A top Turkish official on Friday urged “reasonable statesmen” to push back lobbying groups in Washington which damage Turkish-US ties for the sake of “narrow domestic political interests”, reports...

The quest for accountability in Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death took a step forward this week with United States lawmakers calling on their intelligence chiefs to publish details about...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Friday the next government must bring together all sides so that it can tackle the country’s worst economic crisis in decades, signalling no progress in...

George Salameh’s family has lived in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem for 70 years. Still, he prefers his family be called “al-Yafawi”, meaning “of Jaffa”, an ode to the...

Turkey has added the former leader of the Palestinian Fatah party and United Arab Emirates (UAE) ‘fixer’, Mohammed Dahlan, to its most wanted terrorist list, with a $1.7 million...

Israeli lawmakers have expressed relief over the defeat of UK Labour Party in yesterday’s general election as Britain’s minorities prepare for what is expected to be a tumultuous five...

In a widely condemned incident in Baghdad’s Al-Wathba Square, anti-government protestors lynched a 16-year-old boy believing him to have opened fire on protestors, when it has now surfaced that...

Israel’s control of the occupied West Bank between 2000 and 2017 cost the Palestinian people approximately $47.7 billion and rising, according to a UN report published last week. This...

Turkish foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, announced on Thursday in the Moroccan capital Rabat, that “Israel will never achieve its dreams in Palestine.” “Israel will never achieve its dream of...

Ariel Bulshtein, adviser to the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has announced that Israel has refused to sell weapons to Georgia, at Russia’s request. He also stated a...

Nickolay Mladenov, the United Nations (UN) Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, has told FRANCE 24 that the situation in the Gaza Strip remains extremely tense, warning...

Yisrael Beiteinu chair Avigdor Lieberman expressed his backing Thursday for a pardon of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provided that the Likud leader retires from public life. According to Haaretz,...

Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Friday condemned recent killings and kidnappings of protesters, urging the state to assert control over the widespread use of weapons,...

Turkey does not accept and strongly condemns the US Senate resolution on Armenian events that “poisons the climate of Turkish-American relations,” the ruling party spokesman said Friday, Anadolu reports....

Member of Hamas Political Bureau, Mohammed Nazzal, esteems that Hamas’s distinction lies particularly in the intellectual and cultural fields, and also with regards to its creativity in resisting the...

Saudi activists have called for the boycott of Emirati products, stating that they contain a “deadly poison,” especially relating to cigarettes and hookah tobacco. Activists have created the hashtag...

The Saudi ambassador to the United States visited a US naval air station in Florida on Thursday to extend her condolences for a shooting attack by a Saudi Air...

A new-born baby has been found in a deplorable condition in Jordan. He was immediately taken to a governmental hospital. “The baby was found in a deplorable condition with bruises...

Amnesty International yesterday demanded an investigation into what it described as “the role of the European arms companies in violating international humanitarian law in Yemen.” Referring to its recent...

The international community is ready to financially support Lebanon once a new government is formed, French foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, said yesterday. “The only condition to financially aid...

Christians in the Gaza Strip will not be allowed to visit holy cities such as Bethlehem and Jerusalem to celebrate Christmas this year

Lebanon’s largest Christian political party will not join a new government under the terms set by caretaker premier Saad al-Hariri, but will not obstruct the formation of a new...

Saudis took to Twitter to celebrate Aramco’s valuation hitting $2 trillion on Thursday, with one posting praising de-facto leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as a fortune teller, Reuters...

Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister Saad al-Hariri discussed on Thursday the possibility of technical assistance from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in drawing up a plan to rescue...

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has highlighted the country’s “shameful role” in the Myanmar military regime’s “genocidal campaign” against the Rohingya Muslim minority, citing Tel Aviv’s arms sales to the...

A Bahraini criminal court has handed down prison sentences to 34 defendants over their alleged membership in the Shia opposition group Wefaq, the Bahrani newspaper Al-Ayam has reported. The...

The United Arab Emirates has been hiring former White House executives and intelligence officials for spying missions, a detailed investigation published by Reuters revealed on Tuesday. Following the 11...

New research has found that only 9 per cent of Arab men in Israel complete an undergraduate degree, Haaretz has reported. Referring to a study conducted by Herzilya Interdisciplinary...

‘Sportswashing’, as it is known, has slowly become the favoured tactic of autocrats and human rights abusers to gloss over their crimes and tyranny. A number of sporting icons,...

Yesterday Hezbollah denounced Bahrain over an interfaith event which it hosted earlier in the week, allowing Israeli participation. Claiming that such a move is part of Manama’s “conspiratorial” bid...

Israeli soldiers have arrested top Hamas officials in an overnight raid in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. The arrests were a pre-emptive measure in preparation for the...

The Israeli Likud leaders have agreed to hold a leadership primary election on 26 December, to choose the party’s candidate for the upcoming government, Haaretz reported on Wednesday. Gideon...