Opinion

Defne, 9, cannot forget the earthquakes in Turkiye. She failed to hold back her tears when she spoke to a news reporter of a private news channel about it....

With silent gestures, everyone enters the cafeteria. It looked like their bodies were still asleep. We would gather in the kitchen to prepare a quick coffee before the meeting....

As the death toll from the earthquakes which rocked Turkiye and Syria continues to rise, many are questioning whether sanctions on Syria are preventing aid from reaching the war-torn...

Israeli prisons have always been places of oppression, harassment and abuse. They were made for that purpose in order to act as a deterrent as well as a punishment...

UN resolutions on Palestine are futile. Yet, the Palestinian Authority's backtracking on the draft resolution which was to be presented to the UN Security Council regarding a condemnation of...

What should we make of the daily warnings issued about democracy being in peril in Israel? Over the weekend it was US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides who sounded...

Why should anyone have to live in fear of losing their citizenship simply for trying to exercise their civil and political rights? This is what the indigenous people of...

Though it has been argued that the so-called American dream is long dead, Nikki Haley is proof that the dream is still alive. Unfortunately, the 'dream' is hers alone....

Some countries just seem to be doomed from the start, and Syria looks like one of them. With a family of dictators at the helm, an ongoing civil war,...

The earthquake that hit Turkiye and Syria recently was heart-breaking, given the loss of life, the injuries and the devastation caused. It also raised some important questions about humanitarian...

While Netanyahu tries to convince his EU partners that this government will be one of ‘business as usual’, his allies in the new government have rushed to push for legal and judicial reforms that disregard international law and further entrench Israel's settler colonial project.

The repercussions of the major earthquake that hit Turkiye and Syria early this month are still with us. The sadness still haunts us. Every day, we hear tragic stories...

Ned Price, the spokesman for the United States Department of State, said his country is "deeply troubled" over Israel's intentions to legalise more illegal Israeli Jews-only settlements in the occupied West Bank. When...

A funeral was held in the north Syrian town of Jinderis on 7 February. It was one of numerous such funerals to be held that day across Syria and...

As Jimmy Carter, at 98 the longest-lived US president, spends his final days with his family in "home hospice care", obituary writers will be busy reflecting upon the legacy...

VII Cumbre de la @PPT_CELAC | Unidos, podemos tener una fuerza arrolladora. Para lograrlo, toda América Latina y el Caribe deben integrarse en una sola región que defienda los...

The tragic earthquake that hit Turkiye and Syria on 6 February did not spare anyone; it shook and levelled homes, many of which had been built by refugees who...

Early this week the European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson delivered the opening speech at the Egypt Petroleum Show 2023 Strategic Conference, the largest oil, gas and energy conference and...

Yemeni activist and Nobel laureate, Tawakkol Karman, deemed Arab widespread solidarity and sympathy with Turkiye amid the devastating earthquake disaster a "no surprise". In an interview with Anadolu, Karman...

Ever since he turned from a nobody into somebody in April 2019, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, the head of Sudan's Sovereignty Council and commander of the army, has continued to...

The Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has described succinctly all that is wrong in politics with regard to Palestine and Palestinian...

In his first major international interview since returning to power, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to CNN earlier this month. He demonstrated that he is still a prolific...

A new prison, which Egypt touted as a model for reform and which holds some of its most prominent prisoners, denies inmates healthcare and subjects them to punitive treatment...

Universities are building bridges between Brazil and Palestine with the establishment of an online course from 9 March to 1 June involving professors from both countries. The course is...

Natural disasters are part of life on earth. Many can be predicted relatively accurately, so theoretically their impact should be able to be managed. These disasters become humanitarian catastrophes,...

Iran celebrated the 44th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution on Saturday, with mass rallies held in towns and cities across the country, including the capital Tehran, where participants converged...

Five days after the Turkish-Syrian earthquakes, the US Treasury announced that humanitarian relief efforts and aid will be allowed to reach Syria. The treasury said that it was a...

This is how survivors of the deadly earthquakes which hit large parts of southern Turkiye and northern Syria are describing their hometown of Jindires in the Aleppo Governorate in northwest Syria.

Israel has struggled for a whole year to articulate a clear and decisive position regarding the Russia-Ukraine war. The reason behind the seemingly confused Israeli position is that it...

If the two-state compromise provided Israel with the veneer necessary for gradually moving towards annexation through settlement expansion, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas might as well ask the UN...

There is no doubt that everyone who has a conscience in the Islamic world or even an iota of humanity within them lived with great sadness and heartbreak last...

In the occupied city of Jerusalem, Hussein Qaraqe responded to a spate of violent attacks against Palestinians by ramming his car into a number of Israeli settlers at a...