Al-Araby

TheUnited Nations Security Council’s approval of an extension of the border crossing in northwestern Syria remains vital to secure humanitarian aid to civilians, a UN official told The New Arab. Speaking at the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday, Cha…

The Syrian regime has officially recognised the so-called breakaway republics of Luhansk and Donetsk in Ukraine, the Syrian state agency SANA reported on Wednesday. Official sources affiliated with the regime’s foreign ministry proclaimed to recognise …

Muqtada al-Sadr, a firebrand Shia Iraqi cleric and head of the Sadrist Movement on Tuesday harshly criticized Barham Salih, the president of Iraq, for withholding signing on a law criminalising any form of normalisation with Israel, a move seen as fata…

Counter-narcotics units in Syria seized a record haul of 2.3 tonnes of the amphetamine-type stimulant known as captagon, the regime’s interior ministry announced on Wednesday. Law enforcement officers had earlier discovered 249 kilos of captagon hidden…

The African Union says it is deeply concerned by “the escalating military tension” between Ethiopia and Sudan after seven Sudanese soldiers and a civilian were killed in a border dispute. The statement on Wednesday by the chairman of the continent-wide…

Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, a prominent member of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community who founded a volunteer paramedic service before his reputation came crashing down in a series of sexual abuse allegations, has died aged 62. Meshi-Zahav was hospitalise…

Morocco and Algeria have leapt into a new “J’accuse” tit-for-tat at each other after the “Melilla tragedy” when Moroccan forces, in collaboration with their Spanish peers, allegedly killed more than twenty migrants who attempted to cross from the Moroc…

Britain’s defence spending is projected to reach 2.3 percent of its GDP this year due to increased military support for Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion of that country, the government said in a statement late on Tuesday. The estimate came after UK Defen…

Jordan’s public prosecutor on Tuesday launched an investigation into a chlorine gas leak that killed 13 people and injured more than 300 in the coastal city of Aqaba. Five foreigners including at least four Asian nationals were among those killed on Mo…

At least 14 migrants died when a boat caught fire in south Senegal, a local mayor and a health official told AFP on Tuesday. “We have been able to recover 14 bodies,” David Diatta, the mayor of the coastal town of Kafountine in Casamance, said after th…