Eid al-Fitr is a religious holiday celebrated by Muslims around the world that marks the end of Ramadan, Islamic holy month of fasting.

It is with a sense of depressing familiarity that I am, once again, writing about yet another defender of Palestinian human rights imprisoned without trail by Israel. Hasan Safadi’s...

Syrian children learn about Quran, the Holy book for Muslims at the Beqaa Valley in Beirut, Lebanon

Israel would use all its strength from the start in any new war with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, the chief of the Israeli air force said today. At...

Israel has displaced almost 66 per cent, nearly 957,000, of the Palestinian people who lived in historic Palestine during the 1948 Nakba, a new report has revealed. Published on...

The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday approved the appointment of a former Lebanese culture minister as the new UN envoy to Libya, diplomats said, ending an unusually contentious...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Egyptian authorities to respect the rights of the former president, Mohamed Morsi, who has been held in a prison following his...

Iran has completed its takeover of the border areas between Iraq and Syria and is now expanding into the eastern regions bordering Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor Province. Moreover, the...

President Donald Trump has ordered stepped-up military operations against Daesh and delegated more authority to his generals, but without a comprehensive Syria strategy, his approach risks further confrontation with...

A group of activists in Lebanon have launched a campaign to block prominent Muslim preacher, Zakir Naik, from a speaking tour in Lebanon. The group – who have claimed...

Syrian regime forces have opened a path through the Iraq border in order to transport arms needed by Assad’s army from Iran, in an area 20 kilometres from the...

Lebanon’s rival parties today reached agreement on an electoral law, Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil said, staving off a political crisis and paving the way for a parliamentary election. The...

Representatives from Hamas and the Syria-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) have met in Beirut for the first time since the eruption of the Syrian...

The Syrian army and Iran-backed militia forces have escalated attacks against a rebel-held part of the southern city of Deraa, a possible prelude to a large-scale campaign to wrest...

Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Liebermann has called on the United States to put pressure on Lebanon to expel Hamas officials, Ynet News reported on Friday. The Israeli website revealed...

Jordan is the latest country to ban the screening of the newly released Hollywood film, Wonder Woman, over Israeli actress Gal Gadot’s leading role. Wonder Woman was first banned...