Middle East

Human rights and civil society organisations are calling for an end to attacks on Tunisia’s judiciary. About 37 organisations –...

Tehran, Iran – An Iranian court has ruled the United States government and a number of individuals and entities, including former...

Tunisian authorities have closed the headquarters of the opposition Ennahda party, a day after leader Rached Ghannouchi was arrested, party...

In early March, Hirut* was playing with her toddler at her home in Addis Ababa’s Mekanisa district, when she got...

A professional footballer in Tunisia has died after setting himself alight earlier this week as a protest against “police injustice”,...

Israel has signed a 1.44 billion shekel ($400m) deal to sell Spike anti-tank missiles to Greece, its defence ministry announced...

Israeli police have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem and arrested worshippers in a violent raid at dawn...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has met Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the kingdom’s Red Sea city...

Twenty years on from the Iraq War, water scarcity in the Middle East, and the start of Ramadan. Here’s your...

A top Turkish court has suspended funding for the country’s main majority-Kurdish party over alleged ties to “terrorism”. The decision...