Two Saudi Arabian sisters are hoping for a “bright, beautiful future” after being granted asylum, fleeing what they describe as an abusive family and a repressive society, Reuters reports....

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...

The latest data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on global arms sales, released on 11 March, is a sobering acknowledgement that the Middle East and, in...

Thirty-six countries, including all 28 European Union (EU) countries, yesterday submitted a joint statement to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council, condemning Saudi Arabia for the killing of...

Saudi Arabia said on Monday it believes Canada will go ahead with a multibillion-dollar arms deal with the kingdom despite remarks by the Canadian prime minister that Ottawa was...

Sudan has established emergency prosecutors and courts nationwide, state news agency SUNA said on Tuesday, a day after President Omar al-Bashir announced sweeping new security powers to contend with...

Canada announced Tuesday it would provide CAN$46.7 million ($35.4 million) to Yemen in a bid to help relieve the humanitarian crisis, Anadolu Agency reports. The funds are on top...

Canada is “aware” that a Canadian citizen has been arrested by the Egyptian authorities and detained in the country’s local prisons, Canadian foreign ministry announced yesterday. In an official...

Behind every headline there is a multi-layered story, and behind some stories there is a Muslim reading it and rolling their eyes. This is particularly true if you are...

A fundraising effort for a Syrian-refugee couple who lost all seven of their children in a house fire in the eastern Canadian city of Halifax has reached C$290,000 ($220,281)...

The number of women fleeing Saudi as a result of the oppression practice against them by their families is on the increase, Masr Al-Arabia reported yesterday. The news site...

Arms imports to the Middle East were doubled during the period from 2013-2017, compared to the region’s total arms imports in the previous five years, the Munich Security Report...

Canada is willing to receive about 750 victims of slavery in Libya over the coming two years, including the 150 who have already been granted asylum in the country,...

A Canadian Jewish organisation has been stripped of its charity status for supporting the Israeli army. The discovery – which has come as a shock to many well-meaning donors...

Amid threats to the safety of Saudi teenager Rahaf Mohammed, who was granted asylum in Canada, the Toronto agency that is helping her has hired a security guard to...

A German official has confirmed that his country has no intention of granting new arms export licenses to Saudi Arabia following the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The...

An 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled her family saying she feared for her life has been granted asylum in Canada, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday, as...

A Canadian charity has been investigated for using its donations to fund infrastructure projects on Israeli army and naval bases. The Jewish National Fund of Canada – an affiliate...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said for the first time that his government was looking for a way out of a multibillion-dollar arms deal with Saudi Arabia. The comments...

How does one explain Canada’s contradictory foreign policy regarding Palestine and Israel? On December 4, Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Saeb Erekat, praised Canada’s commitment not...

A Saudi dissident is to sue Israeli spyware firm NSO after its software was used by Saudi Arabia to track him and murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Omar Abdulaziz –...

An international meeting with 100 security experts has been launched in Algeria on Tuesday to discuss the terrorist threat in the Sahel and West Africa by studying ways to...

A Syrian refugee who was stranded in a Malaysian airport for eight months has finally arrived in Canada after being granted asylum. Hassan Al-Kontar’s plight gained global support when...

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said her country does not consider the case of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi as closed despite US President Donald Trump’s statements of “solidarity” with...

A Canadian student body has announced that it will endorse the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) made the announcement at its general...

Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, yesterday threatened that his country would withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal if Tehran’s economic needs were not met after the United States...

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland on Thursday welcomed US Treasury sanctions on 17 Saudi officials for their role in the killing last month of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and...

Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau said Monday that his country is discussing with other countries next steps towards Saudi Arabia following the murder of Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi. “We...

Back in September, before the disappearance and murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul on 2 October, I came across a story...

It’s hard not to be moved on a personal level by Jamal Khashoggi’s brutal murder. The circumstances — the fact that his fiancée was waiting outside for him, expecting...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today it would be very hard to scrap an arms deal with Riyadh worth up to $13 billion as critics have demanded. Trudeau...

Canada is prepared to freeze a big arms deal with Saudi Arabia if it concludes the weapons have been misused, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday, amid increasing...