Opinion

The US preoccupation with the Palestinian Authority possibly losing control over the Israeli-occupied West Bank has resurfaced, at a time when Mahmoud Abbas is adamant about pursuing full UN...

Five months after Lebanon's draft IMF deal raised hopes it could finally pull together an economic reform plan to address its financial meltdown, political and financial elites are obstructing...

One of the unintended consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, now entering its seven months, is the emergence of new axes and allies rallying behind each other in...

A leading expert on anti-Semitism has said that university campus groups "have the right to exclude Zionists." Writing in the Times of Israel, Kenneth Stern argued that, although it...

Saudi Arabia's The Line has been lauded as the world's most futuristic city plan, and for good reason. The vertical, walled smart city will run entirely on renewable energy...

No criminal investigation will be opened to establish who killed Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) released an ambiguous statement that merely echoed...

There is usually a lot of competition between near-equal armed groups in Iraq. Resisting the 2003 US-led invasion provided a good opportunity for emerging groups from Sunni and Shia...

"As soon as I left prison, I went to Nael's grave. It is adorned with the colours of the Palestinian flag and verses from the Holy Qur'an. I told...

Israel is infamous for bombing the innocent in the Gaza Strip. During Israel's latest three-day military offensive against the besieged enclave on 5 August, 49 people, including 17 children...

A young woman has been murdered in Egypt after turning down a marriage proposal from a 29-year-old man

Almost two decades ago, the US invasion of Iraq took place and overthrew the dictator, Saddam Hussein, uprooted the Ba'ath Party, dismantled its oppressive security system and dissolved the...

Racist Israel continues to promote the perceived threat of Palestinian population growth, the so-called "demographic time bomb". Every time this issue comes up, Professor Arnon Soffer — the "Arab...

The Israeli occupation authorities are set to impose new rules next week on Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank, and foreign citizens who wish to visit the territory;...

As soon as I landed in Rome, I discovered that I was no longer able to access any Russian media whatsoever. Unfortunately, threats by European Commission President Ursula von...

A Saudi app that lets ordinary people "play the role of a police officer" may have alerted authorities to the tweets of a student whose sentencing to 34 years...

The scale of Labour's anti-Palestine problem under the leadership of Keir Starmer was laid bare yesterday following the election of Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi to the party's National Executive Committee (NEC)....

It has forever been the dream of almost every state, intelligence agency, empire and totalitarian regime to oversee the doings of all of their subjects, to detect any hint...

The Palestinian Authority is once again seeking full membership of the UN, and the US has already expressed its opposition. The two-state compromise continues to form the premise for...

Just one day before the end of her tenure as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet called on the Israeli government to meet its international obligations, not...

Calm has returned to the Libyan capital, Tripoli, after two days of violent clashes between two militia groups that left 32 dead and 159 injured, according to the Ministry...

It takes just a few seconds to post a tweet, but for one woman in Saudi Arabia it has resulted in a 45-year prison sentence which has shocked ordinary...

Palestinian-American, Amer Zahr, is on a mission to heal through humour. In 2015, he started bringing fellow Arab-American comedians from the United States to perform stand-up across occupied Palestinian...

After decades of seeing Israel as an enemy state and refusing to establish diplomatic, economic or other ties with it, Arab countries are now signing peace deals with the...

Against the backdrop of a global climate catastrophe and a war raging in Ukraine, Israel has continued its systemic encroachment of Palestinian land. It is shocking that recent developments...

As the countdown begins for the signing of a nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers, a number of disputes have surfaced between Israel and the US about the...

After NATO countries, African countries are also knocking at the door of Turkiye for collaboration with the defence industry. With Turkiye's Bayraktar TB2 Drone, Turkiye has been experiencing high...

A series of rocket attacks on a gas field in northern Iraq has sent the US contractors working on its expansion packing, dealing a blow to the Kurdish region's...

Six-year-old Farouq Mohammed Abu Naja died in the Gaza Strip after Israeli occupation authorities denied him access to medical care at Hadassah Medical Centre in occupied Jerusalem. A press...

Had the wife of hunger striking Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh not publicised photos of her husband's emaciated body, the EU would have felt no urge to call for his...

The Imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah, Sheikh Ṣaliḥ Ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Ḥumayd, prayed to the Almighty during the Friday prayer last week, to "bring annihilation upon...

"There was no Massacre in Jenin" was the headline of a Haaretz editorial on 19 April, 2002, one week after Israel ended its deadly onslaught on the besieged Palestinian...

In my previous article, I discussed the motives for the Turkish government to normalise relations with the criminal regime in Syria. Were the statements made by President Recep Tayyip...