Californian group Red Hot Chili Peppers played in front of Egypt’s great pyramids of Giza on Friday, entertaining more than 10,000 people at the site and many more over...

Restrictions may also be placed on investigators examining alleged war crimes involving Israel

France said on Friday it had brought back five young children from camps in Northern Syria, but repeated its position that adult citizens who had joined Daesh abroad should...

A Democratic US senator and his Republican counterpart on Friday asked Congress’ investigative arm to probe Trump administration talks with Saudi Arabia over sharing nuclear power technology, Reuters reports....

The US Senate took a remarkable step on Wednesday by voting to end American support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen for the second time. The result (54-46) had...

Minnesota Democrats are looking to remove Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from office after she called out the pro-Israel lobby on its influence in US politics. According to the Hill, local...

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry yesterday called on the United States to respect the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of foreign countries, after a State Department report criticised...

Secretary-General of the PLO Executive Committee Saeb Erekat said the administration of US President Donald Trump has radically changed American policy towards the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Erekat said it stopped...

Turkey’s president said Thursday that Turkey will not make a U-turn on its deal to purchase Russian S-400 air defense systems, Anadolu Agency reports. “We finished this business. For...

A Bahraini court sentenced 167 people arrested in 2017 at a sit-in outside the home of Bahrain’s leading Shia Muslim cleric to between six months and 10 years in...

Democratic representative Rashida Tlaib is backing a pro-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) move by an American university. The Council of Pitzer College in Southern California is today expected to...

Tensions have been rising in Jerusalem in recent weeks, after Palestinians re-entered the Al-Rahma Gate area of Al-Aqsa Mosque and performed prayers there for the first time in over 15 years.

A US State Department report on human rights for 2018 acknowledged that government agents carried out the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the consulate of Saudi Arabia in...

US Jewish group “J Street U” is to offer trips to Israel and the West Bank in a bid to challenge Birthright’s erasure of the Palestinian narrative. J Street...

Laila Alhusini was 26 when she decided to leave her home in Damascus, Syria in the autumn of 2000 to pursue new opportunities in the United States. Although Alhusini...

The Pentagon announced yesterday that it has allocated $300 million to support US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighting Daesh as well as $250 million to secure the borders of...

The Republican-led US Senate on Wednesday approved a resolution seeking to end US support for the Saudi Arabia-led coalition in the war in Yemen, in a rebuke of President...

The United States aims to cut Iran’s crude exports by about 20 percent to below 1 million barrels per day (bpd) from May by requiring importing countries to reduce...

Brazilian right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro will visit Israel at the end of the month but he may not be able to deliver on a promise to move Brazil’s embassy...

The United States is not discussing a Turkish offensive in northeast Syria with Turkey and believes no such operation is needed to address Ankara’s security concerns, a US official...

What is the ‘Great March of Return’ but a people attempting to reclaim their role, and be recognised and heard in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine? Much...

Iraq’s top Shia cleric told Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday that Iraqi sovereignty must be respected and weapons kept in state hands, a veiled reference to increasingly influential...

The US State Department changed its usual description of the Golan Heights from “Israeli-occupied” to “Israeli-controlled” in an annual global human rights report released on Wednesday, says Reuters. The...

Qatari officials will meet with FIFA’s leadership in Miami on Friday as world football’s governing body discusses the possibility of expanding the 2022 World Cup and adding new host...

The Syrian army aided by Russian warplanes shelled rebel-held towns in northwestern Syria in the most extensive bombardment in weeks against the last remaining rebel bastion in the country,...

Israeli actress Gal Gadot has condemned efforts by the Israeli Labor Party to use her as a political pawn in the current election campaign. The party is Prime Minister...

Head of the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) alliance Benny Gantz is to deliver the keynote speech at the upcoming American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, side-lining Israeli...

White House officials have been busy since the start of the year meeting critics of the Trump administration’s approach to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, reported Haaretz, in an attempt to prepare...

Trump administration spending cuts will not impact military aid to Israel, reported Globes. The 2020 budget proposal that the White House has sent to Congress includes the full $3.3...

Carlson: 'Iraq is a **** place filled with a bunch of semi-literate primitive monkeys'

Hamas yesterday slammed US special envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt’s call for the capture of the group’s deputy chief Saleh Al-Arouri. Greenblatt’s call “reflects the policy of...

Most people wouldn’t consider the global refugee crisis a laughing matter, but American comic actor Ben Stiller says humour can help draw people’s attention to it, Thomson Reuters Foundation...