Al-Araby

A Turkish court on Friday acquitted two Bloomberg reporters of trying to sabotage the economy with an article about the currency crisis of 2018. The journalists and other defendants, including economists, went on trial in 2019 and faced up to five year…

Two British men working as aid volunteers in Ukraine have been taken captive by Russian forces on suspicion they are “spies”, a non-profit organisation and the family of one of them said Friday. Paul Urey and Dylan Healy were “captured” by Russian sold…

Eid al-Fitr, the three-day feast that signifies the end of the holy month of Ramadan is meant to be a happy, joyous occasion. But for the population of Gaza, deteriorating economic conditions, unemployment and wage stagnation have meant that celebratin…

The UK’s Labour Party hosted members of the Israeli Labour Party this week as the former tries to win back support from Jewish and pro-Israel voters. The nine-member Israeli delegation included deputy mayor of Tel Aviv Chen Arieli and party chief execu…

A prison in the US state of Virginia has agreed to provide a Muslim inmate with food during non-fasting hours, between sunset and sunrise, in accordance with Ramadan customs. The decision comes this week following an emergency complaint filed jointly b…

Turkey on Friday accused Greek warplanes of violating its airspace over the Aegean Sea, which Turkish security sources said happened 30 times in 72 hours. Greece and Turkey, NATO allies but regional rivals in the eastern Mediterranean, often trade barb…

“Roger Waters and his friends did a huge thing for me: They made me happy and feel – even just for a moment – that I was free and not in my prison cell, enclosed by four walls.” These are the words of Turkey’s jailed Kurdish singer Nûdem Durak, who tha…

Iraqis including President Barham Salih have this week mourned the loss of a lake in southern Iraq, which officials and activists say has completely dried up due to climate change and overuse. Lake Sawa in Muthanna province was once a popular tourist d…

A member of an Islamic State militant group nicknamed “The Beatles” that beheaded American hostages is due to face a US judge on Friday who will determine whether to subject him to a lifetime of near-solitary confinement. US District Judge T.S. Ellis i…

Defeated French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen will stand in parliamentary elections in June, her party announced on Thursday, underlining how she intends to remain in frontline politics. The 53-year-old failed in a bid to unseat Presid…