Northwest Syria received its first batch of coronavirus vaccinations through the global vaccine-sharing platform COVAX on Wednesday with inoculations set to start May 1. Reuters reports. A total of...
Facebook says it has disrupted a long-running cyberespionage campaign run by Palestinian intelligence which features spies posing as journalists and the deployment of a booby-trapped app for submitting human...
Iran's support for Yemen's Houthi movement is "quite significant and it's lethal," US special envoy on Yemen Tim Lenderking said on Wednesday, as he called a battle for Yemen's...
The Palestinian Ministry of Religious Endowments in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday condemned the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)'s exclusion of religion from its digital...
Morocco's Royal Armed Forces (FAR) have signed a contract worth $70 million (626 Moroccan dirhams), to purchase 13 Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 combat drones. The deal also includes four remote control ground stations, a...
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Yvonne Ridley Whistle-blowers never fare very well when trying to shine a light on wrongdoing, and the latest pro-Palestinian group of activists to emerge in Britain appears to be no exception....
Israeli occupation authorities issued demolition notices to 13 houses inhabited by Palestinians in the village of Qabalan, south of the occupied northern West Bank city of Nablus, reported Wafa news agency....
Turkey remains opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood being designated a "terrorist" group by Egypt despite a recent push to repair strained ties between the two countries, Reuters reported Foreign Minister Mevlut...
Israel's Regional Cooperation Minister Ofir Akunis met with the designated ambassador and head of the Moroccan Embassy yesterday to discuss the results of normalising ties and advancing further cooperation...
The newly appointed Director-General of the Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP), Kamel Ben Younes, announced his resignation yesterday, after days of protests by journalists who rejected his designation as head of...
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Tunisia Tunisia's Ennahda Movement has denounced President Kais Saied for "monopolising power" and contravening the constitution and laws of the country. The criticism follows a speech on Sunday in which...
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Tunisia The West Darfur state, in the far west of Sudan, yesterday declared Geneina a disaster-stricken area and requested urgent humanitarian intervention from the federal government as a result of tribal fighting...
Civilian flights between Tripoli and Cairo will re-start today after a suspension of more than six years and the Egyptian embassy will re-open soon, Reuters reported Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh...
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News A member of the Tunisian Parliament accused President Kais Saied of treason, claiming that he had documents proving that the head of state had received funding from the US'...
British soldiers that are alleged to have committed crimes against humanity, genocide, torture and war crimes will not be granted safeguards against prosecution, the Tory government has conceded, in a major U-turn...
The United Arab Emirates has warned it could impose restrictions on people who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 as the region's business and tourism hub pushes its immunisation...
Egypt's transport minister has sacked the head of the Railways Authority Ashraf Raslan following a train crash on Sunday which killed 23. The train was heading from the capital...
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News The man identified on social media as Fahad Subhi Mohammed was arrested and later released on bail
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Oraib Al-Rantawi The possibility that the Palestinian legislative election scheduled for next month maybe postponed is dominating the news about the internal debates. The chances of such a scenario increase daily...
Turkey and Greece on Monday agreed to hold more confidence-building talks. The Turkish Defence Ministry said on Twitter that the defence ministries of both countries have agreed to hold...
Saudi Arabia yesterday reiterated its call for Iran to engage in the ongoing negotiations over the 2015 nuclear agreement, avoid escalation, and not expose the region's security and stability...
Turkey, Qatar, and the UN have agreed to postpone the Istanbul Conference for the Afghanistan peace process, a joint statement issued today has revealed. The high-level conference hosted by...
Iran has appointed a new deputy commander of the Quds Force, one of the main branches of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The appointment of Brigadier General Mohammad...
Despite the cryptocurrency being banned by the Arab country's central bank 0.6% of global Bitcoin mining operations took place in the North African country between September 2019 to April 2020
There has been a 300 per cent rise in executions in Egypt, which has become the third most frequent executioner in the world, according to a new report on...
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Saudi Arabia A powerful explosion struck a sensitive missile factory during a test in Ramle city, central Israel, yesterday, no casualties were reported, Haaretz said. Locals said they heard an explosion and saw...
Syria was today stripped of its voting rights at the global chemical weapons watchdog by member states after its forces were found to have repeatedly used poison gas during...
Egyptian authorities on Monday rerouted trains travelling in the north of the country after a passenger train derailed, causing fatalities and injuries among civilians. State-owned newspaper Al-Ahram quoted an unnamed...
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News UN warned that violent attacks against Palestinian civilians, including physical assaults and property demolitions carried out by Israeli settlers, have increased drastically in recent months
Russia's Defence Ministry announced late on Monday that it had killed "up to 200 militants" in Syria during an airstrike on "terrorist facilities" northeast of Palmyra, Russia's Interfax news agency...
Iraq's Commission on Public Integrity (CPI) on Monday announced the issuance of arrest warrants and summons against 58 current and former officials accused of corruption. The CPI said in a...
The Interior Ministry of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq is holding Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants responsible for the bomb blast that wounded a Peshmerga soldier...