The Israeli Knesset has passed a bill banning whistleblowing organisation Breaking the Silence from attending schools, in a bid to clamp down on critics of the military, with detractors...

European Union (EU) foreign minister Federica Mogherini sent a strongly-worded rebuke to Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan, slamming his ministry’s “vague and unsubstantiated” claims that Brussels is financing...

Israeli soldiers killed slain Palestinian paramedic Razan al-Najjar with “deliberate shots”, an investigation by Israeli human rights NGO B’Tselem has concluded. B’Tselem contrasted the findings of their investigation with...

Israeli human rights NGO Gisha has urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman to “rescind the severe restrictions on the entrance of goods and the sweeping...

Iran said yesterday that if US President Donald Trump wants to negotiate after withdrawing from the international nuclear agreement to curb Tehran’s nuclear activities he should initiate the call....

Iraqi Electricity Minister Qassem Al-Fahdawi said yesterday that his country has failed to convince Iran to resume supplying Iraq with electricity. Last Friday, Al-Fahdawi along with an Iraqi delegation...

Kuwait has officially denied renting its islands to China to carry out economic projects, stressing it “will never do this,” Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported on Sunday. Deputy Kuwaiti Foreign...

Israel announced yesterday evening the full closure of Kerem Shalom Crossing, the only commercial crossing with the Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported. Israeli news website Ynet News reported that...

The Israeli Knesset has passed the first reading of what is called the Facebook Bill which stipulates deleting content from social media, Quds Press reported. The law is to...

The leader of the extreme right-ring National Rally party in France, Marine Le Pen, has called on the authorities to take punitive measures against Algeria due to its refusal...

Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennet has insisted that Israeli warplanes should drop bombs over the heads of Palestinian children flying kites into Israel, Ynet Net News reported. During the...

European Union (EU) foreign ministers have approved a resolution to include the disputed Western Sahara region under an agricultural agreement signed with Morocco, the Maghreb Arab Press (MAP) reported....

Government officials from Algeria and Tunisia met in Tunis on Wednesday to discuss ways to secure their common border. The move followed an attack on a patrol of the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that the “exchange of blows” with the Palestinian resistance “is not over yet,” stressing that Israel is “determined to win,” Israeli media...

The international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has said that a number of major cities in Spain announced their strong support last month for the rights of the...

The brief encounter in Moscow between Argentina’s legendary footballer Diego Maradona and the Palestinian Authority President generated international headlines. “My heart is Palestinian,” Maradona told Mahmoud Abbas. Even so,...

A Jewish organisation which has acted as a proxy for the Israeli Embassy in Britain and lobbies on its behalf is putting pressure on the Labour Party to adopt...

Famous Egyptian actor, Youssef Wahbi, once said in a film that “life is nothing more than a big stage.” The phrase has since become an Egyptian saying yet, if...

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Monday voiced concerns over the heaviest rocket fire and Israeli attacks in the blockaded Gaza Strip since 2014, Anadolu reports. In a press conference...

Kirkuk Airport will open for domestic and international flights in August, an Iraqi official announced on Monday, Anadolu reports. Rakan al-Jubouri, the governor of Kirkuk, told reporters that experts from...

At least 158 undocumented migrants have been rescued off Libya’s northwestern coast, the country’s navy said Monday, Anadolu reports. In a statement, naval forces affiliated with Libya’s UN-recognized unity government...

Charred remains of a flatbread baked about 14,500 years ago in a stone fireplace at a site in northeastern Jordan have given researchers a delectable surprise: people began making bread, a...

Iranian “advisors” have maintained a presence in southern Syria at the behest of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a special envoy for Iranian President Hassan...

A Republican congressman filmed for Sacha Baron Cohen’s satirical television series who appeared to back a fictitious scheme to train toddlers to use guns said on Monday that he...

Reuters reports that former Egyptian military chief of staff General Sami Anan, who was detained in January after announcing plans to compete in a presidential election, is in critical...

A representative of US President Donald Trump raised the case of jailed British anti-Muslim activist Tommy Robinson with Britain’s ambassador to the United States following lobbying by the right-wing...

Black women working in Lebanon routinely face racism, sexism and discrimination stemming from a “dehumanising” sponsorship system, rights groups said on Monday, after a Kenyan migrant worker who suffered...

Protests in southern Iraq have left at least five dead and 190 injured as they entered an eighth day, a human rights body said Monday, Anadolu reports. Demonstrators have been rallying...

The Syrian army and its allies have taken control of a strategic hill overlooking the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights as it pushes forward with an offensive to seize the remaining...

Reuters reports that the United States in certain cases will consider waivers for countries that need more time to wind down imports of oil from Iran as it seeks...

Drone footage shows the level of devastation in Syria's Daraa

Saudi Arabia’s third biggest telecoms operator, Zain Saudi, has filed its third consecutive quarter of losses, local media have reported. According to an official source at the company, Zain...