After an eleventh-hour compromise from Russia and the United States, the United Nations Security Council…

Caretaker Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab appealed on Tuesday to the international community to help…

After being legitimised with an Islamic edict decades ago, the practice of “misyar”, the Muslim…

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is calling on the Australian government to…

Iran’s supreme leader named former intelligence and security minister Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei as head of the…

International rights group, Human Rights Watch (HRW) accuses Yemen’s Houthi authorities of unfairly prosecuting an…

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Ramallah, Hebron and Bethlehem for the fifth…

Saudi women’s rights activists Samar Badawi and Nassima al-Sadah, detained nearly three years ago, have…

The BBC’s legal representatives have urged the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to take action…

Latest outbreak of violence in the Gaza Strip has been accompanied by a “catalogue of…