Middle East

Saudi Arabia is to host a Chinese-Arab summit on 9 December, which will coincide with Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to the Kingdom, Reuters reported yesterday, citing three Arab...

American Special Representative for Palestinian Affairs, Hady Amr, reiterated on Wednesday that the Biden administration is still committed to re-opening the Consulate in Jerusalem. In a special briefing, he...

The Brazilian people still keep their promise to the Palestinians and show their solidarity on 29 November every year. This date was chosen by the UN in 1977 for...

Israeli politicians are outraged by the release of Jordanian film ‘Farha’ - about the 1948 Nakba - on Netflix. A day before its release on 01 Dec 2022, it was screened at a cinema in Jaffa, after which Israel’s culture minister called the film's story ‘lies’ and that it was ‘a disgrace’ for the cinema to screen the film.

Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Wednesday that his incoming government coalition including right-wing and far-right politicians will not impose "Talmudic law" on Israel. "The main policy or...

Israeli occupation forces shot dead two Palestinians during a military incursion in the West Bank city of Jenin at dawn today, Palestinian medical sources have confirmed. The two were...

The Chief of Staff of the Israel Defence Forces has slammed comments made by far-right parliamentarian Itamar Ben-Gvir about the army. "The IDF is a highly moral army, but...

Far-right extremist Itamar Ben-Gvir MK has criticised the army for punishing a soldier after he abused left-wing activists in occupied Hebron, telling him that, "Ben-Gvir is going to change...

Administrators at Israel's Hadarim Prison yesterday informed Palestinian prisoner Salah Hamouri that he is to be deported to France following the withdrawal of his Jerusalem identity card. Jerusalem-born Hamouri...

Israel's defence minister has warned the country that he is "worried" about the strength and solidity of the Israel Defence Forces. "If the rumours are real," said Benny Gantz...

UN member states should establish an "international, independent" entity to track and identify those missing and forcibly disappeared since the start of the Syrian crisis in 2011, Human Rights...

Chief of Staff of Qatar's Armed Forces, Staff Lieutenant General (Pilot) Salem bin Hamad bin Aqeel Al Nabit, met on Wednesday with UK Defence Senior Advisor to the Middle...

Saudi Arabia's energy minister said Saudi Aramco had discovered two new natural gas fields, Awtad and AlDahna, in the country's eastern region, state news agency SPA reported on Wednesday....

The United States has reduced the number of partnered patrols in northern Syria with Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the Pentagon said on Tuesday, after Turkish strikes in the region...

Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister, Yair Lapid, on Wednesday, slammed what he described as "wild incitement" against commanders of the Israeli army, Anadolu News Agency reports. Lapid's statement was made...

Former American diplomats have advised the administration of President Joe Biden to no longer provide offensive weapons or military assistance to Israel's incoming government, arguing that it contains more...

Iran's apex court has upheld the death penalty for four people accused of working for Israel's intelligence agency, the judiciary said on Wednesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. The individuals...

Marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Iraqi President, Abdel Latif Rashid, stressed the Palestinians' "legitimate right to establish the Palestinian State, with Jerusalem as its...

The football player, Cristiano Ronaldo, has agreed to join a top Saudi team in a contract worth over $200 million per year, according to a media report. Following Portugal's...

A Palestinian Human Rights group is taking legal action against the Centre for Information and Documentation Israel (CIDI) for publishing content that shields Israeli government policies and encourages hostility...

China has "significantly" increased efforts to engage with countries in the Middle East, according to a report by the Pentagon released yesterday. The Pentagon's annual "China Military Power" report...

A group of Palestinian women held a rally in the northern West Bank city of Nablus to express their solidarity with female detainees in the Israeli Occupation's prisons, Safa...

Israeli settlers, yesterday, attacked a Palestinian family while they were ploughing and grazing their sheep in their family land, based east of Hebron in the southern Occupied West Bank,...

The US State Department has been urged to withhold American taxpayers' money from the notorious Israeli Netzah Yehuda Battalion, and to subject the group to Leahy Laws. Leahy Amendments,...

Palestinian Human Rights group, Al-Haq, yesterday, launched its inaugural coalition report exploring Israel's settler colonial and apartheid regime. Titled: "Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism", the report, says...

Saudi Arabia has extended the term for a $5 billion deposit it made to Egypt's Central Bank, state news agency, SPA, said on Tuesday. SPA said the extension came...

The Turkish army has sent military reinforcements to the border area with Syria, amid rising threats to launch a ground military operation against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in...

Palestinian writer and political activist, Lama Khater, said the Israeli Occupation's crimes against the Palestinian people will not bring security to Israel with its army and settlers but, instead,...

Russia has been working to meet Turkiye's demands in northern Syria as an alternative to the Turkish military ground operation, Turkish officials said. According to the officials, Ankara demanded...

US Special Envoy for Yemen, Tim Lenderking, discussed, on Tuesday, with the Under-Secretary of the Omani Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Diplomatic Affairs, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Ali Bin Isa...

Head of Hamas abroad, Khaled Meshaal, said on Tuesday that the Palestinian people are sticking to Resistance against the Israeli Occupation, until it is ended. In a press release...

Norway has signed agreements worth $6.6 million with the Palestinian Authority to rehabilitate an electricity transformer substation in the besieged Gaza Strip and provide solar power to schools in...