At least 11 children, including a one-month-old, were killed in Yemen in two separate attacks over the past three days, the United Nations children's agency (UNICEF) said yesterday. The...

NATO is committed to further strengthening the conflict resolution mechanism between Turkey and Greece to ease tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean, the organisation's Secretary General said on Tuesday. Jens...

US Presidential adviser Jared Kushner arrived in the Gulf on Monday in an effort to end the Saudi-led blockade of Qatar, Al Jazeera reported. Kushner is hoping to pull off a...

Algeria's Minister of Communication and government spokesman Ammar Belhimer has denounced the French role in the European Parliament's resolution on the "Situation of freedom in Algeria", describing it as...

The Algerian Football Federation yesterday condemned the exposure of international player, Nabil Bentaleb, to racist attacks in Germany. This came in a statement published by the Algerian Football Federation...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to ask the Egyptian government to disclose the financial information of companies owned by the military before disbursing...

The World Bank warned yesterday that more than half of Lebanese people will be poor by 2021 and criticised the local authorities' "deliberate lack of effective policy action" to...

Egypt executed at least 57 people in October and November, Amnesty International has said, almost double the number of executions carried out in the whole of 2019. Amnesty referred...

The current crisis between Qatar and the Gulf states could end "within 24 hours", Saudi Arabia's permanent representative to the United Nations, Abdullah Bin Yahya Al-Mouallimi, said yesterday. "If...

The conflict in Yemen has claimed 233,000 lives over the last six years, Anadolu reported the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) saying yesterday. In a report about...

Jordanian King Abdullah II affirmed the centrality of the Palestinian cause and the importance of continuing to strive towards achieving a just and comprehensive peace accepted by the peoples,...

Just hours after the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist, Tehran demanded the United Nations Security Council condemn the killing and take action against those responsible, but diplomats...

President Emmanuel Macron will seek to revive a French initiative on Lebanon when he hosts an international aid conference on Wednesday, but with the country's fractious political class bickering,...

The EU remains intent on preserving the Iran nuclear deal, the bloc's top diplomat said Tuesday, reports Anadolu Agency. Speaking at an event organized by the European External Action...

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...

The United Arab Emirates came out of OPEC heavyweight Saudi Arabia's shadow this week by demanding better adherence with oil supply cuts, effectively delaying the latest strategy decision by...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres never misses an opportunity to illustrate how the international community has failed Palestine and its people. On 29 November, the International Day of Solidarity with...

Turkey pulled an energy exploration ship from the Eastern Mediterranean in overtures to European leaders who'll be pondering imposing tougher sanctions on Ankara next week, Bloomberg reports. In a Twitter post...

Slovenia and Latvia both designated Hezbollah a terrorist organisation in its entirety yesterday. The pair are the latest in a series of European and Latin American states to make...

Members of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other allies including Russia yesterday delayed talks on whether or not oil production cuts should be extended for...

At its summit next month, the EU will assess its relations with Turkey not over one action, but on Turkey's actions over a period of time, said an EU...

African diplomats yesterday called out the UN for its inaction on Palestine and its failure to end Israel's more than half-century occupation. According to the Afro-Palestine Newswire Service, South Africa's...

Egypt and Kuwait are deliberating plans for Cairo to extradite an Egyptian citizen accused of stealing 1.9 million Kuwaiti dinars ($6.23 million) during his time working in the Arab...

The European Union (EU) has donated an additional €9.27 million ($11 million) to the Palestinian Authority (PA), supporting the payment of medical referrals to East Jerusalem hospitals, the Office...

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...

The success in drone warfare conducted by Turkey and Azerbaijan is a cause of concern for Europe and should force it to consider its options, a senior policy fellow...

A week of solidarity events was launched in Brazil yesterday to coincide with the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. An hour-long webinar held by five activists...

Qatar is undermining peace talks through its support for the United Nations recognised Libyan Government of National (GNA), Egyptian officials said, Al-Monitor reports. Last October, Qatar signed an agreement with the Tripoli-based Libyan government to build...

Yemen's Houthi-led government has agreed to allow a UN mission to inspect and repair an abandoned, decaying oil tanker said to be holding 1.1 million barrels of oil over fears...

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...

The Iranian Parliament yesterday voted in favour of a law requiring the government to boost annual enrichment of uranium to 20 per cent and stop international inspections of the...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Saturday that due to lack of funding, it had been forced to stop financial support for about 10,000 health workers in Yemen....