The UN migration agency has said that at least 24 people have drowned or are dead in the sea off the coast of Libya. A boat carrying refugees on...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) yesterday began sessions to examine the complaint filed by Iran against the re-imposition of US sanctions. The week-long online sessions started in the...

UN peacekeeping forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) announced yesterday that they had rescued 36 migrants outside Lebanese territorial waters, AP reported. According to a press release issued by UNIFIL, there were 37...

Talks on the Libyan crisis being held in Switzerland and Morocco are designed to exclude renegade General Khalifa Haftar, former US presidential aide, Jeffrey Feltman, announced yesterday. In a...

Interference in aid operations by parties to Yemen’s conflict must stop as it is deterring donors and putting at risk millions of people who are dependent on assistance, Human...

The UN nuclear watchdog is in wide-ranging talks with Saudi Arabia about tougher supervision of the kingdom’s nuclear activities, the agency said on Monday, part of a wider effort...

I did not expect a courageous response from the so-called Arab league regarding the UAE-Israel normalisation agreement, because the dead cannot talk, and the Arab League is basically dead...

The Turkish drilling ship, Oruc Reis, has returned to shore to ease tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean, Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said yesterday, stressing that the move does not...

European states have on the whole decided against sending a representative to tomorrow’s signing ceremony in Washington to celebrate normalisation between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. The only country...

At least 90 peacekeepers stationed with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) have contracted Covid-19, a spokesperson said yesterday. According to Agence France Presse (AFP), 88 of the...

As the tension over maritime borders in the East Mediterranean was escalating between Turkey and Greece, France stepped up with a big stick in support of its fellow EU...

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto will be the only EU diplomatic leader to attend the signing ceremony on Tuesday in Washington for the Israel-United Arab Emirates peace deal, his...

Rights group Amnesty International said peace between Israel-Palestine must include the removal of illegal Israeli settlements, The New Arab reported. In response to recent normalisation deals between Israel and...

The United Nations (UN) announced on Thursday that it closed down 70 per cent of life-saving reproductive health programmes at the start of September due to lack of funds,...

The Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on Germany, France and the UK to stand against “US economic terrorism” if they want “full implementation of the nuclear agreement”....

Last week, US President Donald Trump’s administration announced that it was imposing economic sanctions on the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The decree was announced by...

Saudi Arabia has been encouraing members of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries  (OPEC) and other producers such as Russia, known as OPEC+, to incerase output in the...

Amnesty International has called for an independent and impartial international investigation into the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered by a Saudi hit squad inside the kingdom’s consulate in...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s normalisation with Israel is a “major shift in the Middle East countries’ policy towards the Israeli state,” US senior White House adviser, Jared Kushner,...

Prior to the meeting of the Arab League on Wednesday, the Palestinian Authority (PA) Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki called on his Arab counterparts to reject the United Arab Emirates...

Four Arab states have expressed their reservations regarding the Arab League statement in which foreign affairs ministers objected to what they termed “Turkish interference in Arab affairs”. The foreign...

About a week after Moscow denied the presence of soldiers in Libya, a plane crashed and its pilot, who sent a video in Russian to seek help, survived, raising...

A European Union naval vessel on Thursday stopped a ship that was carrying jet fuel from the United Arab Emirates to Libya on suspicion it was violating a United...

Neither Turkey nor Greece wants to slide into a comprehensive conflict with the other in the eastern Mediterranean. Turkey has been pushing the confrontation to the edge of the...

Should we take the Nobel Peace Prize seriously? This year’s nominations include two polar opposites: Cuba’s Henry Reeves Brigade, whose medical interventions in the coronavirus context have placed the...

A UN report released yesterday has named Canada for the first time among the countries that are fuelling the war in Yemen. The findings cover June 2019 to June...

Turkey is ready for sincere talks with Greece, the country’s ambassador to the UK wrote in a letter published in the Guardian. Turkey and Greece are at odds over overlapping claims for hydrocarbon...

Some 3,000 protesters in Germany are calling on their own government and countries across the EU to accept all refugees from the Moria refugee camp in Greece. Moria camp...

The United Nations Children’s Fund has said that around eight million children are now out of school in Yemen due to the war and Covid-19 pandemic. UNICEF gave the...

Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister, Riyad Al-Maliki, yesterday called on Arab countries to reject the UAE-Israel normalisation treaty. “We reject Emirati normalisation and we hope you will have the same...

Weapons provided by Western powers and Iran to the warring sides in Yemen are fuelling the six-year-old conflict, marked by deadly Saudi-led coalition airstrikes and Houthi shelling, UN investigators...

There could be some progress within weeks in resolving a three-year-long rift between Gulf Arab states, a senior US State Department official said on Wednesday, citing signs of “flexibility”...