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Last Friday, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced that it had discovered a tunnel beneath two of its schools in...

When Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas went to Washington and met with his US counterpart Donald Trump earlier this month, his aides described the visit as “historic” and a...

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh yesterday officially announced details surrounding the assassination of Mazen Fuqaha which took place two months ago. It was the first time that Hamas officially accused...

Ismail Haniyeh has been chosen to take over from Khaled Meshaal as the head of the Hamas Political Bureau. The new top man within Hamas was born in Al-Shati...

Generators have become the only lifeline for Gaza’s hospitals and patients who are in need of urgent medical care. However, with limited amount of fuel entering the besieged Strip,...

Khaled Meshaal, the head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, announced yesterday evening a new document of principles that outline the movement’s positons towards major...

Israel's use of numerous weapons to batter the besieged enclave has left a lasting damage to the lives of children.

The White House is waiting to host PLO leader and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting with his US counterpart Donald Trump. On the agenda will be...

On 4 May, around 23 million Algerians will vote for 462 members of the National Peoples’ Assembly, the lower chamber of parliament. Around 11,000 candidates from 57 political parties...

After Palestinian Authority (PA) employees in the Gaza Strip discovered that their salaries had been cut by a minimum of 30 per cent, experts and analysts said that this...

Following more than two days of preparations and pre-summit discussions by foreign ministers, the leaders of the Arab states met last Wednesday on the Jordanian shore of the Dead...

Morocco’s King Mohamed VI has ousted Abdelilah Benkirane as prime minister designate and leader of the the Justice and Development Party (PJD), the largest political party in the kingdom....

In the past few days, the German, Dutch and Swedish authorities have cancelled public rallies for their Turkish citizens on the grounds that they constitute a security threat. In...

US President Donald Trump telephoned the Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday and discussed several issues, including his desire to reach a peace deal between the Palestinians...

Recent reports said that the Arab League is suffering from a severe financial crisis which could force the organisation to move its headquarters from Cairo to Dubai, so that...

The new US administration led by Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that ending the Israel-Palestine conflict through a two-state solution is no longer a strategic choice. One of Trump’s...