This will be remembered as the year when the United States of America broke with the international consensus by moving its Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, thus recognising...

Without warning, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan surprised the whole world with his decision to hold early presidential and parliamentary elections on 24 June, sixteen months before they were...

A Palestinian medic has recounted being shot in the leg by an Israeli sniper, during the ongoing ‘Great March of Return’ protests in the occupied Gaza Strip. The testimony,...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif wrote on Twitter yesterday that “the European countries that signed the European deal with Iran and the US should convince US President Donald...

One of the facts about Israel that is often disputed is its status as an apartheid state. There are, obviously, some differences between the Israeli regime occupying Palestine and...

The Saudi Development Fund has paid $40m to the Palestinian Authority (PA) ministry of finance in support of the PA budget, the Saudi newspaper Okaz reported yesterday. The permanent...

Human Rights Watch has expressed concern over the risk of a looming humanitarian crisis in North Sinai as a result of the Egyptian army’s military operation against terrorist elements...

The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said Monday that the UN does not have a magic solution for the Syrian crisis. Speaking at a press conference with Swedish Prime...

The Qatari Red Crescent and the UNICEF have signed an agreement to rehabilitate water and sanitation facilities in the Iraqi province of Nineveh. This follows the tenth regional conference...

The UN, EU and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Monday called for preservation of the Iranian nuclear deal before the 12 May deadline set by US President...

Palestinians have filed a complaint to the UN against Israel for numerous violations including breaches of its obligations under international anti-racism treaty. The move, which is likely to trigger...

MK Yousef Jabareen and Adalah – The Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel filed a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court yesterday appealing a decision by the...

Two Palestinians, including a deaf teenager, have succumbed to wounds sustained during the ongoing “Great March of Return” protests in the besieged Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Ministry of Health...

The chairman of BDS South Africa’s board will receive the Order of Luthuli (Silver) from President Cyril Ramaphosa for “his brilliant contribution to academic research and to the fight...

UN Special Envoy for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov clashed with a former Israeli army spokesman on Twitter after the UN official slammed Israel’s violent response to...

Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir yesterday discussed with African Union Peace and Security Commissioner, Ismail Sharqi, the United Nations Security Council decision to reduce United Nations African Union Mission in...

On Sunday, Cairo denounced UNESCO’s intention to grant Mahmoud Abou Zeid, a photojournalist and prisoner in Egypt known as Shawkan, the Freedom of Press Prize, a denunciation that the...

A team of inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) visited a site in Douma, Syria on Saturday to collect samples as it tries to...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Saturday one of its employees had been killed in a shooting in the Yemeni city of Taiz, according to...

An international human rights group late Saturday called on the UN to have a “permanent” presence in the “Great March of Return” protests along the Gaza-Israel borders, which this...

Former Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Dore Gold has said that Israeli mutual relations with many Arab countries, mainly Saudi Arabia and the UAE, are developing, citing a secret visit...

Rights group condemns recent expulsion of hundreds of Syrian refugees from residences in Lebanon

“FIFA’s Inspection Committee has been impressed with the infrastructure of his country and the planned projects in order to be able to host the World Cup,” said Moulay Hafid...

Iraq resumed paying Kuwait compensation on Friday for the destruction of Kuwaiti oil fields and facilities during the 1990-91 Gulf War, the United Nations said in Geneva in a prepared...

The U.S. President, Donald Trump, slammed the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Friday, complaining the cartel was keeping crude oil prices high. “Looks like OPEC is...

The US administration is resolved to “destroy the peace process and the two-state option”, the Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s (PLO) Executive Committee, Saeb Erekat, said yesterday. Erekat’s remarks...

Israeli forces have been forced to evacuate one area of the border after protesters burned tyres in an effort to reach the fence, with the fumes drifting into the small kibbutz of Alumim

Romania will follow the US and soon move its embassy to Jerusalem, Liviu Dragnea, the president of the Chamber of Deputies and a member of Romania’s ruling party, revealed...

The human cost of Israel’s crackdown on Palestinian protesters in the occupied Gaza Strip is “a crisis on top of a catastrophe”, a senior United Nations official has stated....

Students at Barnard College, a prestigious liberal arts institution based in New York, have voted in favour of divestment from companies complicit in Israeli occupation. On 18 April, the...

Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour has been relieved of his duties yesterday following the issuance of a presidential decree, Sudan News Agency reported. On Wednesday, Ghandour updated parliament on...

Rockets hit Libya’s main airport and damaged a plane as it was waiting to take off early on Thursday, a security force said, underscoring fragile security. One rocket hit an...