Libya’s internationally-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) has refused to reduce diplomatic representation and stop cooperation with Turkey. According to the Anadolu Agency, in a statement published on its...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said before his first visit to Saudi Arabia in more than a decade that Moscow could play a key role in easing regional tensions given...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in remarks aired on Sunday that global oil inventories need cutting to “reasonable levels” and that Russia would work with Saudi Arabia and other...

The participants in the conference on UNRWA, which concluded its activities in Beirut on Saturday, highlighted the importance of continuing to provide political and financial support for UNRWA and...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced on Friday nearly $50 million in education funding in Somalia, reports Anadolu Agency. In a statement, the US embassy in...

“Perhaps the time has come for Palestinians and justice-loving Israelis to imagine a new future,” wrote South African intellectuals and academics, Na’eem Jeenah and Salim Vally, in their essay,...

The Pentagon said on Friday that Ankara’s military incursion into northeastern Syria was damaging US-Turkey relations, adding that the United States was not abandoning its Kurdish partners, reports Reuters....

More than 3,500 women attended a football match in Iran for the first time in nearly 40 years

Yemen is on course to become the world’s poorest country if the war continues, according to a UN report. “If fighting continues through 2022, Yemen will rank the poorest...

The United States’ envoy to the United Nations on Thursday warned Turkey it faced repercussions from its assault against Kurdish militias in northeastern Syria if it did not protect...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to annex parts of the occupied West Bank if re-elected in last month’s General Election, eliciting outrage from world leaders. However, that “promise”...

Last week saw the anniversary — on 3 October — of the tragic drowning of more than 300 migrants when their overcrowded vessel capsized off the coast of Italy....

Authorities in Bahrain are denying prisoners adequate health care, Human Rights Watch warned in a statement on Tuesday. HRW said Bahrain’s prison authorities arbitrarily deprive prisoners of urgent health...

The Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) – to which the South African President Nelson Mandela belonged – has joined the BDS movement, the movement’s South Africa branch reported...

The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the United Kingdom (AOHR UK) has condemned the Israeli government for its efforts to launch an online propaganda war espousing pro-Israeli sentiment...

A new World Health Organisation (WHO) report said 2018 saw an “unprecedented” number of attacks on healthcare by Israeli forces in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). The report, “Right...

A number of human rights defenders and activists in Morocco have been found to have been targeted by surveillance technology and spyware developed by an Israeli company, according to...

The UN Security Council yesterday renewed its commitment to Syria’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity. The council also emphasised that the solution to the crisis in the country must...

Turkish Ambassador to the UK Umit Yalcin on Tuesday urged countries to take back their nationals, who were involved in terrorist activities in Syria, reports Anadolu Agency. Speaking to...

Libyan state oil firm NOC said on Tuesday it had been unable to pay salaries in September at a fuel distribution unit in the east where authorities have set...

Cyprus, Greece, and Egypt called on Turkey on Tuesday to “end its provocative actions” in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, including exploring for oil in Cyprus’ territorial waters, which they...

The incoming European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Josep Borrell yesterday declared during his hearing in Brussels that “he espouses the two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and that...

Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, denied on Monday that his country’s envoy to the UN was the victim of an assassination attempt using biological toxins, Iranian media have...

UAE-backed separatists and the internationally recognised Yemeni government are about to reach an agreement to end months of tension in the country’s interim capital, Aden, reported Reuters on Monday....

Egyptian actor, Amr Waked, who lives abroad accused Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, yesterday, of “committing five crimes that incurred heavy losses.” “Sisi has wasted Egypt’s sovereignty after ceding...

The so-called allies of the US in northern Syria, YPG/PKK terror group, has been slammed by human rights groups as well as the UN for its compulsive practice of...

An international rights group has accused South Sudanese authorities of allowing “impunity to flourish over serious human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity” committed since the brutal...

Turkey’s lira slid to its lowest level against the dollar in more than a month on Monday after the White House said Ankara would soon launch unilateral military operations...

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz yesterday confirmed that he has been working on a normalisation deal with Arab countries, mainly the Gulf state, he wrote in a tweet. Katz...

Israeli forces inflicted a summer of “arrests, violence, and raids” on the Palestinian residents of Issawiya, occupied East Jerusalem, according to human rights organisation B’Tselem. Over three months –...

The Israeli government is taking preparatory steps to expel prominent Palestinian human rights defender Omar Barghouti, a co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. According to a...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) yesterday said that it would continue calling for the UN to hold the Israeli occupation accountable for its crimes against Palestinians. A statement by the...