The letter called on the Doughty, and the UK govenernment, to immediately issue trade sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Lebanon and Israel have agreed on Britain, Italy, Switzerland and Indonesia as potential contributors to a proposed mechanism that could see foreign troops deployed to Lebanon to verify Hezbollah's ...

US president Donald Trump claims ’total control’ over Hormuz, while Iran maintains it will stay closed until its demands are met.

Mediators are pushing Iran and the US to resume negotiations ahead of the expiry of the 60-day memorandum of understanding on 17 August.

The UAE’s social media restrictions for children could set a precedent across MENA, but experts warn that age verification risks privacy and digital freedoms ...

A Syrian court has sentenced Atef Najib, the former security chief whose name became synonymous with the crackdown that helped ignite the 2011 uprising, to death for crimes against humanity. Najib, a ...

After a death sentence was passed in absentia against ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad this week, questions have arisen over the ruling's potential impact on the transitional justice process ...

[This piece is part of a yet-to-be-launched investigative section called “For the Record”. The New Arab believes that public interest comes first and that publishing research findings, even if not ...

Mogadishu, Somalia - Pirates hijacked MT Asana, a Tanzanian-flagged oil tanker, on 17 July, boarding it about 65 nautical miles off the Yemeni port of Mukalla. The tanker was moving slowly toward ...

The rise of pro-Israel diplomacy in Latin America is staggering. From renewing diplomatic relations to rekindling trade, newly elected right-wing leaders are more interested in forming strategic ...

The United States and Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis reported separate attacks on shipping on Tuesday as prospects for ending the five-month-old Iran war appeared to dim, with Tehran saying the Strait ...

Israel’s Arab-majority parties have worked together in previous election cycles, with a renewed effort in May seeking to combine them again.