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  • US-led coalition violated intl law in Syria by failing to protect civilians – UN report
    The UN Syria Commission released a report saying it is “gravely concerned” about the impact of international airstrikes in the war-torn country, adding that US-led forces failed to take proper precautions to protect civilians ...
    Wednesday, September 6, 2017
  • IEBC announces new presidential elections for October 17
      Nairobi (W,N) - Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) announced that the country will be holding fresh elections on October, 17 after the countries highest court struck down the results of last...
    Monday, September 4, 2017
  • 1,532,000 pilgrims arrive in Saudi Arabia
    According to latest reports, 1,531,861 pilgrims have arrived by Friday in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The General Directorate of Passports said in its daily statistics that 1,432,656 pilgrims arrived by air; 84,892 by land; and ...
    Friday, August 25, 2017
  • Bomb blast at mosque during prayers – FBI probe after ‘device hurled through window’
    Worshippers were inside the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, when the explosion ripped through the imam's office. It is believed a window was broken and a explosive device hurled inside. The FBI are in...
    Saturday, August 5, 2017
  • Abadi rejects al-Sadr call to dissolve Hashd al-Shaabi
    Haidar al-Abadi, Iraqi prime minister, has rejected a call by Muqtada al-Sadr, the oowerful Iraqi Shia leader, to dissolve a controversial militia involved in battling the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group. Has...
    Saturday, August 5, 2017
  • Despite the doubters, Farah bows out as the best
    Mo Farah will bring down the curtain on his championship career with a bid for yet another distance double in London but, despite his unmatchable palmares, the Briton still finds himself fighting for appreciation in some quarters....
    Thursday, August 3, 2017
  • Qatar accuses Saudi Arabia of politicising Hajj
    Qatar has accused Saudi Arabia of politicising the Hajj, claiming Riyadh has imposed restrictions on Qatari nationals planning to travel to Mecca for the annual Muslim pilgrimage. Qatar's National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)...
    Saturday, July 29, 2017
  • Families in Sanaa demand release of ‘prisoners of war’
    Family members of people believed to be held in jails run by Shia Houthi fighters and a secret prison network run by the UAE and its local allies have staged two separate demonstrations in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, demanding the r...
    Wednesday, July 26, 2017
  • UN envoy: al-Aqsa crisis must be resolved by Friday
      UN's Middle East envoy has said a solution is needed by Friday to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound crisis in Jerusalem, which threatens to have "potential catastrophic costs well beyond the walls of the Old City". "It is e...
    Monday, July 24, 2017
  • Ukraine wants Russia held to account over MH17 downing
    Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says Russia must be held to account over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, three years after the tragedy that killed 298 people. International investigators have said the Boeing ...
    Monday, July 17, 2017
  • Qatar lashes out at UAE over QNA hacking
    Qatar accused the United Arab Emirates on Monday of violating international law after reports suggested Abu Dhabi orchestrated the hacking of the Qatari official news agency and social media sites. "The information published in...
    Monday, July 17, 2017
  • Iran-born Maryam Mirzakhani remembered as ‘Math genius’
    Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian-born mathematician who was the first woman to win the coveted Fields Medal, has died in a US hospital after a battle with cancer. She was 40. Mirzakhani' friend Firouz Naderi announced her death on...
    Saturday, July 15, 2017
  • US, Qatar sign deal to combat ‘terrorism financing’
    Qatar and the United States have signed an agreement to help combat "terrorism financing" during a visit to Doha by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and Til...
    Tuesday, July 11, 2017
  • Abadi hails ‘great victory’ against ISIL in Mosul
    Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has announced "victory" over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in the city of Mosul, according to his office. "The commander in chief of the armed forces Haider al-Abadi...
    Sunday, July 9, 2017
  • Liberia after Ebola: ‘The human suffering changed me’
    Monrovia, Liberia - The storm in Liberia began three years ago this summer. The word Ebola had first passed from radio to ear across the country in spring. In June, the disease was no more than an ethereal curiosity, vaguely menac...
    Sunday, July 9, 2017
  • Tense calm prevails in southwest Syria ahead of truce
    A day before a new ceasefire deal takes effect in southwestern Syria, the concerned areas are relatively calm with the exception of sporadic strikes by the Syrian regime, a monitoring group have said. The UK-based Syrian Obse...
    Saturday, July 8, 2017
  • In a time of high crisis, the humanitarian’s work has never been so important
    Last week brought the news — confirmed in an independent scientific study — that Red Cross volunteers in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone may have prevented up to 10,000 Ebola cases during the 2013-2016 outbreak. Given how ...
    Tuesday, July 4, 2017
  • Dozens dead in ‘US-led strike’ in Syria’s al-Mayadeen
    A suspected US-led coalition air raid on an ISIL-run prison in eastern Syria has killed at least 57 people, according to a monitoring group. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday that most of the fatalities i...
    Tuesday, June 27, 2017
  • IN PICTURES: More than a million Muslims perform Eid prayers at Prophet’s Mosque
    More than one million worshipers, from citizens, residents, visitors and pilgrims, performed Eid al-Fitr prayers at the Prophet’s Mosque this year. They filled the corridors of the Prophet’s Mosque to pray during the first da...
    Sunday, June 25, 2017
  • Hopes fade in grim search for Xinmo landslide survivors
    Rescue workers in southwestern China have recovered several bodies as hopes fade in the search for 93 other people missing after a massive landslide buried down a mountain village. A huge landslide crashed on the village of Xin...
    Sunday, June 25, 2017
  • Bomber planning to attack Mecca’s Grand Mosque blows himself up: ministry
      Saudi security forces on Friday foiled a suicide attack on the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, cornering the would-be attacker in an apartment, where he blew himself up, the Interior Ministry said. ...
    Friday, June 23, 2017
  • The Guardian: Attack on Al Jazeera must be resisted
    A demand by a group of Arab countries to close Al Jazeera Media Network is "wrong", "ridiculous" and "must be resisted", The Guardian newspaper has said in an editorial, joining a growing chorus of voices raising concerns about su...
    Friday, June 23, 2017
  • Starvation looms as food runs out in drought-hit Ethiopia
    The Somali people of Ethiopia's southeast have a name for the drought that has killed livestock, dried up wells and forced hundreds of thousands into camps: sima, which means "equalised". It's an appropriate name, they say, bec...
    Thursday, June 22, 2017
  • Islamic State blows up historic Mosul mosque where it declared ‘caliphate’
    Islamic State militants on Wednesday blew up the Grand al-Nuri Mosque of Mosul and its famous leaning minaret, Iraq's military said in a statement, as Iraqi forces seeking to expel the group from the city closed in on the site. ...
    Thursday, June 22, 2017
  • The Arab vision for fighting terrorism
    Merely six weeks after the deadly attacks of September 11, 2001, the US Congress passed an appalling law, the USA Patriot Act, which gave the US government under President George W. Bush a sweeping mandate to curtail civil liberti...
    Thursday, June 22, 2017
  • Astronomically, Sunday expected to be The frist day of Eid al-fitr
      Sunday will therefore be the first day of Eid al-Fitr, a member of the Arab Union For Astronomy and Space Sciences, Khaled Al Za’aq, told Al Arabiya. Eid al-Fitr officially starts when the new moon is spotted in...
    Wednesday, June 21, 2017
  • Administrative court annuls Egypt-Saudi islands’ deal
    Egypt's high administrative court has defended an earlier decision to annul the transfer of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, local media and judicial sources said. The ruling on Tuesday came two months after the court for ...
    Tuesday, June 20, 2017
  • Syrian regime forces resume bombardment of Deraa
    Government air and artillery bombardments hit rebel-held areas of the Syrian city of Deraa, on the border with Jordan, on Tuesday after a two-day ceasefire expired, witnesses and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. A ...
    Tuesday, June 20, 2017
  • Iraqi troops encircle Mosul’s Old City
    Iraq's army said it encircled Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (ISIL) stronghold in the Old City of Mosul on Tuesday after taking over an area to the north of the densely populated historic district. The army's 9th armour...
    Tuesday, June 20, 2017
  • Qatar: QNA hacking linked to countries boycotting Doha
    The attorney general of Qatar says his country has proof that the hacking of its state-run news agency in May is linked to countries that have recently cut ties with Doha. "Qatar has evidence that certain iPhones originating fr...
    Tuesday, June 20, 2017
  • Rights body highlights human cost of Qatar blockade
    The human cost of the ongoing blockade of Qatar by three of its Arab Gulf neighbours is mounting on a daily basis, according to Qatar's National Human Rights Committee (NHRC). Hundreds of Qatari citizens living in Saudi Arabia,...
    Monday, June 19, 2017
  • Muslim teen who got into dispute with US motorist killed, dumped in a pond
    The murder of Nabra Hassanen, right, may have been a hate crime, police say. A 17-year-old young American Muslim woman has been abducted and beaten to death after leaving a mosque in Virginia. A US man has been arrested on...
    Monday, June 19, 2017
  • Qatar will not shut gas pipeline to UAE: QP CEO
    Qatar will not cut gas supplies to the United Arab Emirates despite a diplomatic dispute between the two nations, the chief executive of the state-run Qatar Petroleum has told Al Jazeera. Saad Sherida al-Kaabi told Al Jazeera ...
    Sunday, June 18, 2017
  • Iraqi forces launch assault to take Mosul Old City
    Iraqi forces have begun their assault on Mosul's Old City as they press their battle to retake the the rest of the northern city from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group. State TV has aired live footage showin...
    Sunday, June 18, 2017
  • UN believes up to 150,000 civilians trapped in Mosul
    The United Nations believes up to 150,000 civilians are still trapped in harrowing conditions in Mosul's Old City, where ISIL fighters battling advancing Iraqi forces are shooting at anyone trying to flee as part of a tactic to ke...
    Saturday, June 17, 2017
  • Qatar Gulf Crisis: All The Latest updates
    Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Yemen, eastern government of Libya, Maldives, Mauritania, and Senegal cut diplomatic ties with Qatar The latest developments since several countries, including Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirat...
    Saturday, June 17, 2017
  • Indian court convicts six over 1993 Mumbai blasts
    An Indian court on Friday convicted six people of involvement in an attack in Mumbai in 1993 in which 12 powerful bombs packed in cars, scooters and suitcases killed 257 people and injured hundreds of others. The court found th...
    Friday, June 16, 2017
  • Djibouti accuses Eritrea of occupying disputed area
    Djibouti's foreign minister has accused neighbouring Eritrea of occupying a disputed territory along their border shortly after Qatar peacekeepers left the location this week. Mahamoud Ali Youssouf said on Friday Djibouti's mil...
    Friday, June 16, 2017
  • Africa and the Gulf crisis: the peril of picking sides
    As the Gulf crisis enters its third week, the decision to cut or downgrade diplomatic ties with Qatar by nine African countries could have a long-term impact on the nationals of those countries, analysts warned. "This is not g...
    Thursday, June 15, 2017
  • US and Qatar seal $12bn deal for F-15 fighter jets
    Contract is the latest in a series of mixed messages from the US as it attempts to navigate the Gulf diplomatic crisis. Washington and Doha have signed an agreement for the purchase of F-15 fighter jets with an initial cost of ...
    Thursday, June 15, 2017

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