For Palestinians, exile is not simply the physical act of being removed from their homes and their inability to return...

The same day the UN published its latest Syria inquiry report, which classified the regime’s acts as international crimes, it also prepared to elect it to a body that protects self-determination...

Turkey has criticized the EU’s double standard of supporting Greece on the issue of migrants but not sharing responsibility for four million refugees hosted by Turkey...

The UN reveals increasing numbers of civilian casualties in Afghanistan since the beginning of the peace talks between the Afghan government and Taliban...

Algeria’s president has made token gestures to appease protestors and promised new elections, while being confronted with a popular movement that is a shadow of its former self...

The Presidency on Tuesday confirmed that President Michel Aoun, First Lady Nadia Aoun and ten of the president’s close associates have been vaccinated against Covid-19, amid controversy over the vaccination of 16 MPs who were accused of bypassing t...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi and US President Joe Biden spoke by phone Tuesday, discussing a range of topics...

In Somalia, an electoral impasse raises fears of a full blown conflict. In Somalia, a national election was scheduled to be held on February 8, but not only did the election not take place, a power vacuum was created and violence followed...

Approximately 895,000 people in Iran have been internally displaced due to disasters since 2010. Floods that hit Iran in 2019 “triggered more internal displacement than any other event at the regional level during that period,” a new report says...

The United Nations (UN) says civilian casualties in Afghanistan have seen a sharp rise since US-brokered intra-Afghan peace talks began last year...

Ethiopia called on Sudan to pull back its army troops on Tuesday from the borders before any dialogue could begin amid heightened tensions between the two countries...

A supply of over 11,000 Ebola vaccines have reached Conakry, the capital of Guinea, the WHO said on Tuesday...

Violence along the de-facto border in Kashmir is likely to continue to increase and India and Pakistan are unlikely in the near future to make efforts to resolve the conflict bilaterally, according to a report by the Armed Conflict Location and Event...

The wife of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman has been arrested at Washington DC's Dulles Airport and charged with drug trafficking, with an informant accusing her of masterminding a $3 million plan to break him out of Mexico's jails...

A suicide bomber blew himself up near a busy shopping mall and a police station in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, officials said, with no casualties as yet confirmed...

The foreign ministers of the European Union on Monday agreed to impose sanctions against the leaders of the Myanmar junta over its coup and Russia for its detention of opposition leader and Vladimir Putin critic Alexey Navalny...

South Korea will begin rolling out vaccinations against the COVID-19 pandemic on Friday with first doses going to workers and patients at nursing homes and other high-risk facilities, health officials confirmed Tuesday...

Lawmakers in Canada voted to declare China's treatment of its Muslim minority Uighur population a genocide, a move that is expected to further fray relations between Ottawa and Beijing...

Talks on a possible prisoner exchange between Yemen’s warring parties concluded Sunday with no deal after a month of wrangling, the UN said...

Palestinian sources revealed to The Arab Weekly that Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, who is serving several life terms in an Israeli prison, is insisting on running in Palestinian presidential elections, in a move that could threaten President Mahmoud...