The Swiss parliament has blocked a move to criminalise the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign aimed at Israel’s abuse of human rights in occupied Palestine. Although MPs voted...

The Swiss attorney general is considering presenting an indictment against former Israeli Foreign Minister and current MK, Tzipi Livni, on charges of war crimes, according to Israeli media. Israel’s...

The Saudi embassy in Austria has warned its citizens not to wear a full face veil, niqab, in Austria after the government passed a bill banning it, Al-Hayat newspaper...

Switzerland said a sign raised by protesters in the capital, Bern, in late March calling to “Kill Erdogan” did not violate laws against inciting violence. People demonstrating in Bern...

United Nations mediator Staffan de Mistura said on Monday that he was reconvening peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition in Geneva on 16 May. In a statement,...

Five students at the University of Manchester began a movement which has now spread across Europe

Swiss Imam and head of the Islamic Centre of Geneva, Hani Ramadan, has been forced to leave France. The Egyptian born cleric, the older brother of the Islamic scholar...

Kuwaiti authorities said British authorities have arrested the former head of Kuwait’s social security fund, Fahad Al-Rajaan, who is convicted of corruption and embezzling public money. A Kuwaiti court...

PKK sympathisers held up signs reading "Kill Erdogan with his own weapons" and pictured a pistol aimed at his head during a rally in Bern, Switzerland

Turkey’s foreign ministry summoned Switzerland’s charge d’affairs in Ankara on Saturday to complain about a protest in Bern that it said supported terrorism and included a poster calling for...

Switzerland has launched a criminal investigation into possible foreign spying on the country’s Turkish community, federal prosecutors said today. The Swiss foreign minister told his Turkish counterpart on Thursday...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday that the increasing militant activities in Syria is intended to thwart the negotiations due to begin in Geneva, Sputnik news agency...

The Swiss parliament passed a bill on Wednesday to prevent the state from “financing any organisation which supports racism, anti-Semitism, or the BDS”. Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported yesterday...

LafargeHolcim said one of its cement plants probably paid protection money to armed groups in Syria to keep the factory running in the war-torn country, speculated to be Daesh...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets with UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, and Tunisian Foreign Minister, Khemaies Jhinaoui, in Geneva

The UN is preparing for Syria peace talks planned for 20 February in Geneva, Switzerland. UN envoy Staffan de Mistura will send invitations for the talks in the coming...