Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday that the agreements concluded at the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit held in the Saudi city of Al-Ula will help create the...

Arab normalisation with Israel is expected to have serious consequences that go well beyond the limited and self-serving agendas of a few regional countries. Thanks to the Arab normalisers,...

Syria has called on the UN Security Council to assume its responsibilities and take "strict and immediate" action against Israel's repeated air strikes on its neighbour. "The Israeli aggression...

When supporters of the soon-to-be ex-President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol Building in Washington DC last week, many things were revealed that day. We saw the lengths that Trump...

Yemen's Houthi movement will not walk away from peace talks with the United Nations and Saudi Arabia despite the US decision to designate the Iran-aligned group as a foreign...

The US decision to declare Houthis rebels, who fought the central government in Yemen's civil, a "terrorist organisation" could negatively affect the political process, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov...

UNRWA announced that it hopes the US will end its boycott of the international aid group when President-elect Joe Biden comes into power

Human rights in Lebanon have seen the most drastic deterioration in decades, according to the Human Rights Watch's (HRW) World Report 2021. The country's poverty rate doubled in 2020 as...

Executive Director of Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), Sarah Leah Whitson, yesterday called on Egyptian authorities to release elderly prisoners. In a video posted on Twitter by Batel Campaign, Whitson said: "I am speaking today...

Lebanon has submitted an official complaint with the United Nations (UN) against Israel's continued violations of the country's sovereignty, the Lebanese National News Agency reported. On Tuesday, the agency...

The United Nations (UN) is "extremely concerned" about the potential impact of the US plan to designate the Yemeni Houthi group as a foreign terrorist group, according to a...

The European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, has called on Iran to abandon its efforts to enrich uranium at 20 per cent and...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) yesterday welcomed the Arab-EU ministerial meeting on the Palestinian issue, PA's Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki told Palestinian official radio. The meeting included Germany, France, Egypt...

The United Nations envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, on Monday described Saudi Arabia's commitment to finding a political settlement to the conflict in Yemen as "crucial". This came after...

Sudanese Foreign Minister Omar Gamar Eddine Ismail confirmed that "the new conditions for returning to the Renaissance Dam negotiations to conduct meaningful talks on the issue were presented to...

Lawyers of Turkish businessman Mehmet Ali Ozturk, who has been detained in the UAE for nearly three years, have filed an urgent complaint to the United Nations accusing the...

The granddaughter of former Sudanese Sultan Ali Dinar has called for the Sudanese government to help all Sudanese families living in Gaza to return home, RT reported on Monday....

Israel has been branded an "apartheid" state that "promotes and perpetuates Jewish supremacy between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River." Human rights group B'Tselem has detailed in a...

The World Health Organisation has used an aircraft belonging to the Syrian regime to deliver medical supplies to the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, making it the latest of...

Palestinians in Gaza protest outside UNRWA's headquarters against the organisation's plans to reduce services to refugees because of its budget deficit

The Palestinian Authority (PA) yesterday called on the Security Council to bear its responsibility regarding Israel's explorations beneath Al-Aqsa Mosque, RT reported. In a statement, the PA's Foreign Ministry said: "The...

Iranian police asked Interpol to issue a red notice against four suspects it believes are involved in the assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Earlier, head of the National Security...

Further concerns have been raised over Israel's ongoing failure to include Palestinians in its COVID-19 vaccination programme dubbed by critics as "medical apartheid". The latest comes from Dr Yousef...

Libya's United Nations-backed government was urged on Thursday to investigate the deaths of hundreds of people in Tarhuna, an agricultural town 45 miles southeast of the Libyan capital, which...

"The designations are intended to hold Ansarallah accountable for its terrorist acts, including cross-border attacks threatening civilian populations, infrastructure and commercial shipping", says Pompeo

Lebanon's central bank governor said the dollar peg is "finished" in an interview with France24 last week. Riad Salameh, 70, who has headed Lebanon's central bank since 1993, told the French...

Iranian-backed forces are exerting pressure on Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi to stop him linking Baghdad's electricity grid with that of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) grid, a local...

Qatari vehicles crossed into Saudi Arabia through a land border on Saturday for the first time since Arab states severed diplomatic and transport ties with Doha in mid-2017, Saudi...

Iran will expel United Nations nuclear watchdog inspectors unless US sanctions are lifted by a Feb. 21 deadline set by the hardline-dominated parliament, a lawmaker said on Saturday, Reuters...

Libyan authorities on Saturday discovered a new mass grave in the city of Tarhuna, 90 kilometers (56 miles) northeast of the capital Tripoli, likely committed by militias of retreating...

The joy of reconciliation and resuming cooperation among the Gulf states was not limited to the peoples, but also extended to the countries of the region. The Turkish Ministry...

Turkey is working to turn new chapters in its relations with the EU, the country's foreign minister said Friday, Anadolu Agency reported. "In 2020, because of some of the problems that...