Growing numbers of African migrants passing through Libya are traded in what they call slave markets before being held for ransom, forced labour or sexual exploitation, the UN migration...

Lebanon's army has ordered evictions that could threaten the homes of 10,000 Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley, the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Monday. The UN...

Responding to "serious human rights violations," the European Union has extended by a year existing sanctions regarding financial and travel restrictions, as well as restricting EU members from selling...

South Africa's defiant defence at The Hague of its decision not to arrest the Sudanese President at the 2015 Head of States' African Union Summit in Pretoria threatens to...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian government warplanes dropped barrel bombs on opposition-held areas of Hama province today, a day after the United States said their use...

Libya suffered a 30 per cent drop in oil revenues in the first quarter of 2017, Libya's Ministry of Finance revealed yesterday. According to official statistics, there was a...

Algeria's energy minister will seek more investment from European Union states and discuss the renewal of long-term gas supply contracts with EU members during talks this week in Brussels,...

Forces aligned with a UN-backed government in Tripoli said on Monday that three of their men had been killed in air raids against a desert air base by rivals...

Egyptian billionaire businessman and the Chairman of Orascom Telecom, Media and Technology, Naguib Sawiris, has launched a new bank that operated in several European countries. According to an official...

More than half of Iraqi families are at risk of going hungry, a UN agency said on Monday, warning of "unprecedented levels of vulnerability" faced by the population due to...

Israel is blackmailing developing countries to force them to vote in its favour at the UN, Arabi21 reported the Coalition for Accountability and Integrity revealing yesterday. According to the site, the organisation's...

Landmines are adding to the plight of civilians in war-torn Yemen, killing and maiming hundreds of people since the Arab country fell into civil war in 2014. According to...

Armed clashes between Palestinian joint forces and an Islamic militant group that erupted on Friday night have continued into Saturday in Lebanon's Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, as two...

The UN has decried assaults on aid workers in South Sudan in recent weeks, warning that they could compromise efforts to deliver humanitarian relief to millions of people at...

A political solution to the Syrian crisis is not possible while Bashar al-Assad is in power, the US envoy to the UN said Saturday. "There's not any sort of...

A recent Israeli study showed that last month's Knesset decision to pass a law that denies entry visas to activists boycotting or calling for the boycott of Israeli settlements...

Immediate action is needed to protect the Syrian people but it should be "rooted in the principles of the United Nations and international law," UN political affairs chief Jeffrey...

Energy ministers of 14 Arab countries signed on Thursday a Memorandum of Understanding to establish an Arab Common Market for Electricity, Anadolu Agency reported. The memo was signed on...

Russia has confirmed its commitment to recognise West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement published on its website yesterday....

Two top EU officials and NATO's chief offered endorsement on Friday of US President Donald Trump's missile strikes on a Syrian airbase. The sharp escalation of Washington's military engagement...

Turkey called for Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's immediate ouster on Friday, voicing support for a US missile strike on one of his airbases and saying the creation of safe...

Bolivia has requested the UN Security Council hold closed-door consultations on Friday about the US cruise missile strikes on Syria, a senior Security Council diplomat said. Read: The worrying...

"My fellow Americans: On Tuesday, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians. Using a deadly nerve agent, Assad choked out the lives of...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday his main concern was to ensure accountability for the deadly toxic gas attack in Syria, when asked if he was worried...

Mild, inconsequential rhetoric by EU Ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg Andersen prompted another spat between the EU and Israel, following a routine meeting with diplomats in which criticism of...

The Security Council holds an emergency meeting following suspected chemical gas attacks in Idlib, Syria

A general view of the 34th meeting of Arab Interior Ministers Council in Tunis, Tunisia

Libyan authorities today released 28 Eritreans and seven Nigerians who were captured and enslaved by Daesh in Sirte and had been held in detention since the jihadist group lost...

The United Nations and the African Union have ordered a review of the joint peace mission, known as UNAMID, in the western Darfur region of Sudan, following improvements in...

Israeli occupation forces have arrested around 300 Palestinian children since the start of this year, most of them from occupied Jerusalem, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club (PPC) said Tuesday. According...

Palestinians were delighted to see 2016 end with the UN Security Council passing resolution 2334 which reaffirmed the illegality of Israel's settlement enterprise. The passing of the resolution was...

UNICEF warned on Monday of "outbreaks" of cholera rates in Yemen due to the continuing conflict that has caused the loss of tens of thousands of civilians' lives. In...