Tehran is willing to sign military and security agreements with Arab Gulf countries for the sake of the region’s stability, Iranian Defence Minister Amir Hatami told Al Jazeera. Hatami...

Japan has donated $4.3 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) to reduce the impact of poverty under the current coronavirus pandemic. This...

Israeli settlers today attacked Palestinian farmers and forced them off their own land in the village of Deir Al-Hatab in Nablus governorate, Wafa news agency has reported. According to...

The Azerbaijani Army has liberated 13 villages of Jabrayil district from Armenian occupation, President Ilham Aliyev reported on October 19. Aliyev announced on his official Twitter account that 13...

Amid the ongoing controversy surrounding Saudi Arabia’s hosting of this year’s G20 Summit, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged world leaders not to play a role in the Kingdom’s...

A cache of endangered falcons destined for the Gulf have been seized from smugglers in Pakistan, the Times reported yesterday. The group of 75 birds, believed to be worth...

Fifty Syrian tribes have condemned Armenia’s partnership with Kurdish militant groups and the use of its militants against Azerbaijan, according to Turkish media. The Syrian tribes, who were displaced...

The US has sanctioned an Australian gemstone trader for helping Al-Qaeda transfer funds internationally, the Treasury Department said in a statement yesterday. Ahmed Luqman Talib, 30, used his international...

Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh has criticised a visit to Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem by a UAE delegation under Israeli police protection, Anadolu has reported. “Al-Aqsa Mosque should...

The founder of the Friends of Zion Heritage Centre in Jerusalem announced on Sunday that eleven world leaders have been given the Friends of Zion Award, Al-Quds Al-Araby and...

Fatah’s Central Committee has approved the understandings agreed after talks with Hamas in Istanbul recently, and is apparently waiting for the Islamic movement’s formal approval, Wafa news agency reported...

The Fatah region in occupied Jerusalem warned, on Sunday, of Emirati funds pumped through Israeli channels and used to build settlements. This came in a statement by the Fatah...

The head of Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad, Yossi Cohen, has said that Israel and Saudi Arabia maintain peace relations, however they remain outside the official diplomatic framework, Israel’s Maariv...

Security forces were reported to have arrested the woman, who apparently admitted that she had killed her children “as a result of a dispute with her ex-husband”

The son of an Iraqi refugee who emigrated to Belgium in 1970 has become the country’s new minister for migration and asylum. Sammy Mahdi, 32 of the Flemish Christian...

A court ruled on Friday that a Muslim Lebanese doctor should not be granted German citizenship after he refused to shake-hands with a female official, local media reported yesterday....

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be marketing normalisation deals with Arab states as “great achievements”, but polls continue to show a sharp decline in his popularity among Israelis,...

The Kremlin said, Monday, that Russia and Saudi Arabia have held talks on restoring stability to the global oil market, at a time when prices fluctuate around $40-43 for...

The Islamic Republic of Iran has the capacity to produce 90 per cent of its military needs, a spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry said. “Iran has achieved a...

Iraq’s finance minister criticised on Monday his country’s “absolute” and sole dependence on oil revenues, saying that the strategy has caused Iraq financial hardship. “The mismanagement and absolute dependence...

Turkey is withdrawing troops from a military post in northwest Syria that was surrounded by Syrian government forces last year, but is consolidating its presence elsewhere in the region,...

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The Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s Executive Committee, Dr Saeb Erekat, is in a critical condition having contracted Covid-19 last week and has now been placed on a...

The European Union has imposed sanctions on seven ministers in Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime. This is the latest round of sanctions that the bloc has now imposed on...

Daesh has urged its followers to target Saudi Arabia’s oil pipelines and factories in a statement denouncing the normalisation of relations between the UAE and Bahrain, and Israel. The...

The Prime Minister of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Ersin Tatar, has won the presidential run-off vote standing as the candidate for the National Unity Party. The president-elect...

The Association of Student Activism for Palestine held an online conference on Saturday, under the banner of “Justice for Palestine”. The intention, said the president of the association, Yahya...

The head of the Arab Joint List in the Israeli parliament has said that Israel’s occupation of Palestine is a greater problem than Iran in the region. Knesset member...

Israeli settlers today flooded Palestinian-owned land with sewage and wastewater in the village of Deir Al-Hatab in Nablus governorate. The flooding has disrupted the local olive harvest. According to...

A senior delegation from the Swedish Foreign Ministry has visited north-east Syria to hold talks with the Kurdish militias and administration. The delegation, led by the ministry’s Special Envoy...

The people of Lebanon have marked the first anniversary of the popular anti-government protests by returning to the streets over the weekend. On Saturday, protesters marched through Beirut’s downtown...

The UAE’s Minister of Tolerance, Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al-Nahyan, has been accused of sexually assaulting a British woman in the run up to the launch of the 2020 Hay Literary Festival