Israeli occupation forces arrested a minor during a school raid

With Human Rights Watch releasing a statement on 21 March on behalf of Saudi women activists brought to court in Riyadh a week earlier, world attention remains focused, and...

Sudanese authorities have rejected an appeal made by families to release their relatives held following anti-government, despite President Omar Al-Bashir’s promise to free those arbitrarily detained. Dozens of families...

Israel’s Former Defence Minister and head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, Avigdor Lieberman, has released an election campaign video attacking the country’s Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) population, as a new poll...

At least 12 refugees have died in Al-Hawl refugee camp, now home to some 72,000 people, as the humanitarian situation in the camps worsens, the International Rescue Committee (IRC)...

This week, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled to ban Michael Ben Ari – the leader of the extreme-right-wing Otzma Yehudit party – from running in the country’s upcoming general election...

A former adviser to the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Abdul-Khaliq Abdullah, has called for the international community to “liberate” the Gaza Strip from Hamas, which he said was...

Syrian regime attacks in Idlib and Hama have displaced nearly 200,000 civilians over the past five months, the Director of the Syrian Response Coordinators Team, Mohammed Al-Hallaj, said. Al-Hallaj...

The British Ambassador to Lebanon Chris Rampling has affirmed his country’s keenness to provide more support to the Lebanese Armed Forces and to strengthen the joint military and security...

An Israeli group which promotes “separation” from the Palestinians has been slammed for publishing a series of “racist” videos, warning against the annexation of the occupied West Bank. Writing...

Jordan has rejected the Arab League’s request to ban the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas and label them “terrorist movements”, informed sources told the Shehab news agency yesterday. The sources...

Jordanian King Abdullah II has reaffirmed the country’s position regarding the occupied city of Jerusalem saying “Jerusalem is a red line” for him and that the Jordanian people fully...

An Israeli military analyst has urged the army to “adapt” to recent Palestinian resistance operations in the occupied West Bank, accusing forces of a “soft” response to recent events....

The Palestinian Authority (PA) “faces a suffocating financial crisis after deep US aid cuts and an Israeli move to withhold tax transfers”, reported AFP. The US “cut more than...

Israeli occupation forces raided a French government-linked cultural centre in East Jerusalem to shut down a Mother’s Day event, reported AFP. According to the report, “an order posted on...

Palestinian citizens of Israel living in the city of Rahat in the Negev desert started a general strike to protest against the Israeli authorities’ demolition policy pursued against the...

A state of anger has prevailed across social media networks after a number of Saudi girls posted videos of them dancing in Riyadh’s streets. The video showed footages of...

One of the most influential donors to the powerful AIPAC pro-Israel lobby group will not be speaking at its annual conference this weekend after being taken to task for...

A ferry sank Thursday in Iraq’s Tigris River, leaving 100 people dead and dozens injured, Iraq’s Interior Ministry said in a written statement, Anadolu reports. The boat was reportedly carrying...

The US ambassador to Yemen, Matthew Tueller, yesterday blamed the Houthi group for “reneging on its obligations” under the United Nations (UN)-led peace agreement over the country’s portal city...

An Israeli report said that Egypt has put forward a plan for a settlement between Israel and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, led by Hamas, which controls the...

Children under age 15 are almost three times more likely to die from diseases due to lack of clean water and sanitation than from violence in countries in conflict,...

2,000 members of the National Democratic Rally (RND), led by former Algerian Prime Minister, Ahmed Ouyahia, resigned from the party in protest against the latter’s statement which they considered...

Aren’t those who race towards normalisation and into the arms of Israel ashamed of themselves when they see a young man, still at the beginning of his life, manage,...

The Yemeni government protested on Thursday against what it called “functions’ transgression” by officials representing the United Nations Verification and Inspection Mechanism for Yemen (UNVIM) and the director of...

Turkey’s foreign minister on Thursday slammed US President Donald Trump’s tweet on the occupied Golan Heights, Anadolu reports. “The territorial integrity of states is the most fundamental principle of...

France told Iran on Thursday that European efforts to keep a nuclear deal alive did not mean Tehran had a blank cheque to violate the human rights of its...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accompanied Israel’s prime minister on a visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City on Thursday in the first such gesture since...

US sanctions on Hezbollah are harming Lebanon as a whole, President Michel Aoun said on Thursday ahead of a visit to the country by US Secretary of State Mike...

The United States’ top general on Thursday called Turkey’s plans to obtain Russia’s S-400 missile defense system a “tough issue”, stressing that Washington’s alliance with Ankara is something he...

An Egyptian court on Thursday upheld prison terms ranging from three to 25 years each for 82 people convicted earlier for alleged “acts of violence”, Anadolu reports. A judicial...

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