"Turkey will not be a border guard or a refugee camp of the EU", officials said after Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz's remarks that Turkey is a "more suitable place" for...

On Sunday Tunisia's President, Kais Saeid assumed emergency powers to sack the prime minister, suspend parliament and the immunity of parliamentarians, and assume authority of the government. The birthplace...

The European Union called yesterday for the Tunisian constitution and state institutions to be respected, Anadolu has reported. Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Nabila Masrali said that...

Jordan's Saleh Elsharabaty has won the kingdom its second Olympic medal in history after becoming the taekwondo silver medallist in Tokyo yesterday. Elsharabaty was beaten by his "brother" Russian...

Gladiator actor Mike Mitchell has died in Turkey at the age of 65. The Scottish actor is believed to have died of natural causes while on a boat in...

Calls for the academic boycott of Israel have been given a massive boost by 160 academics representing 21 countries who have signed an open letter calling on the European...

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, yesterday urged Tunisian President Kais Saied to adhere to democracy during discussion on the developments in the north African state. Blinken told Saied...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday raised its travel warning level for Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories due to the rising number of COVID-19...

Tunisia's President Kais Saied has insisted that he has no intention to overturn the Constitution and political legitimacy in the country. His decision to suspend parliament and dismiss the...

Following the signing of last year's Abraham Accords brokered by the Trump administration, the international community woke up to the normalisation of Israel's colonisation of Palestine; nobody seemed to...

Egypt's Supreme Council for Universities has asked university deans to make lists of "terrorist" employees so they can be expelled. At the end of June Egypt's parliament approved a draft...

The United Nations yesterday described statements made by Houthi leader, Abdul Malik Al-Ajri, regarding oil tanker FSO Safer as "disappointing", Anadolu news agency reported. "We have seen the recent statements from...

Tunisian President Kais Saied yesterday suspended work at public institutions for two days starting today, Anadolu news agency reported. The Tunisian presidency said in a statement that Saied also imposed a...

Iranian protesters yesterday called on authorities to focus on improving the country's infrastructure including water and electricity services instead of supporting foreign militia groups. In recent weeks, protests have erupted across...

A decision by Israel's Environmental Protection Minister, Tamar Zandberg, to freeze a major oil deal with the UAE to Israel might lead to ties between the two countries being...

An Israeli District Court in Jerusalem has fined the Palestinian Authority (PA) one million shekels ($306,000) in case of the kidnapping of two Jewish women in the 1980s, local...

A Jewish Israeli journalist said at the weekend that the establishment of a Palestinian state would "cripple" US interests in the Middle East. Yoram Ettinger added that the land...

Fifty-three per cent of those displaced in Yemen are children, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced yesterday. The humanitarian organisation explained that Yemeni refugees are struggling...

At least 57 irregular migrants have died after a boat sank off the Libyan coast, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) announced yesterday. The United Nations organisation said the migrants died...

Iraq has started to import oxygen tanks from Turkey following a notable increase in coronavirus infections, the Ministry of Health announced yesterday. "Over the past few weeks, the country...

Far-right Israeli MK Itamar Ben Gvir called his Arab colleague Ahmad Tibi a "terrorist" while he was chairing a session in the Knesset yesterday night, local media reported. Tibi...

Lebanon's Saad Hariri has finally apologised for only forming the government nine months after President Michel Aoun tasked him with this mission. However, Aoun rejected the ministers proposed by...

Palestinian movement Fatah has ruled out any possible of reconciliation with dismissed leader Mohammad Dahlan. Speaking to Al-Watan Voice, spokesperson Hussein Hamayel said: "Dahlan is behind us, and all the analyses...

As many as seven young people have died after suffering sudden cardiac arrests within a week in the besieged Gaza Strip, local media reported. The latest death was reported...

Palestinian activists and Jerusalemites yesterday gathered at two tents set up in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in an effort to thwart Israeli attempts to dismantle the tents which are...

The Jordanian General Intelligence Department thwarted a plot by four Daesh militants to attack Israeli soldiers near the Jordanian-Israeli border in the Ghor Al-Safi area in February, Al-Rai newspaper reported yesterday...

UN human rights experts Monday called on the Palestinian Authority and Israel to reschedule elections for the Palestinian presidency, legislature, and municipalities within a reasonable time to ensure "free,...

A rich, 30-meter-high archaeological mound in southeastern Turkey dating back some 8,000 years has been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Monday, July...

Yemen's recognised government has doubled the US dollar exchange rate used to calculate customs duties on non-essential goods in areas under its control effective Monday, a senior government official...

Tunis, 26 July 2021 For months, Tunisia has been living in an unprecedented and multidimensional crisis that reached its peak on 25 July, on the 64th anniversary of the...

US President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Monday will seal an agreement formally ending the US combat mission in Iraq by the end of 2021,...

Israel's new government is looking to take advantage of a rare political opportunity to push more ultra-Orthodox Jewish men into the workforce to boost the economy, a measure that...