Middle East

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has ordered the security services to take action in the occupied West Bank cities of Jenin and Hebron against anti-occupation armed resistance activities, Khleej.net...

The Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce expected the kingdom's imports from Turkiye to increase in the near future, in the latest sign of the steady improvement of relations between two...

US Vice President Kamala Harris has wine produced in illegal Israeli settlements in her office, it has been revealed by Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq. The director of the...

A Palestinian farmer discovered a stone sculpture over 4,500 years old in the southern Gaza Strip

Human rights groups accused the Israeli judiciary on Tuesday of providing legal cover for the army's crimes against unarmed Palestinian civilians. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), Al-Mezan...

Israeli occupation forces have turned Jerusalem into a military base to choke Al-Aqsa Mosque, Grand Imam, Sheikh Ekrema Sabri, said yesterday. "Israeli measures in Jerusalem and against Al-Aqsa Mosque reiterate the Zionist...

Head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem Archbishop Atallah Hanna said yesterday that Israeli aggression on Al-Aqsa Mosque is aggression on Church of Holy Sepulchre. The archbishop's remarks came during a popular action organised...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett received a letter with a threat to his life and a bullet at his family's private home in the city of Ra'anana. Taking to...

Dozens of Lebanese citizens protested in front of the parliament building yesterday in the centre of the capital, Beirut, against a "capital control bill" which was to be discussed,...

Israeli officials said on Tuesday that the US is closer than ever to admitting defeat on President Joe Biden's stated goal of a return to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive...

France and Saudi Arabia announced a joint development fund for crisis-hit Lebanon, Tuesday, pledging an initial $30 million to support food security and the country's crippled health sector

Jordan is to criminalise suicide and any attempts to commit it in a public place, with the threat of penalties such as prison terms and fines.

Qatar Energy, one of the world's top liquefied natural gas (LNG) suppliers, scales up its interest from buyers to further expand its LNG capacity, Bloomberg News reports. According to...

Turkish authorities have prevented the entry of around 600,000 illegal migrants since 2021, as it continues to step up the defence of its eastern and southern borders. According to...

A British judge will, on Tuesday, rule whether Airbus must keep building A321neo jetliners for estranged Qatar Airways in a decision with implications for future multi-billion-dollar jet deals, as...

Lebanon's cabinet ordered the military court, on Tuesday, to investigate the capsize of a migrant boat after colliding with a naval vessel giving chase, with at least six dead...

The vast majority of American Jewish students do not feel unsafe or discriminated against because of the anti-Israel climate in US universities, a new survey by the American Jewish...

UN's Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, yesterday called for maintaining the status quo in Jerusalem. During his monthly brief to the UN Security Council, Wennesland...

Israeli occupation authorities moved Palestinian prisoner Zakaria Al-Zubaidi to solitary confinement in Ayalon Prison, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs reported yesterday. Al-Zubaidi has been held in harsh...

The number of Israelis who have applied for gun permits since March has increased sharply in a manner that a Public Security Ministry official said was "unprecedented." According to Israel...

Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, told a press conference yesterday that the occupied West Bank is "Judea and Samaria" and "these are not occupied lands… this is...

Qatar has called for providing protection to the Palestinian people and their holy sites amid Israeli violations in occupied East Jerusalem, Anadolu News Agency reports. Qatar "calls on the...

UN human rights experts yesterday slammed Israel over its "apparent misuse of anti-terrorism legislation" to attack some of the leading civil society organisations, while calling on the international community...

A joint Israeli military-police operation has reportedly foiled an attempt to smuggle grenades and firearms from Lebanon last night suspected to be by Hezbollah. According to Israeli police, 100...

Occupied Jerusalem's largest Palestinian hospital has closed its doors to all except emergency patients in protest against its ongoing financial crisis, Arab48.com reported on Monday. The union of workers...

The UN "urgently" needs $144 million to respond to the oil tanker which is floating off the coast of Yemen and which the organisation says is a "time bomb"...

Jerusalem and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque are a red line for the whole Islamic nation, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) announced yesterday. "There is no security or stability...

Israeli forces yesterday razed land belonging to Palestinian residents in Bethlehem's southern village of Al-Jab'a. The director of the Bethlehem office of the Wall and Settlements Resistance Commission, Hassan...

Amnesty International has called on French President Emmanuel Macron to make the protection of human rights a priority for his second term in office after he beat his far-right rival...

The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has called on the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, to retract...

Turkiye is reportedly set to provide financial aid for Syrians who voluntarily return to their country, as the Turkish government continues to search for solutions to the presence of...

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi Movement made a new offer to the United Nations that includes the release of 200 prisoners from each of the warring parties in Yemen before Muslim's...