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Yemeni security sources have claimed that officials close to former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh were involved in the double suicide attack against the Defence Ministry in the capital...

Israel's Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon has warned that preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons is impossible without keeping the military option on the table. Ya'alon made these remarks during...

Right wing members of the Israeli Knesset have confirmed their opposition to the Prawer bill, a plan to regulate Palestinian Bedouin settlement in the Naqab desert, also known as...

A senior Russian diplomat has revealed that his country is to supply Egypt with military equipment worth $2bn, Russian News Agency Novosti has reported. Speaking at the London Institute...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has asked the Islamic bloc in the UN to call for a special Security Council session to discuss Israel's violations in Jerusalem. The...

More than 95 per cent of the Palestinian prisoners jailed by Israel have been exposed to torture from the first moment they were seized, according to a report released...

Syrian-born Al Jazeera presenter Faisal Al-Qasem has published a heartbreaking picture of a dead Syrian child, Wasim Zakur, saying that he starved to death. The little child appeared in...

Chief of moral guidance department in the Jordanian army Colonel Odeh Shdefat affirmed on Friday that Syrian refugees need extra assistance during the current bad weather. Shdefat said that...

Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, has called on the UK to recognise the Palestinian state, raise the level of diplomatic relations between the two countries,...

Adalah, the legal centre for Arab minority rights in Israel, has called the Israeli government's decision to withdraw the Prawer Plan bill a "major achievement in the history of...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have had the opportunity to offer their condolences to the people of South Africa following the death of late President Nelson Mandela....

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has made contact with Russia's Foreign Minister. The leader of the government in Gaza spoke to Sergey Lavrov in a phone call on Wednesday...

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has accused the extremist Jewish Home Party, led by Naftali Bennett, of damaging Israel's chances of reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians, Haaretz reported...

Former Israeli Minister of Infrastructure Binyamin Ben-Eliezer has called for Israel to give priority to the neighbouring Arab countries with regards to natural gas exports, noting in particular the...

VIDEO Officers in the Israeli army stabbed an 18-year-old Palestinian student in handcuffs after arresting him at his home near the city of Qalqilya, in the West Bank. According...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES An unparalleled winter storm has left hundreds of families in Gaza homeless. Local sources have told the Palestine Information Centre that hundreds of homes have been flooded...

Israel's official state radio has reported that a "historic meeting" was held between Israeli and Saudi diplomats on the sidelines of the World Policy Conference in Monaco. According to...

The number of people killed by "barrel bombs" dropped by Syrian Army helicopters has increased to 90, it has been announced. The victims of the attacks on Aleppo include...

Israel has deployed more troops on its northern border with Lebanon following the shooting of an Israeli soldier on Sunday evening. The Israel Defence Forces blame a Lebanese sniper...

A Saudi prince has criticised the lack of support from the US and Britain for the fighters of the Free Syrian Army. Turki Al-Faisal claimed that the conflict and...

Israel has opened the Wadi Sofa Dam east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, flooding dozens of houses and leaving hundreds of people homeless. The head of the...

The Palestinian prisoners in Israel's Negev Prison have appealed to international human rights organisations, including the International Red Cross, to improve their conditions as the winter storms add to...

The Working Group for the Palestinians in Syria reported on Saturday that a Palestinian employee of the Palestine Embassy in Damascus has been tortured to death in prison. The...

The Hamas-led Government in the Gaza Strip has confirmed the Strip has sustained nearly $ 64 million in losses following the winter storm that had hit the Strip and...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has incurred harsh waves of criticism against his government's policy over the past few months, not only from Europe and the United States, who...

The United Nations (UN) announced on Monday its humanitarian plans for 2014, which include an ambitious campaign to raise $6.5 billion for Syria and its neighbours to provide relief...

In a long phone conversation on Saturday, Khalid Meshaal, the head of Hamas' Political Bureau, discussed three key issues with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, an informed source...

An Israeli government committee approved a draft law on Sunday that will impose an additional 45 per cent tax on the external donations of those Israeli NGOs that criticise...

The Yemeni parliament voted on Sunday evening on a bill that prohibits the use of drone attacks in the country. The vote was taken following an incident on Thursday...

Israel informed the Palestinian Authority on Sunday evening that it plans to cut off power in the areas surrounding Ramallah. Palestinian sources have told Quds Net news that they...

The Israeli media has revealed that the Ministry of Defence and army chiefs have decided to evacuate military bases around the country to provide additional land for building housing...

Unknown thieves stole three Israeli army vehicles on Tuesday night from the military base at Al-Tofah roundabout on the road to Nablus in the occupied West Bank, Israeli Radio...