A Turkish educational foundation that bought the home of legendary American boxer Muhammad Ali has announced plans to turn the property into a summer school for Muslim youth. The...

Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov said yesterday that more efforts are needed to facilitate the return of Syrian refugees to their country. The Russian minister made the remarks during...

Britain will be pulling out more than half of its warplanes operating in Syria and Iraq, just a month after the US announced its military withdrawal from Syria, the...

The European Union yesterday imposed sanctions against nine Syrian and Russian officials for their involvement in chemical weapons attacks in war-torn Syria. The decision was made during a meeting...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday that migrants and asylum seekers end up in “nightmarish detention,” and accused the EU and Italy of contributing to the cycle of...

Western newspapers have talked about the fierce political and security rivalry between France and Italy over Libya, amid a hindered political process due to the contradicted US project, which...

It is believed that this includes about 100 migrants, who were classified by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Sunday as being in a crisis off the coast...

British academic Matthew Hedges said he had “no other option but to confess” during nearly seven months of detention in the United Arab Emirates on espionage charges, reports Reuters....

In a blow to Israel, a British high court has ordered World-Check, a subsidiary of Reuters, to pay compensation to a pro-Palestine organisation listed as a terrorist group on...

A UK-based Palestinian advocacy group is to hold a conference on Israel’s “Nation-State Law” at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, tomorrow. Parliamentarians, jurists and activists are expected to...

After maintaining a neutral stance on the Saudi-led blockade of Qatar, Lebanon’s position has edged towards the tiny Gulf State. The blockade has been in place since June 2017,...

Berlin has revoked Iranian airline Mahan’s right to operate in Germany, a senior government source told Reuters today, giving both safety concerns and the suspicion that the airline was...

The Turkish Red Crescent on Sunday distributed humanitarian aid to displaced families in Iraq’s northern city of Halabja, Anadolu reports. Utku Akbas, a Turkish Red Crescent official in Iraq told Anadolu...

The Labour Party in Britain has been dogged by allegations of anti-Semitism ever since Jeremy Corbyn’s victory in the 2015 leadership contest. The crisis has since threatened to tear...

Turkey is ready to take over security in Syria’s Manbij, President Tayyip Erdogan told US President Donald Trump in a telephone call on Sunday, the Turkish presidency said in...

Five foreign mine clearance experts were killed in an explosion in Yemen’s eastern Marib city on Sunday, according to local sources. A number of mines exploded inside the Saudi...

The United States is increasingly aware of the importance of protecting its Kurdish allies even as it withdraws from Syria, French defence minister Florence Parly said on Sunday. US...

By arming the YPG group in Syria, Washington “created a nightmare for Turkey,” said a senior US senator during a visit to the Turkish capital on Saturday. Underlining that...

A boat carrying 20 migrants sank off Libya’s coast, leaving three dead, an Italian news agency said Friday. Citing Italian navy sources, ANSA reported that an inflatable boat sank...

A bomb in the northwest Syrian town of Afrin killed three civilians and wounded about 20 on a public bus, several witnesses told Reuters on Sunday. The blast came...

Bulgarian prosecutors have charged five Syrian citizens and a Bulgarian woman alleged to be members of a crime group which had sent more than 25 million euros ($28 million)...

Russia has reiterated its readiness to host a reconciliation conference between rival Palestinian factions. In a phone call with the Head of Hamas’ Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, Russia’s special...

In the freezing weather, these men take these horses and water buffalo to their very own hot tub!

Said Arslan takes care of his camels in the snowy mountains of Turkey...

It's winter, and Istanbul is welcoming some feathery friends to their aquarium!

The German parliament’s lower house approved on Friday a contentious law to limit asylum applications from Georgia and three Maghreb countries Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, Reuters reports. Some 509...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Friday the Human Rights Council has the capacity to probe the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Anadolu Agency reports. “The Human Rights Council...

Palestinian anthropologist Suhad Jarrar-Browne at 'BAYT | The Art of Arab Hospitality'

Ethnic minority Britons face “shocking” discrimination in the labour market, with those originating from Muslim-majority countries facing the greatest obstacles, new UK research has revealed today. According to a...

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Turkey has deported a journalist back to the Netherlands as a “precautionary measure” after receiving a tip-off from Dutch authorities that she was linked to designated terror groups in...

The Palestinian ambassador to the UK, Husam Zomlot, said Thursday that the Trump administration is acting in support of the ‘Greater Israel’ project and against Palestinian statehood. Zomlot was...