Prominent women's rights activist Loujain al Hathloul was released from a Saudi prison after nearly three years behind bars, her family has said...

The World Health Organization has officially recommended the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine for people over the age of 65 and said it should be used 'without an upper age limit'...

A drone strike launched by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis on Wednesday left a civilian plane ablaze at a Saudi airport, days after the US moved to delist the rebels as terrorists...

US President Joe Biden has levied sanctions on a number of military leaders in Myanmar following the February 1 coup which overthrew the country’s de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi...

Israeli secret agents spent months smuggling a high-tech machine gun into Iran in tiny pieces to kill the regime’s top nuclear scientist, it was revealed last night...

The prosecutor investigating last year’s massive explosion at Beirut’s port has summoned several people, including a former army commander, for questioning in the case, judicial officials said Monday...

Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas said Tuesday they had agreed on “mechanisms” for forthcoming elections and to respect their outcome, after years of bitter divisions...

The Indian state has deployed drones as surveillance tools at the farmers' protest. The move by the state in response to almost-entirely peaceful protests illustrates the widening gap between the power of those who demonstrate for political ch...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is close to running out of funds...

Amnesty International has urged Ethiopia's government to honor a promise to grant humanitarian access to the conflict-stricken Tigray region in the north...

UN human-rights experts on Tuesday urged 57 countries whose nationals are detained in the notorious Al-Hol and Roj detention camps in northeastern Syria to repatriate them “without delay...

Ten years ago, a wave of unprecedented unrest ignited the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as citizens took a stand against regimes with a long history of authoritarianism and fraying socioeconomic stability...

Qatar is seeking to play an active role in Lebanon by helping the cash-strapped country with money and investments, in a move that seems to be green-lighted by most regional and local actors, especially Hezbollah, which sees itself benefiting from an...

News of rapprochement between Israel and Turkey is heating up after years of ebb and flow in their diplomatic ties...

A United Arab Emirates spacecraft, the Mars orbiter Hope, successfully entered orbit around the Red Planet about 11 a...

An Israeli intelligence report predicted Iran will seek to use its proxies in the Middle East to pressure the new US administration to return to the 2015 nuclear accord...

Over 80 British parliamentarians representing all parties, in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, wrote in a letter to the British Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, that the British government must do everything in its power to prevent t...

The interrogation of Zara Mohammed on BBC’s Woman’s Hour demonstrates the persistence of low media literacy regarding Islam and Muslim women at best, and an incitement of Islamophobia at worst...

The French Parliament on Tuesday approved an extension of the state of health emergency until June 1...

US President Joe Biden says he will not even  watch the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump let alone opining on the issue...