A teenage gunman killed 18 young children in a shooting at an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday, in the deadliest US school shooting in years.The attack in Uvalde, Texas - a small community about an hour from the...

The UN Security Council on Tuesday called on the Taliban to "swiftly reverse" policies restricting human rights and freedoms for Afghan women, in a unanimously adopted statement.The move comes just days after female T...

The UN migration agency said Tuesday it aims to help transfer at least 6,750 Ethiopian migrants from war-torn Yemen to their home country in the coming months. It appealed for $7.5 million to assist their return. The International Orga...

Egypt has approved direct flights between Yemen's rebel-controlled capital and Cairo, the Yemeni government said Tuesday, in the latest sign of progress in the war-torn country.The green light comes after the first co...

Four migrants were found dead and three were missing after their boat capsized off the Libyan coast, the North African country's coast guard said Tuesday.The agency also rescued 13 migrants who had been shipwrecked as...

At least three people have committed suicide in northern Syria over the past three days, amid a considerable increase in suicide attempts across the region, The New Arab’s Arabic language service Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported. The cases...

Israeli surveillance planes increased their flights over the Gaza Strip on Monday as Hamas and other Palestinian factions in the besieged coastal enclave placed themselves on high alert.Earlier in the day, senior Hama...

Sudan’s security forces have cracked down on demonstrators protesting against last October's military coup, in an attempt to crush unrest in the country over the past few days.Police forces reportedly fired teargas an...

Iran held a funeral procession on Tuesday in the centre of the capital Tehran for Revolutionary Guards Colonel Hassan Sayad Khodai, who was shot dead by two people on a motorcycle, and his commander vowed to avenge the...

Three Turkish soldiers serving in northern Iraq as part of operations against Kurdish militants were killed on Tuesday, the defence ministry announced.Another four soldiers were wounded during fighting, said the minis...

Ireland’s permanent representative at the United Nations, Geraldine Byrne Nason, is set to host an informal meeting regarding the protection of journalists, as well as to highlight the killing of prominent Palestinian j...

Dutch authorities on Tuesday arrested a 34-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker accused of war crimes, marking the first arrest of a person in the Netherlands suspected of committing crimes in support of Syria's regime.The...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hosted Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani in London on Tuesday, where the two leaders touched on bilateral relations and, briefly, the upcoming World Cup.Johnson said the...

Britain’s withdrawal from Afghanistan was a “disaster and betrayal” hampered by a lack of leadership from senior politicians and civil servants, the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said in a report released...

With Russia's invasion of Ukraine refusing to subside, Syrians have begun to aid Putin's latest victims of war. For many Syrians, witnessing what's happening in Ukraine has reminded them of their own experience.As b...

Egypt, host of the next UN summit on climate change, will push countries to make good on their pledges to sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions, facilitate “non-adversarial” talks on compensation to developing countr...

Jordan said on Monday pro-Iranian Syrian army units and militias loyal to Tehran are stepping up their attempts to smuggle hundreds of millions of dollars worth of drugs across the Jordanian border to wealthy Gulf marke...

Hundreds of Kurdish asylum seekers in the United Kingdom, many of whom have cases pending decisions, have been detained by police and will likely be forceful deported to Erbil by the end of this month, Iraqi lawmakers a...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu started a two-day trip to the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel on Tuesday, the first such visit by a senior Turkish official in more than a decade.Cavusoglu was sch...

Occupying Israeli forces on Tuesday stormed a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin  just days after the killing of a Palestinian teenager.Israeli forces occupation stormed the camp and Jenin and surrou...

Almost two weeks after the killing of the veteran Palestinian-American reporter for Al Jazeera, Shireen Abu Akleh, a reconstruction by The Associated Press lends support to assertions from both Palestinian authorities...

The Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) announced its wheat purchase prices on Monday, kicking off the annual scramble competition with authorities in Damascus to secure the essential c...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is planning a trip to Turkey, Cyprus, Greece, Jordan and Egypt where he will discuss regional and international issues and ink agreements in energy and trade, four sources familiar...

Around 20 people have been arrested in a crackdown on drug traffickers in northern Syria, The New Arab’s Arabic language sister service Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported.The arrests occurred after clashes erupted on Monday...

Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia accounted for 80 percent of all known state-sanctioned executions worldwide in 2021, according to a bombshell report by Amnesty International. The Middle East and North Africa, home to the...