Middle East

Israeli media reported on yesterday that Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz surprised the Americans, UN and Europeans by declaring six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist groups, local papers reported. According...

Former Israeli Army General, Nitzan Alon, yesterday described the occupation's bombing of Al Jalaa Tower, which hosted international media offices in the besieged Gaza Strip, as an "own-goal" for Israel, local...

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, yesterday denounced Israel for opening tenders for new settlement units in the occupied West Bank. "Today, the Israeli authorities announced tenders for the construction...

The Israeli occupation government invited bids for the construction of 1,355 new settlement units in the illegal Jewish-only settlements in the occupied West Bank, local media reported yesterday. This comes after 1,300 settlement units were approved for construction by the...

Israeli occupation forces detained more than 1,282 Palestinians over the past three months, a joint report issued by a number of Palestinian rights groups said yesterday. The report was...

Palestinians come together during an event hosted by Palestinian Forum in Britain in London

Stolen artefacts from the Syrian Roman ruins of Palmyra have reportedly been spotted in the office of a Lebanese member of parliament during a televised interview

Israel's deputy foreign minister said on Sunday that the Biden administration may shelve its plan to reopen a US diplomatic mission for Palestinians in Jerusalem after Israel voiced opposition...

A US appeals court ruled on Friday that state-owned Turkish lender Halkbank can be prosecuted over accusations it helped Iran evade American sanctions, reported Reuters. The 2nd US Circuit...

The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah on Friday warned Israel against drilling for oil and gas in the disputed maritime border area between the two countries until the issue is...

Saudi Aramco aims to achieve net zero emissions from its operations by 2050 while also expanding its maximum sustained production capacity to 13 million barrels per day, Chief Executive...

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The United Nations (UN) Special Envoy to Syria Geir Pedersen announced on Friday that the sixth round of meetings of the Syrian Constitutional Committee in Geneva ended "without making...

A Moroccan party has harshly criticised the normalisation of ties between Morocco and Israel, stressing that this will never bring stability or economic benefits, Arabi21.com reported on Friday. "The...

During the meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi on Friday, the latter agreed to let Israel continue its strikes in Syria,...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Friday renewed its call to end the crisis of the Palestinian hunger strikers inside Israeli jails, as their health conditions...

Chairman of Qatar's Gaza Reconstruction Committee Mohammed Al-Emadi announced on Friday that Gaza is heading towards a better future, news agencies reported. Speaking to journalists at an event in Gaza, he...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas is engaged in a multifield negotiation to release Palestinian and Arab prisoners from Israeli occupation prisons, a top Hamas leader has disclosed. In...

On Friday, the UN special envoy for Syria ended a week of talks to start a discussion on a new constitution for the war-torn country and said the last...

The designations authorise Israeli authorities to close the groups' offices, seize their assets, arrest their staff in the occupied West Bank and ban supporting their activities

Syria executed 24 people after convicting them on terrorism charges for igniting last year's devastating wildfires, the Justice Ministry said Thursday, AP reports. According to the report, those executed...

Lebanon's new government aims to make progress towards starting full negotiations for an IMF deal by the end of this year or early next year, but is not expecting...

Saudi authorities must stop the arbitrary detention of Palestinians "immediately", the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said yesterday. The Working Group finds that Mohammed Al Khoudary and...

Azerbaijan has destroyed more than 48,000 mines and unexploded ordnances laid by the Armenian army in the regions liberated from occupation, Anadolu News Agency reports. Azerbaijan Mine Action Agency...

Former Saudi intelligence official, Saad Aljabri, yesterday accused the kingdom's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) of holding his children hostage in the Gulf state. Al Jabri re-iterated his...

Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission yesterday announced its rejection of 174 appeals and acceptance to seven others submitted by candidates and political parties following the announcement of election results....

Mass Friday prayers resumed in Tehran after a 20-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at his residence Bocharov Ruchey in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi today. This is the first time the...

Less than a third of Brits support UK trade deals with Saudi Arabia, according to recently released government figures on public attitudes which were revealed as the foreign secretary,...

Turkish intelligence services have dismantled an Israeli Mossad network that was gathering information on Palestinians living in the country, the Turkish Sabah newspaper reported yesterday. Fifteen people were arrested earlier this...

A shocking account of the rape of a Palestinian woman by an Israeli officer seven years ago has emerged after the military's appeals court cleared the details of the...

Israel's Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that "conflict" was the only way to stop Iran from reaching nuclear capability, claiming that "a confrontation with Iran is only...