Middle East

The kingdom will host the sporting events at a mountain resort due to open in 2026 in Neom's Trojena sports city

Lawyers for Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, have told a court in the United States that his recent appointment as Prime Minister guarantees him immunity from prosecution...

Saudi journalist's wife, Hanan El Khashoggi, calls Turkiye to provide more evidence on the murder of her husband. Jamal Khashoggi's wife wrote an article for the Guardian newspaper, on...

Yemen's warring parties failed to renew a UN-brokered truce deal that expired on Sunday, dashing the hopes of some Yemenis for a broader pact that would ease economic woes...

Bahrain will no longer run in an election to the UN's top human rights body later this month, a UN website showed, after critics drew attention to alleged human...

Palestinian activists in occupied Jerusalem have called on their fellow citizens across the occupied West Bank to mobilise and guard Al-Aqsa Mosque today and tomorrow against planned incursions by...

Uncertainty about the fate of Palestinians living in the West Bank village of Khan Al-Ahmar is set to continue for an indefinite period following the decision yesterday by Israel's...

Nasser Al-Qarni, the son of detained Saudi preacher Awad Al-Qarni, has left the kingdom and reached a "safe place" to defend his father. The prominent preacher was arrested along...

Unarmed Lebanese man manages to withdraw money from his bank account

The Israeli occupation forces will be imposing a closure on the Karm Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) commercial crossing for the Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur, the Israeli army has announced....

Hundreds of Israeli settlers forced their way into the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday, according to a Palestinian agency, Anadolu News Agency reports. In...

Arab Gulf states yesterday discussed the developments of the programme to achieve economic unity amongst them by 2025. This was during a meeting of the GCC Financial and Economic...

Palestinian Authority (PA)'s security services yesterday prevented the lawyer and father of Palestinian political prisoner Musab Shtayyeh from visiting him in prison for the second time. Lawyer Mustafa Shatat...

Israel's Channel 12 said that the PA had failed to negotiate with a group of resistance fighters in Nablus who call themselves the Lions' Den, with the aim of...

Israeli occupation authorities yesterday renewed the administrative detention of Hamas official Abdul Baset Al-Hajj for an additional four months, Al-Rai news agency reported. This is the fourth consecutive time...

New UK PM speaks at the [Conservative Friends of Israel] CFI event

Palestinian boy: "Let me go home, I have an exam. I want to study."

The Palestinian Authority (PA) presidency condemned the "continuous attacks" by settlers against Palestinians, their properties and holy sites under the protection of occupation forces, stressing that "Islamic and Christian...

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards accused Israel of "using anti-Revolutionary Guard bases in the northern region of Iraq to its advantage," explaining that it struck 40 targets in this area...

The Syrian regime's war against the revolution has changed the shape and structure of the state at all levels, and cost the country $650 billion. According to official statistics,...

Israel has rejected a cultural agreement with the EU that excludes artists from illegal settlements built in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. The EU...

Israel's top negotiator for maritime border demarcation with Lebanon, Udi Adiri, resigned last week over how National Security Adviser Eyal Hulata conducted the talks after the responsibility for them...

Iran yesterday renewed its artillery attacks on Iraqi villages and border towns north of the city of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region, causing fires in forest areas...

Israeli occupation authorities yesterday cancelled the family visits of Palestinian prisoners being held in the Israeli jails of Hadrim, Rimon and Maggedo. The prisoners, whose families were prevented from...

The Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (Adalah) and attorney Khaled Zabarqa yesterday filed a motion to Israel's Supreme Court to appeal against the lower court's rejection of Ahmad...

Iran believes it is still possible to revive the nuclear deal, despite weeks of stalled talks and Western countries' belief that Tehran's position on the draft settlement proposal is...

Israeli authorities demolished, on Monday morning, all the tents and structures in the Palestinian Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb in the Negev desert for the 207th consecutive time, displacing its...

Jordan and Qatar aim to strengthen their security and police cooperation, particularly in training, Petra News Agency reports. According to the report, Brig. Gen. Obaidullah Maaytah spoke with Sheikh...

Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has reiterated his vow that a million Syrian refugees will soon return to their country on a voluntary basis, as their continued presence in...

Outside an East Jerusalem school, the trestle tables were piled high with textbooks that Palestinian parents protesting what they call an Israeli censorship campaign handed out to arriving students,...

There are 798 Palestinians held in administrative detention without charge or trial up from 655 in July 2022

The Israeli Prison Service has subjected French-Palestinian human rights defender Salah Al-Hammouri to a series of punitive measures after he started a hunger strike on 25 September, his lawyer...