Israeli occupation forces have arrested 15 Palestinians, including eight children, in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian sources reported on Thursday. Soldiers swept through Dora neighbourhood in...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES The Federation of Public Transportation Sector (FPTS) in the Gaza Strip called on Wednesday for the UN and human rights organisations to put more pressure on the...

Israeli occupation forces raided on Wednesday the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilya, firing massive amounts of tear gas that killed an 85-year-old Palestinian man, medical sources said. The...

Oman is gaining an increasing significance in the Gulf region at a time when the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is gradually losing its role and importance. In a pronounced...

After previously announcing the withdrawal of Iraqi forces in the wake of severe clashes with armed militias, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki reversed the decision on Thursday and sent...

Deputy Israeli Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin expressed on Thursday his refusal to consider any framework agreement with the Palestinian Authority (PA) based on the 1967 borders. Speaking to Israeli...

An extremist Jewish group has sent a letter to the Israeli government asking for the occupation forces to allow Israeli Jews and foreign tourists access to all gates leading...

The city of Acre to the north of Haifa, and particularly the old city, is being subjected to a fierce Judaisation campaign aiming to eliminate its Arab residents as...

The Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights (EMOHR) and the Working Group for the Palestinians of Syria (WGPS) have published a visual report about the humanitarian crisis in the Yarmouk...

The Syrian government has revealed that its 2014 budget amounts to 1.39 trillion Syrian pounds (around $9.8 billion). On paper this is the largest budget in the government’s history,...

Insurgents in Iraq are preparing for an assault on their positions by government forces. A group calling itself the Leadership of the Military Council for the Rebels, which was...

On Friday chief tribal leader Sheikh Ali Al-Hatem called on all Iraqi tribes to withdraw their sons from the Iraqi army until the latter releases the kidnapped parliamentarian Ahmed...

In its annual report, Wadi Al-Hilwa and Silwan Information Centre have said that the Israeli occupation arrested 1,450 residents from Jerusalem in 2013, including 450 children and 25 women....

On Friday the Syrian National Council (SNC) renewed its rejection of an invitation to attend the Geneva II Conference set to take place in Switzerland on January 22 to...

Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) announced on Friday that five staff doctors have been kidnapped from one of their houses in the north of Syria. MSF said in a statement...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has accused forces loyal to Bashar Al-Assad of a new wave of violence against Aleppo and the surrounding area. The organisation says that...

Palestinian MP Mustafa Barghouthi has criticised the US-proposed framework agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, which more or less adopts the Israeli position on security, borders, Jerusalem and the...

Israel’s Minister of Intelligence and Strategic Affairs, Yuval Steinitz, said on Sunday that the government in Tel Aviv rejects the “concessions” proposed by the United States with respect to...

Members of the Union of Arab Employees of the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) have gone on general strike in UN-affiliated institutions across the Gaza...

Israeli President Shimon Peres has praised what he describes as “the war” being waged by the Egyptian authorities against the Islamic resistance movement Hamas. Peres also celebrated, in statements...

Saffa News has published details of a “confidential document” which reveals that the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah offered to sell Egypt the fuel donated by Qatar to operate Gaza’s...

US Secretary of State John Kerry returned on Sunday to Jerusalem after visiting Amman and Riyadh, where he met with key Arab leaders and received their full support for...

America and Iran have expressed their readiness to support the Iraqi government in its war against rebel militias in Al-Anbar Governorate, which is the stronghold of the Sunni Muslims...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday that he would not support any peace deal with the Palestinian Authority (PA) that does not include an exchange of land....

The partners in Israel’s Leviathan natural gas field have signed an unprecedented $1.2 billion agreement with the Palestine Power Generation Company, whereby the former will provide the latter with...

Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon warned on Sunday of the serious consequences of an immediate Israeli army withdrawal from the occupied West Bank. “It would lead, probably, to the collapse...

The Syrian Ministry of Education has decided to teach Russian as a second foreign language starting from next year. After learning English as a first foreign language in primary...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh has taken several core decisions regarding the rival Fatah movement, paving the way for Palestinian national reconciliation. In a press...

Israel is to tell the Palestinian Authority to change the history syllabus used in its schools as a condition ahead of negotiating final status issues. According to a specialist...

Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh refused on Tuesday the possibility of Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley. Speaking to Jordanian state television, Jodeh said that Jordan is aware of...

Kuwaiti religious scholar Dr Ajeel Al-Nashmi has issued a fatwa calling Egyptian Defence Minister and coup leader General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi an illegitimate “tyrant”. Al-Nashmi is the head of...

Former Fatah leader Mohamed Dahlan has called on the Palestinian people to reject the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations led by US Secretary of State John Kerry, saying that any potential deal...