Reliable sources close to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expect him to face an Arab criticism campaign during the scheduled meeting of the Arab League next Wednesday in Cairo...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman confirmed on Tuesday that the planned release of more Palestinian prisoners would not take place, based on the argument that the Palestinian Authority had...

Israeli journalist and foreign affairs analyst Ehud Yaari has revealed that Israel is encouraging the Egyptian army to employ F-16 fighter jets in the Sinai in its fight against...

The UN should “support rather than oppose Palestinian actions to join international treaties that promote respect for human rights,” Human Rights Watch said yesterday. Deputy Middle East director at...

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Marziyeh Afkham has stressed that the threats and pressures against her country have had no influence on the Iranian people and that Iran’s nuclear rights...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has called to hold new elections in Israel, saying that the release of the fourth batch of Palestinian prisoners “is not an option”. In...

Any future Palestinian state “will create a worse problem than it will solve”, Israeli Jerusalem Post reported quoted Tourism Minister Uzi Landau as saying yesterday. Landau delivered his remarks...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has opened confidential communication channels with Qatar and officials from both sides are reportedly meeting in Doha to reconcile the differences between them, informed...

Palestinian refugees in the Yarmouk Refugee Camp negotiate with the armed groups from time to time to defuse the situation in the camp and end the 270 day siege...

Some 176 prisoners were tortured to death inside Syrian regime prisons in March, Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) revealed. SNHR records show that the number of prisoners killed...

Israel will surround the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas until he accepts the Israeli terms and recognises Israel as a Jewish state, Israel’s top negotiator, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said...

An Israeli official said on Sunday that the security coordination between the Palestinian Authority security services and the Israeli army and security services did not change despite the stalled...

Al-Dusari: My salary is 1900 Riyals. The authority is preoccupied fighting the bombings while enjoying alone the revenues of the petroleum. The maxim “stave your dog it will obey...

Kuwaiti Endowments and Justice Minister Nayef al-Ajami submitted his resignation to the ministerial council on Friday, Anadolu news agency said. The measure came after an American official had accused...

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Friday that the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas “is not a terrorist organisation.” Speaking in the inauguration speech for Masarat Conference, a non-governmental...

The Israeli Religious Services Minister Naftali Bennett told Israeli radio Sunday that Israel intends to file a lawsuit at The Hague court accusing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of...

The Israeli Minister of Justice and chief negotiator Tzipi Livni said that negotiations of the past eight months have been mainly with the Americans, not with the Palestinian Authority....

Hamas mourned the death of Islamic scholar and author Muhammad Qutb on Friday. In a press statement, Hamas said: “We convey our sincerest condolences to all the Palestinian people...

Jordanian security authorities detained a school teacher for having a “R4BIA” (Rabia Al-Adaweya) sticker on his car, the press centre of Jordanian Teachers Movement said in a statement. According...

Palestinian losses caused by the latest Israeli airstrikes which took place on Thursday night reached $3 million, statistics by the Palestinian Chamber of Commerce showed. The Israeli warplanes struck...

According to Safa News Agency, the Hebrew language newspaper Yated Ne’eman, which is affiliated with the United Torah Judaism movement, published an unprecedented article on Thursday morning that generated...

A secret document which explains how to deal with the residents of settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip and how to calm fears in the wake of increased discovery...

The government in Gaza has accused the Israeli occupation of trying to “stir things up” in order to get itself out of the political crisis it is currently experiencing,...

Tel Aviv hopes to cooperate with moderate Arab states, especially the Gulf states and Egypt, Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli foreign minister, said. In comments quoted by Israeli media Lieberman...

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat has called on the Palestinian National Council to hold an urgent meeting with Hamas and Islamic Jihad participating in order to elect a new...

Iran “will never compromise over the natural right of our country to use the nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and we will always defend it,” the Fars news agency...

Israel has begun a series of punitive measures against the Palestinian Authority in response to the Palestinian request to join 15 international UN treaties, Haaretz reported on Wednesday. The...

Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported on Wednesday that the remnants of a Byzantine monastery were found near the town of Hura in the Negev, dating back about 1400 years. While...

The only predominantly Maronite-Christian village of Jish in Upper Galilee was vandalised on Wednesday night and the tyres of 40 vehicles were slashed. Witnesses said the graffiti on the...

An emergency trilateral meeting between the Palestinian Authority (PA), Israel and the US was held in Jerusalem on Wednesday night, but the parties failed to reach an agreement to...

Hamas has denied claims that it requested to open offices in Jordan, describing this allegation as “baseless”. “Hamas categorically denies reports that it asked to open offices in Jordan,”...

An emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers will be held next week to address the latest developments in the Palestinian issue in light of Israel’s refusal to release a...