Jordanian politicians are open about feeling isolated and concerned about the noticeably quickened pace of agreements between Arab countries and Israel, under US sponsorship. The matter will not stop...

The polarized nature of American politics often makes it difficult to address fundamental differences between the country’s two main political rivals, Republicans and Democrats. As each side is intent...

Only something which is not normal needs to be “normalised”; taboos becoming permissible, for example. This encapsulates the relationship between Arab states and Israel ever since the 1948 Nakba...

The ramparts of Jerusalem, built for battle, were commandeered for a messaging war between Israelis and Palestinians in the build-up to Israel's normalisation deals with the UAE and Bahrain

No casualties were reported from the air strikes on Gaza

The decisions taken by the secretaries-general of the Palestinian factions on 3 September in a joint online meeting from Ramallah and Beirut have been embodied in the first statement...

The interior minister of Bahrain yesterday claimed that the normalisation deal with Israel was not an abandonment of Palestinian rights, but to protect the country from ongoing threats from Iran. Bahrain...

US officials are at growing risk of being prosecuted for war crimes over the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, a New York Times investigation has revealed as...

US President Donald Trump yesterday vowed that any attack by Iran would be met with a response “1,000 times greater in magnitude” amid reports that the Islamic Republic was plotting...

Intelligence gathered by the UK security services shows the New IRA, a dissident Irish republican group in Northern Ireland, could have ties to Hezbollah and other militant groups in...

A former Guantanamo Bay inmate, Mullah Muhammad Nabi Omari, recently appeared in the Taliban delegation scheduled to meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Fayez Al-Kandari claimed on...

Reports in the Times of Israel indicate that the annexation of land from the occupied West Bank will be suspended until 2024, confirming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence that...

The Iraqi army announced yesterday that the US-led Global Coalition against Daesh has killed the group’s chief financier and arrested his brother in an airdrop operation in Anbar Governorate, Anadolu news...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) yesterday began sessions to examine the complaint filed by Iran against the re-imposition of US sanctions. The week-long online sessions started in the...

Hamas refused US presidential adviser Jared Kushner’s proposal that the movement hold talks with the American administration, the group’s chief, Ismail Haniyeh, told Al Jazeera in an interview. Haniyeh said:...

Authorities in South Africa were unaware that Iran was plotting to assassinate US Ambassador to the country, Lana Marks. According to Bloomberg, a spokesman for the South African Foreign Ministry...

Iran yesterday dismissed claims it is planning to assassinate the US Ambassador to South Africa, Lana Marks, in retaliation for America’s assassination of its General Qassem Soleimani, news agencies reported....

The UAE does not have the right to interfere in the affairs of Al-Aqsa Mosque, a senior aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday according to Arabi21. After leaks...

Talks on the Libyan crisis being held in Switzerland and Morocco are designed to exclude renegade General Khalifa Haftar, former US presidential aide, Jeffrey Feltman, announced yesterday. In a...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pressed on Monday for a solution to the three-year rift between the Gulf state of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used a crudely doctored video clip of Mahmoud Abbas, showing the Palestinian president making inflammatory remarks, to sway US President Donald Trump’s policy on...

The Palestinian leadership yesterday said it had received “economic temptations” from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to accept the latter’s decision to normalise ties with Israel....

European states have on the whole decided against sending a representative to tomorrow’s signing ceremony in Washington to celebrate normalisation between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. The only country...

Israeli authorities approved 980 settlement units in the illegal Efrat settlement in occupied Bethlehem, reported Wafa news agency. Hasan Brijiyeh, a local anti-settlement and anti-apartheid activist, told Wafa that Israel announced its approval...

The Iranian government is weighing a plot to assassinate the US ambassador to South Africa, a report said yesterday. Authorities have been aware of a general threat against Ambassador...

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Civil society groups in Bahrain have rejected the government’s normalisation agreement with Israel which is expected to be signed formally in Washington DC on Tuesday. Seventeen organisations have issued...

Secretary-General of the PLO’s Executive Committee, Saeb Erekat, said yesterday that the UAE and Bahraini normalisation deals with Israel prepare for the formation of military alliances in the region...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said his country’s oil revenues have decreased from $120 billion to $20 billion over the last eight years, Anadolu reported. Rouhani pointed out that his country has...

Turkey said early on Monday that the United States needed to return to a neutral stance on Cyprus after Washington and Nicosia signed a memorandum of understanding to create...

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto will be the only EU diplomatic leader to attend the signing ceremony on Tuesday in Washington for the Israel-United Arab Emirates peace deal, his...

The US Embassy in Libya announced renegade General Khalifa Haftar agreed to open key oil fields and terminals as soon as Saturday, The New Arab reported. The move could...