The Israeli cabinet is expected to approve on Sunday the appointment of ultra-orthodox, Yaakov Litzman, from the orthodox Jewish party United Torah Judaism, as health minister, Israeli media reported...

Chief of Israeli Mossad, Yossi Cohen, has announced that Iran is "at the top of Mossad's priorities," Israeli media reported on Thursday. These remarks were made during a ceremony...

Israeli defence minister, Naftali Bennett, issued his directions to initiate the registering of settlements in Area C with the Israeli Ministry of Justice, instead of the Civil Administration, Arab48...

In comments to Al Jazeera regarding Israel's use of torture against Palestinian detainees, Qadura Faris, head of the Palestinian Prisoner Society, declared: "The Israeli security wants to leave a...

On Friday, Houthi rebels announced the targeting of the Saudi city of Najran with a ballistic missile, killing and wounding tens of Saudi soldiers, Anadolu Agency reported. Spokesman of...

Turkish authorities rescued a Liberia-flagged cargo ship that had run aground in the shoreline of the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul on Friday, Anadolu reports. The ship, called Songa Iridium,...

On Friday, head of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Khalifa Haftar's militia warplanes launched an air strike on Zawia Oil Refining Company, in western Libya. The media centre of...

Lebanese president, Michel Aoun, stressed that his country is facing "very severe circumstances and an unprecedented crisis in its history." Aoun called on the security forces in Lebanon to...

On Thursday, the Iraqi Al-Binaa Alliance accused the country's president, Barham Salih, of "violating the constitution and perjury," and called on parliament to take legal measures against him in...

Greek alternate minister of foreign affairs, Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, attacked the president of Turkey, asserting that Recep Tayyip Erdogan is "playing with fire," against the backdrop of Ankara's intention to...

Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, held a phone conversation on Friday with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, where they agreed on the importance of strengthening cooperation between the two...

A US civilian contractor was killed in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Friday, US officials said, Reuters reports. Several...

Sudan's transitional government plans to remove fuel subsidies gradually in 2020 and double public sector salaries to ease the impact of galloping inflation, the finance minister said on Friday,...

Turkey unveiled its first fully domestically-produced car on Friday, saying it aimed to eventually produce up to 175,000 a year of the electric vehicle in a project expected to...

Turkish gendarmerie forces held 713 irregular migrants in the northwestern Edirne province, bordering Greece, on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. Among the migrants were the nationals of Nepal, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria,...

Turkish police arrested 11 suspects allegedly linked to the Daesh terror group in the Aegean Balikesir province, security sources said on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. The arrests came after prosecutors...

The United Nations on Friday dispatched 46 truckloads of humanitarian aid to Idlib, a northwestern Syrian province torn by the years-long civil war, Anadolu Agency reports. The trucks passed through the...

Japan will send a warship and patrol planes to protect Japanese ships in the Middle East as the situation in the region, from which it sources nearly 90% of...

We received a pleasant and refreshing surprise when we heard President Qais Saeed received the first president from a neighbouring country since taking over office and that this distinguished...

Saudi Arabia's issuance of death sentences for the those it says were involved in the murder of columnist Jamal Khashoggi was condemned by a UN human rights expert yesterday...

This has been a defining year for Palestine and Israel. Despite the usual political stagnation of the Palestinian leadership, two factors contributed to making 2019 particularly eventful and, looking...

Palestinians come together for Christians mass in Gaza

Imprisoned senior Fatah leader, Marwan Barghouti, will run against the incumbent Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the country's upcoming presidential election, member of Fatah's Revolutionary Council announced yesterday. Hatem...

Gaza's weekly March of Return protests have been suspended for a period of three months, organisers the Commission of the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege of...

Georgia's Israel embassy confirmed yesterday that it will open a cultural centre in Jerusalem, becoming the eighth country to do so. Following the announcement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's...

Millions of Algerians cast their votes on 12 December and chose 74-year-old former Prime Minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune as their country's first freely-elected President since independence from France in 1962....

A Moroccan YouTuber was handed a four-year prison sentence yesterday for "insulting the king" in a video, according to his lawyer. The YouTuber Mohamed Sekkaki, known as Moul Kaskita,...

The father of a British citizen who volunteered with the Syrian Kurdish militia the Peoples' Protection Units (YPG) has been charged with terrorism offences in the UK. Paul Newey,...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won a resounding victory against his rival Gideon Sa'ar in the primary election for the leadership of Israel's ruling Likud party. Local Makan reported today that Netanyahu...

The head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at the Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle Eastern and African Studies, retired Colonel Michael Milstein, said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas made...

Iran and Turkey signed a cooperation agreement yesterday intended to increase religious relations, reported Press TV. The agreement was inked in the Turkish capital Ankara between Abouzar Ebrahimi Torkaman,...

Moroccan authorities yesterday arrested journalist Omar Radi on charges of insulting the judiciary after he criticised the rulings issued against activists of the Hirak Rif movement. Reports said police...