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The New Arab Staff

Robert Cusack

Cusack

Bilingual staff journalist based in London.

The Libyan authorities said they had captured a small ship containing over a million litres of diesel off the west coast of Libya.

31 August, 2017

The ruling party in Gaza has allowed for prisoner releases and the return of certain Fatah members as part of its agreement with Dahlan's political bloc.

31 August, 2017

The family in Lod had been given a last minute order to demolish their own home, but the authorities claimed they weren't working fast enough.

30 August, 2017

Sudan minister Mubarak al-Fadil al-Mahdi said he was only repeating the words of other leading officials in private, now officially denied by many government officials.

25 August, 2017

The UK foreign minister flew to Benghazi on Thursday to meet the breakaway rebel military leader and discuss the peace process.

25 August, 2017

Hamas' political bureau voted two weeks ago to ban any meetings with Fatah MP Mohammed Dahlan personally, out of a fear of a return to 'Dahlanistan,' the New Arab reveals.

25 August, 2017

The Qatari defence minister confirmed the interest in buying S-400 missiles from Russia, the same missiles recently sold to its allies, Iran and Turkey.

25 August, 2017

A UN-sponsored commission called the ethnic violence against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims a 'human rights crisis' in a new report.

24 August, 2017

The president of the autonomous region told a group of Kurdish academics the referendum was definitely going ahead despite pressure from his neighbours to postpone.

24 August, 2017

Ethiopia's foreign ministry posted a video of Sadik returning to Ethiopia earlier this week, fully recovered after falling from a seventh floor window.

23 August, 2017