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US Secretary of State John Kerry stressed the Israeli and Palestinian's full commitment to calm the situation in Jerusalem which are threatening to escalate into a third Intifada. Speaking...

Spanish parliament plans to hold a symbolic vote next week on a draft resolution to recognise a Palestinian state. The non-binding resolution, introduced by the opposition Socialist Party, will...

A new report issued by an Israeli human rights group has found that most of the complaints filed by Palestinians against the violations committed by Israeli occupation forces, including...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation held an emergency meeting of the Quds Contact Group on Wednesday in the Moroccan capital of Rabat, during which the group urged the UN...

Mahmoud Al-Zahar, a senior member of Hamas's political bureau, said that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is hindering the work of the consensus government because he is preventing officials...

An international legal delegation to Egypt has slammed the government's repression of its political opponents as characteristic of a "police state", at the launch of a new report in...

A secret meeting was held on Tuesday between security officials from Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), Hebrew news website Walla reported. The meeting centred on their joint efforts...

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hassan Qashqavi denied reports that an Iranian nuclear expert had been killed in an armed attack in the Syrian capital of Damascus, according to the...

Egypt received S-300 long-range missile defence systems from Moscow this year, Voice of Russia website revealed yesterday. The website quoted Vyacheslav Dzirkalen, the deputy general manager of the Russian...

Sources in the French National Assembly said that the socialist MPs will present a proposal on the formal recognition of the State of Palestine; the vote is due to...

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Wednesday that conditions in Jerusalem, or Al-Quds for Muslims, are worse than during the 1967 war. "The current situation in Al-Quds...

The Palestinian government and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), with the support of Sweden, yesterday signed an agreement aimed at removing the rubble and debris in the Gaza...

The Palestinian Prisoners Society said that the Israeli Prison Service had transferred Fatah's leading activist Marwan Barghouti to solitary confinement in the Hadarim prison in central Israel after he...

The United States expressed concern over Israel's decision to build 200 new housing units in East Jerusalem, it also condemned the burning of a mosque in the West Bank....

A group pf Israeli hackers calling themselves "UP" claim to have successfully taken down a number of official websites run by the Palestinian Authority (PA), Israeli media reported on...

Two Egyptian courts convicted dozens of anti-coup Egyptians on Wednesday, including nine minors, handing out sentences that range anywhere between one and 25 years. A judicial source, speaking to...

Egyptian coup leader and President Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi issued a law on Wednesday that gives him the power to deport foreign prisoners back to their countries of origin on the...

Israeli authorities denied entry on Wednesday night to the commission appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate possible war crimes committed during Israel's latest war against Palestinians...

Iraqis are looking forward to renewed relations with Saudi Arabia after previous governments increased tensions between the two countries. Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal said: "Iraq is our Iraq,...

A new survey conducted by the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies at the Doha Institute shows that 85 per cent of Arabs polled hold negative views of...

Israel's Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch yesterday announced that visitors to Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound will soon be "scanned by a facial-recognition surveillance system that can pick out faces...

Clashes broke out yesterday morning between Palestinian youths and Israeli police officers in the town of Al-Issawiya, north of Jerusalem, as the area witnessed intense gas and sound bombs....

The Libyan government refused to hand over Saif al-Islam Gaddafi to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague today. The Permanent Representative of Libya to the United Nations,...

Arab states have intervened to stop the "incitement" to demonstrate in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque, a senior Israeli official revealed yesterday. In an interview on Israeli Army Radio, the...

Russia has agreed to build up to eight nuclear reactors in Iran, after officials from the two nations signed new agreements today. According to the official Iranian News Agency...

The General of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran Amir Ali Hajizadeh confirmed that Iran has established factories for the manufacture of missiles in Syria. The...

Israeli Army Radio said today that US Secretary of State John Kerry will be visiting Jordan today to ask King Abdullah II to intervene to put an end to...

Columnist for The Sun and infamous celebrity Katie Hopkins provoked outrage this week by taking to Twitter to describe Palestinians as "filthy rodents", as well as other Islamophobic remarks....

Tunisia's Ennahda has called for demonstrations on Friday in protest against the Israeli attacks on Palestinians. In to a statement issued yesterday and signed by the party's leader Rached...

The local Israeli committee for planning and construction in the Palestinian city of Jerusalem is set to approve on Wednesday the building of 200 new housing units in the...

Dr Tarek Mahmoud El-Ghandour, Professor of Dermatology in Ain Shams University, died after suffering internal bleeding in Abu Zaabal prison, Egypt. El-Ghandour bled for six hours from his oesophagus,...

More than 40 Palestinian citizens have been arrested over the last few days, as protests continue following the killing by Israeli police of Khair Hamdan. According to a source...