Informed sources have told Arabi 21 that the Cypriot President who arrived in Egypt today will discuss with the authorities the possibility of shipping Israeli gas to Egypt via...

Military and security officials Egyptian are on the list of names of people to be prosecuted by the international legal team investigating the July coup. The list has been...

Turkey has decided not to attend the inaugural event for the tenth session of an international conference convened at the level of senior officials in Cairo. The G8’s Broader...

Switzerland’s Public Prosecutor Michael Christophe Lauber is scheduled to hold a press conference on Monday at the Swiss embassy in Cairo to discuss the investigation into whether Egyptian funds...

Amnesty International (AI) has denounced the reaction of the European Union (EU) to the growing Syrian refugee crisis. So far, EU member states have only opened their doors to...

The German Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has warned Israel against continued settlement expansion, saying that it undermines peace negotiations with the Palestinians. Steinmeier, who is paying his first official...

Israel’s friendship with Germany has been damaged because of settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, Israeli newspaper Maariv said on Sunday. Describing Germany as Israel’s “last friend” in...

The former director of Israel’s Shabak internal security agency has been forced to flee from Denmark following a formal complaint accusing him of committing crimes of torture and brutality...

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told Anadolu news agency on Thursday that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, also known as Daash, is a secret partner of...

Russia has vetoed a UK-drafted statement at the UN Security Council denouncing attacks by the Syrian regime forces on Aleppo in the north of Syria, UN diplomats told Reuters...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has asked the Jordanian and Saudi kings to put pressure on the Palestinian Authority (PA) president, Mahmoud Abbas, to recognise Israel as a...

Egypt is not moving towards democracy under its military rulers, warns think-tank the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) in a new policy memo published the week before a...

IMAGES At a packed press conference in Mayfair, London, the legal team appointed by the Freedom and Justice party to investigate the Egyptian military following the coup against the...

Israeli officials and diplomats have threatened to “cut ties with the EU” should the latter impose a boycott on Israel. They said that the first step would be to...

Diplomats have warned of the growing boycott of Israel and accused the European Union of creating an atmosphere which encourages and gives legitimacy to NGOs not to cooperate with...

Wednesday night in London saw the launch of the new book ‘Gaza Writes Back’, a collection of short stories by young Palestinian authors published by Just World Books. The...

Foreign media correspondents have received warnings from the Egyptian authority and asked to be cautious when covering incidents in the country, The Times newspaper said. The Times said that...

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that three British men who were subjected to torture in prison in Saudi Arabia cannot pursue a case against the kingdom...

The UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation UNESCO has decided to postpone opening a Jewish exhibition at its headquarters in Paris after Arab states protested. UNESCO’s director general Irina...

Russia has stepped up its military assistance to Syria, including armored vehicles and drones and precision-guided bombs, informed sources told Reuters news agency. A number of sources told Reuters...

Academic boycotts seem to resonate deeply within Israel, veering towards the dynamics of vengeance. Cosmologist Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott the Israeli Presidential Conference sparked a furore on social...

The UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation UNESCO has decided to postpone opening a Jewish exhibition at its headquarters in Paris after Arab states protested. UNESCO’s director general Irina...

Russia has stepped up its military assistance to Syria, including armored vehicles and drones and precision-guided bombs, informed sources told Reuters news agency. A number of sources told Reuters...

The International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) says that the Syrian authorities are preventing aid from reaching rebel-held areas besieged by government forces, despite having made a request...

In a unique and momentous event last night the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) organised a live video link to take place between British parliamentarians in the House of Commons...

This morning (November 30th) John Ging, the Head of the United Nation’s Relief and Works Agency (), hosted a discussion on the current crisis in the Gaza Strip. The...