A UN mission yesterday discussed slavery and means to fight it with the Mauritanian government in Nouakchott, the Anadolu Agency reported. The UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Urmila Bhoola, met with the...

The head of the Arab League has called for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to stand up for the Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike inside Israeli jails, Quds Net...

President Tayyip Erdogan told Reuters on Tuesday that Turkey would reconsider its position on joining the European Union if it was kept waiting much longer and if the current...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that, in Yemen, one child under five dies every 10 minutes from preventable causes. In a report...

UNRWA's workers' union has criticised the international organisation for issuing workers with a warning against using social media to discuss Palestinian issues, saying such actions may lead to salary deductions,...

Some 23 refugees are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea last weekend, bringing the Mediterranean death toll this year to 1,089, the UN said Tuesday. "43,204 migrants and refugees...

All of the Egyptians were shocked on Thursday when anti-coup Al-Mekameleen television broadcast the leaked video of Egyptian soldiers leading young imprisoned men in Sinai, including a child who...

A report issued this month by the Office of the European Union Representative (West Bank and Gaza Strip, UNRWA) has described the increase in Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes...

Iraq has launched the third and final phase of work to expand its southern Halfaya oil field, aiming to double its output capacity in 2018 to 400,000 barrels per...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned the number of domestic violence cases in Algeria and the "lack of diligence" of police investigations and the non-enforcement of sentences against the...

Jordan has warned Lebanon of a potential Israeli strike in the near future, the Jordanian newspaper Assabeel reported yesterday. The paper reported the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper saying that Jordan...

All Egyptian electricity lines feeding the southern Gaza Strip reportedly broke down yesterday evening, creating further shortages for the besieged Palestinian territory, which has already been suffering from severe...

The top United Nations humanitarian official called on Monday for Gulf countries to help avert mass starvation in Yemen, where two years of war have left millions at risk...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the German parliament today to reject the proposed security agreement with the Egyptian Interior Ministry. The agreement, which is scheduled for a vote...

Yemeni Minister of Local Administration and Chairman of the Higher Committee for Relief Abdul-Raqib Saif Fateh has accused Houthi rebels and forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh...

A Saudi Arabian charitable foundation announced today that it will give $50 million to the United Nations children's agency to help eliminate measles, the largest private donation ever to...

At least 15 people, including a child, drowned when an inflatable boat carrying refugees and migrants sank off Greece's Lesbos island, officials said today. Eight bodies were recovered in...

Two days after the foreign ministers of Egypt and Sudan met and agreed to leave the Halayeb border row to be resolved by presidential talks, Sudan has included the...

The United States is closely watching a recent increase in piracy off the coast of Somalia, a senior US military official said on Sunday as Defense Secretary Jim Mattis...

Football's top governing body may set Israel a six-month ultimatum to end games in settlements in the occupied West Bank, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported Sunday. FIFA's monitoring committee on...

Egyptian military forces in the northern Sinai Peninsula executed at least two and as many as eight unarmed detainees and covered up the killings to make it appear that...

The evacuation of Syrian civilians and fighters from four besieged towns was completed on Friday after a 48-hour halt, as part of a mediated swap deal between the warring...

Turkey is in the "final stage" with Russia over the purchase of a missile defence system that cannot be integrated into the NATO system a Turkish minister has said....

Barcelona's City Council passed an official declaration on Wednesday in support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. According to a statement released by BDS, the declaration includes...

Some 200,000 of Libya's half a million internally displaced people have returned to their homes, a report by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has revealed. The majority of...

More than 30,000 foreign terrorist fighters from over 100 countries have travelled to the Middle East in recent years to join groups like Daesh and Al-Qaeda, the UN was...

Iraq may seek exemption from a deal between oil exporters to reduce global supply in order to support crude prices and ask to boost its own output, the leader...

Israel is launching a diplomatic offensive against Palestinian calls for FIFA to ban football clubs based in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, an unnamed official said today....

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reportedly lowered its economic forecasts for Saudi Arabia and Egypt, two of the Arab world's largest economies, due to the slow growth rates as a...

More than 50 people have been killed in prisons in Egypt in the first quarter of this year, a new damning report by the Arab Organisation for Human Rights...

More than one hundred sports associations, trade unions, human rights organizations and faith based groups, representing millions of people from 28 countries across the globe, on Wednesday joined football...

The rock band Radiohead is being urged to cancel a performance in Israel and support the Palestinian people's campaign for justice instead. Thousands of the band's fans around the...