Middle East

Just as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed his intention to proceed with the Prawer Plan and the displacement of Arabs from their villages in the Negev, his government...

On 1 November, Gaza's only power plant, which normally provides around 30 per cent of the Gaza Strip's electricity supply, ran out of fuel. For the past month, Gaza's...

Israeli occupation forces carried out detention campaigns on Monday morning in the villages of Al-Sayed and Hora in the Al-Naqab, or Negev, the 48 Arabs news website reported. The...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has attacked current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his candid criticism of the recent US-brokered deal on Iran's nuclear programme. Speaking at a...

Israel's Deputy Knesset Speaker MK Ahmad Tibi has revealed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not halted the construction of 20,000 housing units in the West Bank settlements,...

The Action Group for Palestinians in Syria announced on Monday that 1,781 Palestinian refugees have been killed in Syria since the beginning of the uprising there. In a statement,...

Kuwait's Al-Watan newspaper has reported that a spokesman for the Interim President of Egypt has said that the country is "going downhill" as long as the current situation continues....

Palestinian employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) are due to begin a strike on Tuesday morning unless the agency answers to their demands, their union has...

The Action Group for Palestinian Refugees in Syria said on Tuesday that a refugee has been killed and several more arrested during clashes between regime and opposition forces. Malik...

Israeli bulldozers have demolished several Palestinian-owned homes and agricultural facilities in the northern Jordan Valley. Eyewitnesses said that the Israelis have knocked down houses and tents in the Bokayaa...

UN and Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi expressed on Monday his support to the establishment of a new Syrian republic, where Syrian people would "decide its nature."...

Israeli human rights organisation Peace Now has revealed that Israel's Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon approved building 3,000 new housing units in the West Bank during the first four months...

Palestinian parliamentarian and former Fatah leader Mohamed Dahlan, who is currently living in Abu-Dhabi, has candidly expressed his pessimism to senior US officials in regards to the Israeli-Palestinian peace...

According to the Corruption Perceptions Index of Transparency International, five Arab countries rank among the top ten most corrupted states around the world in 2013. Transparency International, a UK-based...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stepped up his rhetoric in a media campaign against US President Barack Obama and his administration over the interim Geneva deal with Iran....

Israeli occupation forces arrested on Monday Mohammed Ali, only eight years old, at the Qalandiya checkpoint, south of Ramallah. The Israeli soldiers claimed that the child was throwing stones...

Israel's Channel 10 radio has reported that Israeli troops exchanged fire on Sunday morning with Syrian forces near the Kuneitra Border Crossing, pointing out that the clash took place...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has today reported that the Syrian government is blocking deliveries of humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands of civilians in the besieged areas of the...

Jordan's Royal Committee for Enhancing the National Integrity System held a meeting on Wednesday to discuss a lawsuit filed by Qatari firm Al-Musabalah Doha Capital against Jordan's Social Security...

Israel's Channel 2 television reported on Tuesday evening that Israel has now completed 230 kilometres out of the planned 245 kilometres of razor wire fence that stretches from Rafah...

So-called Temple organisations in Israel have filed a demand to the Israeli ministerial council to employ a rabbi in the Al-Aqsa Mosque and to place a Jewish Menorah on...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES Two young people from Gaza have won the first prizes in the photography and film categories of a competition run jointly by the United Nations Relief and...

The Palestinian Authority's Ministerial Council in Ramallah has taken several measures against a strike by members of the Teachers' Union, which started on Sunday. The union is calling for...

A group of Syrian and Lebanese nuns were recently evacuated from a convent in Maaloula, located to the northeast of Damascus. Opposition forces say that the nuns were rescued,...

Transparency International, a UK-based organisation that campaigns against corruption, has ranked Israel at the lower end of the developed countries in terms of corruption. Out of the 34 countries...

A Palestinian journalist is being held incommunicado at an unknown location by state security officials in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Mahmoud Abdulhadi, 55, was arrested by plain-clothed state...

The residents of the village of Al-Mazra'a al Qibliya, near Ramallah, look set to lose their land as Israeli bulldozers have started to clear the way for yet another...

Several Yemeni sources reported that UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed has discussed during his recent visit to Iran on November 28 the Yemeni crisis in Dammaj area; northern...

Israel's Minister of Economy, Naftali Bennett, who heads the Bayit Yehudi party, said that there was no point in reaching any agreement with the Palestinian Authority as long as...

Former head of the Al-Jazeera News Network Waddah Khanfar has argued that it would be wise for Saudi Arabia to quickly reconcile with its Arab neighbours, especially regarding Egypt,...

Chechnya's President Ramzan Kadyrov said that his country has established a special security unit to deal with 'Islamic extremists' on the North Caucasus republic's territory, and abroad, if the...

Deputy Israeli Defence Minister Danny Danon ruled out the possibility of a Palestinian presence in the occupied Jordan Valley, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. Danon, who is a member...