Timeline

The 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq was meant to topple a dictator who had inflicted reckless wars and economic misery on his fellow Iraqis, and then to usher in...

Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed, on Friday, to re-establish relations after a seven-year diplomatic rupture, according to a statement issued by Iran, Saudi Arabia and China, Reuters reports. Here are key...

British-Iranian relations, which have been strained for decades, were back in the spotlight after Iranian authorities sentenced to death British-Iranian national, Alireza Akbari, for spying, charges he denies. Here...

Sudan's government and rebel groups in Darfur agreed on Tuesday that all those wanted by the International Criminal Court should appear before the tribunal, a list that includes ousted...

Mass protests this year in Algeria, which holds a presidential election on Thursday, have caused the biggest political crisis since the end of its 1990s civil war that killed...

28 December 2020: Saudi invited Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to join the GCC Summit in January in what analysts believe is sign that the Gulf crisis may be coming...

01 Feb 2023: More than 110 settlers storm Al-Aqsa with rabbis providing lectures on the alleged Temple located on its grounds Dec 2022: 48,000 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa in 2022,...

24 August 2021: Egypt receives credentials of first Qatari envoy since 2017 21 March 2021: Qatar and Mauritania meet for the first time since 2017 to discuss re-establishing ties March...

2006-Present 21 July 2022: Israel's Supreme Court rules that Palestinians can be stripped of their Israeli citizenship if they are found to be in 'breach of loyalty', even if the move...

On 9 July 2005 171 Palestinian civil society groups adopted a call to boycott, divest and sanction Israel for its violations of international law. The BDS movement calls for Israel to fully withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories dismantle the illegal Separation Wall in the West Bank provide full legal and political equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel and recognise the right of Palestinian refugees to return to the homes they were forced out of in 1948