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Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who represents Israel in the current negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, has suggested that the resignation of the Palestinian negotiation team constitutes a violation...

Israeli settlers attacked and burned a house in Sinjil, a village to the north of Ramallah in the West Bank, during the early morning hours on Thursday. Five children...

Kuwaiti MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei, who denounced the Egyptian coup and the Gulf States, including Kuwait, for supporting it, is now being investigated on charges of inciting riots. Al-Tabtabaei posted...

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his rejection of the proposed deal between Iran and a number of Western states. "There are not just two possibilities on the...

The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas has said that the resignation of the Palestinian negotiating team "is senseless as long as negotiations with Israel continue." The Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud...

Palestinian negotiator Mohammad Shtayyeh said that the Palestinian negotiating team has rejected a new interim agreement that Israel proposed during their recent talks. Following his meeting with Belgian Foreign...

A spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria has confirmed that it has received an offer from the government in Iran over regime change. Omar Al-Mushawah confirmed statements attributed...

Three more Palestinian children have been arrested by the Israeli army during raids on their homes in Hebron. Palestinian sources named the children as Fahad Amin al-Bakri, 11 years...

President Mahmoud Abbas disclosed on Tuesday evening that he has told Western countries what he calls "the truth of the matter" in the region, including that what occurred last...

The Special Political and Decolonisation Committee (Fourth Committee) of the General Assembly of the United Nations has adopted eight new resolutions concerning the plight of the Palestinians. The drafts...

Israel's President Shimon Peres has publicly expressed his frustration with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due to his recent disagreements with the US, particularly Secretary of State John Kerry, over...

The Hamas-led Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip has accused Arab and European intelligence agencies of being behind the formation of the so-called "Tamarod (rebellion) movement" in the territory....

Jordan's head of the Development and Free Zones Commission, Maha Khatib, has denied the existence of any agreement or plans to establish a joint industrial zone with Israel. Khatib...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES Palestinian refugees fleeing from the conflict in Syria are being welcomed warmly in the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has pledged to offer a complete package...

A St Petersburg-based internet site has claimed that Russian mercenaries are fighting for the Assad regime in Syria under the name of "the Slavic Brigade". If true, this would...

In an interview with a correspondent from the Israeli Radio, Gal Berger, an advisor to the President of the Palestinian Authority, Nimer Hammad said that despite his pessimism regarding...

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has considered the visit of French President Francois Hollande to occupied Jerusalem "as encouragement to the occupation to continue its crimes of Judaisation and...

Haaretz newspaper has reported that many within Israel's Likud Party fear that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman seeks to gain control of the party from the inside by changing its...

During his visit to Washington on Thursday, Israel's Minister of Economy Naftali Bennett accused the Obama administration of "jeopardising" Israel's security in order to reach an agreement with Tehran...

As a newly recognised non-member state, Palestine has cast a vote in the UN General Assembly for the first time since it was included in the international body last...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is set to head the cabinet next week during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's two day visit to Russia, Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported...

The Israeli occupation renewed on Sunday the administrative detention of two Islamist Palestinian parliamentarians, Ahrar for Prisoners Studies has announced. The two parliamentarians, Ahrar reported, are the Secretary-General of...

The Jordanian government officially applied on Sunday for the Arab non-permanent UN Security Council seat that was rejected by Saudi Arabia last month, Jordan's state-run Petra news agency announced....

Israel has accelerated construction of the so-called National Park on the slopes of Mount Scopus in occupied Jerusalem along with new settlement construction approved by the city's Israeli-controlled Planning...

Nine Palestinian inmates at Israel's Ashkelon Prison were wounded on Monday night when security forces swept through their rooms before transferring them to cells, it has been revealed by...

Israel's Deputy Minister of Defence Danny Danon has accused the Palestinian Authority of funding terrorism and is calling on the international community to immediately cease its assistance until the...

Israeli settlers cut down dozens of olive trees and destroyed two rooms on Monday in Qusra Village southeast of Nablus city. Village eyewitnesses told Resala.net that dozens of settlers...

The commander of the northern region in the Israeli army, General Yair Golan, told Israeli Channel 7 news on Sunday that war with Lebanon has become closer than ever...

Israel has failed to undermine a deal between Iran and the world powers regarding its nuclear programme, a senior Israeli official told a local newspaper on Monday. Another official...

The vast gas reserves discovered in waters claimed by Israel in recent years may transform the state into a major gas exporter. The government sees a promising future, whilst...

Palestine's Governmental Employees' Union has denounced a Palestinian Authority decision on the cost of living allowance, saying that the government has "declared war on the law". The PA cabinet...

Syria's permanent representative to the UN, Bashar Al-Ja'afari, has stated that his country refuses to recognise a resolution on human rights in Syria that Saudi Arabia submitted to the...