A Palestinian child shot and injured by an Israeli soldier on Friday remained in serious condition over the weekend as doctors revealed the extent of his injuries. Abdul Rahman...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said yesterday that as many as 20 hospitals and medical centres were out of service as a result of the Syrian regime’s aggression...

The United States has granted a visa to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to attend a UN meeting in New York this week, two sources familiar with the...

The European Union (EU) said on Saturday it was supporting Iraq’s recent proposal to hold a regional conference in the context of rising tensions between the United States (US)...

The African Union (AU) is postponing talks between Sudan’s ruling military council and the Forces of Freedom and Change (FDFC), concerning the so-called “power-sharing agreement,” local media reported yesterday....

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will hold an extraordinary ministerial meeting next Wednesday to discuss Israeli violations in the occupied city of East Jerusalem. Foreign ministers of the...

Iran’s breaching of caps on its uranium enrichment after the United States pulled out of world powers’ nuclear deal with Tehran was “a bad reaction to … (a) bad...

Kuwait’s navy and ports authority will prepare security plans to protect the key OPEC exporter’s ports, state news agency KUNA said on Saturday, amid heightened tensions between Iran and...

The European Union fully backs Iraq’s efforts to de-escalate growing tensions between the United States and Iran because conflict will have dire consequences for all sides, EU foreign policy...

 Oil prices increased yesterday as US oil producers in the Gulf of Mexico cut their production by more than half due to a tropical storm, while tensions continue to...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) yesterday expressed its concern about the deployment of the advanced Russian air defence system, the S-400, to Turkey. An unnamed NATO official told...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) yesterday criticised the death penalties imposed on 30 Yemeni prisoners by Houthi militias, spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said in a press release. “We...

Water supplies to the Libyan capital, Tripoli, have been halted in the wake of an armed attack on the main power plant in southern Tripoli, the management of the...

The UN special rapporteur for the situation in Palestine on Friday raised a concern about the lack of human rights accountability in Palestine and said Israel eyed further territorial...

US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib took a swipe at American lawmakers who are seeking to criminalise the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, in a tweet denouncing the move as...

The European Union yesterday warned Turkey that it would impose sanctions on it if it continued to drill for gas off the coast of Cyprus in the Mediterranean. “In...

Russia on Thursday said there is a “significant progress” in the Syrian peace process, Anadolu reports. Speaking at a news conference Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said she expects...

Seven days after Haftar’s bombing of the migrant detention centre in Tajoura, killing 53 people, several migrants exited the facility and began a protest against the delay in their...

A new team created by a global watchdog for the use of chemical weapons is set to investigate nine alleged attacks perpetrated by the Syrian regime during the country’s...

Western governments must stop lending full support to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s military regime and must condemn the widespread human rights violations committed by his government, said a...

Amnesty International is urging TripAdvisor employees “to use their power to demand that their company stops profiting from war crimes by listing tourist attractions and properties in illegal Israeli...

There are 188,888 millionaires in Kuwait, Money Control website reported yesterday. A publication by Capgemini entitled “The World Wealth Report 2019” ranked Kuwait as the country with the second...

UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has stated that 30 per cent of Palestine refugees who left Syria and entered Jordan are “highly vulnerable”. In its 2019 Syria Regional...

The Yemeni government yesterday called on the United Nations to intervene “by all means” and prevent the Houthis from executing 30 political activists in Sanaa. In a letter sent...

Yemen’s Houthi rebel group has recruited more than 30,000 child soldiers since war broke out in the country, a government official said Wednesday, Anadolu reports. The Houthis sent them...

The Algerian foreign ministry has denied statements attributed to Prime Minister Noureddine Badawi by foreign and local media about Libyan General Khalifa Haftar. A statement issued by the Ministry...

The US voiced concern Wednesday to the UN’s Yemen envoy over a recent uptick in Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo thanked Martin Griffiths for...

A new team established by the global chemical weapons watchdog to attribute blame for the use of banned munitions in Syria will investigate nine alleged attacks during the country’s...

Human Rights Watch has said that the detention of Ola Al-Qaradawi is “unlawful” and called for her immediate release. Ola was arrested in June 2017 along with her husband...

More than 1,000 Libyans have been killed and over 5,000 others have been wounded since the start of the military campaign led by renegade Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar to...

The foreign ministers of France, Germany and Britain and the EU foreign policy chief on Tuesday urged all parties to “act responsibly towards deescalating ongoing tensions regarding Iran’s nuclear...

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