A Persian Gulf Arab rights group has called for the release of thousands of prisoners of conscience in the region as it marks what it calls [Persian] Gulf Detainees Day to highlight their plight.
The Syrian army units have cleared several areas, including Aleppo, Daraa, Homs, Damascus countryside and Idlib, from foreign-backed militants, destroying their weaponry.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to slap a young man if "he booed the country’s prime minister," media reports say.
Amnesty International has fiercely censured the Thursday killing of two young Palestinian protesters by Israeli troops during West Bank rallies marking the anniversary of the regime's occupation of Palestine.
Foreign-sponsored insurgents in Syria have killed at least 13 civilians and injured a number other people by targeting government-held areas of key city of Aleppo with rockets.
European Union’s Home Affairs commissioner has criticized the bloc’s member states for failing to provide safe havens to Syrian refugees who are fleeing a war which is supported by several EU states.
On May 14, 1948, David Ben Gurion declared the 'State of Israel'. By then, the Zionist forces - vastly superior to Palestinian and Arab military capabilities - had already expelled the Palestinian inhabitants of 220 villages and conquered about 13 percent of Palestine. This event is known as the Nakba, meaning the “Catastrophe” in Arabic.
The Syrian army continues to tighten the noose around foreign-backed militants in the town of Jobar, east of the capital Damascus, and in parts of Rif Homs in western Syria, Al-Alam reports.
Israeli troops have killed two young Palestinians in a Nakba Day protest near the West Bank city of Ramallah, officials say.
A massive car bomb has ripped through a crowded garage near a border crossing between Syria and Turkey, killing at least 43 people in an area that has seen fierce fighting between rival terrorist groups.