Arab and International

Yemeni human rights lawyer and activist Huda al-Sarari, head of the Defense for Rights and Freedoms Foundation, has revealed secret prisons run by the Emirates in the cities of Aden and Mukalla and other outside Yemen for arresting Yemeni…

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has ordered police to launch a swift probe into the deaths of two protesters during clashes with security forces in the capital Baghdad on the weekend. Human rights monitors and officials…

Commenting on the developments which took place on Monday, July 27, 2020, in the occupied Shebaa Farms and on the Lebanese border with the occupied Palestine, the Islamic Resistance issued a statement in which it stressed that the state of…

UK companies are selling and marketing spy tech to countries accused of using these kinds of technology to violate human rights, according to export license data analysed by Business Insider. Such interception equipment can…

The American flag was pulled down as staff left the US Consulate General in Chengdu, after Beijing ordered Washington to close its diplomatic office, in a tit-for-tat response for the closure of Houston facility. “At 10:00am…

At least one Iraqi protester was killed and dozens injured overnight (Sunday) after riot police used live bullets to end the protest that has been going on since October last year in central Baghdad. According to media sources, riot…

Two Palestinian women prisoners are currently behind bars in an Israeli jail in isolation and under extremely harsh conditions, a Palestinian commission says. The Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission, which is run by the…

Palestine 5 million Palestinians live under brutal ‘Israeli’ military occupation, without any human or civil rights. The call to “Free Palestine” is now over 70 years old, and the world and its leaders sit idly by without action. …

China says the United States government has “abruptly” informed Beijing that it has to close its consulate in the Texan city of Houston, calling Washington’s decision “political provocation.” China’s Foreign Ministry…

The number of people infected with the new coronavirus has now surpassed 16 million worldwide, while more than 644,000 have lost their lives due to the infection, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. Since its…

Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen keep up the chorus of international outcry that has followed two American warplanes’ dangerous and provocative harassment of a Beirut-bound Iranian airliner over the Syrian airspace. Lebanon’s Foreign…

Zionist enemy forces on Saturday arrested a Palestinian youth at a military checkpoint in Beit Enoun, east of Hebron. Palestinian sources reported that the enemy forces arrested the young Issa Adel Harush from the town of Yatta in the…

A senior Israeli military official says the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement now has the capability to attack Israeli offshore natural gas platforms in the Mediterranean Sea in case of a future confrontation. Israeli…

Ansarullah Political Bureau has condemned the US interception of Iranian passenger aircraft in Syrian airspace through its warplanes, which is a blatant attack and a violation of international agreements. The American and the continued…

US President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman discussed the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and “re-energizing global economies” during a telephone call on Thursday, the White House said.…

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 633,711 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on Friday. At least 15,535,790 cases of…

United States Defense Secretary, Mark Esper, said that Washington is counting on Asian partners to help rein in an increasingly aggressive China, as two of the US Navy's most powerful warships conducted drills with allies in the…

Global coronavirus infections surged past 15 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, with the pandemic gathering pace even as countries remain divided in their response to the crisis. or more than half the world’s…

An Iraqi supplies convoy was targeted by two roadside bombs on Wednesday while making its way to support US troops in southern Iraq, according to a security source from the country. "Two explosive devices blew up a tire on Iraqi trucks…

US President Donald Trump has urged Americans to wear masks, warning that the coronavirus pandemic in the United States may “get worse before it gets better.” In what seems to be a shift in rhetoric and tone, Trump encouraged…

The dollar’s exchange rate will be a key factor in the pace of global economic recovery while domestic currencies will have a smaller impact as the world struggles to bounce back from the pandemic, according to a study by the IMF. The…

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says he has delivered an “important” message from Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, adding that Tehran and Moscow agreed to finalize a long-term…

Official results from Syria’s parliamentary election show that the country’s ruling party and its allies have managed to secure a majority in the legislature. The electoral commission in Syria announced on Tuesday that…

The Islamic Resistance issued Tuesday a statement in which it mourned the mujahid Ali Kamel Mohsen who embraced martyrdom in the overnight Israeli enemy aggression on the vicinity of Damascus International Airport. It is worth noting that…

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday that President Donald Trump might not like the outcome of the November 3 presidential election but reminded the Republican president that he will have to vacate the…

US President Donald Trump has once again accused his predecessor Barack Obama and former vice president Joe Biden of spying on his administration. Speaking in an interview with Fox News Sunday, which is set to air,…

The United States on Sunday recorded 63,872 new coronavirus cases in the previous 24 hours, Johns Hopkins University reported in its real-time tally. That put the total number of cases in the US, the nation hardest hit by the…

The "united left" bloc in the European Parliament called on the Presidency of the Parliament to provide clarifications regarding ships that arrive in Spanish ports to ship weapons and ammunition to Saudi Arabia for use in the…

President Donald Trump assailed likely opponent Joe Biden as “not competent” to lead the country, speaking as polls over the weekend showed deepening voter disenchantment with his own handling of the coronavirus pandemic.…

The United Nations Security Council, at its last session to consider the implications of the decaying FSO Safer oil tanker which has been anchored off Yemen’s coast of the Hodeidah province for decades, ignored the Saudi-led coalition's…