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  • November 15, 2018

    Iraq denies troops’ incursion into Syria

    The Iraqi Ministry of Defence yesterday denied reports that its forces had entered Syria and captured 25 outposts there. The ministry’s information centre said in a statement that they deny...

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  • November 15, 2018

    PA: Israel commits war crimes against Palestinians

    The Palestinian Justice Ministry said the Israeli occupation forces’ targeting of Palestinian civilians and civil institutions are war crimes, stressing that the perpetrators must be prosecuted and held accountable....

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  • November 15, 2018

    Erekat slams Czech FM visit to Jerusalem’s Old City

    Secretary-General of the PLO Executive Committee Saeb Erekat yesterday criticised the visit of the Czech Foreign Minister Tomas Peteicek to the Old City of East Jerusalem, accompanied by Israeli...

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  • November 15, 2018

    Iraq investigates $6m bank notes damaged due to rain

    The Iraqi Parliament is investigating an incident in which heavy rain damaged nearly $6 million worth of local currency stored inside the central bank’s coffers in 2013. Central bank...

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  • November 15, 2018

    Egypt exports down 12.2%, imports up slightly in August

    Egyptian exports fell by 12.2 per cent to reach $1.98 billion in August compared to $2.26 billion in the same period last year, according to a report issued yesterday by the...

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  • November 15, 2018

    Europe parliament calls for tougher checks on Saudi arms sales

    The European Parliament said yesterday that governments should apply tougher checks on arms exports to Saudi Arabia and other countries involved in the kingdom’s coalition in Yemen. German EU...

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  • November 15, 2018

    Secretary-General of Algeria’s ruling party resigns

    The Secretary-General of Algeria’s ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) Djamel Ould Abbes resigned for “health reasons” yesterday, APS news agency reported an unnamed official source as saying. According to...

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  • November 15, 2018

    UN warns of deteriorating capacity of Gaza’s largest hospitals

    The Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, Jamie McGoldrick, visited Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest hospital, and documented the suffering of medical staff and patients there. The hospital’s staff...

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  • November 15, 2018

    Israel breaks truce only hours in, kills fisherman

    The Israeli occupation forces have broken the cease-fire in the Gaza Strip hours after declaring it. Gunboats fired on Wednesday afternoon a Palestinian fisherman who was working in the...

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  • November 15, 2018

    Mark Zuckerberg’s joining Israeli Facebook group raises a storm of questions

    The founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, raised a storm of questions after joining an Israeli secret community on his well-known social media website. Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post...

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