Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has reshuffled key security officials in a move to counter an ongoing threat from Al-Qaeda’s affiliate Al-Shabaab. Farmajo appointed Dahi Adnan Ilmi as the...

A militant group associated with Daesh in Syria and Iraq has started levying taxes on businesses in Somalia, Garowe Online reported yesterday. “The traders and businesses in Bosaso city...

Tunisia’s unemployment rate remained at 15 per cent in the second quarter of 2018, the Anadolu Agency reported. “The number of unemployed has reached 638,000 compared to 634,200 in...

Minnesota State Representative and Somali-born Muslim Ilhan Omar has won the Democratic Party’s primary election for the state’s 5th District to become the second Arab Muslim candidate to join...

Member of the Libyan Parliament for Benghazi Jalal Al-Shuwihdi has accused militias affiliated with Libyan General Khalifa Haftar of kidnappings and the enforced disappearances in Benghazi, Derna and the...

A court in Libya sentences some 45 forces loyal to former ruler Muammar Gaddafi to death yesterday over brutal killings during the 2011 uprisings in Tripoli. In a statement...

At least 22 Sudanese school children and a woman drowned when their boat sank in the River Nile, the official Sudanese news agency reported. The water’s high current caused...

Member of Fatah’s Central Committee Azzam Al-Ahmad said yesterday that the potential truce agreement between Israel and Palestinian factions in Gaza is “treason”, local media reported. “The truce agreement...

Egyptian 'Devavin' band perform at the ruins of a cultural center that was destroyed by Israeli air strikes, in Gaza City, Gaza

Israel allowed commercial goods back into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, in a sign of easing tensions as neighbouring Egypt pursued a long-term ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the...

Mahmoud Mehanna, a member of the Higher Committee of Scholars of Al-Azhar, warned Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi against approving the law of equal inheritance between men and women....

There were significant military movements and reinforcements following suspicions of the infiltration of a terrorist group into the Algerian territory today. Activity focused on The border between Tunisia and...

It remains difficult to understand that the Hamas resistance seems satisfied and responsive to the so-called Egyptian role in the proposed scenarios for a settlement in Gaza. The issue...

The USA will continue to work for a ceasefire in Gaza “with or without” the cooperation of the Palestinian Authority (PA), a spokesperson for the National Security Council has...

Israeli Intelligence and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz said yesterday that connecting the Gaza Strip with the West Bank is a “direct threat to Israel’s security”, Arab48reported. “Any attempt to...

Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza travelled to Cairo to join the national dialogue discussions for the first time since 2012, Shehabreported yesterday. Representatives from Al-Ahrar Movement, the Popular Resistance...

Amnesty International has condemned the state of “impunity” enjoyed by the Egyptian security forces five years after the violent dispersalof the sit-in organised in Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahdha Squares...

The Egyptian Interior Ministry yesterday announced that 13 people affiliated with the bannedMuslim Brotherhood were arrested for inciting “demonstrations and chaos”. The ministry said in a statement that six...

At the height of its strength in Libya, Daesh controlled the coastal city of Sirte, about 500 kilometres east of Tripoli, having amassed a sizeable force thanks to hundreds...

Well-informed sources have told Al-Quds Al-Arabi that the nearly 20 negotiators including politicians and deputies (about 12 deputies) have reached a near dead end that threatens the continuation of...

The first round of what US President Donald Trump called “the most biting sanctions ever imposed” against Tehran went into effect on August 7. “Anyone doing business with Iran...

Tunisia’s food trade balance turned to a surplus of $ 66.9 million in the first half of 2018, compared to a deficit of $ 276.4 million in the corresponding...

For the first time since their alliance, the leader of the Ennahda Movement in Tunisia, Rachid Ghannouchi, has refused to respond to the request of the Tunisian President, Beji...

Egyptian journalist Mahmoud Hussein of Al Jazeera has spent 600 days in prison in Egypt with no official charges or conviction, surpassing the permitted maximum length of pretrial detention...

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday voiced his determination not to allow Yemen to become a platform for non-Arab forces that threaten the security and stability of the Arab...

Tens of thousands of Algerian nationals have applied for the French citizenship in the last year and a half, local media reported. As many as 70,000 Algerians applied for...

Britain is one of the most “strict” countries in dealing with the Muslim Brotherhood, the British Ambassador to Egypt has revealed. John Casson made his comment during a “Question...

The Tunisian Ennahda parliamentary bloc has condemned what it called “the systematic campaign of distortion” targeting the movement and its leaders. The bloc said in a statement published on...

The Rabaa Al-Adawiyya and Al-Nahda massacres still linger in my mind, and my heart refuses to let them go. The five years that have passed were unable to fold...

Israel’s finance minister today confirmed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in Egypt in May to discuss a long-term ceasefire in the Gaza Strip....

Rabaa represents the failed hope of Egyptian democracy and it set a precedent for the despicable brutality of a regime towards its own citizens.

About 3.000 demonstrators in Tunis to remember the Tunisian Women's Day and to ask for Equality and rights for Tunisian women, organised by Secularist movements