Haaretz has reported that the US administration has prepared a plan for the final security arrangements between Israel and the future Palestinian state. According to the newspaper, retired US...

The White House said on Tuesday that it would agree to giving Iran the opportunity to enrich limited amounts of uranium in return for “rigorous” monitoring measures at all...

The National Council of the American Studies Association (ASA) has voted unanimously to endorse the academic boycott of Israel. ASA’s members, which number around five thousand, will have ten...

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat revealed on Friday that the US president Barack Obama considers the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) application to the UN for non-member state as crossing all...

On Saturday US defence secretary Chuck Hagel told the Gulf states that the US is highly committed to the security of the Middle East and that the deal with...

America has rejected an offer by the Syrian regime to fight Al-Qaeda and jihadists in the country in return for staying in power in Damascus, the prime minister of...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Israel of delaying a political settlement with the Palestinians saying, “Force cannot defeat or defuse the demographic time bomb. The only...

Lawmakers in the US Congress reached an agreement on Monday in both the House and the Senate on the proposed federal budget for 2014, which would allocate $520.5 billion...

It has been bought to our attention that the quotes attributed to Dr Yezid Sayigh was inaccurate as it may have been taken from a fake Twitter account. We...

The members of the American Studies Association have overwhelmingly voted to endorse the ASA’s participation in a Palestinian call for an academic boycott of Israel. Following the recommendation of...

The Israel lobby in the US suffered a great setback when Congress went on winter break without approving a new bill that would allow Israelis to enter the US...

The Israeli newspaper Maariv reported that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been forced to halt the construction of a new IDF training academy on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem...

UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk has claimed that “Israel is slouching towards nothing less than a Palestinian holocaust” in his comments about the abuse of human rights in the...

American President Barack Obama said on Friday there was no need for new sanctions on Iran, as that would spoil negotiations over a long-term nuclear deal with the world...

The sale of Israeli military equipment to China has sparked outrage in the United States, leading to the resignation of an Israeli Defence Ministry official. The Israeli newspaper Maariv...

The Washington Post newspaper published an editorial on Friday condemning Egypt’s interim cabinet for designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group, arguing that this shows how “Egypt has...

On Friday Libyan authorities released four American military staff after two hours of detention, an official in the US administration said. The American official gave no more details about...

The US Ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, denied on Sunday any connection between the fate of Jonathan Pollard, a convicted spy for Israel, and the ongoing negotiations between Israel...

In a desperate effort to push forward the peace process, on Friday evening US Secretary of State John Kerry met the Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas in the...

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) has commented on the oppression campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Egypt. CSM, which is close to US decision makers, ruled out the...

A spokesperson of the US State Department, Marie Harf, has described the humanitarian situation for Palestinian refugees in the Yarmouk camp south of Damascus, as well as for Syrians...

US newspaper the Washington Post published on Tuesday its most scathing editorial yet criticising the recent developments in Egypt. Under the headline “Egypt’s bogus democracy doesn’t deserve US aid,”...

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday that he has discussed the possibility of enforcing local ceasefires in Syria with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. The question...

Iran will receive the first tranche of its funds which have been frozen due to US-led sanctions by the beginning of February. The State Department said that $550 million...

A Palestinian football club in the Chilean capital Santiago has refused to give in to an intensive Jewish campaign demanding that the club apologise and remove a map depicting...

During a discussion of the Syrian crisis, which started more than two and half years ago, US Republican and Democratic Senators demanded on Tuesday that the US allow more...

Israel’s Maariv newspaper revealed on Monday new details of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s framework proposal for pushing the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations forward. According to the newspaper, Kerry has...

PHOTOS Dozens of activists braved extremely cold weather in New York City on Saturday to stage a protest in front of the Egyptian Consulate demanding that Egypt open the...

American diplomats have ruled out reaching a prospective framework agreement between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Israeli occupation based on American proposals. The diplomats, who preferred to speak...

Images An Indonesian non-governmental organisation has collected nearly $15 million from Indonesia’s poor and rich alike to build the first Indonesian hospital in the Gaza Strip. The hospital, which...

Malaysia’s ruling party UMNO extended an invitation to the speaker of Egypt’s dissolved parliament, Saad El-Katatni, to attend the annual party conference in Kuala Lumpur, a symbolic recognition of...

China has warned that a military strike against Syria would damage the global economy. Zhu Guangyao, China’s Deputy Minister of Finance, told a press conference on the sidelines of...