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On Monday, the Court of Cessation in Cairo decided to put the appeal submitted by Egypt's former Minister of Petroleum, Sameh Fahmy, on hold until March 25. Fahmy had...

Ahead of Obama's prospective visit to Israel, on Monday Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, reaffirmed his commitment to the 'two state' solution with the Palestinians and raised further concerns over...

U.N Secretary- General, Ban Ki-Moon, has called on the international community to provide "effective aid" to Egypt to help it overcome the transition phase it currently faces. The U.N...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES In a statement issued on Thursday by the al-Aqsa Foundation for Heritage and Endowments, the organisation confirmed that extremist Jews violated the sanctity of the Ma'man...

United Nations Special Rapporteur Richard Falk yesterday, 13 February, called for the immediate release of three Palestinian detainees held without charges by Israel. Mr. Falk expressed deep concern for...

Former Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi broke his silence yesterday for the first time since he left Syria in December, saying that he left the country because he couldn't...

A Palestinian parliamentary delegation representing the Change and Reform Bloc has arrived in the Bulgarian capital Sofia at the start of a visit expected to last several days. The...

The Qatar government has handed the Syrian embassy building in Doha to groups opposing the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad. Qatar, as do other Gulf Cooperation Countries, now recognises...

Tunisia's Foreign Minister, Rafik Abdul Salam, has announced that his government does not object to the involvement of international parties in the investigation of opposition figure Chokri Bileid's assassination....

Israeli daily, Yedioth Ahronoth, reported on Thursday that US-based organization, Human Rights Watch (HRW), has criticized Israel for violating Palestinian rights during the recent war against the Gaza Strip....

Israeli Prison Services carry out "planned, severe violations" against Palestinian prisoners that have transformed prisons into a "dirty killing and liquidation tool", a leaked letter from the prisons has...

The spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, Zuheir Salem, has criticised the proposal by the assistant Iranian Foreign Minister for Affairs in Asian Countries, Abbas Iraqiji, to include...

Palestinian security sources have said that on Wednesday evening Israeli warplanes unexpectedly breached the airspace over central Gaza and blocked a medium sized civilian aircraft which had suddenly...

Saudi Arabia and Sudan naval forces have started joint exercises on the Sudanese coast of the Red Sea in the first operation of its kind. The Sudanese army spokesperson,...

Palestinian demonstrators today blocked the entrance of the UN headquarters in Ramallah in protest against its silence on the issue of the hunger-strikers in the Israeli jails. The protesters...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has called for the international prosecution of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad for the commission of war crimes. Pillay reiterated...

A leading Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, revealed on Sunday that the occupation authorities has amended its military law to allow the re-arrest of 14 Palestinian prisoners who were freed as...

An Israeli gunboat attacked some Palestinian fishing vessels off the north coast of Gaza just after 8am local time today. According to MEMO's Ibrahim Hewitt, who witnessed the attack...

Jordan's Minister of Endowment and Islamic Sanctuaries and Affairs, Dr. Abdul Salam Al-Abbadi, has condemned reports by Israeli newspapers which assert that a historic deal between Israel's Undersecretary of...

Hundreds of Palestinian, Israeli and European activists protested on Friday across the West Bank in solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers in the Israeli jails sparking severe clashes that...

He betrayed his agency when he contacted the Dubai authorities and informed them about the details of the process… A Kuwaiti newspaper has quoted Western informed sources as saying...

On Thursday morning, large numbers of Israeli police and members of other units specialized in supporting the bulldozers of the so-called Land of Israel Department, began to carry out...

An Israeli-Arab news website said on Friday that information reported by the Israeli media alludes to the possibility that the Mossad collaborator of Australian origin, Ben Zygier, was executed....

An American newspaper, World Tribune, has revealed that France used of Israeli drones in airstrikes targeting armed Islamists in Mali. The newspaper quoted officials in the French Ministry of...

Australian news network ABC reported on Monday that Mossad agent Ben Zygier, 'Prisoner X', who reportedly committed suicide in his prison cell 2 years ago, met with Australian Security...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinian prisoners are refusing food for the day in solidarity with the four prisoners on hunger-strike. The most prominent of the four, Samer Issawi, has been on...

Israeli media sources reported that Germany is to delay compensation payments for holocaust survivors until Israel halt its settlement building in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli daily, Yedioth...

Dozens of families in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are awaiting the fate of their missing sons. This is according to information received from former prisoners who...

Kadima party's leader, Shaul Mofaz, has called for a regional conference to coincide with the formation of the next Israeli government and US President Barack Obama's visit to the...

Israeli occupation forces detained on Monday evening the mother of a Palestinian prisoner during a visit, local sources in the West Bank reported. According to the sources, the Israelis...

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has threatened to go back to ballot boxes if the leaders of Yesh Atid and Jewish Home parties did not agree on a...

On Sunday, under the auspices of the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) celebrated the graduation of the first group of rehabilitated Palestinian...