Middle East

Thousands of Israelis on Saturday joined several rallies across Israel to protest controversial government plans to change the judicial system, Anadolu reports. According to the Times of Israel, nearly...

Palestine strongly condemned on Saturday Israel's announcement of a tender to build nearly 1,000 new Jewish settlement units in occupied Palestinian territories, Anadolu reports. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said...

Jordan on Saturday decried new Israeli settlement plans in occupied East Jerusalem as a violation of international law, Anadolu reports. On Friday, Israel issued tenders for the construction of...

A top lawmaker from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party echoed on Sunday a call by the defence chief to pause a contested judicial overhaul, and raised the...

Turkiye's presidential spokesman said Saturday that Ankara has left the door open to Stockholm's bid to join NATO if it shows will and determination, Anadolu reports. "The door is...

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Saturday called on the government to halt legislation on changes to the judiciary, saying the bitter dispute over the measures poses a danger...

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called for the trial of those responsible for the attack on the Church of Gethsemane in occupied Jerusalem. On Friday, Russian Foreign...

The Grand Mufti of Oman Ahmed Bin Hamad Al-Khalili has called for providing the Palestinian people with financial aid to help them withstand the Israeli occupation. Al-Khalili shared in...

Israeli Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology Ofir Akunis revealed on Thursday that Israel is running a water project in Western Sahara, which it recognises as Moroccan territory, Moroccan...

Senior Israeli army officials have warned of a major crisis in light of "tangible threats of multi-front escalation," Akka news website reported on Friday. The senior army officials, according...

Despite the recent pledge made at the Sharm El-Sheikh Summit to suspend new settlement units, the Israeli occupation government issued tenders for 1,029 settlement units, Israeli rights group Peace...

Between Thursday and Friday morning, the Syrian National Earthquake Centre recorded 34 tremors hitting Syria and Turkiye with intensities ranging between 4.1 and 4.9 magnitudes, with a depth of...

The National Democratic Assembly (NDA) on Friday condemned the "cowardly attack" on the house of the Salesian Sisters in the city of Nazareth several days ago, Arab48.com reported. In...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has wasted vast sums of money at a time when Egyptians are starving, according to an analysis by Israel's Haaretz newspaper. The newspaper pointed...

Palestinian political activist Fadwa Al-Barghouti announced on Friday that the political detention carried out by the Palestinian Authority (PA) during Ramadan: "Is a continuous crime that must be stopped."...

Tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers flocked to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque on the first Friday of Ramadan for noon prayers, which passed peacefully amid tight security imposed after months...

Israel's Attorney-General, on Friday accused Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, of breaking the law by ignoring a conflict of interest over his ongoing trial for corruption and getting directly involved...

Russia has become Iran's largest foreign investor, Tehran's Finance Minister said in an interview published on Thursday. Russia invested $2.76 billion in the Islamic Republic during the current financial...

The United States, on Friday, said it would protect its personnel in Syria after the US military carried out air strikes against Iran-backed forces in retaliation for an attack...

The Saudi government has granted amnesty and released a large number of detainees who had been imprisoned in the Kingdom's jails for minor infractions. According to the Director General...

The US military carried out multiple air strikes in Syria on Thursday night against Iran-aligned groups that it blamed for a drone attack that killed an American contractor, wounded...

Groups of people have gathered in the streets of London to protest Netanyahu’s visit to the UK

Islamic giving plays an increasing role in helping the forcibly displaced people, a UN refugee agency official said on Friday, Anadolu News Agency reports. At the start of the...

Palestinians in Jerusalem who are celebrating the first day of Ramadan are attacked by Israeli occupation forces.

The Israeli authorities on Friday imposed restrictions on Palestinians from the Occupied West Bank on their entry to Al-Aqsa Mosque to mark the first Friday prayer in the holy...

The scenes in London echoed those in Berlin last week

Saudi Arabia yesterday condemned a recent decision made by the Israeli Knesset that allows Jewish-only resettlement of four previously evacuated illegal settlements and outposts in the occupied West Bank....

Israel will not become the property of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's family, former finance minister, and the leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu Party, Avigdor Lieberman, said yesterday. Lieberman was...

US base at Al-Omar oil field in Syria's northeast was targeted with a missile attack this morning, according to Lebanese TV channel Al Mayadeen and a security source. The source told Reuters the...

A federal judge in New York has ordered Iran's Central Bank and a European intermediary to pay $1.68 billion in compensation to the family members of US Marines killed...

At least 82 people were injured as a magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Iran's northwestern province of West Azerbaijan today, local authorities said. In a press statement, Amir Abbas Jafari,...

According to Democracy for the Arab Now (DAWN), six renowned Saudi judges and four former justices have been accused of "high treason" and now face the death penalty.