The United Nations said it will launch on Wednesday a new round of talks between warring Libyan parties in Geneva, Switzerland in an effort to end the escalating crisis...

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon yesterday warned that Palestinians “do not understand that they will pay a higher price than Israel if they turn to the ICC”, a Palestinian...

Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel García-Margallo yesterday said that Madrid would continue to support the Palestinian people’s legitimate rights in international forums including the European Union and the UN...

Last January, the United Nations Secretary General issued a note indicating that the Rome Statute, the treaty that establishes the International Criminal Court (ICC), will enter into force as...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday defended the State of Palestine’s right to join the International Criminal Court in the Hague, the Anadolu Agency reported. Ban told reporters after...

In the four years since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, millions of Syrians have been forced to flee their homes, causing one of the biggest refugee crises...

Sweden’s Foreign Minister Margot Wahlstrom cancelled her visit to Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said they would not meet her following the diplomatic...

The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) yesterday condemned Israel’s decision to prevent a member of the Palestine national team Sameh Marabah from travelling to Jordan on his way to Australia...

When Palestinians finally gain admittance to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague it will spark the beginning of a truly legal war, as the move will be...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday warned the EU that it should crackdown on “Islamophobia” amid rising anti-Muslim protests instead of trying to teach Turkey lessons about democracy, Palestinian...

Desperate people often do desperate things. This is perhaps the only way to explain the visit to Jerusalem by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary General, Iyad Madani....

Actions such as signing the Rome Statute, applying to join the International Criminal Court and preparing to make a declaration determining the period during which prosecution for the crimes...

The European Union has denounced Israel’s decision to stop the transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority over their bid to join the International Criminal Court. The reaction...

The US yesterday opposed Israel’s decision to freeze the transfer of Palestinian tax revenues saying the move will only “increase tensions” between the two sides, the Anadolu Agency reported....

Israel’s foreign minister has attacked the European Union’s policy towards his country, saying it “encourages the manifestation of anti-Semitism.” Speaking at a meeting of Israeli ambassadors to European countries...

A delegation from football governing body FIFA arrived in the Gaza Strip on Monday after being blocked by Israeli authorities for hours, a Palestinian football official has said. “The...

The president of the European branch of the Turkish-Islamic Union, Ihsan Oner, has called on European governments to take action against the growing attacks against immigrants and Muslims in...

Israeli forces injured a total of 1,190 Palestinian children in the West Bank during 2014, according to a UN agency report. The figure, contained within a weekly briefing covering...

The US-Arab alliance is one of the strangest and most interesting in the world, perhaps even in history. It is certainly the most one-sided, whereby America takes everything from...

Speaking to the Security Council on Tuesday shortly after voting against the doomed Palestinian-drafted resolution on statehood, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power referred three times to an...

PLO Executive Committee member and chief negotiator Saeb Erekat is reported to have delivered papers signed by President Mahmoud Abbas to join the International Criminal Court to the representative...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to reject the Palestinian Authority’s request to join the Rome Statute, saying it is not a state....

Some 26,500 Jews immigrated to Israel in 2014, the highest number in a decade, a joint report released by the Jewish Agency and the Israeli Ministry of Immigration revealed...

The Palestinian faction Hamas on Wednesday described the signing of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas earlier in the day...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said that 118 journalists and media staff were killed across the world in incidents in 2014. Pakistan ranks as the world’s most dangerous...

The New Year will dawn to another U.S. veto at the UN security council — although, to its credit, not a French one. This ritual has become a fitting...

A US official has denied media reports that Secretary of State John Kerry threatened the Palestinian Authority with economic sanctions if President Mahmoud Abbas goes ahead with a unilateral...

Palestinian group Hamas has described the UN rejection of a resolution setting a deadline for ending the decades-long Israeli occupation as a “failure” of peaceful settlement. In a Wednesday...

The UN Security Council rejected Tuesday night a draft resolution on Palestinian statehood, with 8 votes in favour, 2 against, and 5 abstentions. The USA voted against, but without...

In what is evidently further proof of acquiescence to imperialist oppression, the US has once again rejected the Palestinian draft resolution proposing Palestinian statehood and an end to the...

Politicians and lawyers have called for the adoption of a European Union court decision which removed Hamas from the terrorist black list. In a meeting organised by the International...

The US State Department has sharply criticised the Palestinian statehood bid recently submitted to the UN Security Council. The Palestinian Authority (PA) submitted the final draft of the bid...