The Boko Haram jihadi group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a brutal massacre of farmworkers in northeast Nigeria over the weekend as the death toll rose to 76. The grim search for bod... Read more

The government of Turkey has been accused of stealing olives from neighboring Syria, pressing them into oil and selling that oil to European Union countries, including Spain, labeled as Turk... Read more

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources have confirmed that Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham opened a new petroleum company in areas under its control in Idlib province and parts of Aleppo c... Read more

Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations, BCIJ, has arrested this Friday three men in Tétouan, northern Morocco, for terrorism and allegiance to the Islamic state group, ISIS. The... Read more

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi will be going on an official two-day visit to France on Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron’s advisor for North Africa and the Middle East,... Read more

Denmark, the EU’s biggest oil producer post-Brexit, said Friday it will halt all North Sea oil and gas production and exploration by 2050 in line with its bid to become an energy trans... Read more

A book dedicated to why far-right leader Matteo Salvini deserves “respect and admiration” has become an online bestseller in Italy, a flattering homage — except that it is... Read more

China successfully powered up its “artificial sun” nuclear fusion reactor for the first time, state media reported Friday, marking a great advance in the country’s nuclear... Read more

US President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday said he had asked the government’s top infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci to remain in his post and join his Covid-19 team after he ta... Read more

Hossam al-Haddad The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed responsibility for a recent rocket attack on an oil refinery in the northern Iraqi province of Saladin. ISIS also claimed... Read more

European doubts over a post-Brexit trade deal with Britain boiled over on Friday, with France threatening a veto even as intense negotiations entered what could be their final hours. EU and... Read more

The human rights situation in crisis-wracked Belarus is still deteriorating, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said today, spotlighting mass arrests, including of journalists, and numerous a... Read more

Mahmud al-Batakoshi In this new episode of our series on the use by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of soft power to serve his expansionist agenda, we will focus on the role the Turki... Read more

Robier al-Fares   The Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights has renewed its complaint to the special procedures of the United Nations against Qatar, after the Qatari a... Read more

Amira Sherif   The Economic Affairs Working Group of the International Follow-up Committee concerned with resolving the Libyan crisis supported the exceptional measure of freezing oil r... Read more