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Senior Iranian official called yesterday for Saudi Arabia to take action to stop the declining oil prices to help maintain the wealth of the people of both countries. The...

Hamas yesterday expressed its regret that the latest visit by ministers of the unity government to the Gaza Strip did not help in lifting the siege, Quds Press newspaper...

Israel's foreign minister has attacked the European Union's policy towards his country, saying it "encourages the manifestation of anti-Semitism." Speaking at a meeting of Israeli ambassadors to European countries...

The Egyptian Criminal Court in Al-Mansoura has sentenced 20 Egyptian students to lengthy jail terms on charges related to anti-coup activities. Details of the exact charges were not provided...

The Algerian attorney general announced on Sunday that former presidential candidate Said Sadi will be investigated for libel against three national figures, including the country's first president, Ahmed Ben...

Morocco Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane said yesterday that he does not want to do anything that might affect Rabat's relations with the UAE, the Anadolu Agency reported. During a...

A delegation from football governing body FIFA arrived in the Gaza Strip on Monday after being blocked by Israeli authorities for hours, a Palestinian football official has said. "The...

Senior Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk said on Sunday that his movement condemns the killing of a Palestinian youth on the Gaza-Sinai border by Egyptian troops. The death took...

Official data showed that approximately 52 per cent of the Palestinian Authority (PA)'s budget over the last 11 months was spent on the salaries of public sector workers, compared...

Israeli president, Reuven Rivlin, has said that social and economic gaps in Israel have reached unprecedented levels, warning that if such gulfs continue to widen they will lead to...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas stressed yesterday that he is going to apply for the UNSC to recognise a Palestinian State on the 1967 borders again and again,...

Egypt's State Council has received a lawsuit demanding the Minister of Higher Education Dr Al-Sayed Abdul Khaliq form a committee which includes members of the Supreme Council of Universities-Egypt...

The president of the European branch of the Turkish-Islamic Union, Ihsan Oner, has called on European governments to take action against the growing attacks against immigrants and Muslims in...

Iran "does not compromise on its principles, but it negotiates to achieve its interests", President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday. In a speech before the Conference of National Economy in...

A senior Israeli military commander has questioned the possibility of deterring the Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip, saying that talking about discouraging Hamas is nothing more than...

Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church on Monday rejected an invitation from the head of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to visit Jerusalem. "Our position is clear on this issue:...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel "will not sit idly by" as the Palestinian Authority (PA) has chosen confrontation with Israel by joining the International Criminal...

Egypt's April 6 youth movement has called on all parties that participated in the 2011 uprising which toppled long-serving president Hosni Mubarak to "rise above partisan interests and unite...

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat on Saturday described as "piracy" an Israeli decision to stop the transfer of Palestinian tax revenues collected on behalf of the Palestinian Authority. "We...

Egypt's Interior Ministry on Saturday denied that an arrest warrant had been issued for human rights lawyer Amal Clooney or that she was barred from entering the country over...

The number of Israelis who renounced their citizenship rose by 60 per cent in 2014, compared to 2013, according to figures collected by the Israeli authorities. In 2014, 765...

Workers of public hospitals in the Gaza Strip went on strike Sunday to protest that their demands are not being fulfilled by the Palestinian unity government. "Medical staff in...

Israeli forces injured a total of 1,190 Palestinian children in the West Bank during 2014, according to a UN agency report. The figure, contained within a weekly briefing covering...

Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shokri may visit Morocco in a bid to end the diplomatic crisis between the two countries. Speaking to Anadolu News Agency on Friday, an anonymous...

The chairman of Iran's Expediency Council, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has criticised "extremism and division" in the country, the official IRNA news agency reported on Friday. "Lying, oppression and detention...

Credible sources in Egypt have claimed that at least 10 new governors to be appointed by the government have asked to be relieved of the posts even before they...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has denied having any contact with former Fatah official Mohamed Dahlan. Local newspaper reports reported that Hamas nevertheless stressed the importance of any...

Thirteen Egyptian workers were reportedly abducted in Libya's coastal city of Sirte on Saturday – purportedly by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group –...

The Municipality of Jerusalem has forced a Palestinian to demolish his own home in Sour Baher neighbourhood in the occupied city, Qudsnet has reported. The Israeli-run authority claimed that...

Media reports claim that the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) has blocked efforts by Muslims to celebrate the birthday of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). In Iraq, the Muslim...

Egyptian border troops shot and killed a Palestinian youth on Friday. According to Reuters, Palestinian and Egyptian sources said that he was trying to cross the border from the...

Iranian Foreign Ministry rejects reports that Tehran and Washington have agreed on shipping Iranian uranium to Russia Iran's foreign ministry denied on Saturday media reports that claim Tehran and...