorities have allowed detained Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein to attend his father’s funeral, the news channel reported yesterday. Mahmoud’s father, 74-year-old Hussein Jumaa passed away on...

Update on 14.30GMT Kuwait’s emir has accepted the government’s resignation. The Kuwait government has submitted its resignation, government spokesman Tariq Al-Mazram announced today. In a press statement, Al-Mazram said...

President of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region Nechirvan Barzani yesterday met with Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi in Baghdad in the wake of weeks of anti-establishment protests that left hundreds...

Every morning, Ahmed Al-Jawhar wakes up in a room he shares with five others in an orphanage in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. The child goes to eat breakfast —...