UNRWA has long propagated the slogan that education is the only hope for Palestinians in Gaza. Undergoing various forms of paraphrasing, the emphasis placed by the agency upon education,...

Palestinians today welcomed the UN General Assembly’s decision to raise the flag of Palestine at the UN headquarters. Yesterday’s resolution garnered a majority in the 193-member forum, with 119...

Daesh has put up two hostages, a Norwegian and a Chinese man, up for sale. The militant group’s online magazine published several images of each of the men. In one...

Iraqi security forces thwarted an attack against a military base near the western Anbar province, the Iraqi Media War Cell announced yesterday. The cell said in a statement: “The...

Moscow and Tehran will sign a new deal for the delivery of advanced Russian-built S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems “soon”, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov revealed on Wednesday. Speaking...

Nine anti-government defendants were sentenced to death in Egypt on Monday, bringing the number of those handed the death penalty to 680 since 3 July 2013, the Arab Organisation...

US officials are anxiously watching a potential succession rivalry between the Saudi king’s young son, Mohammed Bin Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef who has served as head...

US newspapers continue to report on the Congress’s handling of the Iranian nuclear deal after three Democrats announced their support for the agreement on Tuesday, increasing the number of...

Australia will take in 12,000 Syrian and Iraqi refugees and contribute 44 million Australian dollars ($31 million) to the UN’s refugee agency, the prime minister announced today. Speaking at...

Palestinian resistance movement Islamic Jihad yesterday criticised the US for adding three senior Hamas leaders to its list of “global terrorists”. “Adding resistance leaders on the so-called ‘terrorism list’, gives Israel the...

Although British Prime Minister David Cameron insists that he will not publish the legal advice that gave him the go ahead to end the lives of two British citizens...

The US will make changes to a train-and-equip programme for Syrian opposition groups as the programme failed to produce effective results in the fight against Daesh, a Pentagon spokesman said yesterday....

Brazil is ready to welcome Syrian refugees the country’s President Dilma Rousseff said on Monday, Palestinian newspaper Al-Resalah reported. 1405Syrian refugees received in Brazil in 2014 During her speech...

The Syrian refugees have not miraculously appeared from nowhere, they have actually been displaced. They were either displaced from their homes by the actions of a man who adopted...

The spokesman for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has admitted that the political divisions in the Security Council have hurt UN’s capabilities to put an end to the Syrian civil war....

Syrian refugees and local relief organisations in Jordan have warned of what they’re calling a “humanitarian catastrophe” that may affect 229,000 refugees outside the camps who no longer receive...

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday has expressed America’s concerns following reports of Russian military movements in Syria, the State Department said. In a telephone conversation with...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) cash and in-kind donations worth $86 million for Sudan, it was announced...

Canadian Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander yesterday rejected a proposal by Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau to send Canadian military planes with security and immigration officials to Jordan,...

What does it mean to be a “liberal Arab”? Even in the West, definitions of “liberal” vary. In the American context, the demarcation of the “liberal” overlaps cultural and...

Many years ago I read Men in the Sun, a novel by late Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani. He, along with his young niece Lamis, were blown up by Israel...

The US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has warned Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that the alleged Russian military build-up in Syria could escalate the conflict, the US State...

Saudi Arabia is to reduce oil prices to the United States and countries in north-west Europe in October, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Aramco has already reduced the price of...

John Kerry has revealed that the US has held trilateral talks with Saudi Arabia and Russia over the conflict in Syria. “Resolving the situation in Syria requires cooperation with...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said the sanctions imposed on his country must be completely lifted, not suspended or frozen, warning that the nuclear agreement will collapse if they...

Europe is guided by buffoons, bigots and bumblers. That’s all I can conclude from the refugee crisis. It has taken a photograph of a dead child on a beach,...

Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized Western countries for their policies in the Middle East and North Africa on Friday. In an interview with journalists in Russia’s Vladivostok city, Putin...

The international coalition has distributed US-made weapons to tribesmen in Anbar province in preparation for their battle against the Islamic State, an Iraqi official has said. “The international coalition...

Tunisia’s Minister of Tourism Salma Lummi said on Thursday that the number of tourists who visited the country this year up to the end of August reached nearly 3...

Four Americans and two international peacekeepers have been injured in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula by an improvised bomb, the Pentagon said Thursday. The soldiers were airlifted to a medical facility,...

David Cameron’s hard-line refusal to take more refugees from the Middle East is dismaying, especially after the distressing image of a lifeless Syrian child, refused asylum by Canada and...

Venezuela has abolished entrance visas for Palestinians, the Palestinian ministry of foreign Affairs said on Wednesday. “The Venezuelan authorities have issued a decision on Wednesday exempting Palestinian passport holders...