Category: 3. Middle East

Arsenal Football Club is facing a legal challenge after firing a long-serving staff member for expressing anti-Zionist views online, an incident that has further exposed the widening assault on pro-Palestinian speech…

Russia claims members of the international rights group have backed ‘extremist’ organisations and ‘foreign agents’.

Russian authorities have designated Amnesty International as an “undesirable” organisation, alleging that the rights…

Since the release of American-Israeli soldier Edan Alexander on 12 May, Israeli occupation forces have intensified their genocidal campaign in Gaza, killing an average of 81 Palestinians per day through direct…

Britain’s top football host will not front 2026 World Cup coverage for the broadcaster and is ‘bowing out by mutual agreement’ after backlash to a social media post about Zionism.

Gary Lineker, a former England captain and the face of…

The health of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who earlier this month sought to resign, is deteriorating rapidly, sources and observers have told Al Jazeera.

But Russian President Vladimir Putin does not want Kadyrov to be succeeded by his third…

The trial has added to rising concerns across East Africa about threats to democracy.

The leader of Tanzania’s main opposition party has appeared in court at a hearing in an ongoing trial on charges of treason, in which he potentially faces the…

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun today called for the safe and dignified return of Syrian refugees in Lebanon to their country.

“We affirm that Lebanon is keen on establishing the best relations with its neighbour…

The attack is just the latest in Balochistan, which is plagued by insurgency.

A car bomb that has exploded near a market in Pakistan’s restive southwest has killed four people and wounded 20, according to a government official.

The attack was…

The Israeli occupation army killed 30 more Palestinians in the early hours of this morning in deadly strikes across the war-devastated Gaza Strip, medics said.

A medical source told Anadolu that 15 people lost their…