What do we need to know and remember about female genital mutilation (FGM) in Egypt, if the new amendment enhancing criminalisation measures of the practice, now ratified, is to make positive change? How can the law become effective when society ref...

Mohamed Abdel-Aty, Egyptian minister of water resources and irrigation, has stressed the need for effective and serious negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in order to maximize the chances of success...

A Libyan lawmaker revealed on Tuesday that an agreement had been secured to unify the two competing groups in the country's parliament following a meeting in the capital Tripoli...

A total of 25 Houthi positions came under attack by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen on Wednesday, according to a news website...

The US ordered all non-essential diplomats to leave Myanmar on Tuesday after the military's crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators hit its bloodiest day...

Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi approved Bahrain’s first ever ambassador to Israel on Tuesday, ahead of the Gulf state’s opening of its embassy in coming weeks...

Three Afghan women working on a UN-funded anti-polio vaccination drive were killed in two separate attacks by unidentified gunmen on Tuesday in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad, officials told Arab News...

The war in Syria is not only Syria’s war,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday...

Gateway - A Podcast from the Middle East · Inside the Labor Camps of the Gulf, with Nick McGeehan The cities of the Gulf region in the Middle East are often depicted as cutting-edge metropolises...

Imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti is expected to get the largest number of votes if he runs for president, Director of the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research, Khalil Shikaki, said yesterday...

The crisis in Myanmar may lead to new refugee wave, warned an expert. "The important thing that the flow of the refugees will not be the same as we have seen in the past," said Lilianne Fan, the co-founder and International Director of the Aceh...

An Asian woman was attacked by a black man in Midtown Manhattan in broad daylight on Monday - while a couple of security guards from a nearby building did nothing to stop it...

The Islamic State has bragged of 'killing dozens of Mozambican armed forces and the Christians' in a days-long assault near a major gas plant in the country's northeast...

Pandemic treaty could be advanced by May – WHO A proposed international treaty on pandemics could be advanced at the World Health Organization's annual ministerial assembly in May, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said...

Three logistical support convoys belonging to the US-led coalition in Iraq have been targeted by explosive devices in the country's central provinces of Babil and al-Qadisiyah, as well as the southern province of Dhi Qar...

A member of former US president Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force says the COVID-19 death toll in the United States would have been substantially lower if the Trump administration had responded more effectively...

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has held talks with his Azeri counterpart, Jeyhun Bayramov, on sidelines of the Heart of Asia conference in Tajikistan...

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro replaced six ministers Monday in a major reshuffle after three ministers departed amid growing criticism over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic...

As many as 459 people have been killed in Myanmar in a military crackdown against anti-coup protests, said a human rights group on Monday...

Canada on Monday suspended administering the COVID-19 vaccine by AstraZeneca and Oxford University for people under 55 years of age citing concerns over blood clots reported in Europe...