Finland said today that it would push the European Union to step up efforts to curb illegal migration by negotiating agreements with Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. European leaders are...

The United Nations special envoy for Syria Jan Egeland does not seem to have the right information about the situation in Aleppo, a Kremlin official has said. “It seems...

European Union (EU) officials have slammed a surge in Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes and other structures in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The statement released Tuesday...

The Israeli government has refused to meet with visiting Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström, in what sources claimed is a deliberate, politically-motivated snub. According to a report in Haaretz,...

UNICEF announced on Tuesday that 41 per cent of disabled Palestinian children suffer from more than one disability, Safa news agency has reported. The statistic was revealed at a...

The African Development Bank (AfDB)’s board has approved payment of a $500 million loan to Egypt, as the second tranche of a 3-year $1.5 billion loan, Egyptian Minister of...

The evacuation of opposition-held eastern Aleppo was delayed on Wednesday and, while a war monitor said the reason was unclear, an opposition official blamed Shi’ite militias allied to President...

Migrants in Libya are suffering consistent and widespread abuse, including arbitrary detention, forced labour, rape and torture, a United Nations report said on Tuesday. Record numbers of migrants, mostly...

Opposition forces’ resistance in the Syrian city of Aleppo ended on Tuesday after years of fighting and months of bitter siege and bombardment that culminated in a bloody retreat,...

A Turkish court in southeastern Diyarbakir on Tuesday remanded in custody a People’s Democratic Party (HDP) deputy over his alleged links to PKK terrorist organisation. Caglar Demirel is accused...

A few medical staff are still working under extreme conditions in east Aleppo, Médecins Sans Frontières has revealed, although the situation on the ground is such that they express...

Aid workers in Aleppo have made urgent calls for international support to transport 100,000 civilians trapped in the city to safety. In a letter signed by the Syria Civil...

A senior adviser of President-elect Donald Trump reiterated on Monday that moving the US Embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem would be a “very big priority” for the incoming administration....

For more than three years, Anas Barghouti has been compelled to attend a “court” intermittently by the Israeli military regime which illegally occupies the West Bank region of Palestine....

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov blamed the United States for the recapture of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra at the hands of Daesh, AP reported yesterday. “The US does...

The United Nations Secretary-General is “alarmed over reports of atrocities” against “large number of civilians” in Syria’s Aleppo, according to a statement issued late Monday. “While stressing that the United...

In Israeli rhetoric, there seems to be two main trends of its self-proclaimed apprehension. One, which is hardly ever commented upon publicly, is related to the issue of colonialism...

Qatar defended its labour law reforms yesterday after coming under attack from a human rights group that said the changes will not end the abuse and exploitation faced by...

Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad have been executing civilians in Aleppo “on the spot” according to the United Nations, who confirmed today that the Assad regime and...

Israel, Cyprus and Greece have signed a memorandum to build a pipeline tapping natural gas recently discovered by Israel in the Mediterranean Sea to Europe, Quds Press reported yesterday....

Opposition forces withdrew from all districts on the east side of the Aleppo river on Monday afternoon

The chain of death in Aleppo greatly resembles the daily death celebrations that are carried out by Russian jets, the Alawite regime in Syria, the Iranian militias that...

Some 2.2 million children are acutely malnourished in Yemen and in need of urgent care, UNICEF said today. The organisation said in a statement that at least 462,000 children...

British Prime Minister Theresa May today announced the government’s formal adoption of a definition of anti-Semitism that includes criticism of the State of Israel and Zionism. The PM made...

Four political parties and 22 civil society groups in Egypt have issued a joint statement in which they reject a draft national regulation bill passed by Parliament at the...

2016 will be remembered for a new phrase that came to characterise popular uprisings against “the establishment” in the West. From the UK to the USA, “taking back control”...

The director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has today declared that the battle for Aleppo has reached its end, as the Assad regime army and its...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hailed US President-elect Donald Trump’s support for Israel, announcing that he is willing to work with Trump in the hopes that the duo...

80 mayors of European cities concluded a two-day meeting at the Vatican on the refugee crisis, by issuing a statement on Saturday evening calling for the creation of a...

Tomas Zdechovsky says there is no difference between Istanbul and Paris, Brussels attacks targeting civilians

2 separate blasts near Besiktas football stadium killed at least 29 people and injured 166, authorities say

Daesh’s Amaq news agency has claimed that the militant group has successfully managed to shoot down a Syrian regime jet near Palmyra, an ancient Syrian city recently recaptured from...