A suicide bombing killed at least two people in Egypt’s North Sinai region on Thursday, a day after four headless bodies were found there, security and medical sources said, Reuters reported....

Iran said on Thursday it had seized a foreign tanker smuggling fuel in the Gulf, and the US military commander in the region said the United States would work...

The German captain of a charity rescue ship, under investigation for aiding illegal immigration, said on Thursday she hoped the new EU Commission would work to let boat migrants...

Israelis continuously come up with false facts for two purposes: first, to prove their divine historical right to Palestine, and second, to deny the Palestinians’ connection to their land....

UN human rights experts on Thursday expressed “grave concern over the detention and criminal proceedings in Italy against the German captain of the migrant rescue vessel Sea-Watch 3.” Anadolu Agency reported....

Between May 2011 and today the United Nations has appointed six special representatives to Libya, from five different nationalities, each serving less than two years. The present envoy, Ghassan...

US Central Command chief General Kenneth McKenzie said on Thursday it was talking to other countries about freedom of navigation in the Gulf and would work “aggressively” to find...

Since late May, the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) have witnessed a sudden emergence of corruption scandals in the Palestinian Authority (PA), including the disclosure of serious issues related to...

United States (US) President Donald Trump appeared confused and unfamiliar with the work of Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad as she urged him to help the Yazidis in...

Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif today stepped down from her position on the board of the British Museum criticising it for its “immovability on issues of critical concern to the...

Twelve Israeli teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of gang-raping a 19-year-old British woman at a holiday resort in Cyprus. The group – many of whom are believed to...

US Representative Ilhan Omar has received an outpouring of support on social media after yet another set of racist attacks against her enabled and encouraged by President Donald Trump....

In January 2018, +972 Magazine published an article outlining the reasons why Israel’s Chief Archivist Dr Yaakov Lozowick had declared he was going into early retirement. Lozowick was protesting...

A Saudi court ordered a journalist to delete his Twitter account after he harshly criticised a female, Saudi TV presenter. Muthieb Al-Matriffi posted an apology to Muna Abu Sulayman...

The Guardian has come under fire over its coverage of anti-Semitism after the paper refused to publish a cartoon depicting Jeremy Corbyn’s critics and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

The United States (US) is reportedly replacing some of its regular troops in northern Syria with mercenaries from private military companies (PMC), the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry...

US and other F-35 partners agree to suspend Turkey from the programme

A Turkish court in Istanbul acquitted a representative of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) along with two other journalists, news agencies reported yesterday. Turkish RSF representative Erol Onderoglu, Human Rights...

Since 1967, 220 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli prisons. The latest victim is Nasser Taqatqa, detained in June from his home in Beit Fajjar, accused of purportedly having...

The US Special Representative for International Negotiations, Jason Greenblatt, has said that Israel is the “victim” in its conflict with the Palestinians and that he “cannot think of single...

Palestinians celebrate with food and music after receiving their school exams results

More than 1,000 human rights violations have taken place in Egypt since the start of 2019, according to the Cairo-based NGO El-Nadeem. In total El-Nadeem recorded 283 cases of...

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri announced yesterday that Palestinians are not being included in restrictions placed on foreign workers in the country. Calling on Minister of Labour Kamil Abu...

A US House Democrat’s resolution in support of the two-state solution has been amended to remove references to the Israeli occupation and settlement activity, reports the Times of Israel....

The security presence in Al-Arish is worse than at the height of Operation Sinai, reports Mada Masr, as a large-scale security campaign gathers pace. Security forces have expanded house...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu yesterday criticised the US deal of the century and emphasised the importance of supporting Palestinian rights, Turkish news agencies reported. During his speech at...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas today lowered the age of retirement for judges and dissolved the current High Judicial Council and establishes a new interim council for a period...

Israeli Jewish settlers have set up mobile homes on the Palestinian lands in the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank, Shehab news agency reported yesterday. Palestinian rights activist...

US Special Representative for International Relations Jason Greenblatt has said that the economic aspect of the US peace plan – known as deal of the century – “will not...

Is the UAE washing its hands of a humanitarian disaster in Yemen?

A Palestinian was detained by Israeli authorities for 11 days while investigators failed to determine whether a weapon the man allegedly possessed was in fact real. According to Haaretz,...

Tensions between Israel and Palestinian factions in the occupied Gaza Strip “continue to threaten the fragile truce” reached under UN and Egyptian mediation, reported Al-Monitor yesterday. According to Musab...