Saudi Arabia is preparing to acknowledge the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in a botched interrogation, CNN and the New York Times said on Monday, after US President...

The Saudi embassy in Washington on Monday cancelled its annual National Day reception in an email that gave no explanation for the move, which comes amid a diplomatic crisis...

Australia will consider recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and shifting its embassy there from Tel Aviv, Australia’s Prime Minister said on Tuesday, Reuters reports. The status of Jerusalem is one...

Prime Minister of Jordan, Dr Omar Razzaz, has met on Monday with the Turkish Minister of Trade Ruhsar Pekcan with the presence of Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister...

Former Director of the CIA, John O. Brennan, stated that that the reasons for the Saudi leadership’s denials of involvement in the case of Jamal Khashoggi is meaningless. Brennan added...

A hashtag in support of Saudi King Salman and his son Mohammed Bin Salman has gone viral on Twitter, in the wake of a war of words between the...

An Israeli minister yesterday belittled the stoning to death of a Palestinian mother by illegal Israeli settlers, calling it nothing more than a “scrap of an incident”. Israel’s Tourism...

Israeli parliamentarians from the Yisrael Beiteinu political party have proposed a bill to prevent the reduction in the term handed to Palestinians charged with violating Israel’s Anti-Terrorism Law, local...

Three Palestinians from Jerusalem yesterday turned themselves in to serve sentences in Israeli prisons on a charge of “traveling to Lebanon”, Ma’an reported. Abdullah Singlawi, Ayad Shalabi and Nour...

Palestinian prisoner Ahmed Al-Rimawi launched a hunger strike to protest against Israeli occupation forces holding him under administrative detention, Quds Press reported yesterday. According to a statement issued by...

Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah refused to meet with the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov, following sharp disagreement over Mladenov’s role...

Without reaching a reconciliation with the Palestinian factions, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday called for the Palestinian parliament to be dissolved. During a meeting of Fatah’s Revolutionary...

Saudi state owned Al-Arabiya news channel delivered a bullish message to the US and the international community in response to growing calls for sanctions against Riyadh over the disappearance...

An Egyptian MP has proposed the country export dog meat to East Asian nations in an attempt to reduce the number of street dogs, the Egypt Independent has reported....

Khan Al-Ahmar was today once again flooded with waste water by illegal Israeli settlers, as Israeli army bulldozers stormed the village. Sources from Khan Al-Ahmar told Wafa that “the...

The rabbinical council governing the Agudat Yisrael faction of United Torah Judaism “gave the green light yesterday for its leaders to hold talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in...

Settlers have uprooted and vandalised tens of olive and grape saplings in the Al-Khader town in the occupied West Bank’s Bethlehem area, Quds Press reported yesterday. Ahmed Salah, the...

A photograph of a Palestinian protester taking part in the Great March of Return in the occupied Gaza Strip won a top prize Saturday in France’s prestigious Bayeux Calvados-Normandy...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu branded the internationally-respected human rights NGO B’Tselem a “disgrace” last night, following news that the Israeli organisation will address the United Nations Security Council...

Israeli defence officials are feeling “pressure” from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ministers over ongoing protests in the occupied Gaza Strip, reported Haaretz. According to the report, defence officials told...

Extreme poverty in Iran has risen and reached 34 per cent this year, the head of the workers group in the Iranian Shura Council Ali Ridha Mahjoub said. “The...

Canada has announced that it is contributing $50 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Some $40 million would be allocated over two...

The border crossing between Jordan and Syria officially opened to civilians and trade this morning three years after it was closed. The Nassib crossing opened an 8am (0500 GMT),...

Palestinian workers were injured after an Israeli settler ran them in the West Bank

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday warned that Israel would strike Gaza with “very powerful blows” if the Great March of Return protests were not brought to an end....

Israel yesterday approved a budget of 22 million shekels ($6 million) to build a new illegal Jewish settlement in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, Ma’an reported....

Israeli forces prevented the entry of all forms of fuel into the besieged Gaza Strip through the Karm Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) commercial crossing, including fuel funded by Qatar,...

In a Sunday night phone call, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz discussed the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Anadolu reports. Erdogan stressed forming a joint...

A well-grassed wicket might have been the last thing Mitchell Starc expected to see after landing in Abu Dhabi but Australia’s pace spearhead was loath to get his hopes...

Brothers Abu Eliyas and Abu Yousef have fought at opposite ends of the insurgency against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Reuters reports. One is a member of a rebel group that...

Ford Motor Co Chairman Bill Ford cancelled a multi-stop trip to the Middle East, including a planned appearance at a Saudi investment conference, the company said on Sunday, the...

Syria’s main hardliner group signalled on Sunday it would abide by the terms of a Russian-Turkish deal to prevent a Syrian government offensive on rebel-held Idlib the day before a...