The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Tuesday condemned an Israeli raid on the main office of the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, Anadolu Agency reports. On Monday, Israeli...

Israeli army on Tuesday announced it had discovered a third tunnel leading into Israeli territory from southern Lebanon, according to a military statement, Anadolu Agency reports. “The attack tunnel is...

Turkey’s foreign minister on Tuesday said Turkish citizens deserve visa-free travel to Europe and that the government continues to work on that, Anadolu Agency reports. “Our citizens deserve visa-free travel...

Yemen’s government and Houthi rebels will exchange some 16,000 prisoners after 40 days, said a member of the Yemeni delegation of ongoing peace talks in Sweden, Anadolu Agency reports. Hadi Haig, who...

Twitter is thought to be enforcing Israel’s gag order on details of its botched operation in Gaza, instructing a number of media outlets to remove posts revealing the identity...

The Skyline International Foundation reported yesterday that the UAE has paid huge amounts of money to spy on its own citizens and hack regional and international institutions. The foundation...

the Rachel Corrie sports initiative hosted its 5th sporting event this year

Russia has called on the Arab League to restore Syria’s membership into the 22 state organisation. The appeal was made by Moscow’s National Centre for Defence Management, with Colonel...

A new UN report co-authored with a consortium of aid agencies and experts has warned of the biblical scale of the humanitarian crises unfolding in Yemen as a result...

The first Intifada of 1987 to 1993 remains one of the most important stages of the Palestinian national struggle. The people of my generation, the Intifada generation, cannot forget...

The Israeli Knesset yesterday passed the first reading of a bill which will prevent prisoners convicted on “terror” charges of requesting early release. The bill – which will prevent...

The world has become accustomed to seeing the US stand by injustice and occupation in all international forums and even on the battlefield. Hence, it was no surprise to...

Israel Railways was taken to task Monday by the country’s Supreme Court “for turning a site near the West Bank settlement of Nili into a dump site in 2011...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has issued a new warning about congressional efforts to pass legislation criminalising politically motivated boycotts of Israel, amid reports that the bill may...

Israeli military officials and analysts are reporting an increase in Palestinian attacks against settlers and occupation forces in the West Bank, with some warning of a potential eruption on...

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has disclosed evidence that Saudi Arabia has forcibly disappeared three Libyan nationals for over 500 days, calling on authorities to reveal their whereabouts. Muhammad...

The Francophone Paris Institute for Freedoms yesterday accused the Saudi authorities of torturing a female university student who was arbitrarily arrested on charges of criticising the authorities on social...

Israel is afraid that India is planning to scrap a $500 million deal of anti-tank missiles claiming that more tests are needed on the arms, Ma’an reported yesterday. The...

A Gulf country requested Israel sell it drones a few years ago but Tel Aviv refused after “careful consideration”, local broadcaster KAN revealed on Sunday. Though no information was...

PLO’s Committee for Prisoners and Freed Prisoners launched a solidarity campaign for burns victim Israa Jaabis who is being held in an Israeli jail. Entitled “Freedom and Treatment: A...

Bassam Abu-Sharif, a senior aide to the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat, revealed yesterday that he has a document which proves that Saudi Arabia approved the Palestinian leader’s assassination,...

The debate on whether Palestinians should be granted international protection continues. Adalah’s November 2018 Report to the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 Protests in the Occupied...

Some 40 journalists were killed and 76 others were wounded in Iraq between 2015 and 2017, the Association for the Defence of Press Freedom in Iraq said on Sunday....

Renown Jordanian publisher and radio show host Mohammed Al-Wakeel has been detained for one week pending investigations on charges of causing offense that could after he published an altered...

Saudi Lieutenant General Eid Bin Awad Al-Shalawi was appointed Commander of the GCC Unified Military Command (UMC) during the 39th GCC meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh. Gulf Cooperation...

Human Rights Day is celebrated on 10 December to remember the day that the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. The irony of...

Extremist Israeli settlers have hung posters calling for the assassination of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas across the occupied West Bank. The posters – showing Abbas’ face framed...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday his government is looking to obtain retroactive approval for the illegal settlement outpost of Ofra built on private Palestinian land near Ramallah....

UN special envoy Martin Griffiths said on Monday Yemen’s warring parties had yet to agree on main sticking points in peace talks, including a ceasefire in Hodeidah and reopening...

Jamal Khashoggi is on the shortlist of Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, the publication announced Monday, Anadolu reports. The Washington Post columnist who was killed at the hands of...

The Arab League has told Brazil’s right-wing President-elect Jair Bolsonaro that moving Brazil’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would be a setback for relations with Arab countries, in a...

After ten months of “hard work,” Lebanon’s internal security forces have foiled two major bombing attacks, the country’s interior minister, Nohad Machnouk, announced yesterday. “A ten-month-long high-level security operation...