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American President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that he does not see even a "likelihood of a framework agreement." Speaking to Israeli Channel 2 reporter Ilana Dayan at...

Israeli forces yesterday arrested a 15-year old Palestinian-American boy in Silwad, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, the Anadolu Agency reported. In a statement, Palestinian activist Shatha Hamid...

Conflicts and prolonged crises in a number of Arab states "have seen overall prevalence of undernourishment (PoU) increase from the level of a quarter of a century ago", the...

The deputy secretary-general of the Arab League, Ambassador Ahmed Ben Helli, announced on Tuesday that the Arab League will be holding consultations to obtain a new UN Security Council...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned on Monday that it would stop its operations aimed at helping Palestinian refugees as a result of...

Votes of Turkish citizens living abroad who participated in their country's general election have begun to be sent to Turkey, official sources said Tuesday. Ballots cast at the Turkish...

US President Barack Obama has said the forthcoming nuclear deal between the world powers and Iran is the best way to ensure that Tehran does not possess a nuclear...

The United Nations Office for Human Rights Coordination (OCHA) said on Monday that Egypt only opened the Rafah Crossing for five days from the beginning of this year until...

Egypt on Saturday freed American-Egyptian activist Mohammed Soltan after he renounced his Egyptian citizenship, Soltan's family and lawyer have said. "It is with pleasure that we confirm that our...

The United Nations Special Envoy to Libya, Bernardino Leon, said yesterday that Libya is on the verge of economic collapse as rival factions haggle over a political settlement. Leon,...

Egypt's former presidential candidate Mohamed El-Baradei has entered into the ongoing controversy over Egypt's judicial decisions, saying that law without justice is nothing but a tool of repression. El-Baradei...

The United States said it will not agree to extend a deadline set between world powers and Iran over its nuclear programme. US State Department spokesperson Jeff Rathke told...

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin met with university heads on Thursday for an emergency discussion on the threat posed by the international academic boycott campaign. Describing the boycott as a...

UNRWA has been forced to suspend its monthly cash assistance for housing to Palestinian refugee families from Syria living in Lebanon. Starting from July this year, more than 43,000...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg yesterday called for increasing the ability of Middle Eastern countries to enable them to defend themselves, the Anadolu Agency reported. In a meeting with the...

The US Department of Defence has criticised the codename given to a military operation to retake Anbar province from Islamic State militants, with spokesman Colonel Steven Warren describing the...

Tony Blair resigned as Middle East peace envoy on Wednesday, a source close to the former British prime minister said on Wednesday. "He remains fully committed to assisting the...

The director of UNRWA's operations in the Gaza Strip, Robert Turner, said Wednesday that he had submitted his resignation and plans to leave his current post in the blockaded...

The General Syndication Congress for employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that it will escalate protest measures should the organisation not...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked his envoy to Yemen on Tuesday to postpone talks in Geneva at the request of the Yemeni government and other stakeholders, Anadolu has reported....

The fall of Iraq's provincial capital of Ramadi into the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS) was in part caused by the low morale among Iraqi troops, US Department...

Egypt has summoned Pakistan's charge d'affaires in Cairo to express its displeasure with Islamabad's criticism of a recent raft of death sentences handed out by Egyptian courts. In a...

Turkey and the United States have reached an "initial" agreement to give air support to certain groups of Syrian rebels, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Monday. However, while...

A former advisor to the US Army Central Command, Ali Khedery said he has information which reveals that nearly 6,000 Iraqi forces fled the battlefield in Ramadi in the...

Iraq's prime minister yesterday rejected accusations made by the US secretary of defence that the Iraqi army did not show will to fight the Islamic State (ISIS) in Ramadi....

U.S. Defence Secretary, Ashton Carter on Sunday slammed the Iraqi army which abandoned the provincial capital Ramadi last week, leaving it to fall under ISIS control, despite them outnumbering...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu phoned U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to thank the U.S. for blocking a proposal calling for making the Middle East a nuclear-weapon-free zone...

During his visit to Adas Israel Synagogue in Washington on Thursday, US President Barack Obama attempted to persuade American Jews that his policies regarding Palestinian issue and Iran do...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday that his country will not sign any agreement that would allow access to its military and scientific secrets. Iran's Press TV quoted Rouhani...

US President Barack Obama announced yesterday his intention to designate Tunisia as a major non-NATO ally, citing democratic reforms in the country. The upgraded status would put the level...

Emad Shahin is the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics and a professor of public policy. On Saturday, he was sentenced in absentia to death by...

The UN envoy to the Middle East, Nikolay Mladenov, said on Tuesday that both Israel and the Palestinian Authority must work to prevent the collapse of the besieged Gaza...