Iran has produced highly accurate missiles which it has not publicised, Iranian Deputy Defence Minister General Qassem Taqizadeh said on Friday, according to the semi-official Fars news agency, Reuters has reported. Taqizadeh did not provide details about the weapons. US President Donald Trump pulled out of an international agreement on Iran’s...

US President Donald Trump added to his repertoire of racist comments this week, by making his latest, most openly anti-Semitic remark yet. “Any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat – I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” he said. He later clarified...

Hundreds of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip headed Friday toward the security fence area to participate in the weekly anti-occupation protests known as the Great March of Return, Anadolu Agency reports. They were holding Palestinian flags. The Higher National Commission of the Great March of Return and Breaking of the Gaza...

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On the fiftieth anniversary of the infamous act of arson at Al-Aqsa Mosque, when the flames of hatred were ignited and engulfed the Noble Sanctuary, the fire is still burning not only around the mosque, but also in the streets and alleyways of Jerusalem. Al-Aqsa Mosque and the city...

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have left Turkey and returned to the towns and cities they evacuated in Syria, the nation’s foreign minister said today. “More than 346,000 Syrians have returned to areas of Syria which were cleared of terrorists in Operations Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch,” Mevlut Cavusoglu told a...

Syrian regime forces have surrounded a Turkish military observation post in the embattled north-western province of Idlib today, after they overran a  number of neighbouring towns. In a viral video recorded by the Turkish soldiers and posted on Twitter today, Syrian troops and military vehicles including tanks can be...

An Israeli was killed and another two were injured today after an explosive device detonated near an illegal Jewish settlement to the west of occupied Ramallah, Israeli media reports have said. “Seventeen-year-old girl was killed while her 47-year-old father was moderately injured in the attack, and her 20-year-old brother suffered serious...

Israel’s right-wing Yamina party has vowed to quit any future ruling coalition if US President Donald Trump demands “practical steps” towards peace as part of his long-awaited “deal of the century”. Speaking to the Jerusalem Post yesterday, Education Minister and Yamina number two Rafi Peretz explained that he would...

Reports that the Syrian regime had opened a “humanitarian corridor” offering civilians a safe exit out of the embattled Idlib province are false, the UK-based organisation Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said yesterday. SOHR, which documents human rights violations in Syria, told the news outlet Voice of America...

US officials have confirmed that Israel was behind recent airstrikes on alleged weapons depots in Iraq, which were ostensibly being used by Iran to transfer arms to Syria. Senior US officials yesterday told the New York Times that Israel has carried out “several strikes in recent days”,...

The Syrian government has arrested the director of the Anti-Narcotics Department and a number of his team on suspicion of facilitating drug trafficking. According to pro-regime website Hashtag Syria, a number of senior officials have been under investigation for nearly two months in an effort to uncover whether they...

Israeli TV channel KAN reported on Thursday that the occupation authorities have transferred two billion shekels (around $560 million) of withheld taxes to the Palestinian Authority, which will help to cover its budget deficit. The channel cited PA officials in its report. The PA’s current financial crisis is caused...

The residents of a Bedouin Palestinian village in southern Israel have petitioned the Supreme Court in a bid to prevent construction on the community’s Muslim cemetery, reported Haaretz. The construction in question is a planned large water storage tank to be built by the Mekorot national water company. Residents...

Israel has been charged with enabling attacks on media freedom around the world by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), after export controls on surveillance technology were eased. Citing a Reuters report, CPJ noted that Israeli officials have confirmed that – thanks to a rule change by the Defence...

A member of Israel’s parliament has claimed that dead people “participate” in the country’s elections in what amounts to ballot box fraud. Oded Forer MK, of the Yisrael Beiteinu bloc in the Knesset, said on Wednesday that he is going to ask the election committee to place cameras in...

A majority of Israelis plan to vote in September’s elections in the same way that they voted in April, according to the results of a new i24NEWS–Israel Hayom poll. Israelis are gearing up to vote for the second time in six months, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to...

The Sudanese Central Committee of Doctors has announced the death of one person in Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast during an outbreak of tribal violence. At least 58 others were injured, 14 of them with gunshot wounds. The casualties were taken to Port Sudan Hospital, Prince Osman...

The number of Palestinians displaced by Israeli occupation authorities in the first seven months of 2019 has now exceeded the total number of people displaced in all of 2018. According to new data published this week by UN OCHA, Israeli forces in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) demolished or...

A security campaign by the Jordanian authorities has led to the arrest of 750 people on firearms charges since 27 June. Almost 900 weapons were confiscated in the same period. In a statement issued on Thursday, Jordan’s Public Security Directorate revealed that last week alone, police units involved in...

Only state owned media in Tunisia can hold debates between candidates looking to run in the country’s upcoming elections. In a joint decision to set rules on the coverage of the presidential and legislative election campaigns by the media, the Independent High Electoral Commission (ISIE) and the High Independent...

The German captain of a rescue ship who has saved the lives of hundreds of migrants in the Mediterranean has declined a humanitarian prize from Paris City Council. Pia Klemp and her colleague Carola Rackete were awarded the Grand Vermail Medal last month for their courage in rescuing migrants...

Turkey will “resolutely” continue to explore hydrocarbon resources in the Eastern Mediterranean, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, Anadolu Reports. Erdogan’s remarks came at a press conferences in Ankara, Turkey’s capital, following his meeting with Ersin Tatar, Prime Minister of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). Erdogan...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted on Thursday of possible Israeli involvement in attacks against Iranian-linked targets in Iraq, Reuters reports. A series of blasts in the past few weeks have hit weapon depots and bases belonging to paramilitary groups in Iraq, many of them backed by Israel’s regional...

Saudi Arabia’s international airports are the scene of the latest “first” for women citizens, who can now leave the country without permission from a male relative as the kingdom chips away at its heavily criticised guardianship system, Reuters reports. Salma, a 40-year-old mother of three, travels abroad regularly with...

At least five people were killed in a stampede at a packed rap concert in the Algerian capital on Thursday night, a hospital source said, Reuters reports. Thousands had gathered at the concert of local rap star Abderraouf Derradji, known as “Soolking”, in a stadium in Algiers. READ: Son...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) yesterday announced that the national wages would be paid with an increase of 10 per cent in September. “The Palestinian civil servants’ salaries will increase by 10 per cent starting from September 2019,” PA’s Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said at a conference, which was held...

The United States will aggressively enforce its sanctions to prevent the private sector from assisting an Iranian oil tanker that is travelling through the Mediterranean and that Washington wants seized, a State Department official said on Thursday, Reuters reports. “The shipping sector is on notice that we will aggressively...

An Israeli yesterday celebrated “peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia” by waving the kingdom’s flag in occupied Jerusalem, local media reported. The Israeli foreign ministry released a video on Twitter showing the citizen waving the Saudi flag and expressing his desire to visit the Saudi. بالترجمة للعربية..إسرائيلي يرفع العلم...

The Israeli occupation police on Thursday afternoon kidnapped seven Palestinian citizens, including two young girls and three children, from the Bab al-Rahma prayer area of the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, Palestine Information Centre reports. Witnesses say police forces stormed the Bab al-Rahma area and rounded up A-Aqsa guard Bader al-Rajbi...

Egypt said on Thursday it would invest 5.23 billion Egyptian pounds ($315 million) in the Sinai Peninsula in fiscal 2019-20, a 75% rise on the year, in a venture officials say is intended to stabilise a region hit by violence from armed groups, Reuters reports. The Planning Ministry, which directed 2.986...

The Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Thursday condemned Paraguay for its decision of designating the group as an “international terrorist organisation”, Anadolu Agency reports. In its press statement on the Paraguayan decision, the group said: “This decision runs against international law which ensures peoples’ right to resist the aggression and occupation with all...

European settlers were behind the foundation of the United States of America and Israel, both of which are currently steering a path towards right-wing extremism fuelled by race hate. As such, perhaps we should not be in the slightest bit surprised at the blatant emergence of the three-headed monster...

The Tunisian parliament on Thursday approved an amendment to the country’s election and referendum law, Anadolu Agency reports. The amendment aims to ease procedures in objecting to results of presidential polls, in order to avoid exceeding the 90-day interim presidential term set in the constitution. Tunisia is bracing for an early presidential election slated...

An Iranian tanker which the United States wants seized is not heading towards Greece as it sails through the Mediterranean, Greek Prime Minister Kyrikos Mitsotakis told France 24 TV on Thursday, Reuters reported. The Adrian Darya, formerly called Grace 1, left Gibraltar on Sunday. Ship-tracking data on Tuesday showed it was...

The statements made by a senior Israeli political source, which is likely to be Prime Minister Netanyahu himself, published in Israeli media, including Haaretz on 20 August regarding Israel taking practical steps to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, reminds us of what Israel calls the demographic threat. This...

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Millions of Yemenis could soon face cuts to food aid, after promised funds from key donors, including, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) failed to materialise. The bleak warning was issued yesterday by the UN which said that that it will need to make severe cuts to...

Syrian regime forces have opened a “humanitarian corridor” in the war-torn country’s north-western Idlib province in order to let people exit the opposition-held territory and cross over to regime territory, Syrian state news reported today. Citing a source from the foreign ministry, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported...

Head of the Joint List Ayman Odeh has said that he will consider joining a government led by Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) leader Benny Gantz, a prospect which was quickly rebuked by the latter’s Knesset Members (MKs) and members of the Joint List alike. In an interview with...

The worst humanitarian crises since the Second World War would not have been possible without the complicity of the UK say campaign groups in a report highlighting the Conservative government’s licencing of billions of pounds worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia since the start of the Yemen war. Figures...

Israel’s Defence Ministry has admitted to hiring controversial espionage organisation Black Cube, allowing it to use an Israeli army intelligence base to conduct its operations. According to a report by Haaretz, Israel’s Defence Ministry held “a short-term contract with Black Cube from 2012-2014”. It is not clear whether the...

FIFA has appointed a temporary committee to run the affairs of the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) after the resignation of the former board of directors led by Hani Abou Rida. Abou Rida and the board’s resignation was of immediate effect after the national team’s exit from this year’s Africa Cup of...

Official Palestinian media are playing a major role in disseminating Palestinian narratives, according to Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh, that is. Departing from the fact that the Palestinian Authority and its media still portray Israel’s colonisation as a mere “conflict”, there is a discrepancy between the people’s concept of Palestinian...

Israel’s Supreme Court has frozen the appointment of Ophir Cohen, a loyalist to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as the director general of the Justice Ministry. In June, Netanyahu appointed Amir Ohana – a long-time ally and supporter of immunity for the prime minister in the face of three corruption...

Iran unveiled its own locally-developed missile defence system today, and claimed that it beats the renowned Russian S-300 and US Patriot systems. The long-range surface-to-air missile system, Bavar-373, was unveiled in a ceremony in Tehran commemorating Iran’s National Defence Industry Day and attended by President Hassan Rouhani. “With this...

The family of the Egyptian-Palestinian politician Ramy Shaath who has previously worked as a political and strategic advisor to Yasser Arafat has released a statement on his arrest by Egyptian authorities last month in which they call for his prompt release. Shaath was arrested on 5 July from his...

The Israeli occupation’s court in Ofer Prison has ordered Palestinian children to pay fines worth $100,000 since the start of this year, Palestinian Prisoners’ Centre for Studies reported yesterday. The centre said in a statement that most of the Palestinian children detained by Israel are fined in addition to...

The residents of a Jewish town in Israel are seeking to thwart plans to expand a neighbouring Palestinian community by informing on alleged illegal construction, reported Haaretz. According to the paper, Katzir residents hope to “foil a development plan” that would bring the town of Arara closer to Katzir’s...

Raids by Israeli occupation forces in Issawiya, a Palestinian neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem, are continuing to “disrupt daily life” for residents, reported Israeli NGO Ir Amim. “Sustained hostile police incursions” into Issawiya “have continued now for two and half months”, said Ir Amim, “severely disrupting daily life and...