In parts 'The Man Who Sold His Skin' requires a little imagination, but this romance meets drama meets satire is at the same time an urgent revisiting of the refugee crisis

Think tank Transnational Institute (TNI) has called on the European Union (EU) to spend its resources saving lives, instead of punishing people seeking safety on its shores. Europe had...

The great floods which recently decimated parts of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands were much more than a warning on the perils of climate change. They also revealed some...

Europe's identity crisis is not confined to the ceaseless squabbles by Europeans over the EU, Brexit, or football. It goes much deeper, reaching sensitive and dangerous territory, including that...

NATO is vital for Turkey's security but must develop a clear vision to continue its support for all of its member states, the director of presidential communications in Ankara...

Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo announced that his country had recently sent a consular mission to northeastern Syria to prepare for the return of Belgian children still detained...

Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council requesting support in holding legislative elections scheduled later this year. "Iraq has sent a...

An Iranian diplomat sentenced to 20 years in prison for planning a bomb attack in France has dropped an appeal in Belgium and will serve his sentence, Reuters reported his representative saying yesterday....

The UN Security Council has rejected Belgium's request to seize $59 million (49 million euros) of Libya's frozen assets, Libya's permanent delegate to the UN said Saturday, Anadolu Agency...

United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric on Tuesday said the UN is deeply concerned by the situation of nearly 31,000 foreign children detained in Al-Hawl and Rouge refugee camps in...

Five current and former European members of the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday said they held the Syrian regime responsible for the Syrian Constitutional Committee's failure to achieve...

Iran on Tuesday summoned Belgium's ambassador in Tehran over the conviction of an Iranian diplomat in a Belgian court on charges of planning to bomb an exiled opposition rally...

A Belgian court on Thursday sentenced Iranian diplomat Assadolah Assadi to 20 years in prison for attempting a bomb attack, Anadolu Agency reports. The Vienna-based diplomat was involved in a...

The embassy of the UAE was involved in fraud against scores of workers and employees, including secretaries, chefs, translators, drivers and housekeepers, Belgian newspaper DH revealed last week. According to Rassd news network,...

A gunman was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for his role in a foiled 2015 terrorist attack on a European train. Ayoub El Khazzani, a 31-year-old trained Daesh fighter,...

A detained Saudi prince has reportedly been moved to a secret location by the authorities, prompting a European lawmaker to write a letter urging for clarity on the location...

An Iranian diplomat suspected of leading a failed state-sponsored bomb attack in Europe has received a 20-year prison sentence in Belgium. Assadollah Assadi, 48, faced trial in Antwerp, Belgium, last week, alongside...

A Belgian policeman is in court today over the death of a Kurdish toddler he accidentally shot in May 2018, Agence France Presse (AFP) reports. The officer shot two-year-old Mawda Shawri...

Two US servicemen and their friend who foiled a Daesh (ISIS) terror attack have appeared in a Paris court as witnesses. US National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, US airman Spencer...

Belgium is furious. On November 6, the Belgian government condemned Israel's destruction of Belgian-funded homes in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank. Understandably, Brussels wants the Israeli government to pay...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday met with the Commander of his Naval Forces, Lieutenant General Ahmed Khaled, Prime Minister, Mustafa Madbouly, and Minister of Petroleum, Tariq Al-Mulla, to...

Israel has refused to pay Belgium compensation for the demolition of four Palestinian homes, local outlets reported yesterday. Belgium demanded reparations last week after claiming the houses were built as part...

Belgium on Friday condemned Israel's destruction of Belgian-funded homes in the occupied West Bank, urged Tel Aviv to refrain from destroying Palestinian schools and demanding compensation for Palestinians affected...

More than 600 children born to Daesh members who are European nationals are being detained with their mothers in camps run by Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria, a new...

The son of an Iraqi refugee who emigrated to Belgium in 1970 has become the country's new minister for migration and asylum. Sammy Mahdi, 32 of the Flemish Christian...

A number of Belgian Jews have claimed that their country's new coalition government will be extremely critical of Israel, the Times of Israel has reported. Belgian MPs agreed to...

Syria's Assad regime yesterday slammed the donor conference held in Brussels as "flagrant interference" in its internal affairs, AFP reported. In a statement issued by the Syrian Foreign Ministry, Damascus considered...

Jordan has issued more than 190,000 work permits to Syrian refugees in Jordan, RT Arabic reported the Minister of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs, Ayman Safadi, saying yesterday. The needs of Syrian...

The United Nations yesterday urged international donors to double their financial pledges to support Syrian refugees and countries which shelter them in the region in an effort to reach...

The Belgian parliament today passed a resolution urging the government to call on the European Union to impose sanctions against Israel if it proceeds with its plan to annex large swaths...

The Belgian Chamber of Representatives will today be voting on whether to "formally recognise the State of Palestine." The resolution, said Socialist MP Malik Ban Achour, urges the federal...

The chief of Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) has reportedly been convicted after publishing an interview with a former Iranian diplomat who criticised Tehran's "arbitrary" intelligence operations in Europe. According to...