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"What threatens Pompeo is not war. It’s peace. He is doing everything he can to ensure that tensions with Iran don’t get resolved."

The use of terms such as “radical Islam” or “Islamic terrorism” in media has psychological effects that leads to misunderstanding about Islam and Muslims, as...

The Trump administration is pursuing a new deal to provide precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia, as prior sales to the kingdom are facing new scrutiny.

Although the U.S. State Department granted a visa to Mr Hashemi, hoping to donate bone marrow to his U.S. citizen brother with blood cancer, the waiver...

During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump declared that destroying ISIS would be his top foreign policy priority. He signaled his seriousness about...

The Friday U.S. missile attack on the Shayrat airfield in Syria can mark the beginning of a different political-security era in the burning Middle East.

Historically, the two Egyptian and Palestinian sides of the town of Rafah, until the signing of the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel was a single...

The attempted coup and its aftermath in Turkey on July 15th have provoked heated debate on its meaning and ramifications.

The recent U.S. unilateral financial sanctions are cutting off Iranian banks from the international banking system, thereby making import of medicine and...

The UAE targets political opponents and activists, and criminalizes fundamental freedoms and basic human rights

Instead of being released upon the completion of their sentence, many prisoners are transferred without a legal basis to so-called “counselling centres” (or...

An investigation by Amnesty International reveals that the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a key party to the Saudi-led coalition waging war on Yemen, has been...

The UAE’s human rights record has been sharply deteriorating in 2020. For any real improvements to be made in 2021 the UAE must seek to address its...

UAE prison authorities should take urgent measures to protect the mental and physical health of prisoners amid reported Covid-19 outbreaks in at least three...

- The UAE authorities continue to violate the rights of prisoners of conscience inside prisons through arbitrary punitive action and degrading treatment.

In his latest report regarding the situation of South Sudanese refugees, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees stated that figures show that the civil war in...

An arms sales watchdog has accused the UK government of a serious failure to disclose intelligence that could save the lives of thousands of people involved...

British officials authorised the export of almost £1.4bn of weapons to Saudi Arabia in the quarter after the UK resumed sales of weapons that could be used...

The UK sells billions of pounds-worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia that are being used as part of a brutal war in Yemen.

According to the UN, plans to send some asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda are a breach of international law.