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  • December 24, 2014

    Egypt to free jailed Jazeera journalists: Newspaper

    A Qatari newspaper on Wednesday expected Egyptian authorities to release three Al Jazeera reporters – now in jail in Egypt – through a presidential amnesty. Qatari newspaper Al-Arab quoted...

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  • December 24, 2014

    Israel: Tens of Israeli Arabs joined ISIS

    “Only” tens of Israeli Arabs had joined the Islamic State (ISIS), Israeli radio reported Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon as saying yesterday. Ya’alon said: “The phenomenon of joining ISIS is...

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  • December 24, 2014

    Israel to drill for oil in occupied Syrian Golan

    Israel has approved an exploratory oil drilling programme in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, at a time when the unrest in Syria has meant that no party is fully...

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  • December 24, 2014

    Oil price drop causes $43bn cut in Iraq's budget

    Iraq’s budget for 2015 has fallen to $100 billion due to the ongoing drop in oil prices, according to a member of the country’s parliamentary finance committee. On Tuesday,...

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  • December 24, 2014

    'Hamas seeks honourable prisoner swap'

    Hamas has Israeli prisoners and seeks an “honourable” prisoner swap, member of the movement’s political bureau Mohamed Nazzal said yesterday. Speaking on Al-Quds TV, Nazzal said that the Israeli...

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  • December 24, 2014

    Israel razes Arab land in Jaffa, evicts residents

    Israeli police yesterday broke into an Arab house belonging to the Qubran family in the Al-Ajami neighbourhood of Jaffa, Arabs48.com reported. The Israeli police razed trees and the garden,...

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  • December 24, 2014

    17,000 displaced in Iraq in last two weeks

    The Iraqi government’s High Level Committee for Internally Displaced People announced yesterday that 17,000 Iraqis were displaced during the second half of December, bringing the total number of displaced...

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  • December 24, 2014

    Hamas' armed wing says member killed by Israeli shelling

    The Ezzedin al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian resistance faction Hamas, said Wednesday that one of its fighters in the southern Gaza Strip had been killed by Israeli...

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  • December 24, 2014

    Hamas' armed wing says member killed by Israeli shelling

    The Ezzedin al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian resistance faction Hamas, said Wednesday that one of its fighters in the southern Gaza Strip had been killed by Israeli...

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  • December 24, 2014

    Israel FM warns of 'diplomatic tsunami' over PM's policy

    Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies vis-à-vis the conflict with the Palestinians have failed, going on to warn that they could lead...

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