The man responsible for torturing hundreds of people during the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt has died in Britain. Shams Badran was 91, the New Khaliji has reported....

The city council in Aberdeen has flown the Palestinian flag on the Town House to commemorate the UN's International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Decisions about which...

An Iraqi-born British politician has been appointed as head of the UK's coronavirus vaccine drive, Downing Street said on Saturday. Nadhim Zahawi, 53, who is the Conservative Member of...

An international law firm based in London and Istanbul has called on the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances to...

Around half a million French people took to the streets over the weekend urging President Emmanuel Macron's government to abandon legislation which would stop the publication of photographs or...

British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab said on Sunday he was concerned about the situation in Iran and wider region after the killing of a top Iranian nuclear scientist, Reuters reports. "We...

UK and France have signed a new agreement to tackle illegal migration via the English Channel, Anadolu Agency reports. The French government has agreed to double the number of officers patrolling...

After almost ten years of a brutal civil war, economic catastrophe, rising poverty, the COVID-19 pandemic and now the fatal winter months – misery is compounded again and again...

A British archaeologist from the University of Reading believes that a crypt under an ancient church in Nazareth could have been the childhood home of Jesus Christ

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) launched a Twitter storm on Wednesday to raise awareness of the dangerous journey made by refugees to reach safety in Europe with the...

A British-Australian academic who was freed from Iranian jail on Thursday was detained in 2018 on espionage charges after authorities there found her partner was an Israeli citizen, the...

US President-elect Joe Biden is likely to involve America in disputes and conflicts within the Middle East as a direct result of the people who he is appointing to...

Iran has exchanged a jailed British-Australian academic, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, with three Iranians who had been detained abroad, Iran's state broadcaster IRIB reported on Wednesday, Reuters reports. Moore-Gilbert, a specialist...

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has joined the chorus of voices condemning the arrest of EIPR human rights advocates in Egypt. Last week the director of the Egyptian Initiative...

Thousands are set to take part in a week of action to mark the UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Events organised by the Palestine Solidarity...

Two human rights groups called on Britain to stop selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and the UAE in light of their ongoing involvement in the war in Yemen. A...

Matt Hancock made the statement during an interview with LBC radio yesterday morning, without providing further detail on the government’s plan for the Christmas period.

Over 300 students have signed a statement expressing deep concerns over the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, calling on UK universities to unequivocally protect their right...

France, Germany and Britain hinted yesterday that they will impose sanctions on any party that obstructs the political agreement between the two parties to the Libyan conflict. In a...

Jordan's Princess Haya Bint Al-Hussein, the former wife of the ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, is reported to have paid her British bodyguard lover $1.6 million...

The UK government has responded to pressure from the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Conservative Friends of Israel by listing Israel and occupied Jerusalem together as...

An advertising campaign was launched today to highlight the massive human rights violations committed by the Saudi regime and calling for a boycott of this weekend's G20 Summit which...

Top Turkish and the UK diplomats on Thursday discussed a range of issues including Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean, sources and officials said, Anadolu Agency reports. "The UK encourages all parties...

There is mounting pressure on world leaders to boycott the upcoming G20 Summit, which is to be held later this month in Saudi Arabia, over the kingdom’s detention and alleged “torture” of women activists

The Turkish Ministry of Defence announced on Wednesday that Turkish F-16 Fighting Falcons have participated in joint military exercises with the Eurofighter Typhoon of the Royal Air Force (RAF)....

Britain on Wednesday "condemned" Israel's decision to advance construction of more than 1,000 settlement buildings in an area of occupied West Bank, Anadolu reports. "Israel's decision to advance the...

A Syrian teenager has won a libel case against UK far-right leader Tommy Robinson who called him a bully. Jamal Hijazi won the case after the High Court ruled Robinson,...

The former leader of Britain's Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn will be readmitted after he was suspended from the party for downplaying a report that detailed serious failings in its...

A panel of leading human rights organisations, NGOs and British MPs today discussed the ongoing detention of two senior Saudi princes while listening to testimonies about the Kingdom's increasing...

Art communicates across every border and culture. Visual art is open and ambiguous, and allows imaginations to wander in time and space. Through London-based artist Alaa Alsaraji, they even...

Two US servicemen and their friend who foiled a Daesh (ISIS) terror attack have appeared in a Paris court as witnesses. US National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, US airman Spencer...

A Palestinian court yesterday held the first session to review a lawsuit filed against the British government over its crimes in Palestine during the British Mandate between 1917- 1948...