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Blackwater guards fired dozens of bullets into cars and people, FBI experts testified yesterday, in brutality in 2007 which left 14 Iraqi civilians dead, Al-sharq news website reported. Nicholas...

The UAE has announced the allocation of $25 million as "urgent humanitarian aid to support the steadfastness of the Palestinian people". The news agency said that UAE President Sheikh...

In July 2004, the International Court of Justice published their advisory ruling on the Israeli Apartheid Wall judging it to be illegal and calling for its dismantling. More than...

Social justice activists are taking to the streets in protest against Israel's military aggression in the occupied Palestinian territories, organising demonstrations in cities around the world to demand an...

"The war this time was imposed by the enemy and we will stop it only in the light of our own conditions," senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar said earlier...

"Israel will not be able to destroy Hamas", Middle East Envoy Tony Blair said in an interview, explaining that this "must come from the Palestinians themselves". Speaking to Israeli...

Israeli forces this morning shelled several areas in southern Lebanon with dozens of rocket-propelled grenades, a Lebanese security source said. The source told the Anadolu news agency that three...

Israel has arrested 378 Palestinian protesters from Arab towns following the execution of Mohammed Abu Khdeir last week, police data has shown. Of those arrested 122 detainees were from...

As the latest bombs rain down on Gaza, one has to wonder where the American foreign policy Establishment will see Israel in a few years time, especially as it...

Exclusive news report by Julie Webb-Pullman for Middle East Monitor Hamas spokesperson Fawzy Barhoum said today that the only way this "one-sided war" will end is when Israel stops...

Reporters Without Borders has condemned Israeli attacks on information freedom, journalists and the media in the occupied Palestinian territories, the organisation said on Tuesday. In a statement the group...

American State Department condemned Palestinians firing rockets and accused the Palestinians of "deliberately" targeting Israeli civilians. Spokeswoman of the US Secretary of State Jen Psaki said: "We strongly condemn...

French President Francois Hollande expressed his country's solidarity with Israel in the face of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, stressing that Israel has the right to "take all...

Concerned citizens in a number of European cities have staged peaceful protests against Israel's aggression in the Gaza Strip, which so far has resulted in the killing of several...

The leader of Ennahda Tunisian Movement, Sheikh Rashid Ghannouchi, said the Israeli occupation's expectations that the use of force and war to subjugate the Palestinian people is not an...

The head of the Building and Development Party in Egypt has described the coup government in Cairo as, "beyond any doubt, far worse than the ousted regime of Hosni...

Palestinian resistance fighters have, for the first time, succeeded in firing homemade rockets at the Israeli city of Dimona, the home of Israel's nuclear reactor in the Negev Desert....

The Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau, Khaled Meshaal, said on Wednesday that international efforts are being made to mediate a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians in the...

As its so-called "Operation Protective Edge" continues, Israel's air force jets have targeted yet more civilian targets in the Gaza Strip. At least 76 Palestinians have been killed by...

An Egyptian court yesterday postponed the trial of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and 35 other leaders and members of the Muslim Brotherhood to a session scheduled for August...

Some 72 Palestinians have been killed and more than 520 wounded so far during Israel's offensive on the Gaza Strip. More than 100 residential houses have also already destroyed,...

The Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq has decided to withdraw all Kurdish ministers from the Iraqi federal government in Baghdad in response to the accusations by Iraq's Prime Minister...

The US Treasury sanctioned on Wednesday a UAE firm for supplying the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad with oil products including aircraft fuel to be used in military...

Based on the Geneva agreement reached last November between Iran and the P5+1 group, which includes the US, Russia, China, UK and France, plus Germany, the Iranian Central Bank...

The European Union said it is following with deep concern the rapidly deteriorating situation in the Gaza Strip and the occupied Palestinian territories, and called for an immediate end...

A number of Egyptian rights groups have demanded that President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi should drop an NGO law which they believe is "repressive". They are insisting that the president...

Rebel Libyan General Khalifa Haftar has welcomed a meeting with an envoy from the Arab League, but rejects mediation for dialogue with "extremists", Haftar's spokesman Mohamed Hijazi said on...

Rebel Libyan General Khalifa Haftar has welcomed a meeting with an envoy from the Arab League, but rejects mediation for dialogue with "extremists", Haftar's spokesman Mohamed Hijazi said on...

Palestinian Authority (PA) security services yesterday banned Palestinian demonstrators from approaching Israeli occupation forces positioned at the settlement and military camp of Beit El in the West Bank city...

Egypt opened the Rafah border crossing on Thursday after a request from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Speaking at a press conference, Mr Ban said that he phoned Egyptian...

Reporters without Borders criticised in a statement on Wednesday the Jordanian authorities' decision to block nine more local news websites for not obtaining the necessary licenses. The Paris-based organisation...

Al-Umma party led by Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi and the Reform Now led by Ghazi Salahuddin Atabani said yesterday they would boycott the national dialogue committee announced by Sudanese President Omar...