Middle East

The economic branch of the Israeli municipality in Lod has recently expropriated part of the Dahmash Mosque, one of five historical mosques in the city, raising fears of Judaisation...

Israeli settlers have been escaping high prices in Israel by shopping in the Palestinian cities of the occupied West Bank, Israel Hayom revealed earlier this week. According to the...

A Swiss federal court on Friday acquitted Qatari President of Paris Saint-Germain football club Nasser Al-Khelaifi of corruption charges, news agencies reported. Al-Khelaifi, who is also chairperson of Qatar-owned...

Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini warned on Friday that his organisation might not be able to pay salaries for its...

The Islamic Jihad in Palestine (IJP) has warned the Palestinian Authority (PA) on Friday against any aggression toward its senior leader Sheikh Khader Adnan, a statement announced. In a...

Israeli Energy Minister Karine Elharrar repeated on Friday the Israeli claims that the Karish field located in the disputed maritime zone between Israel and Lebanon is an Israeli area,...

The Israeli army has responded to a report by the United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) accusing Israeli forces of killing Palestinian-American journalist...

The Iranian authorities have issued a statement branding the accusations of planned attacks targeting Israeli citizens in Turkiye as "ridiculous and baseless accusations". Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Saeed Khatibzadeh,...

The US has confirmed that it would not support the rehabilitation of the head of the Syrian regime, Bashar Al-Assad, in any way. US Assistant Secretary of State for...

China has urged the US to respond to Iran on resuming compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the historic nuclear deal with Tehran which is stalled,...

Suriname said it cancelled its decision to open its embassy in Jerusalem, Israeli media reported on Friday, Anadolu News Agency reports. According to Israel's Channel 12, Suriname's President, Chan...

Israel reiterated its rejection of the accusations that blamed it for the killing of Palestinian journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, Anadolu News Agency reports. In a statement, the Israeli army...

King Abdullah II said he would support the formation of a military alliance of like-minded Middle Eastern states similar to NATO’s

Iran, on Friday, dismissed as "ridiculous" allegations by Israel's Foreign Minister while on a visit to Ankara that the Islamic Republic was planning anti-Israeli attacks in Turkiye, AFP reports....

The Israeli occupation authority cancelled its agreement to release Palestinian detainee, Khalil Awawdeh from administrative detention, following his 111 days of hunger strike. According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society...

Most Palestinian, regional and international bodies have marked the 15th anniversary of the stifling Israeli blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip – assuming that the blockade started in the...

Two right-wing settlers have been indicted on charges of deliberately vandalising a Palestinian coffee shop out of "racist" and "nationalist" motives last month, in the central West Bank town...

The Lebanese government has revealed a plan to deport Syrian refugees from Lebanon, in cooperation with the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad. The Lebanese Minister of Displaced Affairs, Issam...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory has called on Israel to stop demolitions, military activities and other increasingly coercive...

Hamas has called for urgent action to protect Al-Aqsa Mosque from the Israeli excavations that are endangering its foundations. In a statement issued yesterday, Hamas said the "continued excavations...

Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay has warned that if Greece does not stop arming the Aegean islands, the islands' sovereignty issue will be raised for discussion within the framework...

In Colombia, where  some 13,000 Palestinians reside, the leftist candidate Gustavo Petro has won the presidential election after he defeated his far-right rival Rodolfo Hernandez. The 62-year-old's victory represents...

Naturally, one of the consequences of the sanctions imposed by Western countries on Russia is to stimulate the latter's search for ways to bypass the restrictions. Since the actions...

Nine Syrian Arab Army soldiers were killed in an attack that was carried out by Daesh militants in eastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) announced yesterday....

Israel will launch a "Pilot Programme" with the aim of attracting Moroccan workers in the construction, nursing and programming sectors, Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked announced yesterday. "We're lacking about...

A female university student was shot dead yesterday by a gunman in the Jordanian capital of Amman. Local media reported that the gunman fired "five bullets at the student,...

Israel is creating a regional air defence alliance against Iran with the support of the United States, in a move which could further enable Tel Aviv to forge ties...

A group of 24 US senators on Thursday urged President Joe Biden to ensure direct US involvement in the investigation of the killing of an Al Jazeera journalist who...

At least 10 Yemeni soldiers were killed in two separate attacks in south Yemen, believed to have been carried out by Al-Qaeda militants, officials and state news agency, Saba,...

Iran has dismissed the powerful Chief of the Revolutionary Guards' intelligence unit, Hossein Taeb, Iranian State TV said on Thursday, after a series of high-profile incidents Tehran has blamed...

Lebanon's Najib Mikati was named Prime Minister on Thursday, urging fractious politicians to set aside differences to secure an IMF deal which he said was the only chance to save the...

Qatar's ruler will visit Egypt on Friday, his first trip to the country since Egypt and Qatar agreed last year to end a long-running regional feud, diplomatic sources said,...