Middle East

China continues to insist that dialogue and negotiations are the only way to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue, pointing out that Iran, as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation...

Egypt's First Court of Administrative Justice of the State Council, headed by Judge Abdul Majid Al-Mokannan, has blocked President Morsi's plans to hold elections for the new House of...

The Israeli president, Shimon Peres, asked the EU on Wednesday to act against Hamas and not to consider settlements in the occupied West Bank an obstacle to peace with...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Efforts are being made to develop the export market for upholstery foam produced in the Gaza Strip. This growing industry is now producing high quality sponge foam...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has conveyed condolences to the people of Venezuela after the death of President Hugo Chavez. He was, said Abbas, "a friend of the Palestinians", adding...

The London based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper on Monday quoted its correspondent in Ramallah, Waleed Awad, as saying, "While US president Barak Obama is attempting to end his second term...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Hugo Chavez, you will remain in our hearts. This is the message conveyed by Palestinians from all walks of life in the Gaza Strip as they expressed...

Tunisia's al-Nahda Movement which is part of the National Constituent Assembly has called on all political forces to accelerate completion of the draft constitution by mid-April so that a...

According to the "Maarev" Newspaper website, the United Nations Children's Funds (UNICEF) is scheduled today, Wednesday, to publish a strongly worded report on Israel's treatment of Palestinian children. The...

A Kuwaiti political party has denounced the detention campaigns being carried out by governments belonging to the Gulf Cooperation Council. Al-Omah Party said that "reformers, scholars, politicians, writers and...

Interim Tunisian President, Moncef Marzouki, has announced a proposal to complete the writing of Tunisia's constitution by April. It is hoped that this will allow for presidential elections to be...

Turkey's President Abdullah Gul met with Jordan's King Abdullah II in Ankara on Tuesday at the start of a two-day visit. The two leaders discussed the current developments in...

Israel has warned the UN Security Council that it will not "stand idle" as the war in Syria spills over the border. The Israeli ambassador to the United Nations,...

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Wednesday that approximately 20 Israeli diplomats across the world had handed in their letters of resignation in protest at their working...

For the very first time, on Wednesday the Australian government admitted that the Australian citizen who was detained in Israel, Ben Zygier – also known as Prisoner 'X' –...

Israeli forces have sprayed Palestinian homes in the village of Nabi Saleh with 'Skunk'* as a punishment for organising weekly protests against the Apartheid Wall built on occupied West...

The Israeli government has announced plans to hand the Palestinian Authority (PA) 700 firearms ahead of US President, Barack Obama's upcoming visit, Israeli Radio said on Wednesday. The firearms...

An Israeli military court has given prison sentences to two Palestinian minors from the occupied West Bank after finding them guilty of "throwing stones" at Israeli soldiers. Waleed Shoqeer,...

Israel's occupation forces have detained at least 19 more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank during night raids in the territory. The arrests took place as the standard of...

Forces of the Israeli Occupation stationed along the obsolete border line between the Gaza Strip and the territories occupied in 1967 continues to shoot Palestinian citizens, particularly farmers, violating...

By arresting Amre abu-Haniyyah, 21, the number of re-arrested former Palestinian prisoners released by the Palestinian-Israeli prisoner swap agreed last October, has reached 15, a specialist researcher said on...

On Tuesday, forces of the Israeli occupation raided several Palestinian cities and neighbourhoods in the Occupied West Bank detaining 11 Palestinian citizens, including a disabled former prisoner. Sources from...

Israel's Municipality of Jerusalem has forced a Palestinian citizen to demolish their own home which was located in the Occupied Old City of Jerusalem. The demolition order against the...

The Qatari newspaper, Al-Watan, denounced on Tuesday the Israeli provocation represented by the repeated desecration of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the other Islamic sites in Palestine. The Al-Watan editorial...

On Tuesday, Israeli settlers destroyed around 80 old trees in the Jamjoum neighbourhood of southern Bethlehem, eye witnesses said. Palestinian citizens from the Nahaleen village in Bethlehem reported that...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Thousand of new images taken by prisoners and their families are at the centre of an exhibition in the Gaza Strip as Palestinians held behind bars by...

As a result of increased Israeli violations of their rights, Palestinian prisoners are to globalise their issue, the director of the Prisoners' Study Center (PST) announced on Sunday. Speaking...

Israel is expected to face a $500 million reduction in aid it receives from America due to Barack Obama's budget cuts. Direct military aid which helps to develop anti-missile...

Israel's "concern" once again propels itself into news headlines as Tel Aviv warns that a "new intifada" could begin following the death of Ahmed Jaradat while being interrogated in...

The Israeli Transport Minister has visited Beijing on a number of occasions to agree the terms of a new Chinese-Israeli railway project, however, Cairo has written a letter of...

The Palestinian Authority's Minister of Prisoners' Affairs, Issa Qaraqei, has refused to cooperate with the Israelis in the deportation of two prisoners currently on hunger strike inside Israel. Israel...

A Jordanian military official said on Thursday that around 6,000 Syrian refugees have crossed the border into Jordan over the past five days. The official said in a statement...