Israeli forces instructed bulldozers to raze all structures on the land for settlement expansion

Police in Malaysia raided the office of the news channel Al Jazeera in the capital Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The closure of the office raises concerns about the Malaysian authorities’...

Saudi Arabia has constructed a facility for extracting uranium “yellowcake” from ore with help from China, Western officials revealed to the Wall Street Journal yesterday. According to the officials,...

Saudi Arabia’s treatment of migrants has come under sharp criticism from rights groups following allegations that detainees are “are packed as animals” and forced to “drink from the toilet”....

Libya’s Toubou tribes yesterday filed a lawsuit at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against renegade General Khalifa Haftar over last year’s massacre in the city of Murzuq. In a...

Egypt has sent nearly 150 soldiers to Syria to fight in the ranks of the Assad regime, military sources told Anadolu Agency. The soldiers had been sent to the...

A rights group yesterday called on Twitter to open an urgent investigation into the transparency of its regional office in the UAE as well as the nature of its...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday extended the state of emergency for 30 days to prevent the spread of coronavirus infections, Wafa news agency reported. At the same time, the Palestinian government declared easing...

A massive fire broke out yesterday inside an industrial zone in the Iranian capital of Tehran, state television reported. The flames ripped through three warehouses in Jajrud, around 25...

The leader of a US-based Iranian opposition group has been abducted by Iran while he was staying in Dubai, says his family. The group is designated as a terrorist...

Iraqi President Barham Salih yesterday welcomed the call by Prime Minister Mostafa Al- Kadhimi to hold early elections in June next year. In a statement, Salih urged Parliament to...

The Executive Director of the UN World Food Program, David Paisley, said yesterday that as many as 13 million Yemenis receive food aid from the WFP through a network...

Egypt’s pyramids have been lit up with the Lebanese flag to show solidarity over the explosion yesterday that ripped through the capital Beirut. Egypt’s Tourism and Antiquities Ministry shared on Facebook...

The head of the Popular International Committee to Support Gaza has made an urgent appeal for humanitarian aid to help the people of Lebanon. Dr Essam Yousef made his...

The General Organisation for the Preservation of Historic Cities of Yemen (GOPHCY) on Monday appealed to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and international bodies to...

The extremist group Daesh killed or abducted more than 7,600 Yazidis in its brutal attack in the summer of 2014, the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR) has...

Fifteen pro-Iran fighters from Iraq were killed on Monday during raids that targeted the Al- Bukamal city in the Deir Ez-Zor countryside in eastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for...

More than 200 actors, artists, and authors have signed a statement calling on Egyptian authorities to release the detained film editor, writer, and activist Sanaa Seif, who was arrested...

The health authorities in Morocco have suspended the annual holidays of doctors and other medical staff in public hospitals due to the coronavirus pandemic. The suspension takes effect as...

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) on Monday called on the Houthis to release Dr Hameed Mohammed Aklan, rector of the University of Science and Technology in Yemeni, from prison. The GCHR said...

Members of Parliament in Kuwait have criticised the government for allowing foreigners to enter the country, even from countries struggling to cope with Covid-19, the New Khalij news website...

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday that the mediation efforts that the United States has asked his country to initiate between Saudi Arabia and Iran are making...

The Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas has denied that the four people killed during an Israeli operation in the Sheba Farms in south Lebanon were members of its movement, Aram Media...

Algeria’s President Abdelmajid Tebboune appointed a new commander for the National Gendarmerie Forces on Tuesday. Major General Nour Al-Jadin Qawasimia will be in charge of investigating corruption cases that...

Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune yesterday stressed his country’s unwavering aspiration for closer, good, neighbourly ties with Morocco. This came in a congratulatory telegram sent to the Moroccan monarch, King...

Jordanian security forces on Tuesday used tear gas to disperse stone-throwing demonstrators it blamed for disrupting public services during a protest demanding the release of leaders of the opposition-run...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday cast a massive explosion in Beirut as a possible attack, despite statements by Lebanese leaders that it was likely caused by highly explosive material...

A group of investors is raising concerns about the treatment of migrant workers in the Gulf, warning that labour practices risk leading to abuses such as modern slavery. The...

Lebanese rescue workers dug through rubble looking for survivors of a powerful warehouse explosion that shook the capital Beirut, killing 100 people and injuring nearly 4,000 in a toll...

Turkey’s new coronavirus cases jumped above 1,000 for the first time in three weeks on Tuesday in what the government called a troubling rise during peak holiday season, raising...

When teenager Hamid Saeed’s family saw videos circulating on social media last week showing him being abused by Iraqi security forces, they hoped he was still alive, having looked...

Nesreen Rasho had applied to attend college in northern Iraq when Daesh militants kidnapped her and sold her into slavery in their 2014 assault on her Yazidi homeland. Rasho...