US State Secretary Mike Pompeo has suggested that outgoing President Donald Trump should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for promoting harmony between Arab countries and Israel. This comes...

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) yesterday criticised the timing of the US State Department's plan to designate Yemen's Houthi group as a "terrorist organisation", saying Yemen is on the...

International human rights law and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia do not sit together easily. A head of state acting as the "custodian" of the two holy mosques in...

No sane person can refuse to consider reconciliation between conflicting parties, especially if they are from the same land. It is hard to believe that reconciliation is possible between...

International donors have pledged to contribute $130 million in aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) working for the welfare of Palestinian refugees in support of its core...

Former Iranian judge and prosecutor, Gholamreza Mansouri, who was known for jailing journalists in the Islamic Republic, has been arrested in Romania. According to a report by the Times, Mansouri, who was a...

Norway, which chairs a group of international donors to the Palestinians, urged Israel on Tuesday not to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. Norway heads the Ad Hoc...

Norway has called for more aid to support the struggling economy of the occupied Palestinian territories in the face of the coronavirus crisis, Haaretz has reported. The Palestinian Authority...

With tears in his eyes, a student from the Uyghur Muslim minority, residing in Saudi Arabia, held his long-ago expired Chinese passport, making him face a mysterious fate, with...

Norway's right-wing, anti-immigration party has quit the country's coalition government in protest over a cabinet decision to repatriate a woman suspected of belonging to Daesh so that her sick...

Norway's sovereign wealth fund has banned investment in G4S because of the risk of human rights violations being committed by the company in Qatar and the UAE, the Guardian...

Syrian refugees living in Norway have made a request to the local authorities and police to investigate the allegations of atrocities, war crimes and human rights violations committed by...

Oslo's newly installed City Council is banning Israeli settlement goods and services from public contracts, reported the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) National Committee. Norway's capital and largest...

This month, MEMO turns 10 years old. Here we look at our biggest stories of the decade.

The United States is preparing to send additional troops to the Middle East in response to mounting concerns over Iran, which Washington blames for attacks on oil tankers last...

Mohamed El Hassan Labba, the African envoy, announced, Thursday, that international network had been formed to support African mediation efforts in crisis in Sudan. Labba stated that the network...

The United Arab Emirates told United Nations Security Council members on Thursday that attacks on four tankers off its coast on May 12 bore the hallmarks of a "sophisticated...

US President Donald Trump issued a new threat to Tehran on Sunday, tweeting that a conflict would be the "official end" of Iran, as Saudi Arabia warned it stood...

The CIA has warned a Palestinian activist that there are potential threats against him from Saudi Arabia

Algeria's state energy company Sonatrach wants to develop its partnerships with foreign firms to boost output and exports, its new chief executive said on Wednesday, comments that could reassure...

Sudan has established emergency prosecutors and courts nationwide, state news agency SUNA said on Tuesday, a day after President Omar al-Bashir announced sweeping new security powers to contend with...

The leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Al-Sinwar, has refused to meet with Norway's special envoy for the Middle East peace process Tor Wennesland, Anadolu Agency reported...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to dismiss international observers in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron may breach the Oslo Accords, a Norwegian minister has said. "The...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he would eject a foreign force set up to help safeguard Palestinians in a flashpoint city in the occupied West Bank,...

A senior member of the Hamas Political Bureau said on Monday that "the worst is still to come" as far as the Gaza Strip is concerned. Mousa Abu Marzook's...

Morocco arrested a Swiss national on Saturday in connection with the killing of two Scandinavian women, the counter-terrorism agency said. Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, from Denmark, and Maren Ueland,...

Three men arrested by Moroccan authorities on suspicion of the murder of two Scandinavian women may have links to Daesh, a prosecutor told reporters yesterday. The brutal killing of...

The Norwegian police said as many as 30 Norwegian citizens who went to Syria to participate in hostilities there have been killed, while, Norwegian ABC Nyheter reported. The paper...

The US' continued military support for Saudi Arabia and the UAE is prolonging the war in Yemen, leading human rights groups have said. In a joint statement, OXFAM, Care,...

Kristin Foss was shot twice by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. As she tells MEMO, for Palestinians this is daily life.

A Norwegian pro-Palestine activist has been left with two bullet wounds after being shot by Israeli soldiers on two separate occasions within the same week. Kristen Foss, a volunteer...

Swedish activists Charlie Andreasson and Divina Levrini, who were detained by the Israeli authorities on Monday while trying to break the blockade on Gaza, returned to their country on...