As I was arriving to Beirut from Damascus to take up my new role as UNHCR representative in Lebanon, only a few weeks before the world would mark a shameful milestone - 10 years of the Syria crisis - I reflected on the last time I had worked and live...

Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Bisher Al Khasawneh on Sunday announced the construction of an oxygen plant by the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army (JAF) following the New Salt Public Hospital incident...

The trial of British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe at Iran’s Revolutionary court was held on Sunday, her lawyer Hojjat Kermani said, hoping she would be acquitted from the charge of “propaganda against the system”...

At least two people have been shot dead during protests in Myanmar's largest city, as security forces continue with their violent crackdown against demonstrations...

From March 8 - 12, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov toured the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia and Qatar to discuss regional and international issues...

Israel faces a dilemma: should it argue its case to International Criminal Court investigators looking into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, or refuse to cooperate? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a vocal critic of the ICC, dec...

The conservative interim president who led Bolivia for a year was arrested on Saturday as officials of the restored leftist government pursue those involved in the 2019 ouster of socialist leader Evo Morales, which they regard as a coup, and the admi...

A dozen members of the US Congress have called on the administration of President Joe Biden to condemn Israel's land expropriation and home demolition policies in the occupied Palestinian territories...

Ethiopia has rejected the recent allegations of ethnic cleansing in the northern Tigray region,  by the new administration in the White House, calling them 'unfounded and spurious...

Dozens of countries have told the UN that Egypt must stop using anti-terrorism laws to muzzle critics and even keep them in pre-trial detention indefinitely, triggering a strong response from Cairo...

Thousands have demonstrated in Algiers, rejecting early legislative elections announced the day before, as weekly rallies by the resurgent Hirak pro-democracy movement gain momentum...

The acting leader of Myanmar’s civilian government, appointed by legislators who were removed following a military coup last month, says efforts are being made to give people the legal right to defend themselves amid the surging death toll in anti-...

After a decade of war in what used to be Syria, are 10 further years of conflict the best that can be expected? Syria is a plurality of furiously competing polities: Rebel-held Idlib; Turkish-occupied northern areas; eastern regions where Kurdish fo...

Republicans have intensified their attacks against President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill as they seek to establish a foothold against Democrats' first major win heading into 2022...

The Kingdom on Friday received the first shipment of the AstraZeneca/SK Bioscience COVID vaccine, consisting of 144,000 doses, from the global COVAX initiative at Queen Alia International Airport...

British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is facing an anxious wait to learn whether she can leave Iran after her six-year prison ordeal following her trail today...

Head of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC), Khaled Toukan, said the Jordanian nuclear research and training reactor is a “civilisational” achievement for the Jordanian state in its first centenary, according to remarks made to the Jordan ...

The Middle East has seen a drastic reshuffling in the recent period. Much of these developments over the past several years have been toward bettering the entire region...

Syria’s first lady, who is also a British citizen, may be prosecuted and stripped of her UK citizenship after a preliminary investigation was opened into allegations that she incited and encouraged terrorist acts during the country’s civil war...

By most accounts, Yemen’s Houthi militia just burnt alive nearly 500 African migrants. But where is the outrage among the heavy hitters of human-rights advocacy or the liberal commentariat? This is no rhetorical question but rather one asked in ear...