Europe & Russia

The French daily Le Monde said in its Friday edition that Saudi Arabia is trying to undermine the gains of the Arab Spring and block the democratisation of Arab...

Shimon Peres, Israel's president, has said there has been "progress" in efforts to free Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier captured by Hamas three years ago. The disclosure by Peres,...

The Israeli navy has fired several shells at a number of Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Gaza. The Israeli navy opened fire on the fishermen near the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESLast night the Children of the beleaguered Gaza strip held a candlelit protest on the streets of a Gaza City plunged into darkness as a result of the...

The Prisoners Studies Centre has expressed concerns that the administration of Israeli prisoners commits "unprecedented" abuses against Palestinian prisoners and their possessions, and that such abuses are often conducted...

The French daily Le Monde said in its Friday edition that Saudi Arabia is trying to undermine the gains of the Arab Spring and block the democratisation of Arab...

The governments of Israel and Greece have held discussions about the implications of Turkey's decision to increase its military presence in the Eastern Mediterranean to ensure free passage for...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinian MPs from the Change and Reform bloc met on Sunday with the head of the Catholic Church in the West Bank, Father Joseph Sa'adeh, to convey...

Hebrew media sources have revealed that the Israeli authorities have contacted Pope Benedict XVI to ask for his assistance in preventing the departure of the Lebanese ship, Mary, bound...

A high-ranking Palestinian delegation is heading to the Vatican to hold talks with the Holy See on the legal status of property owned by the Catholic Church in the...

The Islamic Resistance Movement has expressed its concerns over the proposed deal between the Vatican State and Israel, which implies the acknowledgement of Israeli sovereignty over Christian churches and...

The government in Tehran has announced that it has halted oil exports to Greece and Spain, and confirmed that it is looking into taking similar action against Italy and...

Dr. Mohamed Badie, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, has visited Pope Shenouda III, the Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Macarius, at the cathedral in east...

Jordan's Minister of Endowment and Islamic Sanctuaries and Affairs, Dr. Abdul Salam Al-Abbadi, has condemned reports by Israeli newspapers which assert that a historic deal between Israel's Undersecretary of...

Palestinian Christians in the village of Beit Jala in the occupied West Bank have written an open letter to Pope Francis in protest at the Israeli decision to build...

The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) has been reliably informed that formal proceedings will be launched in a London court this morning for the arrest of Israel's Defence Minister, Ehud...

The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) has learnt that the Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud Barak, will address a Labour Friends of Israel reception at the labour Party conference tomorrow Tuesday...

Erdogan: Turkey will work to accomplish debate of the Goldstone report in the Security Council Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced that his country would work within the...

Several civil society bodies have expressed interest in further probing the issues uncovered in the Dispatches programme aired last Monday 16th November on the Pro-Israel lobby in Britain. The...

Yesterday a delegation of senior British parliamentarians, Muslim figures and Palestinian solidarity leaders in the UK presented a letter to the Egyptian Ambassador Hatem Seif El Nasr to London...

Turkish demonstrators blockade Israeli Council in Istanbul in protest against actions in Al-Aqsa Mosque. Hundreds of Turkish youths blockaded the Israeli Consulate from midnight Sunday until the early hours...

Palestinian photojournalist Mahmud Ajrami has been awarded the second best photographer in the international Rory Peck competition just concluded in London. Ajrami won the award for filming the Israeli...

Five Turkish MPs will on Monday join an international aid convoy that has reached Egyptian port one-week later after the date that they initially hoped to reach Gaza Strip...

Jerusalem's troublesome sheikhRa'ed Salah is mobilising opposition to the undermining of the Islamic presence in the city. His actions play to a wider audience, A subtle shift in power...

The EU's foreign ministers will recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state next week, according to a Tuesday report in the Israeli daily Haaretz. The...

The Turkish Foreign Ministry yesterday said it was concerned about Israel's decision to build 700 new Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem, adding that such a move was a clear...

The Middle East Monitor (MEMO), has contacted MP's from the three main political parties, as well as the foreign office, to get their reaction to Israel's very provocative act yesterday...

Nedim Aslan of Vakit newspaper interviews the Director of Middle East Monitor, Dr Daud Abdullah, to talk about the establishment of the institution, its stated purpose and its role...

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have accused the Egyptian authorities of procrastination over their application for approval to visit Gaza via the Rafah border crossing. The visit is...

The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) has been in touch with the British Foreign Office in an attempt to illicit a reaction about Israel's ever increasing settlement expansion programs, including...

Israeli authorities deny Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Michael Martin permission to visit the impoverished coastal sliver of Gaza which has long been under an Israeli siege. Speaking at the...

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out at Israel on Monday for violating Lebanon's airspace and using disproportionate force against Palestinians in Gaza, the latest in a series of...