Middle East Near You

Two Arab athletes at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games made headlines when they pulled out rather than participate alongside their Israeli counterparts. A third, however, was celebrated by...

The giant American ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's announced last week that it is going to stop selling its products in the occupied Palestinian territories of the West...

Over 600 people, including clergymen, MPs, political figures, and army officers, have attended the swearing-in ceremony of Bashar Al-Assad at the presidential palace in Damascus. He is now serving...

The medical and psychological impact of the Israeli offensive is ongoing for many people, as is the physical impact of losing homes and infrastructure necessary for a normal life

Last week, Saudi Satellite TV Channel Al Arabiya surprised its audience when it hosted Chief of Hamas Political Bureau abroad Khaled Meshaal. The last time a Hamas official was...

Mohammad Dweekat has been living since 2007 with his mother and two sisters in an old rented house in Rafah, a city in the south of the Gaza Strip....

Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll met with the German Ambassador, Susanne Wasum-Rainer, on Monday along with visiting German parliamentarians. Roll thanked the German guests for their country's strong...

During his visit to the UAE, Israeli Foreign Minister and Alternate-Prime Minister Yair Lapid inaugurated the Israeli embassy in Abu Dhabi, met with his counterpart Mohammad Bin Zayed and signed an agreement on...

Today at dawn, Palestinians across the occupied territories were shocked to learn that a well-known activist in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, Nizar Banat, had been killed...

The head of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar met with UN Peace Process Envoy Tor Wennesland this morning. The two discussed the situation in the...

Ultranationalist, right-wing Israeli settlers carried out their "Flag March" in Jerusalem yesterday. Due to security concerns, the route was changed from previous years, and they passed the Jaffa Gate...

Israel has a new prime minister for the first time since 2009. That's when Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu took office for the second time. It was not easy for...

The recently Israeli military offensive against the Palestinians in Gaza prompted a response that shocked the occupation state and many people around the world. Not only were the resistance...

Last week, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid told President Reuven Rivlin that he had formed a coalition government to replace the administration of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still facing corruption charges and has failed yet again to form a stable government. He is Israel's longest-serving prime minister and regards himself...

As I write it is almost midnight on Thursday, and after a two-and-a-half hour meeting of Israel's security cabinet it has been reported that there is to be a...

The Israeli occupation army — the so-called Israel Defence Forces (IDF) — has been bombarding the besieged Gaza Strip in an attempt to destroy the infrastructure of the Palestinian...

Seventy-three years have passed since the Palestinian Nakba, the date when the self-proclaimed Zionist state of Israel declared its "independence". The declaration followed massacres of Palestinians committed by "Jewish...

At 5 pm on Monday, the Palestinian resistance in Gaza had issued a one-hour ultimatum to the Israeli occupation authorities, calling on them to end their month-long aggression against...

Events in Jerusalem have dominated the headlines over the past few days. Hundreds of Palestinians in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque have been wounded in violent attacks by Israeli security forces,...

Turkey and Egypt started two days of "political consultations" on Wednesday with the aim of restoring their relationship. Each delegation was led at deputy foreign minister level, with Sedat...

After 15 years of internal division, political deadlock, international disregard of the Palestinians and continuous Israel violations, Palestinians experienced a moment of hope as they dreamt of their miseries...

Israeli settlers have increased their harassment of Palestinian worshippers during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The Israeli extremists usually carry out their attacks with the full protection of...

After two weeks of deliberations in Vienna about reactivating the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal with Iran, EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell told reporters...

At the end of March 2021, Turkey announced the approval of plans for constructing the Istanbul Canal, which will connect the Black Sea north of Istanbul to the Sea...

On 23 March, I received an email from Murad Bakri, the Strategic Communications and Public Information Officer at the Office of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East...

In February, an Israeli District Court in Jerusalem rejected an appeal filed by the families of the Karm Al Ja'ouni area of Sheikh Jarrah in occupied Jerusalem against a...

On 29 March, the Egyptian authorities officially announced that the colossal Ever Given cargo ship that ran aground in the Suez Canal six days earlier had been refloated. However,...

After Israel's fourth general election in under two years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he will not step down, despite another deadlock. None of the Israeli parties...

In an article in the Wall Street Journal last Sunday, Donald Trump's son-in-law and former senior adviser Jared Kushner described how his diplomatic achievements caused a "geopolitical earthquake" in...

Morocco's Abdelilah Benkirane has recently announced that he is freezing his membership of the Justice and Development Party in protest against the government's adoption of a bill to legalise...

On the sidelines of the 155th session of the Arab League meeting last week, Egypt chaired a meeting of the Arab Ministerial Committee. The league's Secretary-General, Ahmed Aboul Gheit,...