Al-Araby

Dozens of fishermen in the besieged coastal enclave of the Gaza Strip have been struggling to keep their families afloat after years of imposed illegal Israeli restrictions. Speaking to The New Arab in separate remarks, fishermen complained about how t…

Egyptian journalist Mohamed Mostafa Moussa has disappeared in suspicious circumstances from the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, raising further concerns about a growing crackdown on journalists and activists ahead of planned protests on 11 November b…

On 1 November, Algeria celebrated the 68th anniversary of the outbreak of its war of Independence which started in 1954 and ended 132 years of French colonial rule. The war was led by the National Liberation Front (FLN) and its military wing, the Natio…

Human Rights Watch Monday accused Damascus and Ankara of exacerbating Syria’s deadly cholera outbreak by restricting aid and water-flow to the country’s Kurdish-held northeast. Syria has recorded 81 deaths and more than 24,000 suspected cases of the ex…

Qatar’s foreign minister has lashed out against “arrogant” critics of the Qatar World Cup as the Union of Arab Football Associations (UAFA) expressed its support for the tournament hosts. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani described the negative …

When Israelis went to the polls on Tuesday, it seemed likely that Benjamin Netanyahu — the embattled, indicted, ex-prime minister — would emerge for the third time to retake his old former office. But it turned out that the polls delivered an even more…

Former PM Boris Johnson called on Egyptian authorities to immediately release Egyptian-British national Alaa Abdel-Fattah during his COP27 visit to Sharm El-Sheikh. Abdel Fattah has entered his second day of a water strike following over 200 days of co…

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres told countries gathered at the start of the COP27 summit in Egypt on Monday they face a stark choice: work together now to cut emissions or condemn future generations to climate catastrophe. The speech …

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has held undisclosed talks with top Russian officials in hopes of reducing the risk the war in Ukraine spills over or escalates into a nuclear conflict, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The newspaper c…

A bus accident on Sunday in northern Turkey left three people dead and 32 others injured, Ankara’s health minister said. A passenger bus from the private Kamil Koc bus company overturned on a major highway by Bolu province. Health Minister Fahrettin Ko…