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Sweden granted citizenship to over 27,000 Syrian refugees in 2021, remaining one of the most welcoming European countries for asylum seekers and migrants. According to a report by the...

The head of a Swedish political party has announced that he will file a criminal complaint against the country's foreign minister, after she was seen meeting with the leadership...

Sweden remains an active partner to Syria's Kurds, Foreign Minister Ann Linde said yesterday following a meeting with officials in the region. Linde met with co-President of the Kurdish...

Sweden has donated $5.7 million as part of a funding agreement with the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees to support the reconstruction of the besieged Gaza...

Swedish journalist Lena Fredriksson's account of everyday life under Israel's West Bank occupation is informed and passionate. All Quiet on the West Bank? Living under prolonged occupation pulls no...

The Church of Sweden is the latest to join the growing list of Christian organisations to have raised concerns over Israel's imposition of apartheid on the Palestinians. In a...

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said yesterday that eight countries pledged $614 million during an international ministerial conference hosted by Jordan and Sweden. During the conference, titled "Sustaining...

Hamas yesterday urged donors attending a conference in Brussels to protect the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). A number of donor countries are meeting today under the auspices of Jordan and...

Turkey did not invite the ten Western ambassadors who called on the release of a detainee to the Republic Day ceremony, revealing Ankara's ongoing displeasure with the envoys. After...

Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Holland, Norway, Poland and Sweden released a joint statement on Thursday insisting that Israel halt its plans to expand settlements in...

The plan to expel ten Western ambassadors from Turkey was averted due to Ankara's secret diplomatic talks with the United States, it has been revealed. After ten Western ambassadors—from...

The fact that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature is welcome news, especially as the Swedish Academy is historically known for lacking in diversity, as if...

Several Palestine activist groups and academics working in the field of anti-Semitism studies have issued separate statements raising their concerns on instrumentalising anti-Semitism ahead of tomorrow's International Forum on...

Amnesty International has released a report to say that 66 Syrian refugees who returned home have been detained, forcibly disappeared, and tortured by Syrian security forces. The report, "You're...

UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg will assume his duties from 5 September and will brief the UN Security Council for the first time next month, his office...

The trial of an Iranian official in connection to mass executions of political prisoners in a 1988 purge is to commence tomorrow in Stockholm, Sweden. Hamid Noury held a...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is expected to shortly name Swedish diplomat Hans Grundberg as his new Yemen envoy, diplomats said, after China informally gave the greenlight for the appointment...

A 60-year-old Iranian citizen has been charged in Sweden with suspected war crimes committed in Iran in 1988 when around 5,000 political prisoners were executed on government orders, Stockholm...

The Houthis are ready to exchange all prisoners with the Yemeni government, the group's Al-Masirah TV reported the head of the Prisoner Affairs Committee saying yesterday. According to the channel, Abdul...

Four NGOs have filed a criminal complaint in Sweden against members of the Syrian government for deadly chemical weapons attacks in 2013 and 2017, AFP reports. According to the news site,...

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to a statement issued by a number of countries at the UN Human Rights Council criticising Cairo's human rights records by issuing...

Swedish-Iranian scientist Ahmadreza Djalali, sentenced to death in Iran on espionage charges, is in critical condition and near death after months of prolonged solitary confinement, Reuters reported UN human rights experts...

The United Nations has appealed for $3.85 billion to fund the humanitarian needs of Yemen in 2021. In a statement issued yesterday, the UN said it expects to provide...

A fundraising event for Yemen's humanitarian crisis is expected to take place in early March, hosted virtually by Sweden and Switzerland, four aid sources told Reuters on Sunday. A...

World leaders reacted with shock and dismay to the storming of the US Capitol by supporters of US President Donald Trump, protesting congressional certification of President-elect Joe Biden's electoral victory, Anadolu Agency reports....

The Swedish authorities are planning to deport a Syrian refugee at the end of his four-year prison sentence, despite him being wanted by the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad....

Turkish intelligence has arrested 13 people suspected of abducting Iranian ethnic Arab activist Habib Chaab, who was lured by his ex-wife to Istanbul, news agencies reported yesterday. Chaab, a...

Swedish-Iranian scientist Ahmadreza Djalali, sentenced to death in Iran on espionage charges, may face imminent execution, rights groups said on Tuesday. "On 1 December, a judge said Ahmadreza was...

Four women alleged to have been supporters and recruits of Daesh, along with their nine children, have been allowed to return to Sweden, following their escape from the infamous...

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...

A senior delegation from the Swedish Foreign Ministry has visited north-east Syria to hold talks with the Kurdish militias and administration. The delegation, led by the ministry's Special Envoy...

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Sunday condemned the burning of a copy of the Muslim holy book Quran in the southern Sweden city of Malmo, Anadolu reports....