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The UN has called on the Australian government to urgently address the situation for women and children in camps in northeast Syria. UN Special Rapporteur on counterterrorism and human...

Morocco and the US kicked off the annual African Lion military exercises on Monday, which will last until the end of the month. The exercises include 7,500 personnel from...

ConocoPhillips will take part in QatarEnergy's North Field LNG expansion as the third partner, energy and commodity consultancy company, S&P Global, said. A joint venture between QatarEnergy and ConocoPhillips...

Asylum seekers sent from filthy, dangerous Libyan detention centres to Rwanda say their new quarters are a huge improvement but they still want to reach Europe – raising questions...

Algerian Foreign Minister, Ramtane Lamamra, held talks over the phone with his French counterpart, Catherine Colonna, on Tuesday amid a crisis between the North African country and Spain, Anadolu...

Human rights groups said they had today submitted papers at the High Court in London to get an injunction to halt next week's planned deportation of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda, a...

Amnesty International has called on Israel to immediately release a human rights defender held under Tel Aviv's administrative detention policy for another three months, Anadolu News Agency reports. "The...

Qatar plans to re-install a sculpture immortalising French-Algerian football player, Zinedine Zidane's head butt during the 2006 World Cup final, which had been removed in 2013 amid a domestic...

Three non-governmenatal organisations (NGOs) said on Thursday they had filed a lawsuit at a Paris court against three top French arms' producers for alleged war crimes complicity in Yemen...

A French restaurant in Saudi Arabia's coastal city of Jeddah banned the entry of women wearing the hijab or Islamic veil, inciting outrage amongst customers and citizens in the...

The Court noted that the amended rules allowed “certain users to free themselves from the obligation of close-fitting outfits for religious purposes"

A French woman of Lebanese descent has been appointed to lead France’s Ministry of Culture, in the new government under recently re-elected President Emmanuel Macron.

The killing of a guard at the Qatar Embassy in Paris in the early hours of Monday was a "heinous and unjustified" crime, the Embassy said, as French prosecutors...

A French appeals court confirms a charge of complicity in crimes against humanity against the cement group, Lafarge, over alleged payoffs to the Daesh terror group during Syria's civil...

In 2015, Hasna Ait Boulahcen was labelled Europe's first female suicide bomber by the media, after she died in a blast in the Parisian suburbs three days after the...

Grenoble city's decision to allow women to wear the head-to-toe swimming costume, burkini, in municipal swimming pools has set off a heated controversy in France, with the government deeming...

Iran's state television, on Tuesday, showed what it described as details of the arrest of two French citizens earlier this month, saying they were spies who had sought to...

The United Nations said yesterday that Israel's expulsion of 13 Palestinian communities in  the occupied West Bank in order to conduct military exercises is "inhumane and illegal." This came during a visit by UN Humanitarian Coordinator, Samer Abdel Jaber,...

Fifteen European countries, on Friday, urged Israel to stop plans for more illegal settlements in the West Bank, according to an official statement, Anadolu News Agency reports. "We are...

A French couple has gone missing while on holiday in Iran, an official from the union one of them represents said today, a day after Iran's intelligence ministry said...

French prosecutors have opened an investigation into global police agency Interpol President, Ahmed Nasser Al-Raisi over allegations that he may have been an accomplice to torture, an official said, and...

Iraq's Ministry of Defence has signed a contract with the US and France to import advanced weapons and enhance the quality of its artillery, the state-run Iraqi News Agency...

French footballer Karim Benzema is suing a far-right politician for associating the Real Madrid super-star with Islamic extremism, according to Le Parisien. The French daily reported last week that Benzema has...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced on Saturday that the "horrific massacres" committed by French colonialism in his country "cannot be forgotten." Tebboune made his comment on the 77th anniversary...

A mosque affiliated with Turkiye's Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) in France's north-eastern province of Metz was attacked on Thursday night, Anadolu News Agency reports. The mosque was...

Two non-governmental organisations said they have recorded an "alarming" increase in the application of the death penalty in Iran with a rise of 25 per cent in 2021 compared...

A French lawyer has expressed deep concern over the recent assault of two veiled young Muslim women by police officers at the Pont de Clichy in the north-western part...

Pilots of the EgyptAir plane which crashed into the Mediterranean Sea killing all 66 people on board in 2016 were reportedly smoking in the cabin, sparking a fire in...

France and Saudi Arabia announced a joint development fund for crisis-hit Lebanon, Tuesday, pledging an initial $30 million to support food security and the country's crippled health sector

A British judge will, on Tuesday, rule whether Airbus must keep building A321neo jetliners for estranged Qatar Airways in a decision with implications for future multi-billion-dollar jet deals, as...

Amnesty International has called on French President Emmanuel Macron to make the protection of human rights a priority for his second term in office after he beat his far-right rival...

This Sunday, France faces an uncertain test as voters head to the polls to elect the next president of the republic in the second and final round. Choosing between...