Opinion

The Syrian diaspora in the United Kingdom were shocked and outraged by BBC Arabic's decision to allow special adviser to Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad air time to publicly deliver...

Economic warfare is the name of America's new revenge mission against the people of Afghanistan

During its 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva that began on 28 February and ended on 1 April, several resolutions were adopted, including three...

When the UN does nothing but perfunctory duties, human rights and civil society organisations are brought to full stop; a dead end. Earlier this week, the Palestinian Centre for...

For Muslims, the holy month of Ramadan is associated with peace, serenity, tranquillity, happiness, family and charity. In many Muslim countries, public authorities and private sector employers reduce working...

If the Israeli army had been able to win its battles against the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip, it would not have delayed launching a second "Operation Guardian...

What is important is not how we die, but how we live. This well-known maxim is embodied in the people when they persist in resistance, unaware of the magnitude...

It is inconceivable that last week's Negev Summit could have taken place without Saudi Arabia not only knowing about the meeting but also blessing it. Since the Abraham Accords...

The Israeli occupation authorities detained more than 9,000 Palestinian children between 2015 and the end of March 2022, including 1,300 last year alone, an increase of 140 per cent...

While Israel is watching developments in the war in Ukraine with the political and economic implications in mind, it is also looking forward to the export deals that are...

The vendors of the Old City of Jerusalem are looking forward to a successful economic season in the month of Ramadan, but the uncertainty of the field and political...

War is not only about the killing of innocent people; it also involves big business. Russia's invasion of Ukraine illustrates the knock-on effects of war with the unprecedented social,...

Pakistan is going through a constitutional crisis after Prime Minister Imran Khan avoided a no-confidence vote on Sunday which was initiated by opposition legislators late last month in an...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met the foreign ministers of Israel, Bahrain, the UAE, Morocco and Egypt last week in an unprecedented summit in the Negev. The declared...

When Russian and Ukrainian delegations meeting in Turkey on 29 March reached an initial understanding regarding a list of countries that could serve as security guarantors for Kyiv should...

A recent report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) places Israel in 10th place when it comes to the share of global arms exports from 2017 to...

For the better part of two decades, the international focus on Iran has been pointed uniformly at the country's nuclear aspirations. Years of diplomatic efforts to reconcile with Tehran...

Between January and March 2013, 147 bodies were found in the River Queiq in Aleppo after they were executed in government-controlled parts of the city and dumped there as...

A far-right member of the Israeli parliament stormed into the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque last Thursday. Extremist Itamar Ben-Gvir was guarded by a heavy police presence at the time....

The fallout of the Russia and Ukraine war has just helped tip two of world's poorest countries into full-blown crises, and the list of those at risk – and...

Tunisia's President Kais Saied announced the dissolution of his country's parliament last week, eight months after freezing the institution, when he "stabbed the Jasmine Revolution in its back" and...

Since the normalisation train set off from Abu Dhabi, nearly two years ago, it has run over everything that hinders it, including the natural terrain that it cannot pass,...

When a gruesome six-minute video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting and torturing handcuffed and tied-up Russian soldiers circulated online, outraged people on social media and elsewhere compared this barbaric behaviour...

Over the past 10 days, a number of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Israel have carried out a series of deadly attacks in Israel, killing 11 Israelis...

The conflict in the Ukraine has become the latest crisis that has exposed Europe's dependency on Russian gas, which accounts for some 40 per cent of the EU's natural...

Much has been said and written about media bias and double standards in the West's response to the Russia-Ukraine war, when compared with other wars and military conflicts across...

Ever since the New York Times released its eight-part podcast last month on the Trojan Horse Affair, there has been a reckoning with truth. A reckoning which has not...

According to Reuters, France summoned the Russian ambassador last week over a cartoon on Twitter that "mocked Europe". The cartoon which angered the French government depicted Europe as a...

The Russian-Ukrainian war has caused alarm bells to ring in Israel's decision-making circles because of what are seen as growing doubts about the US as a reliable ally. Ukraine...

Turkiye's foreign policy has tested several new initiatives and approaches in recent years to advance its interests in all regions of importance. Some have succeeded, some failed, some never...

UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk has issued one of his strongest condemnations yet of Israeli apartheid in a report to the 49th regular session of the UN Human Rights...

The current political impasse in Libya is unlikely to be solved over the next two months. By June, it is likely to become even more complicated because the United...