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Dozens of Egyptian academics took part on Monday in a protest organised by the 9 March Movement at Cairo University in the west of the Egyptian capital, Anadolu reported...

Israeli settlers set fire to the Abu Bakr Mosque in the town of Aqraba, Nablus in the northern West Bank, at dawn today. An activist said a number of...

Hamas leader Yahya Moussa said the group does not expect anything from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's visit into the Gaza Strip today. In an interview with Al-Quds Net, Moussa...

Washington will deliver Apache helicopters to Cairo next month; Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi reported the US Secretary of State John Kerry as saying. This came during a meeting...

Al-Houthi gunmen yesterday stormed Al-Hudaydah port, a major harbour in the west of Yemen, local officials said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Anadolu Agency...

Jordan will deal firmly with the Israeli escalation in the holy sites in Jerusalem, the information minister said. In a statement to Anadolu Agency, Mohammed Al-Momani said: "Jordan will...

Senior Hamas leader Osama Hamdan has said that the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, following Israel's latest military aggression, will be a "real test" for the "seriousness" of the...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has offered his condolences to the family of renowned Kenyan Muslim academic Professor Ali Mazrui, who has died at the age of 81. An...

British lawmakers have voted to recognise Palestine as a state in a historical and symbolic move which "calls on the government to recognize the state of Palestine alongside the...

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said on Monday that lifting the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip could only take place after dismantling Hamas's resistance capabilities, responding to comments made...

Turkish officials reiterated on Monday that a deal had not been reached with the US to allow it to use Turkey's air bases for operations against the Islamic State....

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ali Khamenei has accused the US, UK and Israel of creating the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq in order to...

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal called on Monday for Yemenis not to serve foreign interests in the region and charged that Iranian forces were "occupying" other countries....

Tensions remain high around Al-Aqsa Mosque after Israeli police stormed the parameters and prevented any Palestinian under the age of 60 from entering it yesterday, while allowing large numbers...

The fall of the Syrian regime would be a threat to Israel's security, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollohian warned recently. Abdollohian's remarks...

Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri, a member of Hamas's political bureau, has said that his movement will not disclose any information about the fate of Israeli prisoners without first engaging in...

Algeria's Energy Minister Yousef Al-Yousefi said on Sunday that his country expects to produce about 40 per cent more natural gas within the next five year, AFP news agency...

The Syrian Coalition of opposition forces has condemned the remarks of Deputy Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian during a conversation with his counterparts in the US, in which...

Members of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's defence team have denied reports that they willingly withdrew from the case against him and members of the Muslim Brotherhood. In an...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi has expressed his astonishment towards the apology of US Vice President Joe Biden to Turkey, the UAE and Saudi Arabia days after he accused...

Palestinians are eagerly awaiting the results of the International Conference of the Reconstruction of Gaza, held in Cairo yesterday. Reconstruction costs: Housing: $1.182 billion Public services: $701 million Economy:...

"The administration has taken the necessary measures to address any emergency before the start of winter; opening and cleaning drains, determining hazardous locations...

The Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani stressed that his country "will spare no effort in continuing to support the struggle and perseverance of the Palestinian people...

An Egyptian court has set the date of December 1 for the start of the first session in the trial of 494 supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi in...

The German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier welcomed "the participation of Turkey in the international coalition against ISIS", noting that Ankara "has helped millions of people, at least saving their...

Responding to the billions in aid pledged during the Cairo donor conference to rebuild the Gaza Strip, Oxfam International has warned that this money could take decades to reach...

Austria's interior ministry said on Sunday that it would not ban the Egyptian Rabaa sign that has been adopted as a symbol of resistance and opposition to the military...

Israel's confiscation of Palestinian properties based on military orders has sharply increased during recent years, a Palestinian human rights organisation has revealed. According to Arabs48 website, the Hemaya Centre...

In the week that saw the first tentative autumn showers, the annual olive harvest began to take shape in Palestine. The harvest is a period of dedicated work and...

CAIRO'S Gaza Reconstruction Conference, you ask incredulously? And well you might – after all, Egypt is currently preventing the entry of materials to complete Qatari-funded projects in Gaza addressing...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday has urged international support for a U.N. resolution on a timetable to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. "There must be a...

Arab states have pledged to present $2 billion at Sunday's international donors' conference for the rebuilding of the Gaza Strip, currently underway in Cairo, a Palestinian official said. The...