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An Egyptian court adjourned the trial of ousted President Mohamed Morsi on Sunday, wherein he is accused of espionage on behalf of the State of Qatar. The proceedings are...

A diplomatic source has revealed that Algeria has rejected a request from the European Union to host a base for drones to be used to track illegal migrants on...

A report prepared by the World Bank said that unemployment rate in Gaza has reached a record as it is the highest across the world, Quds Press reported on...

Egypt's ousted President, Mohamed Morsi is in good psychological condition and enjoys high morale despite a death sentence handed down against him and over 100 Muslim Brotherhood members, leaders...

Tunisia's Prime Minister, Habib Essid reiterated his government's decision to cut down the salaries of public employees on strike either as part of a union or on individual base....

An Egyptian criminal court in Al-Giza issued a death sentence against an anti-coup student, accusing him for joining banned organisation and connecting to Palestinian Hamas movement, Aljazeera reported on...

Senior Hamas leader Musa Abu-Marzouq denied on Sunday Egyptian accusations that Islamic Jihad leader Ramadhan Shallah is responsible for the death of Hamas founder, Quds Press reported. Posting on...

The past two years have been very difficult for the Muslim Brotherhood. Being declared a terrorist group by regional powers backed by media outlets worldwide was a political, military...

The US-Gulf Camp David summit, held last week, did not bridge the gap between America and the Gulf states, or limit the "doubts" of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...

A former foreign press secretary to ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has said that she was undaunted by the death sentence imposed on her last week. Writing in the...

A Muslim Brotherhood spokesman on Saturday highlighted what he called the "peaceful" and "nonviolent" nature of his movement, noting that the Brotherhood would not change this course in the...

A judicial source, requesting anonymity, told Anadolu Agency that civil prosecutors referred 258 people to military prosecution on charges of "killing policemen and vandalizing government buildings" in Beni Soueif...

An Egyptian court on Saturday postponed to 6 June delivering its ruling in a lawsuit calling for designating Palestinian faction Hamas as a "terrorist" group. Cairo's Urgent Matters Court...

Representatives of the two main Libyan rival militias ended a series of meetings that took place in Tunis, Quds Press reported credible Libyan and Tunisian sources on Friday. These...

Algeria calls for intensified Arabic media support for Palestine Algerian Communication Minister Hamid Grine called on Thursday for intensified Arabic media support for the pivotal Arab issue –Palestine, Quds...

King Abdullah II of Jordan said today that the problems of the Middle East can be solved by utilising the region's strengths. Speaking during the inaugural session of the...

The president of the German parliament, Norbert Lammert, has justified his cancellation of a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on the basis that there is nothing to...

New audio leaks of recorded telephone calls said to be from the Egyptian president's office appear to show the involvement of both Egypt and the UAE in the transfer...

US President Barack Obama announced yesterday his intention to designate Tunisia as a major non-NATO ally, citing democratic reforms in the country. The upgraded status would put the level...

Emad Shahin is the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics and a professor of public policy. On Saturday, he was sentenced in absentia to death by...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that to him the Egyptian President is Mohamed Morsi not Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi. This came in a press conference with the chairman of...

Egypt's former presidential candidate, Mohamed El-Baradei, said the Egyptian authorities ignored a roadmap put forward by national forces that guaranteed the peaceful transition of power on 30 June 2013....

Norway yesterday said the death sentence handed down against ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders was "unacceptable". Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende said in a...

Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi knows full well that Hassan Salameh, one of the most prominent leaders of the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, has been in an...

Staff in all public hospitals in Tunisia are taking part in a three-day strike which started on Wednesday, Quds Press reports. A health ministry official said that it had...

At least 53 lawmakers representing the five opposition parties in Algeria yesterday signed a statement calling on the government to reject "human rights violations" in Egypt in the wake...

The head of Egypt's Judges' Club – a private guild comprising the nation's judges –swore the oath of office on Wednesday as the country's new justice minister. Ahmed al-Zend...

Cases of sexual violence at the hands of the Egyptian security forces have increased and become more violent since the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, human rights organisation revealed...

They wanted to dishonour and shame him, but God gave him dignity and honour, and instead shamed and disgraced them. They wanted to break him, but God gave him...

A Tunisian human rights organisation said yesterday that the practice of torture continues in Tunisian prisons after the January 2011 revolution but local authorities insist on denying its existence....

Egypt has hit back at critics of its judiciary saying its legal system is just and complies with international law. The Anadolu Agency reported a statement issued by the...

Once the proposed visit to Morocco of Israel's former President Shimon Peres appeared on the radar of human rights advocates and anti-Zionism civil society, news of advocacy protests went...