Taiwan’s leader on Saturday appealed to her Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to deescalate military tensions and live up to his promise to “never seek hegemony” after months... Read more

  Britain has joined several eastern European nations in withdrawing its ambassador from strife-torn Belarus in protest at President Alexander Lukashenko’s expulsion of diplomats... Read more

An annual World Press Photo exhibition featuring images from Hong Kong’s huge pro-democracy protests last year has been shut down in Macau without explanation, sparking speculation of... Read more

Hossam al-Haddad Abdelilah Benkirane was the prime minister of Morocco and the secretary-general of the Moroccan Justice and Development Party from July 2008 to March 2017. He became a membe... Read more

Hong Kong police on Saturday arrested a group accused of helping 12 pro-democracy activists detained in mainland China for nearly two months after attempting to flee to Taiwan in a speedboat... Read more

  Islam Mohamed   Iran has been ordered to pay $1.45 billion to the family of Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who went missing 13 years ago in Iran and is now believed to be de... Read more

Nahla Abdelmonem The Afghan government works to keep negotiations with the Taliban going in a way that serves its own political and strategic interests. The Taliban views the same negotiatio... Read more

Amira Sherif   A study by the Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights entitled “Human Rights Implications of the Turkish Intervention in Africa: Libya and Somalia as a M... Read more

Ali Ragab   The Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights has released an analytical study entitled “The human rights implications of the Turkish intervention in Africa: L... Read more

Ali Ragab   Exposing the human rights violations of the Qatari regime, the Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights condemned the Qatari authorities’ arrest and forcible... Read more

The United States has reiterated its opposition to Turkish military operations against Kurdish-led forces in northeast Syria, extending emergency powers to counteract the move. Turkey launch... Read more

Armenian President Armen Sarkissian said that Turkey was “creating another Syria in the Caucasus” in a conflict for control of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Sarkissian called on Russ... Read more

Having disliked Emmanuel Macron’s recently presented action plan on tackling Islamic separatism, the supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Ibrahim Mounir, issued a statement. He st... Read more

Authorities in northeastern Syria said Monday that they were preparing to release thousands of Syrian families from a detention camp holding civilians displaced during the final battle to de... Read more

India has urged the United Nations to revive its energy to play a greater role in maintaining international peace and security to counter-terrorism. Addressing the Sixth Committee of the 75t... Read more