Al-Araby

Amnesty International has called on authorities in the United Arab Emirates to release a group of dissidents who the human rights group said had completed prison terms earlier this year but had not yet been freed. The international rights organisation …

Tunisia’s powerful UGTT union on Tuesday called a national strike in June in public services and state firms after the government refused to increase wages, an escalation that may hinder the government’s efforts to reach a deal with the International M…

A court in Germany on Tuesday convicted five men for membership in a local cell of the Islamic State group that received orders from a leading IS figure in Afghanistan. The Duesseldorf regional court sentenced the Tajik nationals, aged 25 to 34, to len…

Israeli authorities have arrested two men who assaulted journalist Iyad Harb during the Israeli extremist ‘Flag March’ in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday. The men attacked Harb, a police correspondent for the Arabic service of Israel’s Kan public bro…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Saudi Arabia on Wednesday where he will meet foreign ministers from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, two Gulf officials said on Tuesday. Lavrov, who was in Bahrain on Tuesday, is expected to m…

Denmark’s supreme court on Tuesday overturned a lower court ruling ordering the government to compensate 18 civilians tortured during the Iraq war in a joint operation by Iraqi forces and a Danish battalion. A total of 23 Iraqi plaintiffs sued Denmark …

A shocking video of an elderly Syrian woman being kicked in the face by a Turkish man in a “racist attack” in the southern city of Gaziantep has caused horror and outrage. The video shows the woman, identified as 70-year-old Leila Mohammed, sitting on …

Tajikistan’s authoritarian government said that five people had been killed on Tuesday in an “anti-terror operation” in a troubled region bordering Afghanistan and China. The five “members of an organised criminal and terrorist group were neutralised” …

Israel’s security agencies have warned its citizens to immediately leave Turkey due to Iranian threats, according to reports. Security officials have directly called and advised more than 100 Israeli citizens living in Turkey to return to Israel, accor…

A gag order on Israel’s massacre of at least 47 Palestinians in the village of Kafr Qasim ended on Monday, following a years-long battle by historians to make the information public. An Israeli court in March said classified documents detailing the 195…