Landmark developments seem to have changed everything and nothing for Palestine this year. The flurry of normalisation deals is one of them and arguably the most significant. In advance...

Palestinian refugees remain one of the largest and longest-suffering groups of displaced people in the world. The refugee issue originated in the 1948 declaration of independence by the state...

The year 2020 is almost history, but its incidents and events are not only likely to continue, but also escalate. There are implications regionally and internationally. There is still...

On December 21, the United States Congress passed the COVID-19 Relief Package, as part of a larger $2.3 trillion bill meant to cover spending for the rest of the...

In light of the ongoing wave of normalisation agreements between Arab states and the occupation, Israel is trying to lure Gulf countries, especially the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and...

President Trump's shocking pardoning of the Blackwater guards is a testament to his lack of humanity and his failure to bring perpetrators of the law to account. On 16...

The EU's recent financial donation to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) leaves no doubt about the motive. As the agency continues to face an...

Earlier this month, Israeli and British military officials signed a joint agreement to formalise and increase their "defence relationship". The full terms of the pact are secret, but it...

With the increasing number of Israeli incursions at Al-Aqsa Mosque by settlers and soldiers, we need to know how the so-called "Abraham Accords" pose a threat to Jerusalem in...

While Christians around the world celebrate the days of Christmas as a time of joy and spiritual renewal, the Israeli occupation makes them difficult for Palestinian Christians. Palestine, we...

Acting United Nations (UN) Envoy to Libya Stephanie Williams announced on 23 October: " a crucial sign of hope for the Libyan people." Williams was enthusiastically describing a...

Israel is heading towards a fourth general election in less than two years, coinciding with another confirmed fact that the competition in this election will be between the components...

Afghanistan has long had a security problem, despite the many who have sought to guarantee its safety. The latest of those revealed themselves this week when Iranian Foreign Minister...

Jordanian officials must have breathed a sigh of relief at Joe Biden's victory in the US presidential election, as another four years with President Donald Trump in the White...

The Red Sea area has always attracted attention due it strategic position and role as one of the world's major sea lanes. The region of which it is at...

Engineering graduates gathered again on Sunday to protest in front of the headquarters of the Shuaiba Refinery near Basra in southern Iraq because of the government's failure to respond...

On 27 November, Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated; the killing has been assumed widely to have been the work of Israel. While some people expected an immediate...

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt started their blockade of the State of Qatar in mid-2017. They accused their neighbour of, amongst other things, "supporting terrorism...

Politicians are portraying Palestine in terms of a state of emergency, while avoiding any public recognition of the fact that colonialism has created permanent instability there that is exacerbated...

Exiled Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi announced the formation of a new unity government on Friday, just over a year after the power-sharing agreement was signed with the...

It is convenient to surmise that Israel's current political crisis is consistent with the country's unfailing trajectory of short-lived governments and fractious ruling coalitions. While this view is somewhat...

In a surprise move, the ruling military regime in Sudan announced its intention ten days ago to revoke the Sudanese citizenship of more than 3,500 people, of whom the...

The United States justice department is scheduled at 15:30 GMT today to announce a new indictment against a Libyan individual, possibly two, in the bombing of Pan Am Flight...

Ten years have passed since the outbreak of Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution, after Mohamed Bouazizi, a struggling young man who sold vegetables from his street cart, set himself on fire...

On 15 May 1948, terrorist gangs acting for the nascent state of Israel attacked Palestinian cities and towns. Almost 70 massacres were perpetrated, in which more than 15,000 Palestinians...

Some journalists from the UAE and Bahrain have visited Israel and praised the occupation state and its people. Expressing their admiration, they claimed that the Israelis are peaceful and...

I've often wondered why the Muslim Brotherhood strikes fear into the hearts of Arab regimes. Prisons across Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are filled with thousands...

Anyone visiting the West Bank, as I have done on many occasions, will discover something rather common, especially in rural communities: signs, billboards and plaques advertising the European Union...

US President Donald Trump startled Moroccans when he revealed brokering a normalisation deal with Rabat, as public attention was focused entirely on developments in the Sahara. However, the royal...

The scandal caused by the photo of Egyptian singer and actor Mohamed Ramadan with Israeli artists is continuously being referred to with reference to the decline in normalisation with...

The Palestinian Authority's decision to send its ambassadors back to the UAE and Bahrain stems from the fact that it has found itself isolated amid the wave of normalisation...

The international community is still awaiting the perceptions and visions of the US president-elect's administration regarding the crises and files that have greatly complicated the term of the outgoing...