Shaimaa Hefzy Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Yaqoub, the Salafi preacher, testified before an Egyptian court in the case known as the ISIS Imbaba cell, in which he repudiated his “being a Salafi pr... Read more

Omar Abdelmonem and Ali Rajab The branches of the Muslim Brotherhood outside Egypt suffered a violent shock after the Court of Cassation upheld death sentences against a host of its senior m... Read more

Aya Ezz Egypt’s Court of Cassation has upheld the death sentence against 12 accused leaders of the terrorist Brotherhood, including the leader Osama Yassin, in the case of organizing the arm... Read more

Each side had its reasons for taking military action this week, but it appeared that neither wanted to reopen last month’s war. The stage was set this week for another spasm of violence betw... Read more

New Zealand’s plan to formally apologize for immigration raids in the 1970s that targeted Pacific Islanders is being hailed as a long-overdue gesture, though some activists say it is not eno... Read more

Rap and K-pop aren’t music genres you’d expect an Iranian presidential hopeful to be familiar with. And yet, during the second televised debate ahead of the countrywide poll on 18 June, one... Read more

Online sexual crimes are traumatising South Korean women and driving some to consider suicide, says Human Rights Watch The South Korean government is facing fresh calls to take urgent action... Read more

Kim Jong-un said addressing food insecurity was “a top priority” in the country, where millions died in a famine during the ’90s. North Korea is bracing itself for a possible food crisis in... Read more

The health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has long been a source of morbid fascination in rival South Korea, which sits in the shadow of Kim’s 1.2-million-strong army and his growing ars... Read more

Nahla Abdelmonem France plays an important role in the fight against terrorism in the Ivory Coast, in its bid to reduce violence and tension in the West African region. The region suffers fr... Read more

Ahmed Adel The US Treasury Department announced imposing sanctions on a smuggling network that assists Iran’s Quds Force and the Houthis in Yemen, in a move welcomed by the Yemeni government... Read more

United Nations Special envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths has said that warring parties “could not agree” on a comprehensive cessation of military operations in the country. In his briefing to... Read more

A number of prominent Republicans in the Senate called on the US administration to shed light on the human rights violations committed by the Houthis in Yemen. The senators sent a letter to... Read more

Bracing for greater recruitment, the Iraq-based “Hezbollah Brigades” militia set up a new boot camp in Syria’s eastern governorate of Raqqa, local sources reported, revealing that its locati... Read more