A sharp rise in coronavirus infections in the Gaza Strip could overwhelm the Palestinian enclave's meagre medical system by next week, public health advisers said on Sunday. Gaza, where the dense and...More
A top adviser to President-elect Joe Biden, who has pledged a renewed U.S. emphasis on human rights, on Friday voiced concern about a prominent Egyptian rights group that said security agents had...More
War-torn Yemen is in imminent danger of the worst famine the world has seen in decades, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned last Friday. "In the absence of immediate action, millions of...More
As conflict rages in Ethiopia’s breakaway Tigray region, at least 33,000 refugees have crossed the border into neighbouring Sudan, posing a challenge for Sudanese authorities who are already hosting...More
Leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies vowed on Sunday to spare no effort to supply COVID-19 drugs, tests and vaccines affordably and fairly to "all people", reflecting worries that the pandemic...More
The international community must continue aiding Afghanistan or face the risk of "disastrous consequences," UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi urged ahead of a donors conference starting on Monday...More
The German government has stopped funding aid organisation Islamic Relief over its ties to the banned Muslim Brotherhood, the Interior Ministry said in response to a request for information from an...More
Jordan will open a consulate in Western Sahara, Morocco said on Thursday, in an apparent show of support for Rabat after the disputed territory’s Polisario independence movement said it was returning...More
A prominent Egyptian rights group said security agents arrested its executive director on Thursday, days after two other senior members were detained under charges including joining a terrorist group...More
French President Emmanuel Macron has asked Muslim leaders to accept a "charter of republican values" as part of a broad clampdown on Islamism. On Wednesday he gave the French Council of the Muslim...More
France wants international supervision to implement a ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict amid concerns in Paris that Russia and Turkey could strike a deal to cut out Western powers from...More
Mike Pompeo on Thursday became the first U.S. secretary of state to make an official visit to a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, in a key diplomatic gesture to Israel by the outgoing U.S...More
The Palestinian Authority said on Tuesday it will restore coordination with Israel, ending a six-month suspension, on the eve of a planned visit to the Jewish state by Washington's top diplomat...More
A Pakistani Islamist party on Tuesday called off an anti- France demonstration on its third day, after securing the release of protesters arrested following clashes with police. Ultra-conservative...More
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday defended a ceasefire deal he brokered between Azerbaijan and Armenia after France called for him to fix "ambiguities" in the text. Putin said the deal laid...More
NFL players have kneeled during the national anthem and taken stands to protest social injustice across the United States. Detroit Lions guard Oday Aboushi wants to use his place in sports and...More
The United States will slash troop levels in Afghanistan and Iraq to their lowest levels in nearly 20 years of war after President Donald Trump pledged to end conflicts abroad, the Pentagon announced...More
Any U.S. attack on Iran would face a "crushing" response, an Iranian government spokesman said on Tuesday, following reports U.S. President Donald Trump asked for options for a strike on Iran's main...More
Tunisia's President Kais Saied and Qatar will seek to promote dialogue between Muslims and the West to prevent anti-Muslim backlashes following extremist attacks, he said during a visit to Doha on...More
Talks on Libya's future adjourned on Sunday without naming a new government to oversee a transition to possible elections next year, and acting U.N. envoy Stephanie Williams said there was a lot of...More
Azerbaijan on Sunday agreed to extend the deadline for Armenians to withdraw from the Kalbajar district as part of a Russian -brokered peace accord to end weeks of fighting over disputed Nagorno-...More
Egypt arrested the office manager of a leading human rights group on Sunday on charges including "joining a terror group" and "spreading false news", the organisation said. "In an unprecedented...More
Transgender people will soon be able to inherit property from their families, Bangladesh's law minister said Sunday, the latest effort to give the minority group more rights in the conservative...More
When the United Arab Emirates agreed to normalise relations with Israel, the Palestinians decried the move as a "betrayal" of both Jerusalem, where they hope to establish the capital of their future...More
Thousands of protesters staged a sit-in after battling with riot police in the northern Pakistani city of Rawalpindi on Sunday, demanding the government expel the French ambassador from the country...More
On 13 November 1970, a young air force officer from the coastal hills of Syria launched a bloodless coup. It was the latest in a succession of military takeovers since independence from France in...More
Israel has come under heavy criticism after the military demolished several homes and other structures in a Bedouin community in the occupied West Bank last week as much of the world's attention was...More
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling party said on Friday it would seek to form a government of national unity after official election results showed it had comfortably won enough parliamentary...More
Shredded tarp flutters from the metal frames of what were once thousands of tent homes. After five years hosting displaced Iraqis, the vast camp was emptied in under 48 hours. The Habbaniyah Tourist...More
For years Sufi singer Rita Dewan captivated millions of followers in Bangladesh with her haunting ballads. Today, she lives in fear each performance will be her last. Accused of defaming Islam and...More
Five Danish far-right activists suspected of planning to provoke Muslims in Belgium by burning a Koran have been arrested and ordered out of the country, officials said on Thursday. According to...More
A man set himself on fire in Tahrir Square in central Cairo on Thursday and was being treated for burns at a hospital in the capital, security sources said. There was no immediate official comment on...More
Islamic State claimed responsibility on Thursday for an attack on a non-Muslim cemetery in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah which wounded several people, although it did not provide any evidence to...More
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pledged on Thursday to strike extremists with an "iron fist", after a bombing against a gathering of Western diplomats was claimed by the Islamic State group...More
For over half a century, a massive graveyard on the edge of Iran's capital has provided a final resting place for this country's war dead, its celebrities and artists, its thinkers and leaders and...More
Gunmen shot dead a prominent dissident in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Tuesday, a stark reminder of the country's violence as sides in a civil war sought to implement a ceasefire and...More
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan congratulated President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday, expressing Turkey's determination to work closely with the new administration. "I believe that the strong co...More
Abdelaziz al-Hassan did not want to live in an overcrowded camp after fleeing war in northwestern Syria, so instead his family pitched a tent in the ruins of a Roman temple. He, his wife and three...More
She is a nurse at a Beirut hospital, and still Rita Harb can't find her grandfather's heart drugs. She has searched pharmacies up and down Lebanon, called friends abroad. Not even her connections...More
Russia began deploying 2,000 peacekeepers to Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday after Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed a peace deal to end weeks of fierce fighting over the disputed region. The Moscow-brokered...More
European leaders on Tuesday mooted tightening the EU's external borders, as they vowed joint action following a spate of attacks on home soil blamed on Islamist radicals. President Emmanuel Macron,...More
Saeb Erekat, who died on Tuesday at the age of 65, weeks after being hospitalised with coronavirus, was the Palestinian veteran negotiator and politician who shepherded relations with world powers...More
The United Arab Emirates scrapped reduced sentences for so-called "honour" killings in a sweeping overhaul of criminal and family law announced on Saturday. The oil-rich Gulf state also lifted a ban...More
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday said the next U.S. administration has an opportunity to "compensate for its previous mistakes" following Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election. "...More
EU member states on Friday extended for another year a sanctions framework against Turkey allowing visa bans and asset freezes against individuals involved in contested gas exploration in the...More
Under the elegant arches and domes of an Ottoman-era compound, Joseph Tobjian displays his aromatic Aleppo soap at a trade fair designed to revive Syria's exports-starved arts and crafts. The soap...More
The son-in-law of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan resigned on Sunday as finance minister, citing health reasons in a statement on his verified Instagram account. "After serving in ministerial...More
The French foreign minister asserted his country's "profound respect for Islam" during a visit to Cairo on Sunday in a dispute with the Muslim world over France's defence of the publication of...More
The news that a young Tunisian was the suspected perpetrator of a deadly attack in France last month sent shockwaves through Tunisia, a former French colony. According to French and Italian officials...More
"Why all this fear and panic over Biden's win? " celebrated Egyptian TV anchor Amr Adib said the other day. " Egypt has no problem about his win. Neither Biden is Obama nor is Egypt in 2020 the same...More
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has blamed his war-torn country's economic woes on a banking crisis in neighbouring Lebanon. The Syrian currency has seen a sharp drop and the economy has been...More
Eight of those detained following Monday night's terrorist attack in Vienna had previous convictions, including for terror offences, the Austrian interior minister said on Thursday, as the...More
"Temple of Refuge" illustrates Iraqi-Kurdish migrant Sartep Namiq's journey to Berlin. It was commissioned with the help of a unique organisation. By Stefan Dege
