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Tunisia's ruling Al-Nahda Party has denounced the physical attack on President Moncef Marzouki and government ministers on Monday. The attack took place during a formal celebration of the second...

The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, who is also his president's special envoy to the Middle East, has said that Bashar Al-Assad's regime has lost control of Syria. According to...

Israeli occupation forces have not only razed a Palestinian house to the ground in Jerusalem but also raided several Palestinian NGOs' offices in Ramallah. The Palestinian NGOs Network, Women's...

The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Richard Falk, has called for an investigation into the "apparently deliberate" attacks on civilian targets during the...

On Wednesday, Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, met Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in Cairo. Both presidents met on the margins of the 12th summit of the Organization of Islamic...

On Monday, the Court of Cessation in Cairo decided to put the appeal submitted by Egypt's former Minister of Petroleum, Sameh Fahmy, on hold until March 25. Fahmy had...

Ahead of Obama's prospective visit to Israel, on Monday Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, reaffirmed his commitment to the 'two state' solution with the Palestinians and raised further concerns over...

U.N Secretary- General, Ban Ki-Moon, has called on the international community to provide "effective aid" to Egypt to help it overcome the transition phase it currently faces. The U.N...

Chief Palestinian negotiator and member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Saeb Erekat, on Monday denounced the connection Israel has made between releasing tax revenues...

During a meeting with UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, in New York last night, the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, discussed the possibility of holding...

The head of the Refugee Committee of Hamas has said that all Palestinians, wherever they live, should be given a vote in the proposed general elections. Issam Odwan called...

Tunisia's interim President, Moncef Marzouki, has postponed his party's withdrawal from the country's coalition government. The Congress for the Republic Party (CPR), which he heads, has expressed its opposition...

President Mahmoud Abbas has called for international intervention to save the lives of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails. The Palestinian Authority head said that the Israelis...

The Arab League has accused Israel of pursuing a systematic policy to control most of the West Bank for future annexation and settlements. The lands in question belong mainly...

Former Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi broke his silence yesterday for the first time since he left Syria in December, saying that he left the country because he couldn't...

Israeli Prison Services carry out "planned, severe violations" against Palestinian prisoners that have transformed prisons into a "dirty killing and liquidation tool", a leaked letter from the prisons has...

The spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, Zuheir Salem, has criticised the proposal by the assistant Iranian Foreign Minister for Affairs in Asian Countries, Abbas Iraqiji, to include...

Palestinian security sources have said that on Wednesday evening Israeli warplanes unexpectedly breached the airspace over central Gaza and blocked a medium sized civilian aircraft which had suddenly...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES In a statement issued on Thursday by the al-Aqsa Foundation for Heritage and Endowments, the organisation confirmed that extremist Jews violated the sanctity of the Ma'man...

United Nations Special Rapporteur Richard Falk yesterday, 13 February, called for the immediate release of three Palestinian detainees held without charges by Israel. Mr. Falk expressed deep concern for...

Former Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi broke his silence yesterday for the first time since he left Syria in December, saying that he left the country because he couldn't...

A Palestinian parliamentary delegation representing the Change and Reform Bloc has arrived in the Bulgarian capital Sofia at the start of a visit expected to last several days. The...

The Qatar government has handed the Syrian embassy building in Doha to groups opposing the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad. Qatar, as do other Gulf Cooperation Countries, now recognises...

Tunisia's Foreign Minister, Rafik Abdul Salam, has announced that his government does not object to the involvement of international parties in the investigation of opposition figure Chokri Bileid's assassination....

Israeli daily, Yedioth Ahronoth, reported on Thursday that US-based organization, Human Rights Watch (HRW), has criticized Israel for violating Palestinian rights during the recent war against the Gaza Strip....

Saudi Arabia and Sudan naval forces have started joint exercises on the Sudanese coast of the Red Sea in the first operation of its kind. The Sudanese army spokesperson,...

Palestinian demonstrators today blocked the entrance of the UN headquarters in Ramallah in protest against its silence on the issue of the hunger-strikers in the Israeli jails. The protesters...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has called for the international prosecution of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad for the commission of war crimes. Pillay reiterated...

A leading Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, revealed on Sunday that the occupation authorities has amended its military law to allow the re-arrest of 14 Palestinian prisoners who were freed as...

An Israeli gunboat attacked some Palestinian fishing vessels off the north coast of Gaza just after 8am local time today. According to MEMO's Ibrahim Hewitt, who witnessed the attack...

Jordan's Minister of Endowment and Islamic Sanctuaries and Affairs, Dr. Abdul Salam Al-Abbadi, has condemned reports by Israeli newspapers which assert that a historic deal between Israel's Undersecretary of...

Hundreds of Palestinian, Israeli and European activists protested on Friday across the West Bank in solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers in the Israeli jails sparking severe clashes that...