Middle East

On Thursday, Damascus condemned Israel's intentions to drill for oil in the Golan Heights – Syrian territory it occupied in 1967, and labelled the action an "illegal and a...

The Qatari Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, has stated that there are countries that are still merely expressing verbal condemnation of the genocide being committed by the...

The Israeli media have criticised remarks made by Turkey's Prime Minister at the official opening of the 5th UN Alliance of Civilisations Global Forum in Vienna. Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, on Thursday welcomed the position recently taken up by the European Union recommending a halt in financial transactions and trade with Israeli settlements, a...

Israel detained 382 Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in February including deceased Arafat Jaradat, three parliamentarians and ten women, a report has said. The report...

The Palestinian Liberation organisation (PLO) on Thursday called for athletes to boycott the 2013 Israeli marathon in Jerusalem calling it "a racist event which alludes to occupied Jerusalem being...

The leader of the al-Nahda Movement, Rached Ghannouchi, stated on Wednesday that the movement has given up sovereign ministries within the Tunisian government currently being formed. It has been...

Israeli occupation forces have destroyed the water network that supplies the village of Meriha, south of Jenin. The destruction took place while the Israelis were using bulldozers to block...

EU officials in occupied East Jerusalem recommended that the 27 EU member states impose sanctions on trade with Israeli settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories and halt financial aid...

The Arab League has announced a plan to discuss the outlines of the international conference on the non-proliferation of WMDs which was to have taken place in Helsinki, 2012,...

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has called on the international community to "put an end to the Palestinians' suffering in the occupied territories", and urged the world "to put...

An Israeli woman attacked an Arab lady at a Light Rail Station in Jerusalem yesterday as security forces continued to detain more Palestinians across the occupied West Bank. The...

Israel's Ministry of Health has issued guidelines permitting the force-feeding of any hunger striker who passes 28 days of a protest. The order has been signed by Dr. Michael...

A British charity to combat poverty has accused a local private security company of involvement in torturing a Palestinian to death in an Israeli prison. It called for holding...

Dr. Nabil Shaath, a senior member of Fatah's Central Committee and Palestinian negotiator has confirmed reports that he has asked to step down as Commissioner for Mobilisation and Organisation...

After attacks on hotels and tourism sites in several areas in Egypt under the pretext of protests, Egyptian economic experts have asserted that the country's tourism industry is being...

Fatah's Central Committee member and International Relations Commissioner, Dr Nabil Shaath, asserted the need to apply international and European rules in response to Israeli violations. This came during two...

The Israeli High Court of Justice is to decide on Wednesday the ownership of 1,000 dunams of Palestinian land near the illegal settlement of Efrat on the southern outskirts...

The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in UK has accused the US, Israel and the EU of complicity in the torture of Palestinians in the custody of the Palestinian...

The Ghad El-Thawra Party leader, Dr. Ayman Nour, has confirmed that the almost 5 billion dollars in aid provided by Qatar to support the Egyptian economy, is aid intended...

Israeli settlers have recently uprooted around 1,000 trees from several farms around the West Bank cities of Nablus and Bethlehem, the Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds reported. When Palestinian farmer, Ahmed...

An Israeli court has rejected the appeal made on behalf of Palestinian MP Ahmed Attoun against his detention without charge. Instead, the court in Jerusalem confirmed the six-month "administrative...

The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry has called on Iraq's security services to "assume their responsibilities" to stop what it described as Iraqi violations of the border area between the two...

The Grand Shaikh of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Ekrema Sabri has accused the Israelis of trying to create a new reality inside Al-Aqsa Mosque through repeated incursions by illegal Jewish settlers....

Israeli bulldozers have destroyed the homes of Palestinian Bedouin living in Al-Araqeeb village in the Negev Desert for the 48th time. According to Israeli officials, the Bedouin live in...

A former prisoner of the Israelis was shot and killed by security forces on Tuesday evening during a protest in Al-Fawwar refugee camp near Hebron. Mahmoud Al-Titi, aged 25,...

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fatah, has described the heads of local municipalities who participated in meetings with their Israeli counterparts in Rome as "a bunch of outlaws". A...

Media sources in Israel have revealed that members of the new coalition cobbled together by Benjamin Netanyahu are ready to insist on defining the country as the "national state...

Ayman Al-Sharawneh arrived in the Gaza Strip on Sunday having been deported from his home in the occupied West Bank as part of a deal with the Israeli prison...

One hundred Palestinian non-governmental organizations have considered U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to the Palestinian territories scheduled in a week "meaningless as long as the U.S. administration does not...

Moayad Ghazawneh, 35, died on Friday as a result of the serious wounds he received three weeks ago when he was shot in the face by an Israeli soldier....

On Tuesday 12 March, the Arab Centre for Applied Social Research (MADA Al-Carmel) in Israel launched its inaugural Israel Studies Programme specialising in the study of Israeli society and...