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...

A number of Belgian NGOs have called to put pressure on the Israeli occupation authorities in order to release blocked Palestinian tax money to enable the Palestinian Authority (PA)...

An infamous Saudi cargo ship suspected of carrying weapons to be used in the war in Yemen has been forced to alter its route more than once, after facing...

Israel has launched an attack on a renowned children's rights organisation, prompted by an invitation by Belgium to host the NGO at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Defence...

For the past six years, the United Nations and other aid groups have been crossing into Syria from Turkey, Iraq and Jordan at four places authorized by the UN...

Oman's Sultan Qaboos will travel to Belgium on Saturday for unspecified medical checks, his court said, Reuters reports. Western-backed Qaboos, 79, has ruled the Arabian peninsula state since he...

Turkey continues to deport foreign Daesh fighters captured during its operations in northern Syria. In the past three weeks, the Turkish authorities have deported 21 foreign Daesh fighters to...

Belgian police found 12 migrants alive in a refrigerated truck at a motorway parking area in northern Belgium on Wednesday after the driver alerted the authorities, a federal police...

Two Daesh militants from Belgium have escaped custody in northern Syria in the course of Turkey's offensive against Kurdish forces there, the head of Belgium's security assessment agency said...