Algerian students on Tuesday demonstrated in capital Algiers – and in other cities – to demand the departure of government officials close to the regime of former President Abdelaziz...

The ongoing conflict in Libya between the UN-recognized government and a breakaway commander is imperilling the unity of the country and will have lasting effects even if hostilities were...

President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday asserted that US President Donald Trump had retreated from earlier threats against Iran “after seeing the unity of the Iranian people”, reports Anadolu Agency....

Egyptian security forces have killed 16 suspected militants in North Sinai and found a stash of weapons and explosives in their hideouts, the Interior Ministry said in a statement...

Libya is on the brink of a civil war that could “lead to the permanent division of the country,” a top UN official warned the Security Council on Tuesday...

Turkey’s Trade Ministry will implement a reciprocal reduction in tariffs on US imports after the United States halved tariffs on Turkish steel imports last week, two Turkish sources said...

Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and André Carson, three Muslim members of the US Congress, hosted a historic iftar meal in the US Capitol. It was the first time the...

Dutch police have arrested a 47-year-old Syrian suspected of being a commander for the Nusra Front, formerly al Qaeda’s wing in Syria, prosecutors said on Tuesday, reports Reuters. The...

War is looming over the region more than ever before...

An American-led war on Iran is still a possibility, despite the fact that US President Donald Trump has openly expressed his lack of enthusiasm for it now, in contrast...

Palestinians in the diaspora and those who are citizens of Israel can all help to build a Palestinian state, Haifa professor As'ad Ghanem says

Israeli occupation forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem early on Monday and evicted dozens of Muslim worshippers. Eyewitnesses told Ma’an that heavily armed...

A public reading of the first-ever alphabet story book in the English language about Palestine has caused outrage among some American library patrons who claim that its contents are...

At least 510 people have been killed and 2,467 injured during the military escalation in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, the United Nations World Health Organisation (WHO) said. “The toll...

Rotana Tarabzouni has caused quite a stir

From the details which have emerged so far about the Bahrain economic summit, the US has made clear that the first phase of its so-called “deal of the century”...

Hundreds of Europeans, including priests nominated for the Nobel Prize, a football player, fire fighters and ex-soldiers are being “criminalised” for helping migrants, a new report by OpenDemocracy has...

An Egyptian criminal court yesterday suspended the trial of ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s two sons, Alaa and Gamal, in the case known in the media as the “manipulation of the stock...

The international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement will not stop its activities despite the great efforts by the occupation authorities to pressure several countries to stop the movement...

A veteran US politician who has announced his candidacy for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination for 2020 has described Israel as a “racist state” which is committing “genocide” against...

If the walls of Sudan’s presidential palace could speak, they would tell of a stark difference in the atmosphere of the talks between the Transitional Military Council (TMC) and...

Israeli officials will travel to Bahrain for next month’s “peace” conference, where the first stage of the US’ “deal of the century” is set to be revealed. Speaking to...

Saudi Arabia said yesterday that its Air Defence Forces intercepted two ballistic missiles at dawn yesterday; the first over Taif, heading for the city of Mecca, and the other...

An Algerian court adjourned until 3 June the trial of Ali Haddad, a businessman who had close ties with ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Haddad is charged with forging documents...

The bombardment of Idlib by Syrian regime forces over the past few weeks has been relentless; the long anticipated offensive on the city in northern Syria has arrived with...

Thirteen UK charities have issued a joint statement criticising US President Donald Trump’s “deal of the century”, after it was announced that the early stages of the long-awaited peace...

Algerian army Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaid Salah, has reiterated his commitment to holding presidential elections on 4 July, amid fierce opposition. “Holding a presidential election could...

The Russian Centre for the Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria announced that as many as 1,163 Syrian refugees have returned to their country over a 24 hour period...

Israeli occupation forces blocked access roads to four Palestinian villages in the West Bank over the course of March and April, human rights organisation B’Tselem reported yesterday. According to...

Israel’s Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, “has rejected a petition to bar the annual Jerusalem Day flag march from passing through the Old City’s Muslim...

Likud officials have warned that the failure to find a breakthrough in coalition negotiations could lead to fresh elections, reported Ynet. According to the news site, the unnamed officials...

The director-general of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said yesterday that the Israeli army had deliberately targeted journalists in the occupied Gaza Strip. Christophe Deloire was speaking to the Jerusalem...