A court in Libya sentences some 45 forces loyal to former ruler Muammar Gaddafi to death yesterday over brutal killings during the 2011 uprisings in Tripoli. In a statement...

The Lebanese army said yesterday that two of its soldiers were wounded by smoke grenades shot by an Israeli army patrol in the town of Rmaish Bint Jbeil. “An...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Wednesday with UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura in Washington. The meeting tackled Syria, during which Pompeo and de Mistura agreed that all...

Israel allowed commercial goods back into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, in a sign of easing tensions as neighbouring Egypt pursued a long-term ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the...

Amnesty International has condemned the state of “impunity” enjoyed by the Egyptian security forces five years after the violent dispersalof the sit-in organised in Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahdha Squares...

The first round of what US President Donald Trump called “the most biting sanctions ever imposed” against Tehran went into effect on August 7. “Anyone doing business with Iran...

The World Bank has announced a new project to provide Gaza‘s unemployed youth with short-term income support, the Palestinian Information Centre has said. About 4,400 targeted youth, half of...

Despite defeat, between 20,000 and 30,000 Daesh foreign fighters remain across Syria and Iraq, according to a new United Nations report. The remaining Daesh fighters are likely to be...

The UK will face “serious consequences” if it does not side with the US over Iran, warned President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the UK. Writing in a British newspaper,...

Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister said on Monday that the EU’s linking of the country’s rebuilding with the political process undermines the return of refugees, RT reported on Monday. Faisal...

Amnesty International has launched an online petition to reveal the fate of 75,000 people who were forcibly disappeared during the war in Syria. The Syrian government is subjecting tens...

Arab-Israeli members of the Knesset will meet with the EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini next month to discuss the “nation-state bill” which Tel Aviv passed last month, Quds...

Thousands of mourners on Monday buried dozens of children killed in a Saudi-led coalition air strike on a bus in northern Yemen, one of the deadliest attacks on civilians in...

To deter the ongoing Great March of Return protests that started on 30 March, Israel’s occupation army and Shin Bet intelligence agency prepared to assassinate senior Hamas leaders, Haaretz...

Israel’s foreign ministry and its diplomatic mission at the UN have been preparing to fight against a Palestinian Authority (PA) plan to suspend Tel Aviv’s UN membership, Arab48 reported...

The navy of the UN-recognised Libyan Government of National Accord announced that it had rescued 60 migrants northwest of the city of Sorman yesterday. A patrol rescued the migrants,...

The European Union has asked Saudi Arabia to shed light on the arrests and charges facing women human rights activists, saying that the detainees should be granted due process to defend themselves....

Qatar is set to be knocked off its perch as the richest country in the world by the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau. For several years the gas rich...

The widow of former Libyan president, Muammar Gaddafi, has filed a complaint to the Geneva-based Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) against the imprisonment of her...

Syria’s seven-year-long civil war has cost the country $388 billion in economic and social damage, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) announced yesterday. “The...

For 11 years, Israel has imposed an unforgiving siege on the Gaza Strip. With severely restricted access in and out of the enclave — via land, air and, notoriously,...

Palestinians living in an Israeli army-designated “firing zone” in the eastern Nablus area are “at risk of forcible transfer”, according to a United Nations agency update. The report, published...

Since its establishment in 1949, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has been ready to explode at any given moment...

Germany has offered to issue a $13 million grant to help reconstruct Palestinian homes destroyed during Israel’s aggression on the Gaza Strip in 2014; the Palestinian Minister of Housing...

The Yemeni Congregation for Reform also known as Al-Islah said it holds the Interior Ministry and the Aden Director of Security fully responsibility for the increasing assassination attempts against...

The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nikolay Mladenov, cancelled a planned visit to the Gaza Strip scheduled for yesterday as a result of Israel’s...

Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip, agreed on a truce on Thursday, two Palestinian officials said, an understanding that would end an escalation in...

There has been yet another instance where the UN has preferred to try to predict the future instead of acknowledging the current deterioration in Gaza with the aim of...

Israeli Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz said his government rejected an EU plan to link the Gaza Strip with the West Bank by train, the Anadolu Agency reported yesterday. “I...

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator Jamie McGoldrick yesterday called on the Israeli authorities to immediately allow the entry of UN-purchased emergency fuel into the Gaza Strip in order to avoid...

Colombia’s new government said it would review former President Juan Manuel Santos’ recognition of Palestine after the previously unreleased decision was made public on Wednesday, Reuters reports. President Ivan Duque...

Iran’s utmost authority Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the Islamic Republic had nothing to be concerned about, a report on his official website said on Wednesday, as the...