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Sudan's residents woke up on Saturday 15 April to the sounds of gunfire and explosions as intense fighting broke out in several parts of the country between its two...

For Neoconservatives, Iraq was about a vision for a new world based on aggressive and interventionist US foreign policy

Opponents of the reforms say they would enable Netanyahu’s far-right government to seize absolute power, by granting more authority to the executive branch over the judicial.

2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, meaning ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic. So, what was the Nakba – and what is its significance today?

About 570,000 Sahrawis live in the region, the vast majority in refugee camps along Algeria’s border for the last 26 years.

Until 1948, the Negev was a region of Palestine, and home to tens of thousands of Bedouin Palestinians

Here is what you need to know about the 2017 UK General Election.

The State of Israel was formed following the mass expulsion of nearly a million Palestinians. We take a look back at what happened.

A new scandal is rocking Israel at the moment which may usher in the end of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political career.

Discrimination affects every area of life – even love

There has been a lot of controversy surrounding the powerful Iraqi Shia militias who operate under the banner of the Hashd Al-Sha’abi known as the “Popular Mobilisation Forces” or PMF

To the Zionists, the Balfour Declaration of 1917 laid the foundation for the formation of the state of Israel. To the Palestinians, however, it was an act of dishonesty and betrayal by Britain. So who is Balfour? What was the declaration? And why does it remain contentious?

The Syrian war may have gone down the route of a typical civil war early in the conflict, when a prolonged standoff was unsustainable

Brexit result has ushered in an unprecedented era of great uncertainty for how the UK and the EU will interact with the MENA region

Israeli settlements are always in the news – but what exactly are they, and what is their significance?

Between January and August 2016, 684 Palestinian-owned structures have been levelled, displacing 990 residents

Earlier this month, the Iraq Inquiry Report, better known as the Chilcot report, was published. But what is the Chilcot report? And what is it for?

Two years on from the onset of Israel's 51-day war on Gaza, life in the besieged Strip is virtually hopeless for the 1.8 million people living there. The 2014...