The Journalists’ Syndicate in Iraq announced on Monday that it would sack any of its members who visit Israel, Anadolu has reported. The announcement followed Israeli reports that a...

At least 16 unauthorised Israeli settlement “outposts” have been established since 2017, a new Peace Now report has revealed, with authorities not only turning a blind eye to the...

Prominent Saudi Sheikh Ali Al-Omari was again subjected to torture in a royal prison at the end of May, the Twitter account Prisoners of Conscience revealed yesterday. The group...

Amnesty International yesterday slammed Israeli authorities for the mass demolition of Palestinian homes in Sur Baher, and urged the international community to take action. Israeli forces carried out a...

The Palestinian leadership is to hold a series of “important” meetings to discuss the taking of “fateful” measures in response to Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem, Wafa...

Pope Francis has sent a letter to Syrian Regime President Bashar Al-Assad expressing his “profound concern” regarding the humanitarian situation in Syria. The Pope’s senior advisor Cardinal Peter Turkson delivered...

Hamas yesterday described the Israeli demolition of more than 100 Palestinian apartments in occupied Jerusalem as “ethnic cleansing”. In a press release, Hamas spokesman Hazim Qasim said: “The increasing...

The troops of retired Libyan General Khalifa Haftar, backed by Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and France, launched a violent offence on Tripoli. The head of the operations room...

Five people were lightly wounded after one of two rockets thought to be fired from within Syria landed on a house in a Turkish border town on Monday night,...

The Egyptian businessman, Naguib Sawiris, yesterday criticised the British and German authorities for their recent suspension of flights to Egypt’s capital of Cairo. “Terrorism happens all over the world,...

The head of the Syrian opposition, Nasr Al-Hariri, yesterday accused Russia of “using Iranian ground troops in its battles in northern Syria.” “Iran had participated in the recent military...

The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) called for the lifting of unilateral economic sanctions, Sunday. This came in a statement adopted at a ministerial meeting in Caracas, in which the speakers...

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Monday accused Iran of state piracy for illegally detaining a British ship in the Persian Gulf, urging it to release the vessel and its...

Israeli authorities demolished the Palestinian Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb for the 147th time on Monday, reported Arab 48. Israeli state forces and officials equipped with bulldozers moved in during...

Oil prices rose more than 1% on Monday, as investors worried about possible supply disruptions in the energy-rich Middle East after Iran’s seizure of a British tanker last week,...

Syrians in Istanbul are afraid to leave their homes...

A Jewish Israeli resident of notorious West Bank settlement Yitzhar has been acquitted from charges of incitement, despite justifying the killing of Israeli soldiers. According to Haaretz, the settler...

Israel has only implemented one aspect of a law which saw it deduct $198 million from the PA’s tax revenue with another clause of the legislation yet to be...

A Palestinian man has been jailed for life by an Israeli military court after being convicted of killing an Israeli soldier during a Ramallah-area raid by occupation forces last...

Austria today pledged €1.95 million in support of UNRWA health programmes in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt). UNRWA delivers basic health services from its 43 health centres across the...

The Israeli Foreign Ministry yesterday announced that it has hosted a six-member delegation of journalists from Arab states in the region, including Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq. In a...

Palestinians in Gaza protest against the closures imposed by Israeli occupation

The UK licensed £648 million ($810 million) worth of arms to Saudi Arabia during the six months that followed the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The sale, uncovered in...

Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that illegal settlers can continue to occupy two Palestinian homes in the West Bank city of Hebron until legal disputes have been resolved. The...

Algeria won the final football match in Egypt after beating Senegal 1-0 late on Friday

Despite a court ruling that UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia are unlawful, the British government has invited representatives from Riyadh to the world’s largest arms fair scheduled to...

Salma Hayek has become the first Arab actress with a main role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), when the MCU’s Phase 4 was revealed this weekend at San...

An Israeli man was yesterday convicted for making death threats to Arab-Israeli Knesset Member (MK) Ahmad Tibi on Facebook, reports the Jerusalem Post. Roi Meir made the threats in...

Former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked has ousted ally Naftali Bennett, the former education minister, to head the New Right (Hayemin Hehadash) party ahead of Israel’s upcoming general election on...

Iran has announced that it has uncovered a “CIA spy ring” and sentenced to death some of the seventeen alleged spies who have been arrested over the past few...

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdil-Mahdi will visit Tehran today, heading a government delegation to meet with Iranian officials. According to Iranian media, Abdil-Mahdi is visiting Tehran today accompanied by...

Twitter has suspended the accounts of a number of Iranian news sites for their alleged harassment of members of the Baha’I faith Young Journalists Club (YJC), run by state...