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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed to Palestinian leaders that Turkey will start an initiative at the UN Security Council to stop the Israeli aggression in Al-Aqsa Mosque compound....

Israeli army bulldozers on Thursday demolished three Palestinian homes and two barns in the Jordan Valley region of the West Bank on claims that the structures had been built...

Dozens of women, whose houses were demolished during Israel's war on Gaza, staged a sit-in this morning demanding Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas move quickly and move the international community...

It has been more than three months since the end of the war on Gaza however Fadl Misbah, 41, is still living as others are, in a house which...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu harshly condemned the Israeli offensive on Al-Aqsa Mosque, calling it "nothing but barbarity to the core", the Anadolu Agency reported yesterday. Speaking after a...

The EU's new foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, strongly condemned on Wednesday Israel's continued settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories. Mogherini particularly condemned the construction of 500 new...

Qatar's Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday a $40 million grant to support the education sector in the Gaza Strip to be administered through the "Fakhura" programme of the Qatari...

The Turkish Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (İHH) organised demonstrations in major cities across Turkey on Wednesday to protest against Israel's escalating violations in occupied...

The Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Martin Lidegaard, visited the Gaza Strip today to see first-hand the destruction wrought by the summer's conflict and hear about the long-term financial,...

Ahmed Bedier, an eyewitness at Rabaa and President of United Voices for America, lost his brother to the massacre in August 2013. When he went to pick up Amir's...

An official source in the Egyptian foreign ministry has expressed "extreme surprise" over the UN's decision to deduct $30 million in administrative costs from the aid donated for the...

Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud said on Tuesday that the decease of crude oil prices to less than $80 per barrel proved that Saudi dependence only...

The Socialist Party of France wants France to recognise the state of Palestine in an attempt to end the Israeli occupation, according to parliamentary sources. The same source added...

Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Al-Sisi said that his country plans to take further measures to fully evacuate the Sinai border with Gaza and that the Egyptian government will pay...

"Israel's latest decision for settlement expansion in Jerusalem is not only a slap in Secretary Kerry's face, but it's a blow to the entire Palestinian...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been dealing with Gaza and its problems harshly, a leading Hamas official said. "The unity government's insistence to continue to tax the only fuel...

Human Rights Watch has called for the review at the UN Human Rights Council to condemn "the most dramatic reversal of human rights in Egypt's modern history under President...

The Arab draft resolution regarding setting a timeframe for ending the Israeli occupation will be presented for voting at the UN Security Council before the end of the month,...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is expected to officially declare that Israel is guilty of "war crimes" on Thursday for the attack on a Turkish aid ship bound for...

Palestinian faction Hamas on Wednesday said that a Palestinian motorist who ran over a group of Israeli pedestrians in East Jerusalem earlier in the day – killing one and...

The Jordanian government will recall its ambassador to Israel to protest the latter's recent practices against Muslim worshippers in the Jordan-administered Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in East Jerusalem, the official...

The twentieth session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group has concluded its review of Egypt's human rights situation which was held in Geneva. The...

There was hardly any mention of the Rabaa Al-Adawiya massacre in Egypt's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN today. Only Iceland remarked on the massacre saying it is...

Saudi Arabia and the UAE paid tribute to Egypt's efforts to tackle challenges to its security and for ensuring the rule of law. During Egypt's Universal Periodic Review (UPR)...

Sheikh Tareq Al-Suwaidan, a leader of the Kuwaiti branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, said that the Belgium government has refused to allow him to enter the country because of...

The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) has received a copy of the original 53 page submission by the Muslim Brotherhood and the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) of Egypt to...

The United States and other countries on Wednesday slammed the human rights situation in Egypt at a United Nations meeting reviewing the country's record for the first time since...

For the first time since 1967, Israeli occupation forces actually entered into the southern Mosque in Al-Aqsa Compound, according to the director of the Islamic Awqaf, Sheikh Azzam Al-Khatib....

A large number of right-wing Israeli settlers attempted to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday morning accompanied by a group of Israeli occupation forces that entered the compound to confront...

Israeli police on Wednesday barred Adnan al-Husseini, the Palestinian minister of Jerusalem affairs, from entering the city's flashpoint Al-Asqa Mosque complex. Speaking to Anadolu Agency by phone, al-Husseini said...

Dozens of students from the government run University of Sanaa protested today calling for the removal of the Houthis from their campus. According to the Anadolu Agency correspondent, the...

Spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Jens Laerke said on Tuesday that the UN in Iraq is calling for an additional $173 million to...