The Turkish authorities have moved to protect tourists stranded in the country following the collapse of British tour operator Thomas Cook. Hotels in Turkey have been ordered not to...

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on world leaders to act to stop Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s repressive crackdown on protesters. Over the past week, Egyptians have...

Britain’s Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has slammed Prime Minister Boris Johnson for saying that he might send British troops to Saudi Arabia in the confrontation with Iran. “It...

'Everyone knows that FGM is wrong'

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has criticised the European states who were part of the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, accusing them of failing to honour their commitments, and said...

The British Labour Party yesterday voted in favour of a motion which could see Britain cease trade with Israel if it doesn’t comply with international human rights laws. The...

British tourists are leaving from Turkey’s southwestern Mugla province following the collapse of UK tour operator Thomas Cook, as reported by Anadolu Agency.  Nearly 1,000 tourists have started returning...

US President Donald Trump responded positively to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s idea of creating a new nuclear deal with Iran, saying that he respected Johnson and was not...

The detained British-flagged tanker Stena Impero is “free to leave,” Iran’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Hamid Baeidinejad, said on Twitter on Monday, says Reuters. “The British-flagged tanker ‘Stena...

Two dozen mainly European countries voiced concern on Monday at alleged torture, unlawful detentions and unfair trials of critics, including women activists and journalists, in Saudi Arabia, reports Reuters....

UK Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry slammed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s human rights record in a searing speech today. In an address at the Labour Party Conference...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has raised the prospect of giving military assistance to Saudi Arabia days after the US announced that it too was increasing its military build...

Five Western countries including the United States, as well as Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, support Libyan state oil firm NOC as the sole legitimate authority for the...

The Egyptian authorities have censored several media website, including BBC Arabic, for reporting news about the demonstrations that broke out on Friday evening in Cairo and several governorates against...

Co-founder of Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) will be unable to speak at an event at the UK Labour Party’s upcoming annual conference due to his visa request being...

John Bercow, the speaker of the UK’s House of Commons, will be standing down soon. He has been an animated figure, whose gesticulations and dressing downs of MPs have...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Donald Trump condemned last weekend’s attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities and discussed the need for a united diplomatic response in...

Saudi Arabia announced, Wednesday, it’s joining of the International Alliance for the Safety and Protection of Maritime Navigation and Insurance of the Safety of Seaways. The official SPA news...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s newly appointed Communities and Local Government Secretary, Robert Jenrick, has pledged to come down hard on local councils and universities that fail to adopt the...

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government will extend a controversial ban on arms exports to Saudi Arabia until the end of the month, a government source said yesterday. The ban...

The UK government has apologised for breaking its own pledge not to licence export of arms to Saudi Arabia that could be used in the conflict in Yemen. The...

Sheffield United’s Kevin McCabe has been ordered by a High Court to sell his 50 per cent share in the English football team to co-owner Prince Abdullah Bin Mosaad...

Families of victims who lost their lives during a Saudi air strike at a funeral in Yemen have today filed a complaint with the Metropolitan Police and the US...

Some 113 British members of parliament have warned that Israel is in danger of becoming an apartheid state. The bleak assessment was made in a letter sent by the...

A British-Australian woman jailed in Iran has been identified as Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a specialist in Middle East politics at the University of Melbourne reports Reuters. The academic’s family issued...

Some European countries and the high representative of the EU on Friday voiced concern over Iran’s nuclear actions, which they say contradicts with the 2015 deal, reports Anadolu Agency....

Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said she met last week with her Iranian counterpart, seeking to secure the release of three citizens held by Tehran, Reuters reports. Australia’s Department...

The European University in Egypt (EUE) in Cairo will teach degrees under the “academic direction” of the prestigious London School of Economic (LSE) as part of a deal signed...

Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) and Spanish shipbuilder Navantia signed a $991 million deal to adapt Navantia’s combat management systems for Saudi navy corvette ships. An announcement, reported by...

The exiled Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan has dropped a libel action against Middle East Eye and its editor-in-chief David Hearst hours before he was legally bound to disclose all...

Three Australian citizens have been detained in Iran, the Australian government said on Wednesday, adding that it was helping the families of the three but gave no further details,...

Some 24 million children living in conflict zones will require mental health support, Save the Children warned in a report released today. The charity said: “142 million children live...