Middle East

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...

A member of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Dr Hanan Ashrawi, has warned that since Israel is sending a clear message to the US and the...

Ethiopia's Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday that it has repatriated more than 100,000 citizens after Saudi Arabia decided to expel all illegal workers several months ago. According to the...

Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid Bin Mohammed Al-Attiyah accused Bashar al-Assad's regime of committing "systematic crimes" against people in Syria. Al-Attiyah also blamed the international community for not putting an...

36 human rights organisations demanded on Wednesday for Israel to put an end to the demolition of Palestinian homes in the areas under its control in the West Bank....

The head of the political committee of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Mahmoud Al-Zahar, has demanded for the various Palestinian factions to form a strong and organised front in face...

Iman Haridi, a Palestinian journalist from Ramallah in the West Bank, surprised her readers when she published an open letter on her Facebook account to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud...

Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority (PA) are scheduled to sign an agreement on Monday to build a pipeline from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea. The project...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES The University College of Applied Sciences in the Gaza Strip has opened an exhibition of Palestinian antiquities and heritage, including embroidery and pottery as well as famous...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES The University College of Applied Sciences in the Gaza Strip has opened an exhibition of Palestinian antiquities and heritage, including embroidery and pottery as well as famous...

Israeli settlers have, on Sunday, sprayed racist slogans outside the walls of a mosque in Baqa Al Gharbiyeh town in Israel. Local residents told reporters the settlers sprayed racist...

Israel's Channel 10 has released a government's confidential document on Saturday evening which reveals that the Israeli settlements expansion budget has risen dramatically in recent months from 58 million...

On Friday Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman ruled out that Palestinians and Israelis will reach any peace agreement and said both sides are at a "dead end." Speaking at...

A senior Hamas official has claimed that the Islamic movement has turned into an enemy as far as Fatah is concerned, instead of Israel. Dr Mousa Abu Marzouk, criticised...

The Islamic Resistance Movement; Hamas has paid tribute to Nelson Mandela saying he was one of the most important symbols of freedom in the world. A member of Hamas...

Israel's former Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg openly recognised that Israel possesses nuclear weapons during a conference in Haifa on Thursday that convened to discuss a Middle East free of...

Two of the most powerful right-wing parties in Israel, Yisrael Beytenu and Jewish Home, have agreed to "torpedo" the Prawer Plan, which aims to expel tens of thousands of...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has paid tribute to former South African President Nelson Mandela who passed away on Thursday. "He was," said Mr Abbas, "the bravest and most important...

A senior Hamas official in Gaza has confirmed that the government has no political contact with the coup regime in Cairo due to the latter's belief that the Islamic...

Egypt's General Authority of Export and Import Control (GOEIC) has issued a report revealing that Egypt's exports have declined by 8 percent during the first few months since the...