The Al-Shabaab militant group on Saturday claimed responsibility for last night's suicide bombing in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, reported by Anadolu Agency.  At least eight people were killed in the...

Acting Speaker of the Algerian National Assembly Salah Goudjil, who is the second most powerful man in the country, criticised and questioned the motives behind the United Arab Emirates...

A human rights organisation has condemned the Egyptian regime's arrests and detentions of oppositionists' family members. This came in a recent report issued by the Arabic Network for Human...

Shahid Bin Yusef Takala, a South African university lecturer, has walked from Cape Town to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque and is planning to continue his journey on foot to Medina...

Thirty-seven members of US Congress have called on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to release the leaders of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), to end the arrests...

More than 150 Ghanaian migrants have been brought back from Libya through the first charter flight of its kind since COVID-19-related border closures, the International Organization of Migration (IOM)...

It has been one year since the arrest and detention of the journalist Solafa Magdy, her husband and their friend. On 26 November 2019, Solafa, photojournalist Hussam Al-Sayyad and writer Mohamed Salah...

Prominent human rights advocate and lawyer Hafez Abu Seada, 55, has died after contracting coronavirus. His wife, also a lawyer and rights advocate, announced his death yesterday: "The love...

Bahrain will open a consulate in Morocco-controlled Western Sahara, Morocco's Royal palace said, joining other Arab states in supporting Rabat after the disputed territory's Polisario independence movement said it...

The Sudanese authorities announced on Thursday the evacuation of stranded citizens in the Ethiopian Tigray region, in light of the violent battles between the federal government and the Tigray...

Egyptian authorities have arrested eight people following clashes that erupted on Wednesday evening between Muslims and Coptic Christians in the Minya governorate, reported local and foreign media on Thursday....

Official sources have uncovered Emirati pressure on the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmad Al-Tayeb to engage in the Saudi-Emirati campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). The New Arab quoted...

One month after the Libyan military agreement, General Khalifa Haftar's militia has shown no indication of implementing the accord's conditions, which require the evacuation of mercenaries from the frontlines...

The US decided on Wednesday to blacklist one of the armed groups supporting General Khalifa Haftar, after Russia prevented a United Nations (UN) Security Council committee last week from...

The Iraqi military is training a former member of an Iran-backed militia, who is under US sanctions for killing protesters, to become a high-ranking officer in the army, according...

A migrant rescue team found 2 wedding rings in a rucksack which was floating in a half-sunken migrant boat, which had capsized killing 5 people The rings were engraved with the names Ahmed and Doudou

Egyptian actor and singer Mohamed went to Dubai to receive the "Best 2020 Series Award" for his successful show ""Al Prince" ("The Prince"), only to return downhearted and stained...

The Sudanese Foreign Ministry yesterday denied recent media reports claiming the state had voted in favor of Israel at the United Nations General Assembly. "It has never happened that...

A mother of three and grandmother of several was blindfolded and beaten repeatedly in detention in Egypt, rights organisation We Record has revealed, before being sexually assaulted and electrocuted on her...

Sudan’s former Prime Minister Sadiq Al-Mahdi and head of the opposition National Umma Party has died from a coronavirus infection at the age of 84

The Cairo Criminal Court has sentenced two people to death following the death of a woman in Maadi who was killed by a group of men after they sexually harassed her....

Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, said yesterday that the international body is "concerned" with the situation of human rights in Egypt. In his daily press briefing, Dujarric...

Egyptians are up in arms about actor and singer Mohamed Ramadan being photographed at a party in the UAE with Israeli celebrities. Israel and the UAE are all the...

The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) is continuing in Tunis amid reports of bribery. On 23 November, acting head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Stephanie...

The UAE has stopped  issuing new visas to citizens of 13 mostly Muslim-majority countries 

Head of the Tunisian Ennahda Movement Rached Ghannouchi has announced that he respects the movement's internal law that prevents him from running for another mandate. In an interview with...

The US sanctioned Mohamed al-Kani and the Kaniyat militia in Libya on Wednesday, accused of killing civilians discovered in mass graves in Tarhuna, Anadolu reports. The Treasury Department blamed...

Tunisian authorities have decided to extend the state of emergency for an additional month. According to the Official Gazette of the Republic of Tunisia, the government took the decision to extend...

Djibouti will not establish official ties with Israel until it works towards peace with the Palestinians, said the African Muslim state's President Ismail Omar Guelleh. In September, Palestinian minister...

Masked assailants fired gunshots at a member of Egypt's parliament, who is running in the ongoing parliamentary elections in the province of Fayoum, injuring him and his nephew. Both...

The Total oil company from France plans to increase its investment in Libya's oil industry, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) in the North African state has announced. According to...

There has been an outbreak of coronavirus at the chest unit of Ain Shams Hospital, according to the former Egyptian minister of health. In a statement Mohammed Awad Taj...