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...

Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi reaffirmed her country`s firm support for Palestinian independence. During a phone call with her Palestinian counterpart Riyad Al-Maliki, Marsudi inquired about the dialogue between...

US President-elect Joe Biden is likely to involve America in disputes and conflicts within the Middle East as a direct result of the people who he is appointing to...

Palestinians are morning footballer star Diego Armando Maradona. The legendary icon who many consider to be the greatest player to ever play the game, died yesterday in Buenos Aires,...

A Lebanese-Brazilian man was arrested in Sao Paolo on Monday on drug trafficking charges, the New Arab reports. Assad Khalil Kiwan was arrested by Brazilian Federal Police as part of...

Traditional Saudi Arabia, represented by King Salman and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, remains committed to the position that the Kingdom has adhered to since the Arab Peace Initiative...

US President Donald Trump has pardoned Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser, who plotted to kidnap a Turkish dissident and pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Flynn,...

Human Rights Watch has called on the Saudi authorities to "clarify immediately" the status of two Chinese Muslims from the Uyghur minority who were apparently "arrested" in the Kingdom...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov urged the incoming Biden administration on Wednesday to avoid foreign "adventures" in the Middle East, RT Arabic has reported. Speaking during a press conference...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday that his country expects the administration of President-elect Joe Biden to "explicitly" condemn its predecessor's "anti-human rights and terroristic" policies against Iran and...

Interview with Christophe Oberlin by Hassina Mechaï

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to offer the best medical care to Esther Pollard, the wife of the Jewish spy who was paroled after 30 years in...

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

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...

Iran has exchanged a jailed British-Australian academic, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, with three Iranians who had been detained abroad, Iran's state broadcaster IRIB reported on Wednesday, Reuters reports. Moore-Gilbert, a specialist...

Despite Saudi Arabia's denial, it is definite that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Kingdom on Sunday, where he met with Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman and US...

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has joined the chorus of voices condemning the arrest of EIPR human rights advocates in Egypt. Last week the director of the Egyptian Initiative...

Brigadier-General Hussein Dehghan, Iran's former defence minister and current military adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, is the first hopeful to confirm his intention to run in the...

The Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority (QFCRA) announced yesterday that it has begun legal proceedings in New York to force the First Abu Dhabi Bank to pay a $55...

The meeting in Saudi Arabia between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is the most important and dangerous step so far along the path...

Danny Yatom, former chief of Israel's external spying agency, Mossad, revealed that former Israeli prime ministers regularly met Arab leaders secretly sometimes disguised in women's clothing, Arabi21 reported yesterday. Speaking to...

Iran's supreme leader dismissed the prospect of new negotiations with the West on Tuesday, even as the Tehran government spoke optimistically about the return of foreign companies in "the...

President Tayyip Erdogan's nationalist ally pledged his loyalty to their government coalition on Tuesday and dismissed media speculation about cracks in the alliance amid a recent reform push as...

As he counts down his final days in office, US President Donald Trump is continuing to reward human rights violations committed by Israel. Ignoring the apartheid state's crimes against...

The 38-year-old daughter of Palestinian immigrants became a trained political scientist after earning a bachelor's degree at the University of Colorado Denver and then a Master’s degree in Public Policy.

If there is one thing in which the Palestinian Authority excels, it is theatre of the absurd. Following its announcement that, based on international reassurances, there will be a...

For the first time  a Palestinian-American woman will serve as a senior member of the White House staff 

The war drums started beating when Joe Biden was declared to be US President-elect, and Iran is again the target. Senior American officials made unprecedented trips while the country...

A leading Syrian opposition group has stated its refusal to hold constitutional talks with the Kurdish militias, labelling them terrorist groups who do not deserve to sit at the...

The Commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, General Ismail Qaani, is reported to have visited the Lebanese capital Beirut where he met with the Secretary-General...

The US is exerting efforts to undermine the formation of Lebanese government, Anadolu reported a close aide of Lebanese President Michel Aoun saying. The aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity,...