Turkey will quarantine for 14 days its citizens returning from Iran amid coronavirus fears, the health minister said on Tuesday, Anadolu reports. “A special flight has been organized for...

Just days away from its third General Election in less than a year, Israel launched another attack on the Gaza Strip which began with a war crime when a...

Hezbollah is against allowing the International Monetary Fund to manage Lebanon’s financial crisis, the powerful group said on Tuesday, indicating opposition to any IMF bailout that would impose tough...

The Iraqi man confessed to luring the schoolgirl into his house with the promise of toys

A rabbi from Jerusalem met with King Salman Ibn Abdulaziz Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia in the royal palace in the capital Riyadh last week, marking the first time that...

Some 148,000 civilians have been displaced from Syria’s Idlib over the past six days bringing the total number of Syrians who have been forced to flee the area since...

Syrian political prisoner and torture survivor Mazen Alhummada was lured back from asylum in the Netherlands and was arrested at Damascus airport

When former President Hosni Mubarak was acquitted of corruption in January 2015, analysts had already predicted it as a foregone conclusion. For many it was evidence that the deep...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to authorise 3,500 new illegal settler homes in a particularly contentious area of the occupied West Bank, just a week before a...

Palestinian medical workers in the UK took part in the 2nd Palestinian Physicians Association in Britain (PALMED) in Manchester

A number of Gulf states have imposed flight restrictions as they try to deal with new cases of the coronavirus. Six new cases were confirmed in Bahrain bringing the...

The European Union’s fluctuations on Israel’s colonial settlement expansion are more prominent since the bloc’s refusal to issue a statement regarding US President Donald Trump’s so-called deal of the...

Despite their public hostility, Israel and Iran cooperated militarily against Saddam Hussain’s Iraq during the 1980s Iraq-Iran war, former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has claimed. Straw, who served...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said today that there was not yet full agreement on holding a proposed 5 March summit with Russia, France and Germany on the conflict in...

Last week in a dawn raid, Israeli police shut down a 60-year-old Palestinian bakery and arrests the owner’s son in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem. According to local...

A court in Saudi Arabia has issued preliminary sentences for eight Saudi nationals, charging them with spying for Iran and monitoring two foreign embassies in the kingdom, reports Al-Arabiya....

Syrian opposition forces recaptured the key town of Nairab in the country’s northwestern Idlib province yesterday, forcing the regime’s military to retreat and withdraw. The town, which lays on...

Lebanese people are increasingly using bitcoin, and other virtual currencies, to move money in and out of the country, amid the worst economic and financial crises since the end...

US Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Ted Cruz yesterday introduced legislation that, if passed, would impose sanctions against Lebanese officials involved in the unlawful detention, arrest or abuse of any...

Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar said yesterday that normalising ties with Israel “are the greenlight for Israeli crimes”, Al-Khaleej Online reported. “Israeli crimes against the Palestinians will never stop...

Arab Israeli MK Yousef Jabareen has called for Arabs in Israel to beat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by voting for the Joint List, Arabi21 reported yesterday. He called...

A retired doctor and the parents of a 12-year-old girl who died after female genital mutilation (FGM) surgery are to stand trial in Egypt, Reuters reported. Egypt’s Prosecutor General...

Israel is building yet another bypass road for use by Jewish settlers only and, yet again, it is stealing Palestinian land to do so. The land in question is...

Tunisian Tourism Minister Rene Trabelsi said yesterday that his country is considering suspending some flights to Italy to reduce exposure to the coronavirus. The minister said Tunisia, which has...

The killer whale made the record-breaking 8,000km journey and could now be in danger

Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said yesterday that Israel is closer to carrying out widescale military operations in Gaza than ever, Israeli media reported. According to Quds Net News,...

Some 540 former Israeli Air Force officers have appealed to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin not to let current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu form the next government, Arab48 reported yesterday....

In line with the demographic goals of the Zionist occupation state, the recently announced Trump deal includes a clause to move the Triangle region in northern Palestine occupied since...

Syrian regime warplanes supported by Russian warplanes have directly targeted Turkish observation points in Idlib, Syrian media outlets reported. According to the reports, Turkish observation posts in the towns...

The Iraqi parliament has postponed by two days a vote scheduled yesterday  to grant confidence to the new cabinet of Prime Minister-designate Mohammad Allawi. The vote was delayed after...

Palestinian Authority (PA) yesterday renewed its rejection of the US “deal of the century”; pointed out that the American-backed Israeli violations against Palestinians have been increasing since the announcement...

Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan said the kingdom wants to see a “viable reform plan” before it provides the necessary economic support to Lebanon. In an interview with CNBC...