GAZA CITY: Some 800 Palestinians crossed Sunday from the Gaza Strip into Egypt on the initial stage of a minor pilgrimage to Makkah known as the “Umrah,” the first time since 2014 Egyptian authorities

CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Sunday upheld a five-year prison sentence for the country’s former anti-corruption chief, found guilty of insulting the military, legal sources said.A military court rejected Hisham Geneina’s appeal and confirmed

On February 15, US President Donald Trump declared a national emergency at the US-Mexico border in order to access funding for the construction of what he calls an "absolutely critical" border wall. Although he has repeatedly

Malaysia's government says it will consider resuming the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines flight if companies interested in the hunt come forward with viable proposals or credible leads, as families of passengers marked the

US-backed Kurdish forces say they are locked in heavy fighting with ISIL fighters in northeast Syria, using artillery fire and air raids as they press ahead to capture the armed group's final patch of

One month on from Juan Guaido's decision to declare himself acting president of Venezuela in parallel to President Nicolas Maduro, the country remains in a strange and dangerous limbo. Guaido has unified an opposition

Students in cities across Algeria have resumed protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term in office, just as he was due to formally submit his candidacy for April's elections. In the capital,

Pidia Joseph Allieu has made it his life's work to eradicate sexual violence in Sierra Leone. Although the precise figures are impossible to confirm, it's estimated that more than 200,000 women were the victims

Talks between the United States and the Taliban continue in Doha as civilians in Afghanistan are dying in record numbers. A United Nations report recorded about 3,800 civilian deaths in 2018, including nearly 1,000

SpaceX's new Crew Dragon capsule has arrived at the International Space Station, acing its second milestone in just over a day. No one was on board the capsule launched on Saturday on its first test