Israel’s worst environmental accident, possibly worse than the devastating Carmel fires of 2010, happened yesterday morning. An estimated 600,000 gallons of crude oil (3 million liters) is causing severe...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with Irish Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams on Thursday at the headquarters of the Palestinian presidency in Ramallah to discuss the latest developments in...

The US Congress unanimously passed a bill on Wednesday night that classifies Israel as a major strategic partner of the United States and enhances defence ties between the two...

The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Sheikh Shawki Allam, has cancelled a planned visit to Britain following a UK High Court order allowing the investigation of members of the Egyptian...

Israel’s Shin Bet security force is opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to outlaw the Islamic Movement in Israel, led by Sheikh Raed Salah, due to the lack...

Israeli authorities expelled three Jerusalemites for a period of five months, starting October 30. Palestinians Daud Al-Ghoul, 31, Majd Darwish, 24, and Saleh Derbas, 23, can return to Jerusalem...

Israeli military police ended one of its largest campaigns to arrest soldiers who deserted the mandatory military service, this Thursday. Media reports stated that the military police have arrested...

An Israeli prison warden was arrested on suspicion of attempting to smuggle a mobile phone to a Palestinian detainee in return for €2,000, Israeli police said yesterday. In a...

Israel failed to isolate Hamas internationally and regionally using incitement against its leadership and the countries that host them, the group’s spokesperson said. In an exclusive statement to Alresalah.net,...

The Palestinian Ministry of Education said that 75 Palestinian students continue to suffer from disabilities caused by the recent 51-day Israeli offensive on Gaza Strip. Anadolu news agency on...

Belgium’s government have agreed to recognise the Palestinian state, despite diplomatic pressure from Israel and its allies, RT and other international mass media reported yesterday. The government said it...

The Libyan government headed by Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thani said yesterday that its military forces stationed on the outskirts of the city of Tripoli began advancing to recapture the...

Egypt President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi yesterday met with Khaled Bin Bandar Bin Abdul Aziz, the chief of Saudi General Intelligence, in Cairo, the Anadolu Agency reported. According to a...

France is ready to boost military operations against Islamic State (ISIS) targets in Iraq, President Francois Hollande said yesterday. Hollande made the remarks during a joint press conference held...

Egyptian Attorney General Judge Hisham Barakat yesterday ordered actor Khaled Abol Naga and singer Mohammed Attia to be investigated for charges of espionage and treason following public criticism of...

Turkey’s minister for EU affairs and chief negotiator, Volkan Bozkir, has criticised economic sanctions imposed on the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and called to remove them, Anadolu news...

Sources in the Iraqi army said on Wednesday that the Islamic State group (also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS) has dismantled a small...

The Israeli army prevented Palestinian students in Nablus from entering their school on Wednesday morning. This was done under the pretext that settlers’ vehicles were subjected to stone throwing...

The health care system in the Gaza Strip is deteriorating in the wake of the sanitation crisis which has stalled all the departments of Al-Shifa Hospital and garbage and...

“The Mubarak project is still ongoing. He continues to extend his control over the Egyptian state via the businessmen who hold the keys to economic projects and by virtue...

Algerian opposition groups yesterday criticised the army’s interference in the country’s political affairs or their use as a tool to cover up the failures of the ruing authorities, alamatonline.net...

A state-run committee on Wednesday refused to issue a license to Tamarod (Rebellion) movement, the group that spearheaded mass protests that led to the military ouster of elected president...

Does Jordan use security coordination with Israel in order to detect and detain activists? The similarities between those detained and how they were arrested suggests that there is indeed...

Israel has issued new military orders to confiscate and ban the use of tens of dunams of the Palestinian land west of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, Safa...

Work has begun to clear 140,000 tons of rubble in the Shuja’iyya neighbourhood of Gaza City, more than three months after the end of so-called ‘Operation Protective Edge’. Described...

Israel issued 94 administrative detention orders against Palestinians in November, local newspapers reported yesterday. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said Israel issued 41 administrative detention orders against...

Second Deputy Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Hassan Khreisheh yesterday called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to clarify its position regarding freedoms violations and the banning of...

US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday said that an Iranian military strike against the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq would be “positive”. Kerry’s remarks came after the US...

The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on Israel to renounce possession of nuclear weapons and put its nuclear facilities under international oversight. The resolution, which...

Right-wing Israeli political parties, including Likud, Jewish Home and Yisrael Beiteinu, are predicted to achieve 52 seats in next year’s elections according to a recent poll. This represents a...

Muslim organisations in the UK sent a letter to the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey criticising the decision to allow the current Mufti of Egypt, Shawki Ibrahim Allam,...

The sons of the former spiritual leader of the Shas party, late Rabbi Ovadia Yosef have said their father prayed for the acquittal of Hosni Mubarak prior to his...