Supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi, the defeated main opposition candidate in Iran's presidential election, have called for a protest outside parliament in Tehran in defiance of a government ban.
The rally was scheduled for 4pm (13:30 GMT) on Wednesday in one of the capita…
Just released from an Israeli jail, the Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council Dr. Aziz Duweik called for the immediate release of all political detainees in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
“I demand that all prisoners arrested because of their factional affiliation be released im…
A Palestinian man inspects the damage following an Israeli air strike
International human rights experts examining alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip said they planned to visit soon, and renewed a call for Israel to su…
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey would open its border with Armenia if Yerevan stopped its occupation of Upper Karabakh.
In an interview with state-run TV broadcaster TRT, Erdogan said it was the precondition to re-open the border gate.
Turkey cut all diplomat…
The UN High Commissioner for the refugee agency called upon the European governments to accept 60 thousand Iraqis who have fled Iraq because of killing or capturing at the hands of the militias, and currently residing in Syria and Jordan.
The United Nations welcomed Germany due to hosting 122 Iraqi refugees and urged other European countries to follow suit in accepting Iraqis in Syria and Lebanon as refugees.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said the refugees who were flown to the German city of Hanover are coming from Syria on Thursday and the first f refugees who move to Germany under the resettlement program.
UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond told in a news conference held in Geneva that every Iraqi family has faced persecution in their homeland, and among those families who escaped a young mother abducted her husband did not know anything after that.
It is estimated that nearly 4.5-5 million Iraqis have become refugees inside or outside of the Iraq as a result of the occupation and most importantly ethnic cleansing operations performed by puppet government and other sectarian militia groups most of which are backed by neihbouring countries.
One Australian occupation soldier killed in southern Afghanistan during disposal of a bomb installed to the road at Arzakan Province on Thursday.
At the incident one Afghani MP and his four bodyguard have been killed as a result of the road bomb in Halmand Province which is the centre of harsh atta…
A former member of an Israeli assassination squad has broken his silence for the first time. He spoke to Donald Macintyre
The Israeli military's policy of targeted killings has been described from the inside for the first time. In an interview with The Independent on Sunday, and i…
While shifting the focus of the so-called war on terror back to Afghanistan, the Obama administration recognizes that the challenge is much tougher than Iraq.
"It is like no other problem we have confronted," Richard Holbrooke, the newly-appointed US envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan…
The judge overseeing the war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo has halted the trial of a Saudi al-Qaeda suspect accused of plotting the bombing of a US navy ship.
The decision to drop the charges of bombing the USS Cole in Yemen, killing 17 US sailors in 2000, was announced by …
The Hamas Movement hailed the "courageous" stand of Turkish premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan who protested Israeli president Shimon Peres's remarks at the Davos conference concerning the Israeli war on Gaza and walked out of the conference hall when he was denied the right to respond to those …
