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Amid the talk about a possible military strike on Syria, unusual numbers of Israeli soldiers have moved into the occupied Syrian Golan. Also, an Israeli military drill took place...

The Palestinian movement, Islamic Jihad, announced its opposition to any foreign aggression against any Arab or Islamic country in a statement released on Thursday. The statement said that Islamic...

Jordanian soil will not be used as a launch pad for attacks on Syria, a government spokesman said on Wednesday. The kingdom will remain neutral on Arab issues, as...

Gulf stock markets have suffered sharp declines due to fears of an impending military intervention in Syria. Dubai's share price declined by 7.01 per cent, while Saudi Arabia's share...

According to Ahrar Centre for Prisoners' Studies and Human Rights, Israel still has a number of prisoners from Jerusalem who have been in prison since before the signing of...

Yemeni Prime Minister Mohammed Salem Basindwa has escaped an apparent assassination attempt in the capital Sanaa. According to security sources, the incident took place on Saturday evening as he...

Haaretz newspaper has reported that Israel is preparing to start a large-scale campaign to deport African immigrants after September's Jewish holidays. It revealed that the Israeli government has reached...

PHOTOS To mark the occasion of World Humanitarian Day, the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Gaza Strip organized an exhibition and competition for photographers about humanitarian...

The Israeli security authorities have arrested Shaikh Raed Salah, the head of the Islamic movement in Israel, while he was driving near Jerusalem. He was on his way to...

Israeli mass media broadcast on Monday morning the operetta "Blessed are the Hands" to hail the Egyptian military forces that carried out the coup in Egypt last month. Israel's...

The military coup in Egypt is believed to have entered its second phase. The security forces affiliated with General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, commander-in-chief of the Egyptian armed forces, have...

Hundreds of students in the United Arab Emirates have signed-up to a Twitter campaign to expel one-time Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan from the country. The students insist that Dahlan...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS Egyptian navy vessels have attacked Palestinian fishermen going about their work off the coast of Rafah. Five fishermen were arrested and two were shot when their boats...

The crisis engulfing the Gaza Strip has deepened following the closure of the Rafah Border Crossing and many of the lifeline tunnels by the Egyptian coup authorities. Fuel supplies...

Qatar's Ambassador to Jordan, Zayed Bin Saeed Al-Khiyarein, has denied claims that his country has evacuated its nationals from the country because of the crisis in Syria. Al-Khiyarein told...

In an interview with Fox News, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal said the Kingdom has helped Egypt both before and after the revolution. Following the deposition of President...

On Wednesday, Israeli occupation forces banned Jerusalem's Mufti Mohamed Hussein, as well as other religious and prominent Palestinian figures, from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The fatwa department of Palestine...

Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad threatened to "attack Jordan and Turkey in the event they took part in any American-led military action against Syria." Mekdad said in an...

Israeli daily newspaper, Maariv has reported that the main office which investigates Nazi crimes has announced that a Nazi criminal is currently living in Israel. The office said that...

Israeli occupation forces have blockaded a large number of Palestinian worshipers inside al-Aqsa mosque from the early morning, sources have said. According to the sources, the Israeli forces shot...

An article published in the Wall Street journal last week continues to reverberate in the Gulf States. In its 25 August edition Journalists Adam Entous, Nour Malas and Margaret...

The Israeli media reported on Wednesday that Israel's former Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, has undergone a surgical procedure in the abdomen on Tuesday whilst still at "a minimum level...

UAE's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed Bin-Zayed survived an assassination attempt while on the way to Cairo's International Airport on Monday, the Asrar Arabia website reports. However Egypt's official Middle...

A spokesman for Fatah has claimed that the Egyptian coup, which he called a "revolution", has "downed the establishment of a mini-state in Gaza and Sinai". Osama Qawasmi referred...

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon has criticised the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli negotiations and refuses to consider the evacuation of settlements in the occupied West Bank to be negotiable. "The negotiations...

The Israeli government has lodged a complaint with the US in protest at what it described it as a "series of leaks made by senior Palestinian Authority officials revealing...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS The Ministry of Interior in the Gaza Strip has uncovered a plot aimed at overthowing the Hamas led administration in the enclave. A ministry spokesman, Islam Shahwan,...

Former Fatah official Mohammed Dahlan has described the situation with Hamas in Gaza as a "crisis" and has pledged to work to "solve the problem". An elected member of...

This week a report was widely circulated in the Arab press that Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told Fox news that aid to Egypt would not last...

The Palestinian government in Gaza denied on Thursday any support for military interference in Syria, asserting that it does not interfere in any country's internal affairs, even if it...

West Bank residents expelled to Gaza as part of the deal done with the Israelis after a 39 day-blockade of the Church of the Nativity in 2002 called on...

According to a senior Palestinian source, Israel has offered to establish a Palestinian state with provisional borders on 60 per cent of the West Bank, while the Israeli settlements...