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Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed was charged over a 1982 attack that was attributed to the Abu Nidal Organisation, which splintered from the mili...

A secular university professor was killed in a drive-by shooting in Yemen.A Yemeni university professor and secular thinker was killed on S...

Afghanistan's national security adviser said a successful peace process with the Taliban will help the government better fight the Islamic S...

Egypt closed a long-running investigation into 20 NGOs accused of illegally receiving foreign funds.An Egyptian appeals court on Saturday o...

Algeria and Italy have agreed to develop their economic and commercial cooperation.Algeria and Italy agreed to diversify cooperation beyond...

Bethlehem lit up its Christmas tree without the usual crowds due to Covid-19 restrictions.Bethlehem lit up its Christmas tree on Saturday e...

A mob of people blocked the route of a convoy of UNIFIL peacekeepers in the village of Kaouthariyet al-Saiyad in south Lebanon and seized th...

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has opposed the creation of a new “Council of Transition Partners”, which has been given broad powers...

Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan has said that the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt are all ‘on board’ regarding the resolution of a three-ye...

A former vice-president to Iran's Hassan Rouhani says she had been accused of handing classified information to foreign parties.A former vic...

Joe Biden has signalled he will return the US to a nuclear accord with Iran and that he still backed the 2015 deal negotiated under Obama, f...

Egyptian President Sisi is due to visit Paris to meet his French counterpart Macron on Sunday, amid protests by rights groups over a continu...

A funeral cortege joined by hundreds of mourners took the body from a hospital in Ramallah to Mughayir where Ali Ayman Nasr Abu Aliya was bu...

The UK’s maritime trade authority says that a merchant ship was attacked on Friday night off the coast of Yemen.A vessel was attacked off t...

Iran’s supreme court said that it will review the case of three men sentenced to death over their involvement in November 2019 protests whic...

Kuwaitis have begun voting in a parliamentary election overshadowed by coronavirus, with special polling stations allowing infected people t...

Bahrain has become the second nation in the world to grant an emergency-use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech corovavirus vaccine.The i...

US President Donald Trump has ordered the removal of most US troops from Somalia.President Donald Trump has ordered the removal of most US m...

Two Russian journalists were arrested by Turkish police for allegedly filming a drone production unit without permission.Two journalists fr...

Moroccan police said they have arrested three men in Tetouan suspected of links to the Islamic State group.Moroccan police said Friday they...

Comment: The IHRA's definition of antisemitism is being used to attack free speech, repress social justice work and criminalise Palestine li...

Protests erupted in several Iraqi cities one week after deadly clashes took place between anti-government protesters and supporters of a con...

Syrian delegates have agreed to resume talks on constitutional revisions starting January 25.A fourth round of talks in Geneva towards revi...

Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Kuwait said progress had been made towards resolving the Gulf crisis.Rivals Qatar and Saudi Arabia, along wit...

Mohammad Muqbel, 16, required jaw surgery after he was beaten in an Israeli prison.A Palestinian teenager underwent surgery on Thursday...