It constitutes a systematic strategy whereby forced disappearances are used to intimidate society and fund the regime, report says...

Encouraging celebrities to speak up, the push-back campaign is a countermeasure against Saudi Arabia’s efforts to use influential people to whitewash its human rights violations...

Police in Hong Kong have arrested dozens of individuals for violating the national security law by either organizing or participating in an unauthorized “primary election” in the semi-autonomous city last year...

Maronite Patriarch Bechara Al-Rai is waiting for Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri’s return to Beirut from a family holiday abroad to resume his mediation efforts aimed at facilitating the formation of a new government urgently needed to deliver...

Turkey’s health minister announced early Wednesday that three inactive COVID-19 vaccine candidates are ready for human trials...

Egypt signed on Tuesday a reconciliation agreement with Qatar at the 41st Gulf Cooperation Summit in Saudi Arabia, its Foreign Ministry said...

The chairman of the right-wing Proud Boys group was arrested Monday in Washington over the torching last month of a Black Lives Matter banner taken from a church during violent protests, police said...

Police in Turkey have arrested 17 individuals in early morning raids a day after a student protest rally against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s appointment of a chancellor to a top university in Istanbul...

Egypt has urged the need for an agreement “at the earliest possible time” with Sudan and Ethiopia on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) ahead of the second phase of its operation...

South Korea has demanded the release of a tanker that was seized by Iran on Monday in the latest Gulf stand-off pitting Tehran against America and its allies...

The CEO of Dominion Voting Systems has said the company is contemplating legal action and plans to sue President Donald Trump and his former attorney Sidney Powell for defamation...

Russia is planning to flight test its new intercontinental ballistic missile which it claims is capable of destroying an area the size of France...

The number of people evacuated due to floods in Malaysia caused by monsoon rains exceeded 20,000 early Tuesday...

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman welcomed on Tuesday the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani to Al-Ula ahead of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit, as the Qatari leader stepped off the plane...

Talks on the formation of a new Cabinet are expected to resume this week, after Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri returns from a family holiday abroad, amid unyielding positions by President Michel Aoun and Hariri that dash hopes for breaking the ...

The Lebanese government imposed a new lockdown Monday that is set to last from Jan. 7 until Feb. 1, in a bid to to curb the dangerous spread of Coronavirus as the holiday season comes to a close...

A caravan of approximately 12 square metres is what Shawkat, his wife and his three children have been calling home for the past eight years...

The incoming Biden administration appears to be floundering over a recent trade deal between the EU and China, known as the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI)...

Boris Johnson tonight plunged the country into a third national lockdown ordering everyone to work from home if they can...

Saudi Arabia has opened air, land and sea borders and lifted a blockade on neighboring Qatar in advance of the Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Al-Ula, at which the emir of Qatar is expected to be a participant...