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Further light has been shed on the pervasive use of Israeli weapons in Afghanistan as US troops pull out in what is seen as an embarrassing defeat for the...

Lebanon's military court yesterday handed down prison sentences to three people for "dealing and normalising with Israel." The official Lebanese News Agency (LNA) reported that the first ruling...

Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit tasked new state Public Prosecutor Amit Eisman to investigate allegations that former Mossad Chief Yossi Cohen had received bribes during his tenure, the Times of...

The German and French ambassadors, along with other European Union (EU) ambassadors, boycotted a ceremony at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, Israeli Ynet News revealed on Tuesday. The ceremony...

The Australian government has informed Israel's largest private arms company, Elbit Systems, that its military will stop using its Battle Management System (BMS) from mid-June. "The news was given...

The recognition of Palestine as a State by the Australian Labor Party on 30 March is a welcome move, although it comes with many caveats. Pro-Palestine activists are justified...

The UK home secretary is set to publish details next week on the country's asylum and immigration system which could include changing the law so that migrants seeking asylum...

A much anticipated US foreign policy move under the Biden administration on how to counter China's unhindered economic growth and political ambitions came in the form of a virtual...

A Moroccan court has decided to extradite Osama al-Hasani, a dual Australian-Saudi citizen, to Saudi Arabia, his wife said on Wednesday, in a case that has concerned rights groups,...

The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK) today called on Morocco not to extradite Saudi-Australian academic [ to Riyadh, saying to do so "would would...

The Israeli Supreme Court yesterday ruled that Malka Leifer could be extradited to Australia over legal claims accusing her of sexually abusing students when she ran a secondary school...

Qatar has cancelled a $300 million annual trade subsidy for the Australian lamb industry after the country condemned a series of invasive medical examinations of its nationals in Doha in October....

A British-Australian academic who was freed from Iranian jail on Thursday was detained in 2018 on espionage charges after authorities there found her partner was an Israeli citizen, the...

Qatar says it has identified the parents of a baby who was abandoned last month in a bin at Doha's airport, Al Jazeera reports. Last month, CCTV footage was released purportedly showing...

Qatar's public prosecutor has filed criminal charges against an unspecified number of police officers working at Qatar's Hamad airport after women said they were invasively searched there last month....

Qatar announced on Friday that those responsible for the medical searches of women passengers at Doha airport had been referred for prosecution over the "violations", AFP reports. This come as women...

Women on a Qatar Airways flight to Sydney, Australia were pulled off the aircraft after a newborn baby was found abandoned in a toilet in Hamad International Airport in...

The US has sanctioned an Australian gemstone trader for helping Al-Qaeda transfer funds internationally, the Treasury Department said in a statement yesterday. Ahmed Luqman Talib, 30, used his international...

Human Rights Watch are calling on the Egyptian government to investigate the death of a young man who died in police custody just before the outbreak of the 20...

Australia's first Daesh bride, Zehra Duman, who left Melbourne to join the terrorist group has been jailed in Turkey for three years after fleeing a Syrian refugee camp with...

Australian nationals consisting of women and children have been snatched and abducted from the Kurdish-run Al-Hawl refugee camp in north-east Syria, in what advocates have called a "deeply concerning"...

Like other countries prioritising international consensus and diplomatic relations with Israel simultaneously, Australia is trying to square a colonial circle. Whilst not averse to promoting the two-state paradigm and...

The Australian government has resisted US pressure and announced that it will not repatriate the wives and children of Daesh fighters stranded in Syrian refugee camps, citing concerns over...

The Royal Australian Navy HMAS Toowoomba has intercepted more than 3,000 kilograms of illegal narcotics including hashish and heroin in the Gulf of Aden, Minister of Defence Linda Reynolds...

Government-backed Iranian hackers have targeted universities in Europe, the United States and Australia in recent months, consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers has found, Dutch broadcaster NOS and Reuters reported on Friday. It is unclear whether the attempts to...

Palestinian Authority (PA), PLO and Fatah President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday called on the international community to put pressure on Israel to allow Palestinian elections to be held in Jerusalem,...

Britain is set to leave the European Union at the end of this month. The government will then be free to strike new economic deals without being bound by...

Turkey extradited another foreign terrorist fighter to his home country, according to the Interior Ministry on Sunday, reports Anadolu Agency. The ministry said in a written statement that a...

An Australian man has been sentenced to prison for 36 years for raping and killing an Arab-Israeli exchange student. The high-profile case has shocked many and prompted outrage over...

The Australian Federal Police said on Saturday it had charged a 43-year-old Iraqi man for his part in allegedly organising a people smuggling venture that led to the deaths...

Two Australian-British travel bloggers are released from an Iranian prison on Saturday after three months of arrest over flying drone without permit in the capital Tehran, reports Anadolu Agency....

Saudi Arabia announced, Wednesday, it's joining of the International Alliance for the Safety and Protection of Maritime Navigation and Insurance of the Safety of Seaways. The official SPA news...