Israel is to authorise thousands of the settler homes built illegally in the occupied West Bank, some of them decades ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, reports...

Jordanian authorities deployed hundreds of riot police in the capital and warned activists to stay within the law on Thursday ahead of another protest against the government’s tough austerity...

Up to 15,000 Syrian rebels are ready to join a Turkish military offensive against US-backed Kurdish forces in northeast Syria, but no date has been set for the operation,...

The link between western universities and Gulf countries has come under sharp scrutiny following the murder of Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the life sentence passed by the UAE...

Palestinians in the UK are preparing to host the biggest exhibition of Palestinian culture, food, heritage and art to be held in the country in 2018 this weekend. Organised...

Yandex Maps, Russia’s leading mapping service and its equivalent of Google Maps, has mistakenly revealed the locations and details of various military-related sites in Turkish and Israeli territory, as...

Hollywood actress Natalie Portman has called Israel’s nation state law “racist” in an interview with London-based newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi. “The Nation-State law is racist,” the Israeli-American actress said in the interview...

The Palestinian Authority (PA)’s ex-Security Chief Mohammed Dahlan has criticised the US’ “deal of the century” claiming he would prefer to see a one-state solution prevail in Israel-Palestine. In...

Scores of Iraqis are dying because they cannot afford prescription medicines which are being kept high, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported yesterday. According to the news site, prices are being kept...

Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmad Abul-Gheit said yesterday that the organisation is to discuss the Saudi vision on tourism investment during the Arab Economic and Social Development Summit...

Israeli authorities were ordered by a court yesterday “to pay several thousand shekels in compensation for false arrest” to Hebron-based Palestinian activist Issa Amro. According to the report by...

The Israeli parliament has rejected a draft bill affirming citizens’ right to equality. According to a report by Israeli activist Yossi Gurvitz for Mondoweiss, the Knesset voted down the...

Israeli occupation forces seized a six-year-old Palestinian child in Hebron, the occupied West Bank, and detained him without family members for an hour, reported B’Tselem. The incident took place...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that Israel would not rule out undertaking military action inside Iran. Addressing a gathering of foreign media yesterday, Netanyahu was asked what...

A senior official in the Israeli Reserve Army said yesterday that the occupation forces are in the worst condition they have been in since 1965, stressing they would enter...

The Yemeni government said yesterday that its delegation in Sweden has reached a “good” understanding with the Houthis on economic issues. Marwan Damaj told reporters on the sidelines of...

Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia yesterday denied media reports claiming the presidency had prevented him from presenting the annual report of his government’s work to parliament. The Algerian prime...

The Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government have decided to conduct a comprehensive demographic survey in 2020 in order to reach a more equitable distribution of wealth. The...

High school and secondary school teachers stage a demonstration demanding wage increase, early retirement and education reform in Tunis

Israeli forces searched student bloc offices, damaged the students' personal belongings and seized surveillance footage.

Jordan yesterday refused to comment on reports of secret meetings held between Israel’s Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz and Amman’s Water Minister Raed Abu Soud, the Anadolu Agency reported. When...

Former Iraqi prime minister Haider Al-Abadi has criticised the new Iraqi cabinet vote to suspend all decisions made by his government during the period extending from 1 July until...

Israel should be careful in its relationship with Gulf countries, the former Deputy Chief of the General Staff Yair Golan warned yesterday. Speaking at a conference in the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic...

A near-record number of journalists around the world are behind bars for their work, according to a report released today. There were 251 journalists jailed for doing their jobs...

The United States (US) has rejected an Israeli request to impose sanctions on Lebanon and the Lebanese army to hold it responsible for cross-border tunnels allegedly dug by Hezbollah...

At least nine people were killed and 47 others injured when a high-speed train crashed into a pilot engine traveling along the same tracks in the Turkish capital Ankara, transportation and...

The American magazine Foreign Policy reported that since the beginning of the mid-term elections in the United States, conservative media outlets have fiercely targeted Somali-American congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who...

Twenty-one prisoners, most of them members of Daesh jailed on terrorism charges, broke out of a prison in northern Iraq, Kurdish security officials said today. Fifteen were recaptured. The...

Saudi Arabia is seeking an alliance with six countries bordering the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, a strategic area vital to global shipping and increasingly an arena...

As Nazareth was decked out for Christmas, a group of weavers gathered in the cobblestone alleys of Israel’s largest Arab city, intent on preserving their Palestinian heritage at a...

Lebanese leaders expressed fresh confidence on Wednesday about reaching a deal to form a new government, with President Michel Aoun saying results of his efforts to break the months-long...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended the Trump administration’s handling of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Wednesday, stressing Saudi Arabia’s importance as a US ally...