Senior officials from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) will be investigated after a leaked internal report accused them of ethical abuses including corruption,...

Iran yesterday warned it would take steps towards reducing its commitment to  the 2015 nuclear deal signed with world powers. “We are still waiting for the Europeans’ practical and...

Action by the US and Israeli against Palestine is nothing new. The Palestinian Authority, however, has been pointing out this alliance lately as if it has just discovered it....

Almost half of Yemen's child casualties in 2018, were attributed to Saudi Arabia

Official Palestinian-Israeli relations have been put on hold since 2014, but this didn’t stop Israel’s Chief of General Staff, Lieutenant General Aviv Kochavi, from having a secret meeting with...

UAE announced a $50 million contribution to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), a statement said today. UNRWA said this...

Bahrain executed three men by firing squad on Saturday morning

The US and Israel’s disrespect for international law strips the UN of its role, Quds Net News reported the Palestinian Foreign Ministry saying yesterday. In a statement, the ministry...

Libya’s High Council of State yesterday condemned recent airstrikes carried out by the troops loyal to the retired Libyan General Khalifa Haftar, which had targeted a field hospital and...

The head of the presidential council of the internationally recognised Government of National Accord, Fayez Al-Sarraj, has informed the Head of the UN Mission in Libya, Ghassan Salamé, about...

An emergency meeting with parties to Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with major powers was “constructive”, Iranian official Abbas Araqchi said on Sunday, but said Tehran would continue to reduce...

Parties to Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal met in Vienna on Sunday for emergency talks called in response to an escalation in tensions between Iran and the West that included...

The population of Rukban camp in a US-protected desert zone in southeast Syria has dwindled to a quarter of the more than 40,000 who lived there five months ago...

Bahrain executed on Saturday three men convicted in two separate cases, one involving the killing of a police officer and the other the killing of a mosque imam, the...

Fifty-five bodies have been recovered so far off the Libyan coast, an aid worker said on Saturday after a wooden boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized on Thursday, reports...

More than 400,000 people have been displaced as a result of the Russian and Syrian regime bombardment of the northwestern Syria province of Idlib over the past three months,...

Amnesty International is calling on Saudi Arabia to drop plans to seek the execution of cleric Salman Al-Ouda and release him without condition. In a press release issued yesterday,...

The UN human rights chief said intentional attacks against civilians in northwestern Syria were war crimes, referring to the latest onslaught by the Bashar al-Assad regime and its allies, Anadolu...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned of a full-scale armed conflict in the Middle East on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. Speaking at a BRICS foreign ministers meeting in Rio de Janeiro,...

Much like white South Africans, Jewish Israelis will never voluntarily give up their privileged position as settlers

Palestinian activists from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement have called on campaigners around the world to step up their efforts in response to Israel’s mass demolition of...

US lawmakers say they are unhappy about Turkey’s purchase of a Russian missile defence system but are unsure what President Donald Trump – or Congress – should do next,...

Israel has begun rounding up scores of Filipina workers and their Israel-born children for deportation, prompting large-scale protests outside the prime minister’s residence and at the country’s Ben Gurion...

The EU has funded and trained Libya’s coast guard to rescue migrants found trying to make the treacherous journey to Europe.

Israel’s Supreme Court has delayed a landmark hearing which would have seen the Regional Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), Omar Shakir, deported from Israel over his alleged support...

US Middle East Envoy Jason Greenblatt has made a series of remarks at the UN Security Council regarding the “fictions of international consensus” when it comes to a solution...

Lack of accountability is encouraging Israel to disrespect the international community and its decisions, Kuwait’s envoy to the UN said yesterday. Presenting a draft resolution that condemns the occupation...

The Israeli army knew its snipers were killing Palestinian protesters in the occupied Gaza Strip as a result of open fire regulations that were subsequently altered, +972 Magazine reported....

“The nightmare in Idlib is getting worse,” said Mark Cutts, Deputy Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis, after Russian airstrikes on the city of Maarat al-Numaan killed 39...

Imagine an Atlantic region where Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Venezuela teamed up to sign a new landmark NAFTA-like agreement, distributing amongst themselves the oil and natural gas reserves off...

US President Donald Trump has held a closed-door meeting at the White House with Republican senators to discuss sanctions against Turkey over its recent purchase of the Sa Russian...

The United States on Wednesday blocked an attempt by Kuwait, Indonesia and South Africa to get the United Nations Security Council to condemn Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes on...