French National Assembly yesterday voted in favour of a protocol for mutual judicial assistance between France and Morocco signed earlier this year. Both socialist and right-wing lawmakers voted in...

Hamas has said that it refuses the anticipated French draft of a UN resolution that seeks to resume the peace process between Palestinians and Israelis. In an exclusive statement...

A final nuclear deal between the world powers and Iran over Tehran’s nuclear programme is “achievable” by the 30 June deadline, Anadolu Agency reported Iran’s ambassador to the International...

The defence ministers of the 5+5 Mediterranean countries met in Tunisia yesterday to discuss the escalations in the region. This year the meeting coincides with the visit of NATO’s...

French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, said on Friday that his country is firmly opposed to any boycott of Israel, Quds Press reported. Fabius made the remark while commenting on...

A majority of the town council in La Seyne-sur-Mer, on the Mediterranean coast, has voted in favour of naming one of its streets after late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat....

Israel’s Ministry of Immigration has announced that the number of French Jewish immigrants to Israel fell by 15.1 per cent in the first four months of 2015 compared to...

The CEO of Israel’s Partner Communications Haim Romano, which operates under the Orange brand name responded to remarks by Orange CEO saying that Orange would pay dearly if it...

Interpol has identified 4,000 foreign fighters who joined jihadist groups in conflict areas, mainly Iran and Syria, Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds yesterday reported a senior figure saying. “In September 2014,...

The recent scale of tragedies in the Mediterranean— now rather morbidly dubbed “the sea cemetery”—have elicited media narratives on sunk migrant boats that often conceal policies and practices that...

AFP reported the chairman of Orange said Wednesday the French telecoms group aims to end its ties with Israel operator Partner, which has been criticised for its activities in...

France’s far-right National Front party has announced that it intends to file a lawsuit against Qatar in response to lawsuit filed by the Gulf state against the party earlier...

Israeli security sources have said that the French, British, German and Scandinavian boycotts of the Israeli Defence Exhibition (ISDEF) affect the Israeli army. They also stated that the boycott...

The Palestinian Authority’s penchant for hypocrisy disguised as creativity appears to be limitless. In a recent interview published in the Washington Post, Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah gives an...

The Moroccan delegate to the minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, Mbarka Buaadh, has welcomed what she described as France’s “firm position” on the Western Sahara and Paris’ support...

Marine Le Pen and Sheikh Ahmad Al-Tayyib have both defended their recent meeting in the Egyptian capital. The leader of the extreme right-wing French National Front met the Sheikh...

The head of Egypt’s Al-Azhar university, Ahmed Al-Tayeb, has agreed to meet leader of the French National Front party Marine Le Pen. In a statement released on Wednesday evening,...

A former US envoy to the Palestine-Israel peace process has claimed that the administration in Washington may deal with the draft resolution prepared by France on the establishment of...

This year, the (67th) anniversary of the Nakba was accompanied by Pope Francis’s announcement that the Vatican officially recognises Palestine and his call to start direct negotiations between the...

The European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza said the group’s Marianne ship which left Sweden last week arrived in Germany’s Kehl port on Sunday en route to...

The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (IESCO) has condemned the call by a French official that Islam should be banned in France by 2027, Quds Press reported on...

Israel’s Haaretz newspaper revealed on Thursday that strategic talks between Israel and France last week have turned into an argument over French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius’ initiative to advance...

Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said on Friday that his country has been able to defend its stability and security in the light of the on-going political earthquakes in the...

The French judges who are re-examining the evidence surrounding the 2004 death of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat have concluded their investigations, the prosecutor’s office in the Paris suburb of...

Holocaust Remembrance Day has just been commemorated in Israel. In Europe, Holocaust Memorial Day is held earlier in the year and is, for many reasons, an extraordinary annual event...

France will recognise its colonial crimes against the Algerian people “today or tomorrow”, the Anadolu Agency reported a senior minister saying. Commenting on remarks by French President Francois Hollande...

France’s Ambassador to the United Nations Francois Delattre said yesterday that the establishment of a Palestinian state is in the interest of Middle Eastern stability, stressing that without a...

Syrian regime President Bashar al-Assad has told French television that his intelligence services maintain contacts with their French counterparts, media outlets reported. He said that the contacts are active...

Some 16 European foreign ministers have called on the EU to push forward the process of labelling goods sourced from illegal Israeli settlements. The ministers signed a letter addressed...

Two weeks after Tunisia’s deadly Bardo attacks, vendors in Hammamet’s souks lay out brightly coloured pots and cotton scarves under the March sunshine. It’s hard to believe this seaside...

The decision by Veolia to end its operations in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories sends a strong signal to similar multinationals that profiteering from Israel’s occupation industry is...

The United States is refraining from commenting on the French draft resolution on the Palestinian issue which is being circulated in the halls of the UN Security Council. The...