Egypt’s Supreme Media Council has expressed its “deep dissatisfaction” with a Reuters report which details a new level of censorship over the news and entertainment industries. The crackdown far...

The author of a controversial definition of anti-Semitism has spoken out over its misuse and warned of its “chilling effect” on free speech. Writing in the Guardian, American attorney...

Palestinians come together to celebrate the 32nd anniversary of Hamas in Gaza

There’s no getting away from the fact that last Thursday’s General Election was a disaster for the left in Britain. Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party lost almost as many seats...

Israel is preparing to claim a total of $150 billion in compensation for the property of Jews who migrated from Arab countries to occupied Palestine, Israel Today has reported....

Likud central committee chair Haim Katz has endorsed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rival Gideon Sa’ar, in the latter’s bid to win the forthcoming party leadership primary, reported Haaretz. Katz...

Itamar Ben-Gvir, a leading figure in far-right Israeli party Otzma Yehudit, has “called on ministers Rabbi Rafi Peretz and Bezalel Smotrich to form a united party to run in...

Israeli occupation forces prevented dozens of Palestinians from Burka village in the northern West Bank from reaching the site of the evacuated settlement of Homesh, reported Haaretz, “a week...

An Israeli soldier killed a Palestinian outside his home “for no reason whatsoever”, according to an investigation by human rights group B’Tselem. Despite the fact that the shooting of...

Egyptian authorities will confiscate the funds of 120 people accused of financing the Muslim Brotherhood, according to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. The announcement follows last year’s decision by the Committee for...

The UK-based human rights group Amnesty International today reported that at least 304 people have been killed in Iran as a result of the government’s violent crackdown against protesters...

Jordan is expected to witness a wave of popular protests as the implementation of a $10 billion gas deal with Israel looms on the horizon. Activists and lawmakers in...

Sudan has withdrawn some of its forces from the Saudi-led alliance of Arab states in Yemen handing over its positions in the west coast to the government’s joint forces,...

A delegation of senior Israeli officials from the Ministry of Justice yesterday travelled to the UAE in order to participate in an anti-corruption conference being held in Abu Dhabi,...

Israeli data has revealed that violence by Jewish settlers against the Palestinians was more blatant in 2019 than in previous years, Haaretz reported yesterday. Based on information given by...

Iran’s Minister of Information and Communication Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said yesterday that Tehran has foiled a second cyber-attack in less than a week that targeted the country’s...

A human rights organisation announced yesterday that it had documented the kidnapping of more than 35 girls in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, which has been under the control of...

As many as 1,541 Iranians suffering from heart and breathing problems have been admitted to hospitals across Iran due to air pollution, an official said yesterday. Iranian emergency services...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday threatened Iran and Hezbollah, describing the latter as the former’s proxy in Lebanon, Ynet News reported. During the first cabinet meeting after the...

Israel “has not yet” issued any travel permits for Christians from Gaza who want to celebrate Christmas in occupied Bethlehem and Jerusalem, the Orthodox Church in Gaza told MEMO...

The deep state seems to have defeated the popular movement in Algeria, which was on the streets for over 40 weeks staging peaceful demonstrations calling for the ousting of...

Jordanian doctor Walid Masoud carried out 17 kidney transplants in the Gaza Strip this year, including four during his current visit, Quds Press reported yesterday. Masoud, who rounded up...

Israeli Deputy Defence Minister Avi Dichter believes that a military offensive is the only way to end Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza, Quds Press reported yesterday. Dichter, who is...

The United States has recently deployed more military reinforcements to Syria’s northeastern oil fields controlled by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia, Anadolu reported. The agency quoted local...

Turkish navy ships intercepted an Israeli research ship sailing off the coast of Cyprus two weeks ago and forced it to leave the area, Israel’s Channel 13 reported. The...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he has been given assurances by the son of Brazil’s president that Brazil will follow the United States and move its...

Turkey extradited a foreign terrorist Daesh fighter of France to his home country, according to a written statement by Interior Ministry on Monday, Anadolu reports. Turkey’s Interior Ministry said...

On Sunday, the Lebanese Caretaker Interior Minister Raya Al-Hassan asked the leadership of the Internal Security Forces to launch an urgent and transparent investigation to determine those responsible for...

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Right Monitor and the Iraqi Centre for the Documentation of War Crimes revealed today that armed groups had kidnapped at least 300 protesters recently, from or near...

Yesterday, Saturday, a report issued by the Palestinian Prisoners’ Centre for Studies (PCBS) showed that the Israeli authorities had arrested 3,750 Palestinians from occupied Jerusalem since the US announced...

An opposition activist has been assassinated, and two others were injured during anti-government protests in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, local sources reported yesterday. A senior police officer told...

Tear gas engulfed central Beirut as security forces chased protesters near Lebanon’s parliament on Sunday in a second night of street clashes that wounded dozens of people, Reuters reports....