Middle East

The chairman of Jordan's Joint Water Committee, Saad Abu Hammour, told Anadolu News Agency on Thursday that his country is considering importing additional water from Israel. The kingdom already...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Thursday that the Palestinian residents of the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus are experiencing "extreme human...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES December's 'Day of Rage' against the Prawer Plan saw protests held by Palestinian activists across historic Palestine. From the Naqab to Gaza and from Haifa to Ramallah,...

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki has confirmed that US Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to meet on Sunday with several Arab foreign ministers in Paris, in an...

A "massive drugs factory" has been discovered in Tulkarem by Palestinian Authority security agents. The Preventive Security Service said that the facility has been used by the Israeli "mafia"...

VIDEO A Syrian satellite TV channel believed to be supportive of the Assad regime has aired graphic images which, it is alleged, break media ethics guidelines. A report claiming...

The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria has launched an initiative to "heal the rift" within the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces. It intends to engage all parties...

Israel's National Security Council (NSC) has issued a report warning that attacks perpetrated by illegal settlers against Palestinian residents in the occupied West Bank, known as "price tag" attacks,...

The Palestinian Authority in Ramallah is refusing to increase the amount of fuel sent to the besieged Gaza Strip. A spokesman for the owners of oil companies in Gaza,...

The president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has criticised the Iraqi government's military intervention in Anbar province, saying that it will complicate the situation further. Massoud Barzani noted that...

Israel's Globes financial daily has released a study revealing that the majority of Israelis would be willing to migrate to another country for better employment opportunities. According to the...

Dozens of angry Palestinian youth have protested on Sunday against the lack of services in the Jalazoun refugee camp near Ramallah. The protest marks a new phase of public...

Human Rights Watch has issued a statement on Saturday saying it regrets that Israel's former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has died "without facing justice for his role in the...

Executive Director of Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth condemned the "starvation policy" adopted by the Syrian regime against civilians. In statements to Andolu news agency in New York, Roth...

Chairman of the Higher Security Directorate in Birak Al-Shate' district Al-Mahdy Abdel Nasr has been assassinated by unidentified militants in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Friday, security sources said....

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has attributed Gaza's survival during the two massive Israeli wars of aggression and the strict Israeli siege to the "wise governing management, legendary persistence...

Two German diplomats escaped unharmed when gunmen attacked their car on Monday in eastern Saudi Arabia, said the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA). Quoting the spokesman of the Eastern...

Israel's Housing Minister said on Monday that America had agreed on the bidding process for new settlement units announced recently. It all coordinated with US Secretary of State John...

A Palestinian family of seven who live in the Yarmouk refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus have suffered food poisoning after they were forced by hunger to eat...

The leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC) in Yarmouk refugee camp, Anwar Raja, said on Monday that a relief convoy was...

In cooperation with Egypt's Military Engineering Unit, Egyptian border forces have destroyed ten tunnels between the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip, according to Egyptian security sources. In addition,...

Israel's Maariv said on Monday that the New York-based Modern Languages Association of America (MLA) has endorsed a resolution by a majority of its members to condemn Israel's discriminatory...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has called upon US Secretary of State John Kerry to improve his proposed framework for a potential Palestinian-Israeli peace deal. Speaking to Palestinian radio one...

Lebanon fired anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli aircraft which violated Lebanese airspace near the capital Beirut on Sunday evening. No damage or casualties were reported. Israel's Channel 10 reported that...

The Ruler of Dubai and UAE Prime Minister, Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, has said that he hopes General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi will not run in the Egyptian presidential...

Israeli occupation authorities fear that Palestinian fighters in Gaza now own ground to air missiles that are a threat to Israel's air forces, Israeli radio reported on Wednesday morning....

Israeli occupation forces released a Palestinian parliamentarian and former minister from the city of Jerusalem after 24 months in administrative detention. The member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC),...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said that Israel is ready to reach a deal with the Palestinians and the "key to this lies in security arrangements because past...

The Israeli army has announced that 50 Jewish Iranians join the army annually, with some joining the intelligence services. Data reported by the Israeli defence magazine Bemahanea confirmed that...

The South African Ambassador to Palestine Professor M W Makalima has visited the Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday where the two discussed issues...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said on Tuesday that military forces affiliated to Bashar al-Assad had killed 46 Syrians in the country. The network based in London, was...

A group of Israeli settlers have torched the Ali bin Abi Talib mosque in Deir Estia near the Salfit governorate, north of West Bank and have sprayed racist slogans...