The mass arrests and heavy-handed response to the 20 September protesters show how deeply Egypt’s authorities fear mass protests, writes MENA researcher for Human Rights Watch Amr Magdi. “What...

A forecast by the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee and obtained exclusively by Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) is that between 70 and 80 per cent of Palestinian refugees in...

A spokesman for the Greek government, Stelios Petsas, said yesterday that his country will not participate in exploratory talks with Turkey as long as the Turkish survey vessel Oruc...

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas yesterday called on Turkey to refrain from more provocations in the Eastern Mediterranean. “If the new Turkish exploration operations for gas actually take place...

The representative of the World Food Program (WFP) for Turkey, Nils Grede, said the relief aid provided by the programme to Syrian refugees in Turkey has been a major...

Tunisian authorities on Monday recovered the bodies of 13 migrants, a day after their boat sank off the country’s coast. Nine other persons are still missing, the spokesman for the courts...

Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), has warned that the $130 million funding gap the organisation is experiencing threatens core services and...

Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups voiced concern on Tuesday over the condition of a Palestinian who began a hunger strike 79 days ago against his detention without charge...

Turkey’s foreign minister angrily dismissed European Union calls to withdraw troops from northeast Syria on Tuesday, accusing it of double standards and trying to lecture Ankara on human rights...

The UN Mission in Libya has announced that the country’s political and military rivals will hold direct talks early next month. Acting Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and...

Greece will build a permanent refugee camp on Lesbos by summer 2021 to replace the facility that burned down last month, the migration minister said yesterday. Notis Mitarachi said...

A United Nations mines expert said nearly 3 billion square metres in Iraq are contaminated with mines and remnants of war. The head of the United Nations Mine Action...

Jordan’s King Abdullah on Monday swore in a new government led by veteran diplomat Bisher al Khaswaneh that will seek to accelerate IMF-backed reforms as the economy faces its...

A prominent tribe in Saudi Arabia has appealed to the United Nations for help in preserving their presence on their ancestral lands. The Saudi authorities continue to pressure them...

Iran does not, at this stage, have enough enriched uranium to build a nuclear bomb, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi has said....

Egypt’s headline inflation came in at under 4% in September, potentially triggering consultations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that could lead to lower interest rates, Reuters reports. Under...

The UN envoy for Yemen is set to arrive in Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday to discuss a peace proposal for the war-torn country with Yemeni and Saudi officials,...

On Saturday, Palestine solidarity activists will be protesting once again outside the UK headquarters of the Israeli arms firm Elbit. The new group, Palestine Action, has called for supporters...

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) announced on Friday that more than 600 African migrants arrived in Yemen last September. This came in a report released by the IOM,...

The Houthi movement in Yemen stated on Friday that four million displaced people live in dire humanitarian conditions in areas under its control. This came in a report issued...

Coronavirus border closures and restrictions have stranded nearly 3 million migrants around the world who want to return home but cannot, the UN migration agency said on Friday, adding...

A Zionist-led war on a Palestinian cultural festival in Rome has exposed the fragility of the Italian political system when it comes to the conversation on Palestine and Israel....

The European Union (EU) yesterday said it had no intention to cut its financial aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA). “The EU will continue to support the PA to...

The European Parliament urged the European Council on Thursday to impose sanctions on Saudi Arabians responsible for the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Anadolu Agency reports. The European Parliament...

Turkish official media reported that the foreign ministers of Turkey and Greece met on Thursday for the first time since tensions erupted between the two member states of the North Atlantic...

Libya yesterday said it would not take over the presidency of the Arab League’s current session. In an official statement by Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Mohammed Al-Qiblawi, the Libyan representative...

On 5 October, the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas co-chaired a ministerial meeting on Libya. The gathering was attended by ministers and...

‘International law’ remains one of the most discussed terms in the context of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. It is almost always present, whether the discussion pertains to the...

The United Nations (UN) has revealed that some of the 15 oppositionists executed by the Egyptian authorities on charges of terrorism, violence and incitement to murder were tortured and...

Amnesty International has expressed its concerns on Wednesday over what it called “the continuous crackdown on press freedom” in Egypt, due to at least five journalists being arrested since...

Qatar’s preparations for hosting the 2022 World Cup have progressed despite the coronavirus pandemic, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on Wednesday, adding that he was speechless after visiting the...

Tension between Turkey and the European Union over the Eastern Mediterranean and Ankara’s dispute with Greece and Greek Cyprus, has intensified further recently after the European Commission released a...