Al-Araby

Jordan’s foreign ministry rejected on Friday what it said was interference in its internal affairs by the Dutch ambassador who criticised the country’s media freedoms. The Netherlands’ ambassador, Harry Verweij, reportedly commented on the licensing of…

Political parties in Iraq which are part of the pro-Iran Coordination Framework are increasingly targeting former Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, accusing him of graft and corruption. MPs from various parties in the pro-Iran umbrella group have subm…

Chad’s government clamped down on the country’s opposition Friday, suspending seven political parties and searching party offices a day after unprecedented protests around the country left more than 60 people dead. Prominent opposition leader Succes Ma…

More than 100 attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians have been documented in the last ten days alone, Haaretz reported on Thursday. Most of the attacks took place in the north of the occupied West Bank, particularly in the town of Huwara in N…

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday it was not right for the United States to pressure Saudi Arabia after OPEC+ oil producers announced production cuts despite US objections. “We see that a country has threatened Saudi Arabia, espe…

Morocco’s foreign minister on Thursday slammed South Africa after it welcomed the leader of the Western Saharan pro-independence Polisario Front to Pretoria earlier this week. During a joint press conference with his Belgian counterpart Hadja Lahbib, M…

The United Nations said Friday that international food assistance to Somalia was the only reason why famine was being kept at bay in the troubled country. The UN’s World Food Programme said the situation was dire and the nation was now in a desperate r…

A Turkish pop singer accused of “inciting hatred and enmity” with a joke about Turkey’s religious schools rejected the charge Friday during her first court appearance. Singer-songwriter Gulsen was charged and briefly jailed over the joke she made durin…

A 15-year-old Iranian girl died last week after being beaten during a raid by the security forces on her school, a teachers’ union said, urging the authorities to stop killing “innocent” protesters. Asra Panahi died on October 13, after “plainclothes o…

Saudi Arabia pushed multiple Arab states to issue statements backing this month’s OPEC+ oil cut move, an Arab and an ex-American official have both said. Riyadh’s private efforts probably aimed at preventing the US isolating Riyadh and to demonstrate t…