Many dead and missing as migrant boat sinks off Tunisia’s coast

At least 20 people have drowned in waters off Tunisia’s Sfax after a migrant boat capsized, with another 20 still missing.

Ten years since Bouazizi’s fatal act of defiance, where does Tunisia stand?

The cradle of the ‘Arab Spring’, Tunisia’s 2011 Jasmine revolution secured a hard-fought democratic transition. However, unemployment rates remain high and frustration lingers as economic progress has yet to materialise.

Iraq's KRG leader condemns YPG/PKK attack on Peshmerga

Kurdish Regional Government of Iraq's leader Barzani stated a group of YPG/PKK agents from Syria were denied entry into northern Iraq; they had launched an attack using heavy weaponry on the Peshmerga forces.

Italy names four Egyptian agents as suspects over murder of student

The disclosure of Egyptian security officials’ names came shortly after Cairo had closed an investigation into the 2016 murder of an Italian student in Egypt.

Israel-Morocco agreement follows a history of clandestine cooperation

Normalisation should not come as a surprise – unofficial ties between Israel and Morocco have existed for decades.

Netflix’s Mosul tells a riveting tale of a SWAT team fighting Daesh

‘Based on true events’, a day in the life of the Nineveh SWAT team in Mosul is a tense, arresting tale of men who are fighting against all odds with limited means.

Far-right terrorism in West on rise, while violence elsewhere wanes

Global fatalities from terrorism fell by almost 60 percent for the fifth consecutive year but deaths attributed to far-right terror have increased by 250 percent, the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) said in its 2020 Global Terrorism Index.

What are the major challenges facing Biden in the Middle East?

The President-elect is expected to refocus US policy in the region on multilateralism and normative values, but it could increasingly become tied to domestic concerns.

Ethiopia defends its military operations in Tigray

Ethiopia’s prime minister on Friday defended military operations against the country’s well-armed Tigray region after accusing its government of a deadly attack on a military base this week.

World leaders push for UN Security Council reform

Despite the repeated calls for transforming the world body's most powerful institution, experts see close to zero chances of that happening as they see little incentive from today's Permanent Five to let others in.

Erdogan: Egypt's actions in Libya are illegal

Turkey has been providing military aid to the Tripoli-based government in the Libya conflict, while Egypt, the UAE and Russia have backed warlord Khalifa Haftar.

Lebanon’s Kafala system enables brutality against black and brown workers

The recent incidents of Ethiopian maids being dumped by their employers yet again reveals how Lebanon's unregulated Kafala system affects people of colour.