Former French Prime Minister Dominique De Villepin has said that he holds Western foreign policy responsible for the multiplication of terrorism hotspots around the world. He added that he...

Israel’s former justice minister Tzipi Livni expected on Saturday an international coalition to be formed against radical Islam following a series of terrorist attacks in France. She was quoted...

The Houthi militant group has threatened to overrun Yemen’s eastern oil-rich Maarib province, citing what it described as the lack of government action towards the alleged presence of hundreds...

‘Storm Huda’ first hit Palestine on Wednesday as severe snow storms hit Ramallah and the higher areas in Bethlehem, Hebron, Jerusalem and Nablus. Heavy rain hit Gaza which has...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Friday that 2,100 Syrians had died in the prisons of the Syrian regime in 2014. The signs of torture appeared...

Palestine’s Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, described on Friday the American criticism of the visit by its top leader Khalid Meshaal to Turkey as “shameless position.” Anadolu News Agency reported...

Head of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Committee, Issa Qaraqe, has confirmed that Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are facing “very difficult” conditions because they are denied proper clothes and cover...

After the announcement of a thwarted attempt to bomb the Dome of the Rock, Palestinian Minister for Jerusalem Affairs Adnan al-Husseini announced Palestinian fears regarding the dangers facing Al-Aqsa...

The Israeli intelligence service Shin Bet have thwarted an operation to blow up the Dome of the Rock Mosque, in the Al-Aqsa compound, by an American Jewish extremist, Yedioth...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday defended the State of Palestine’s right to join the International Criminal Court in the Hague, the Anadolu Agency reported. Ban told reporters after...

Republican chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee Senator John McCain yesterday called on the US administration to deploy ground troops to participate in the war against the Islamic...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak as warned that Israel is vulnerable to a boycott, as the BDS movement develops. In an interview in Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Barak was...

Two sisters of the Vice President of the political bureau of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh were given eight-month suspended sentences on charges of entering Gaza through the Rafah border crossing,...

The US yesterday called on the Saudi authorities to reconsider a “brutal” sentence against jailed liberal blogger, Raif Badawi. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, during the daily press...

Iran calls to boost economic relations with Kuwait Iran Minister of Economic and Financial Affairs Ali Tayebnia yesterday called for economic and trade relations with Kuwait to be boosted...

Two pro-democracy protesters in Egypt were sentenced to life yesterday; while 12 others were given ten year prison terms and a further nine will be incarcerated for five years,...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made use of the attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to call on the West to support the ongoing Israeli occupation...

Jordan’s King Abdullah II has issued a decree appointing army commander Mashal Al-Zaben and intelligence chief Faisal Shoubaki as advisers to the monarch alongside their current positions. According to...

The Lebanese parliament yesterday failed for the 17th time to elect a new president due to the lack of the constitutionally required quorum for convening the parliament’s session. Parliament...

The International Criminal Court announced yesterday that Palestinians will formally become members of the organisation on 1 April, and its jurisdiction will date back to June 13, 2014. ICC...

PA President Mahmoud Abbas seems intent on pursuing further symbolism for Palestine. Following the perfunctory recognition of Palestinian statehood by some European countries last year, which was essentially an...

Scores of Kuwaiti activists, including former members of parliament, yesterday protested against detaining former parliamentarian Saleh Al-Mulla on charges of insulting the Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber...

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Study Centre warned of more assassinations inside Israeli jails after two detainees survived following attempts to kill them, Qudsnet.com reported yesterday. According to Qudsnet.com, the Prisoners’...

Iraq’s Ministry of Defence yesterday held talks with senior security delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government to deepen security and military cooperation between the two sides to counter the...

A new poll revealed that as many as 86 per cent of the Palestinians believe that Al-Haram Al-Sharif, which includes Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, is...

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hussein Amir Abdollahian yesterday stressed that Tehran’s relations with Hamas are “good” and “strong”, Palestinian newspaper Al-Resalah reported. Abdollahian’s remarks...

The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) yesterday condemned Israel’s decision to prevent a member of the Palestine national team Sameh Marabah from travelling to Jordan on his way to Australia...

Some 96 per cent of Gaza’s underground water is unusable as it does not comply with global standards, the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) said yesterday. In a statement, the...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday warned the EU that it should crackdown on “Islamophobia” amid rising anti-Muslim protests instead of trying to teach Turkey lessons about democracy, Palestinian...

The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and its fleet will be deployed to the Gulf to support operations against the Islamic State (ISIS), Mer et Marine news site...

France warned Palestinians against escalating a diplomatic “battle” with Israel after Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas said he would resubmit the Palestinian statehood bid to the UNSC, local...

Kuwaiti authorities have raised the security level on their county’s border with Iraq in wake of the “terrorist attack” perpetrated on the Saudi border earlier this week, Kuwaiti Al-Qabas...