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The Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has sent a letter to the US President urging him to fulfil America's obligations towards the Palestinians. Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu told...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Osama Hamdan, a member of the Hamas' political bureau and the official responsible for its foreign affairs, has visited the Gaza Strip where he is due to...

Israel's occupation forces have arrested another five Palestinians in the occupied West Bank following a sweep through Nablus, Ramallah and Hebron. Witnesses said that the Israelis used an explosive device...

According to the Maariv newspaper website, representatives of the Shas Party delivered a message from Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (the party's spiritual leader) to Israeli President, Shimon Peres, warning him...

According to the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz, a study published last week entitled New Colonial Israel indicates that Israel is at the forefront of countries taken by the phenomenon of...

Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi has announced plans to revitalise the services provided along the Suez Canal, including the computerisation of access. He also used his speech at the inauguration...

Israeli soldiers have fired live bullets killing a female Palestinian student and injuring two others at the entrance of Al-Aroub Agriculture College in a refugee camp in the West...

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Sunday that he opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state and proposed 'a form of rule' in parts of the territories occupied...

A former head of US Central Command, which covers the Middle East, has said that a US and Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would not be a "one-time...

A Palestinian farmer shot in the head by Israeli soldiers on Monday in the northern Gaza Strip has died in Kamal Odwan Hospital, medical sources have announced. Mostafa Abu-Jarad,...

The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR) has called for international action against Israel's policy of administrative detention. The organisation has released a detailed report about...

President Mahmoud Abbas has decreed that the Palestinian Authority will start to issue passports, identity cards, vehicle licences and postage stamps emblazoned with the name "State of Palestine". An...

The sixth session of Egypt's "national dialogue" has resulted in an agreement on a new parliamentary election law. The news was announced by the head of the legal committee...

The Russian Defence Ministry has revealed that its armed forces have started military manoeuvres in the eastern Mediterranean Sea near the Syrian coast, at a time when Moscow is...

The Council of the Arab League has condemned strongly the ongoing Israeli settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territories. In a statement issued at the end of the council's...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The UN Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, has said that it will be able to provide thousands with work opportunities over a three year period as a...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Egyptians to hold sports tournaments in Gaza A delegation representing sports associations in Egypt has joined Minister of Sport Al-Ameri Farouq on a visit to the Gaza...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the Jewish settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank will remain under Israeli control forever. "I want to reassure the...

The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria has rejected the speech given by Bashar al-Assad on Sunday, saying that his words and presence no longer mean anything to Syrians. The Islamic...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his Facebook page on Tuesday to insist that he refuses to advance the peace process with the Palestinians. Netanyahu was seeking to counter...

The Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip has released a number of prisoners linked to Fatah in a sign that reconciliation between the two groups is looking more likely....

A Palestinian-Egyptian company has just opened its doors in the Gaza Strip. It is the first of its kind operating in the modern automobile sector and falls within the...

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Monday that he does not have any information about an EU plan for moving forward Palestine-Israel negotiations. No plan, he insisted, has...

The leaders of the two main Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas are meeting with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi in Cairo for national reconciliation talks. A spokesman for President Morsi...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fatah, celebrated its 48th anniversary in Gaza on Friday. This was the first such celebration event in the besieged Gaza Strip for...

The latest opinion poll in Israel suggests that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party will lose five seats to new party "Jewish Home", Haaretz newspaper said on Wednesday. The...

American products made especially for the Israeli market are on sale in Jordan, local sources have revealed. The Kosher goods have been produced "in compliance with the Jewish law...

Israeli sources have said that the Israel Defence Forces' decision to prevent its citizens from going to the border area with Egypt and the security zone comes after the...

Former prime minister of Israel Ehud Olmert has accused his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his government of wasting £1.83 billion on preparations for a war against Iran that did...

Several groups of drivers have launched a general strike in the occupied West Bank in protest at the Palestinian Authority ignoring their demands for change. The strike has paralysed...

An important military study prepared by Colonel Ronen Cohen addresses the "most dangerous" challenges facing Israel in 2013. Published by the Ministry of Defence in its Israel Defence house...

A Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus has entered its eleventh day under siege by pro-Assad forces. A senior member of the Hamas political bureau, Izzat Al-Risheq,...