Middle East

The Arab Parliament has called on the international community and the United Nations Security Council to hold Israel accountable for its crimes and violations against the Palestinian people. Issuing...

Former Israeli Minister of Defence, Benny Gantz, said yesterday that the Iranian threat has become real and it will endanger the region, adding that he will support any effort to prevent...

Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, and Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, held talks on the phone on Tuesday to discuss last weekend's border gunfire incident in which three Israeli...

MEMO videographer Mohammed Asad captures exclusive footage of Gaza's first fish farms

There Is no conflict of interest between leading the United Nation's next climate change summit in Dubai in December and heading the United Arab Emirates' state oil giant at...

Israel is facing a crisis within society over the issue of recruiting ultra-Orthodox — Haredi — Jews into the Israel Defence Forces. A new organisation has been formed by...

Israeli settlers yesterday attacked Palestinian citizens and their property in the Ain Samia area near the village of Kafr Malik in the northeast of Ramallah. Security sources told the...

In an apparent approval of reports that Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman were forming a joint naval group with China, Beijing has said peace and...

A group of Australian women and children trapped in detention camps in northeast Syria are taking the Australian government to court to try and secure repatriation. The women argue...

Hamas yesterday condemned Israel's appropriation of large swathes of private Palestinian land in the northern occupied West Bank. "Hamas strongly denounces and rejects the Zionist occupation authorities' decision to...

The Palestinian Authority accused Israel yesterday of "deliberately and systematically targeting" Palestinian children and "committing the gravest crimes against them." This, said the foreign ministry, includes "killing and maiming,...

A US senator has called on US President Joe Biden and his administration to release its findings about the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, the Palestinian American journalist who...

America's National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, John Kirby, said he was not aware of any prior notice given to the administration regarding Saudi Arabia's decision to cut...

The Saudi Pro League is looking to sign up ten prominent football players, AFP reported yesterday. Saudi delegations from Al-Hilal and Al-Ittihad, the league champions, are in Paris and...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed a new media advisor who has described President Joe Biden as "unfit" to lead the United States, Haaretz reported on Monday. Journalist...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) summit yesterday that the Iranian regime is the biggest danger facing Israel. "There is no...

The Israeli army is participating in the African Lion 2023 military manoeuvres in Morocco for the first time. The Israeli army spokesman announced in a statement that a number...

The United States has delivered $1 billion in funding to Israel to replenish Iron Dome stocks, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee...

The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, has urged Iran to accelerate the pace of reinstalling surveillance cameras at its nuclear sites, describing cooperation...

Officials from the Lebanese Foreign Ministry have been sent to France to investigate allegations of rape and violence against the country's envoy to Paris. This comes after France asked...

Israel's Energy Minister has expressed opposition to the possibility of Saudi Arabia developing a civilian nuclear program as a condition for the normalisation of bilateral relations. Speaking to Ynet...

Saudi Arabia has welcomed Venezuela's President to the Kingdom on an official visit, hosting yet another adversary of the West as it carves a more independent foreign policy path....

The US has a "real national security interest" in Israel and Saudi Arabia normalising relations, Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said Monday, Reuters reports. Addressing the annual American Israel...

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, ramped up threats to attack Iranian nuclear facilities on Sunday, convening a rare cabinet war drill after he accused UN inspectors of failing to...

Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, pledged continued US commitment to both Israel's security and a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict on Monday, but said the expansion of Jewish...

Several Canadian organisations have filed a legal brief to Canada's government to bar former Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, from entering the country. The application, known by its technical...

The United States and several other countries have committed human rights violations against a Saudi man held in the Guantanamo prison and accused of organising the bombing of the...

Four days after being shot in the head by an Israeli soldier, 2-year-old Mohammed Tamimi died from his injuries in a children's hospital in Israel. Tamimi was in a car with his dad when a soldier opened fire, having mistaken the car for another according to the Israeli military. Mohammed is the 20th child to be killed by Israeli occupation forces in 2023

Syria will import half as much wheat in 2023 as the previous year due to an expected boost in the domestic harvest, Minister of Agriculture, Mohammad Hassaan Qatna, said...

Palestinians pin hope on Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to heal the inter-Palestinian rift and achieve reconciliation, head of the Palestinian National Council (PNC), Rawhi Fattouh, said. The Palestinian...

Pakistan and Iraq, on Monday, inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), abolishing visa conditions for diplomatic and official passport holders, Anadolu Agency reports. The understanding was reached during a...

Qatar Airways, considered the world's best airline, is to do away with first-class berths on its next-generation long-haul aircraft, according to CEO Akbar Al-Baker. "Why should you invest in...