Political scientists define war as “intensive policy”; this is something that applies to sport in the Arab world. It reveals deep crises, both between states and in their foreign...

Israel Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Tel Aviv will continue with its policy of assassinations against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip despite an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire. “Israel will harm anyone...

The Turkish oil-and-gas drilling ship Fatih has started its operations off the coast of northeastern Cyprus, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said today, despite warnings from the European Union...

The US on Thursday vowed to continue leading the anti-Daesh coalition on its “essential security effort” while acknowledging significant milestones the multinational body has accomplished, Anadolu Agency reports. Addressing a...

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...

Representatives of a wide range of countries have expressed concern over Egypt’s human rights record at the UN Universal Periodic Review. Concern over torture, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, mass...

The United States declared itself “deeply concerned” by a European court ruling this week obliging European states to clearly label produce originating from Israeli settlements in occupied territory. In...

Israel and the Palestinian resistance this morning agreed to an Egyptian brokered ceasefire proposal

The extrajudicial killing of Bahaa Abu Al-Ata of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, the second largest faction in the Gaza Strip, has triggered a predictable spike in “conflict related...

Some of America’s most high-profile civil rights activists who took part in an event yesterday warning against efforts to outlaw the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement now face...

The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, said today that “the indiscriminate launching of rockets and mortars against population centres is absolutely unacceptable and...

Iranian President Hasan Rouhani yesterday defended his country’s policy in dealing with the nuclear accord and the reduction of Iran’s commitments to the pact. Negotiations are underway to reach...

The Israeli government slammed yesterday’s European court ruling on labelling settlement produce as a form of discrimination and vowed to thwart its implementation. In a much-anticipated decision, the European...

Egypt has been trying to deflect criticism of its human rights record and prison conditions ahead of a UN review in Geneva on Wednesday that comes in the wake...

France will take back 11 suspected French jihadists from Turkey, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said on Tuesday, a day after Ankara said it was deporting foreign citizens linked to...

The United Nations urged Lebanon on Tuesday to form a competent new government better able to seek international aid after weeks of protests against the ruling elite, warning the...

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President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday Iran would regain access to the international arms market later next year if it stuck to its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers...

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian during confrontations with stone-throwing protesters in the occupied West Bank on Monday, Palestinian health officials said, drawing a UN demand for the incident...

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi said yesterday that his country has received positive reactions to the peace initiative known as Hormuz Peace Endeavor (HOPE) from regional players....

After being vetoed twice for membership of the European Union in 1967, the United Kingdom was finally admitted at the third attempt in 1973. Today, the British government is...

The UN must investigate the death of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and hold those responsible for his murder to account, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood said on Saturday. “As part...

Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs is recruiting a senior manager in “cultural affairs”, as part of the government’s offensive against so-called “cultural delegitimization”, a reference to the Palestinian-led Boycott,...

Last week, UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced that Pierre Krähenbühl, the General Commissioner of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA),...

Amnesty International has called on Iraqi authorities to rein in security forces, amid anti-government protests that left scores dead. On Saturday, at least seven protesters were killed as security...

Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday rejected as a “trap” reports that the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, found traces of uranium at an Iranian site that...

Israel is worried about the potential European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) binding ruling to label products of illegal Israeli settlements built in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and...

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) head of mission and force commander major general, Stefano Del Col, met on Thursday with senior officers of the Lebanese and...

The head of Sudan’s National Umma Party, Sadiq Al-Mahdi, called for finding a mechanism to extradite ousted president, Omar Al-Bashir, to the International Criminal Court (ICC), and held official...

Turkey will start extraditing captured Daesh terrorists on November 11 to their home countries, according to Turkey’s interior minister, Anadolu reports. “PYD releases Daesh terrorists and we capture them,”...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused the Iraqi security forces of firing tear gas canisters directly at protesters’ heads which led to the death of 16 protesters since Oct. 25,...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday NATO must grow and change or risk becoming obsolete, a day after French President Emmanuel Macron said the alliance was...