"Look, I think he is a prime suspect in terms of determining who ordered or who incited the killing. He is in the picture. Personally, I do not have the evidence pointing to him as having ordered the crime"

Cash transfers from Yemenis abroad to their country have declined by 80 per cent in the first four months of 2020, Oxfam announced on Thursday. “Remittances dropped by 80...

Negotiations between representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Lebanese government have been suspended in the middle of the worst economic crisis that the country has endured....

UNESCO said on Friday its World Heritage Committee would review Hagia Sophia’s status after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan declared the ancient monument in Istanbul a mosque again. Erdogan made...

Greece condemned a decision by Turkey on Friday to convert Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque, saying it would have repercussions not only on relations between the two...

The US welcomed on Friday the announcement of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) on the lift of the force majeure on oil exports. “We welcome the announcement by the...

The Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) rejected the accusations of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with regards to blocking the signing of the ceasefire agreement and seeking a...

Russia and China vetoed a last-ditch attempt by Western members of the UN Security Council to extend approval – which expires on Friday – for humanitarian aid to be...

The United Nations has revealed that 700 people have recently died in two camps in north-east Syria, in which around 70,000 family members of Daesh fighters are currently being...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has told the Security Council of his alarm at the military build-up around Sirte in Libya. The conflict in the North African country has entered...

Libya’s delegate to the UN, Taher Al-Sunni, has said that his country no longer accepts the UAE’s presence in its political dialogues. Al-Sunni made his comment during his speech...

The executive branch of the world’s chemical weapons watchdog on Thursday condemned the use of banned sarin and chlorine bombs by Syria’s air force, but stopped short of taking...

Israel’s outgoing Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, is not leaving the arena without his usual, unfounded claim that the international community is subservient to the Palestinian narrative. In...

The World Bank will finance a project worth $26.9 million to confront the repercussions of COVID-19 in Yemen, the country’s Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Dr. Najib Al-Ouj,...

The Yemeni Abductees Mothers Association has called on the United Nations Security Council, the UN Secretary-General, and the UN envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths to intervene and help secure...

“After Srebrenica, you said never again…Shame on you World!” These were the words written on the posters of demonstrators who gathered in Sarajevo in 2016 to condemn the Assad regime’s...

Iran Quds Force chief, Qassem Soleimani, Soleimani was “planning for terrorist attacks against American interests and other countries before he was targeted” in US forces in Iraq, the Pentagon...

The UN Security Council yesterday voted down a Russian resolution that sought to halve the amount of humanitarian aid delivered to internally displaced persons in Syria’s north-west province of...

An interview with former Deputy Prime Minister Cevdet Yilmaz

Today marks 15 years since the official foundation of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Palestine. The movement against Israeli apartheid has a long history and deep...

Israeli occupation forces attempted on Wednesday night to raid the home of a representative of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in East Jerusalem, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported. OIC’s Representative...

The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas hailed on Tuesday the unanimous decisions taken by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on 1 July, as the organisation restated...

Carlos Ghosn, the former Nissan Motor Co-chairman, wired $862,500 last year to a company managed by one of the two men who later helped him escape from Japan, U.S....

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the Security Council on Wednesday that the conflict in Libya has entered a new phase “with foreign interference reaching unprecedented levels,” Reuters reports....

Russia’s foreign minister on Wednesday slammed the UN report accusing Moscow and Damascus of war crimes in Syria, Anadolu reports. Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Sergey Lavrov...

The King Abdul Aziz Public Library (KAPL) in Riyadh has compiled and digitised 820 records of the Jerusalem Shariah Court, to conserve endangered collections relating to Palestinian history and...

 Some 138 people have been killed and injured as a result of landmines planted by Libyan renegade General Khalifa Haftar’s forces, the UN revealed yesterday. In a statement by...

It is rare to see a government throw a sustained tantrum against another due to differences over foreign policy, especially without first attempting to solve it through diplomatic means....

The Moroccan parliament yesterday criticised Amnesty International and called on the rights group to apologise and provide evidence of allegations officials spied on journalists in the country using Israeli...

Syrian and Russian planes have carried out deadly aerial strikes on schools, hospitals and markets in Idlib province that amount to war crimes, UN investigators said on Tuesday in...

United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Agnès Calamar, found the assassination of Iranian Commander Qasem Soleimani to be “unlawful”, Arab48 reported today. Early this year, a US drone targeted Soleimani’s convoy as he...

Some 13 per cent of Yemenis have been displaced by the ongoing conflict in the country, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Yemen warned yesterday. Jean-Nicolas...