Two Turkish-French women were violently manhandled by the police last week in France’s Grand Est region.   Video and photos of the incident sparked outrage on social media, with some people accusing the French police of discrimination. One of the women, 22-year-old...

One year after mass protests pushed him to resign, Saad Hariri is back as Lebanon's prime minister designate to draw together a pro-reform cabinet that can save the crisis-hit country. What circumstances brought him back? What do the international community and key players inside the...

Two more senior Palestinian officials have tested positive for the novel coronavirus as veteran chief negotiator Saeb Erekat fights for his life in an Israeli hospital, one of them told AFP. Palestine Liberation Organization central committee member Azzam al-Ahmad said he and social...

Khirbet Al-Majaz, a patch of desert at the end of a long, dusty trail in the West Bank, may not look like an area at the centre of a two-decade court battle. But after years of legal wrangling, the Palestinian Bedouins perched there on a rocky hill may be facing final expulsion if Israel's...