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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...

The UN envoy to Yemen's peace deal has yet again been criticised by the Yemeni government. Yemen's ambassador to Washington has criticised the roadmap saying it "contains several details...

Italy's coastguard rescued 34 men, 14 women and 18 minors from a rubber boat in the Aegean Sea yesterday, it said. The migrants said they were from Syria. Having...

Syrian opposition sources have confirmed that the UN informed them of its adoption of an initiative they submitted to remove the wounded and that the matter is dependent on...

The GCC-British "strategic partnership", which was agreed during the 37th GCC Summit in Bahrain, does not reflect a decline of American-Gulf relations, Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid Bin Ahmad...

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki yesterday met with the foreign ministers of five countries on the sidelines of the 9th Bali Democracy Forum. Al-Maliki met with the foreign...

Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz and his accompanying delegation arrived yesterday in Kuwait on an official visit during which he will hold talks with Kuwaiti officials, Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported. King...

The Russian military said today it had helped more than 8,000 Syrian citizens flee parts of eastern Aleppo still controlled by the opposition in the last 24 hours, including...

The World Council of Churches has denied reports that its executive member, who was stopped from entering Israel, was denied on the basis that she is a Boycott, Divestment and...

People-smuggling in Libya is now a major part of the economy worth hundreds of millions of dinars according to the EU. In the report by the European Union Naval...

Amnesty International has called on the Egyptian authorities to release a photojournalist who has been imprisoned for more than three years in a "politically motivated" case. In a statement...

Hundreds of men from eastern Aleppo have gone missing after leaving opposition-held areas, the United Nations' human rights office said today, voicing deep concern that government forces could be...

The Syrian army's advance in Aleppo slowed on Thursday but a victory was still firmly in sight after President Bashar al-Assad vowed that retaking the city would change the...

United Nations Syria mediator Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday he planned to meet "people around the team" of UN President-elect Donald Trump to discuss the nearly six-year conflict...

In a joint statement, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the UK have emphasised the need to resolve the Yemen conflict, through dialogue and in accordance of UN Security...

The European Council approved a €200 million loan for Jordan on Tuesday, a statement on the organisation's website revealed. "EU assistance will help the country's economic stabilisation and will...

A report by the European Union (EU) published yesterday, warns that a third of the estimated 5,000 European fighters who went to Syria and Iraq have returned to Europe,...

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted a number of draft resolutions addressing Israeli-Palestinian issues and the rights of colonised people on Tuesday. According to a statement by the...

Twenty-five members of an alleged international human organs trafficking ring have been arrested in Egypt, authorities announced. "Today at dawn, the largest international network for trading human organs has...

Hamas will never be beaten, hard as that may be to stomach for those who have been its victims.

Marking UN Human Rights Day, which this year falls on 10 December under the slogan "Stand up for someone's rights today", 200 legal scholars and practicing lawyers from 15...