Muslim leaders call for unity to solve Israel-Palestine conflict
More than 500 Muslim leaders and clerics from 30 countries met in Istanbul on Friday to warn that the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site…
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Stop the IS’s Genocide of Christians in the Middle East
I did not want to go to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, during our pilgrimage in Israel last week. It seems enough to…
Child refugees forced to use separate toilets in ‘apartheid-style system’ at Italian school
The decision to force two child refugees to use separate toilets at an elementary school in Italy has sparked outrage. The two boys, from Egypt…
A leading figure in Al-Qaeda killed in Syria
A leading figure in Al-Qaeda, who became a prominent member of its Syrian Al-Nusra Front offshoot, was killed in a drone attack yesterday, the group…
Muslim Brotherhood leader killed in Cairo
Egypt’s Interior Ministry said early on Tuesday that it killed a senior Muslim Brotherhood leader it said was responsible for the group’s “armed wing” and…
Putin’s Syria playbook? To recapture Soviet glory in the Middle East
Why is Moscow putting itself on the wrong side of history, because who can doubt that history will record Assad as a monstrous tyrant and…
Is it dangerous to be gay in the Middle East?
Just after it became known in June that the attacker of Orlando’s Pulse nightclub had pledged allegiance to ISIS, Egypt’s foreign ministry immediately moved to…
Two die in Sharjah
Two men have died in separate drowning incidents that took place in Sharjah on Friday. Sharjah Police have confirmed that one incident took place in…
UK trained hundreds of guards working at Bahrain’s death row jail
A report by Reprieve, an anti-death penalty charity, has accused the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office of funding training for hundreds of prison guards working…
Palestinian president to attend ex-Israeli PM’s funeral
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will attend the funeral of former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres on Friday, according to a Palestinian official. “President Abbas will…