Middle East

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman has said that the blood of the Egyptian people rule is extremely cheap in the eyes of the political and media elites who...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have frozen his concerns about Iran's nuclear programme in order to give himself time to follow up the military coup in Egypt,...

An official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Gaza has noted the decline in the number of people crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, creating what he...

Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Wednesday that he is "hopeful" that peace talks with the Palestinians will lead to a two-state solution and bring prosperity to the Middle...

Israel expects to retain about 85 per cent of settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories at the end of the negotiations, Yedioth Ahronoth said on Thursday. Citing sources in...

The Israeli authorities have begun moves to evacuate about 1,300 Palestinians from eight Palestinians villages in south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on the pretext that 'they...

The parliamentary bloc for the National Democratic Rally has asked the legal advisor to the Israeli government to launch an investigation into comments made by right-wing politician and Minister...

Two truckloads of potatoes from the Gaza Strip have been denied entry into Jordan on the grounds that the beleaguered territory "does not produce potatoes". Exporter Samir Zaqout said...

The Islamic Resistance Movement has criticised the demand made by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for Egypt to reactivate the 2005 Crossings Agreement at the Rafah border. Hamas spokesman...

Israeli newspaper Maariv reported on Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to continue settlement building in return for support from coalition partners for the prisoner release deal. It...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS Hamas has unveiled documents proving that Fatah is directly responsible for the demonisation campaign by the Egyptian media against the Palestinian people. The documents, say Hamas, prove...

Israeli investigators detained a Palestinian PHD student for affiliation to Islamic Movement Hamas, based on comments and 'likes' on Facebook, the Solidarity Foundation for Human Rights (SFHR) reported. SFHR...

Jordan's King Abdullah II has expressed his fears that demographic changes in the kingdom could see him being toppled from the throne in the next year or so. This...

Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has told Israeli Radio that she prefers a prisoner release deal rather than the possibility of resuming peace talks based on the June 1967...

Deputy Hamas chief Mousa Abu-Marzouk has said that Egypt is not ready to host reconciliation talks; in any case, the decision by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume talks...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS The Palestinian Culture Ministry has unveiled the longest mural in the country, which is painted on the walls of the Palestinian Legislative Council headquarters in the Gaza...

The Israel Antiquities Authority has decided to turn a historic East Jerusalem mosque into a synagogue, Haaretz has reported. The Nabi Daud Mosque was vandalised recently by Jewish extremists...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS Hundreds of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip took to the streets on Friday to commemorate International Jerusalem Day. The annual event takes place on the last Friday...

The head of the Coalition of Syrian Businessmen in Egypt, Khaldoun Almauke, has revealed that the group's investors have decided to suspend their support for the Egyptian market until...

MEMO EXCLUSIVE The United Arab Emirates has sent Foreign Minister Abdullah Ben Zayed to the US to seek an urgent meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry because the...

Security sources and eyewitnesses have revealed that the Egyptian army have detained a fugitive Palestinian who is an associate of ex-Fatah thug Mohamed Dahlan. Rassad news network said that...

An elderly Palestinian woman has died after the ambulance taking her to hospital was detained by Israeli soldiers in Hebron. Seventy-one year old Amena Abed Rabbo's health deteriorated rapidly...

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat has said that he remains optimistic about the second round of peace talks despite the Israeli government's approval of 1,200 new settlement units in the...

An activist for prisoners' issues, Fo'ad Al-Khofosh, has called on the Palestinian Authority to clarify the terms of the prisoner release deal agreed with Israel as part of the...

An Israeli website, DEBKA, has reported that Friday's drone strike on the Sinai was carried out with intelligence and military coordination between the Israelis and the leaders of Egypt's...

A leading think-tank in Israel believes that the fall of the regime in Jordan "is no longer unlikely", a Jordanian website has claimed. The Khaberni site was quoting an...

In a statement sent on Thursday to Anadolu News Agency, a group of 56 Saudi Arabian religious scholars have condemned the military overthrow of Egypt's elected president Mohammad Morsi....

Dr Sadaqa bin Yahya, the political adviser to the King of Saudi Arabia and a member of the Saudi Shura Council, called on Egypt, in an interview with Al-Jazeera,...

Qatari Foreign Minister, Khalid al-Atiyya, called for the release of all political prisoners in Egypt to facilitate a solution to the current political crisis. In a meeting broadcast on...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS On the eve of the Eid ul-Fitr feast, Gaza's markets are full of produce. The Gazan residents go shopping at these markets to stock up, but the...

The number of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank has increased by 2.12 per cent during the first half of this year the Israel Today newspaper reported. According...

The Iranian authorities announced on Tuesday that they have arrested one of their own citizens on suspicion of spying for Israel. The unnamed man was picked up in the...