A group of international lawyers, researchers and activists has filed a complaint with the African Commission on Human and People's Rights, denouncing the recent decision of the African Union to grant Israel an observer status at the continental body, and seeking its revocation.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Iraq's Nujaba resistance movements have hailed the arrival of the first Iranian fuel cargo in Lebanon to help ease crippling shortages in the Arab country amid a dire economic crisis.

The humble spoon has taken its place alongside traditional flags and banners as a Palestinian resistance symbol, after prisoners were said to have carried out one of Israel's most spectacular jail breaks with the utensil.

The 21st summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has opened in Dushanbe, with Chinese President Xi Jinping telling it that Iran will be accepted as a full member of the Eurasian political, economic, and security alliance.

Palestine’s national football team has ranked 99 on the FIFA world rankings list, up from 102 registered during the last reporting period on the same list.

On this day in 1982, several thousand Palestinian refugees were brutally massacred by a Lebanese militia group immediately after the Israeli army under Ariel Sharon had occupied the Lebanese capital, Beirut, where the camps are located.

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, or SCO, was founded two decades ago in St. Petersburg and currently has eight members representing half the world’s population and a quarter of its economic output.

Two thirds of the Palestinian captives in an Israeli detention facility at the illegal Etzion settlement bloc, south of the southern West Bank city of Beit-ul-lahm, are minors, today said the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission.

Zionist troops attacked Palestinian worshippers and Islamic Waqf employees in al-Haram al-Ibrahimi (Ibrahimi Mosque) in the southern West Bank city of Al-Khalil and forced them to leave before closing it.