The Israeli Civil Administration is set this week to approve the construction of 2,000 new settlement units in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank, Haaretz revealed on Sunday. The...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, denied on Sunday media reports claiming that it is discussing a long-term ceasefire agreement with Israel, whether in the West Bank or in...

As was widely expected, US President Donald Trump's plan to resolve the Middle East conflict — the so-called "Deal of the Century" — is officially dead. According to Jason...

German foreign minister, Heiko Maas, called on Sunday for a permanent ceasefire in the Idlib Governorate, northwestern Syria. Speaking to the German Funke Media Group, Maas announced that: "The...

Israel's High Court is to rule about the Israel Defence Forces having female soldiers in combat corps, the Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. According to reports, a pilot programme...

Tunisian Parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi signed on Friday the Parliament's joining of the Charter for the Implementation of the Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Strategy. The signing ceremony took place...

Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) has warned that it may be forced to suspend all operations in the oil port of Zawia (west) and evacuate the Zawia refinery, in...

Egypt and Sudan will start operating an electricity interconnection project linking the two countries' national grids on 12 January, the Egyptian electricity minister announced yesterday. Speaking at Al-Ahram energy...

Egyptian rights Gamal Eid yesterday said that he was being "assaulted and tortured by plain-clothes individuals on the street, in front of passers-by." "Vehicle without plates, plain-clothes police officers...

Ibrahim Munir, the deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, announced his approval and support, on a personal level, for the Egyptian Accord document presented by the artist and contractor...

US officials said on Sunday that air strikes in Iraq and Syria against an Iran-backed militia group were successful, but warned that "additional actions" may still be taken in...

The Libyan government said that they do not understand the UN Security Council's clear failure to face Khalifa Haftar's crimes against civilians and his destruction of public facilities in...

Iraq High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR) announced on Saturday documenting the kidnapping and missing of about 68 activists, against the backdrop of the popular movement that the country...

Two Saudi men shot dead last week in the eastern city of Dammam were driving a car loaded with explosives and were planning an "imminent terrorist operation", the SPA...

A Saudi Arabian court on Sunday sentenced to death a man accused of stabbing three performers at a live show in the capital Riyadh in November, state television said,...

Greece's Prime Minister said in remarks published on Sunday that if Athens and Ankara cannot solve their dispute about maritime zones in the Mediterranean they should turn to the...

Turkey's Foreign Ministry Saturday condemned the US parole granted for the murderer of a Turkish diplomat. A California court Friday ruled for the conditional release of Armenian-origin convict, Hampig...

Turkey will definitely stay at its observation posts monitoring a cease-fire in northwestern Syria, and its soldiers there have orders to respond to any acts of hostility, said Turkey's...

Libya's UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) on Sunday hit back at social media allegations on the presence of "Syrian elements" in the military headquarters in the capital. According...

Halting production from Iraq's southern Nassiriya oilfield on Saturday by protesters will not affect the country's exports and production operations, the oil ministry said on Sunday, according to a...

A Turkish military cargo plane landed in the Somali capital on Sunday to evacuate people badly wounded in a devastating truck bombing in the city a day earlier that...

A missile fired by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group struck a military parade in Yemen's southern separatist-held town of al-Dhalea, killing at least five people and injuring others, Yemen's Security...

Sudan's transitional government is to postpone lifting fuel subsidies, initially planned as part of the 2020 budget, the information minister said on Saturday, according to a Reuters report. Just...

Libyan state oil firm NOC is considering the closure of its western Zawiya port and evacuating staff from the refinery located there due to clashes nearby, a statement said...

Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group al Shabaab regularly carries out such attacks in an attempt to undermine the government

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu warned Saturday against attempts to create a situation in Libya similar to that in civil war-torn Syria, Anadolu reports. "They want to turn [the...

Egyptian whistleblower launches new initiative for political reform, backed by president Sisi's opposition

Iran summoned Kuwait's envoy in Tehran on Saturday to protest about Kuwaiti officials meeting a representative of a "terrorist group" and hosting an "anti-Iranian" meeting, Iran's foreign ministry said...

Protesters broke into Iraq's southern Nassiriya oilfield on Saturday and forced employees to cut off electricity from its control station, taking the field offline until further notice, a security...

Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Saturday named a university professor and former diplomat as prime minister as he builds a new government to handle political unrest and a looming...

Iran has given six crushing blows to the US and its allies in the region, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, a top military aide to Iran's leader of the...

It was a very happy moment when the Palestinians knew that they would cast their votes in order to choose their representatives, after waiting a long time. They voted...