Israeli forces killed an autistic Palestinian man in spite of his carer’s pleas for them not to because of his disability. Eyad Hallaq was shot twice in the chest on Saturday...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced yesterday his intention to make an official visit to Iran soon to sign a number of cooperation agreements, including those related to energy and...

Lebanon’s protesters have offered safety tips and shared their support via social media with demonstrators who took to the streets in over 75 cities in the US over the...

Hamas spokesman, Fawzi Barhoum, said that both the Israeli police’s killing of autistic Palestinian Eyad Hallaq and the US police’s killing of George Floyd reflect the culture of hatred...

Former political prisoner Mohamed Soltan has filed a lawsuit against Egypt’s ex-prime minister accusing him of directing torture against him. Soltan says he was targeted for barbaric abuse because he dared...

The Iranian Foreign Ministry announced yesterday that Iranian scientist Sirous Asgari who is in US custody will return to Iran “in days”, the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported. ISNA quoted Foreign...

In the Jewish Diaspora, the prayers for Passover and Yom Kippur end with the plea: “Next year in Jerusalem.” At least since roughly the 15th century, these words expressed...

In early 2018, the Dubai-based, Saudi-owned, Middle East Broadcasting Centre (MBC) announced via UAE media that it was going to ban Turkish drama series, despite the soap operas’ massive...

The protests in the wake of the killing of black American citizen George Floyd by a white police officer have spread way beyond the city of Minneapolis where it...

US prosecutors have accused former Venezuelan politician, Adel El Zabayar, of conspiracy to help recruit Hezbollah and Hamas operatives to plan attacks on US targets. The 56-year-old, who is of Syrian descent, also...

An Indian fraudster has managed to escape the UAE with $1.6 million (six million dirhams) having conned scores of businessmen, taking advantage of India’s ‘Vande Bharat Mission’ repatriation flights...

The United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced on Saturday that it will only send a training unit to Tunisia and does not have plans for a combat mission. The...

The US will designate anti-fascist group Antifa as a terrorist organisation, President Donald Trump said yesterday. Anti-government and anti-capitalist Antifa members are often seen as more closely aligned with...

The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has cancelled its 2021 conference due to COVID-19. AIPAC President Betsy Korn sent an email to supporters citing “no predictable avenue” for...

The scenario is all too familiar: the almost casual murder in Minneapolis of an unarmed African American citizen — say his name: George Floyd —by police officers has sparked...

The new Speaker of the Iranian Shura Council, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf yesterday rejected negotiations with the United States, describing them as “futile”. “The new Shura Council considers negotiating with America; the...

The People’s Republic of China has rejected Israel’s planned annexation of large swathes of the occupied Palestinian West Bank, Al Watan Voice reported yesterday. In a statement, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry...

Iran took Washington to task over the killing of an unarmed black man by a white police officer

The United States said it is considering deploying a Security Force Assistance Brigade in Tunisia for training, as part of its assistance program with the North Africa country, amid...

The Jordanian Kingdom has warned the US and the UK on Friday of the dangers of the Israeli plan to annex vast parts of the occupied West Bank, Quds...

Conflicts are meant to involve the living, with the dead being long withdrawn from the complex web of political alliances and bloody feuds that mankind revels in. So when...

Local government pension schemes hold direct investments worth more than £2.3 billion in companies involved in Israeli war crimes and apartheid, it was revealed this week. The Palestine Solidarity...

The 30 migrants slain by traffickers in Libya on Wednesday had been abducted while crossing the country in search of work and then tortured to extract a ransom, Bangladesh’s...

It has been five months since the employees of the Arab Land Transport Union received their salaries, which means that their salaries were withheld before the spread of the...

The US State Department yesterday announced that it had approved the sale of $1.4 billion of Patriot air and missile defence system components and upgrades to Kuwait. According to Reuters,...

A major Ivy League university in the US has become the first in the country to appoint a faculty chair in Palestinian Studies

The United States remains committed to long-term defence contracts with Saudi Arabia, Pentagon Spokesperson Sean Robertson told Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat in a statement. US forces continue to have “strong...

The United States House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation calling for sanctions against officials in China responsible for human rights abuses in the country’s western region of Xinjiang....

At the same time Robert Mueller investigated Russia’s covert operation to sabotage the US election, the FBI and the special counsel’s officer examined whether a former Trump aide was...

The Trump administration has ended sanction waivers for nations involved in the Iran nuclear deal

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Palestinians must fulfil “ten difficult conditions” before they obtain their own “entity” as defined by US President Donald Trump’s so-called ‘peace plan’....

Last Friday, 22 May, was Unity Day in Yemen, a national holiday marking the unification of the North and South which took place on that date in 1990. The...