Israel is afraid that India is planning to scrap a $500 million deal of anti-tank missiles claiming that more tests are needed on the arms, Ma’an reported yesterday. The...

A Gulf country requested Israel sell it drones a few years ago but Tel Aviv refused after “careful consideration”, local broadcaster KAN revealed on Sunday. Though no information was...

PLO’s Committee for Prisoners and Freed Prisoners launched a solidarity campaign for burns victim Israa Jaabis who is being held in an Israeli jail. Entitled “Freedom and Treatment: A...

Bassam Abu-Sharif, a senior aide to the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat, revealed yesterday that he has a document which proves that Saudi Arabia approved the Palestinian leader’s assassination,...

The debate on whether Palestinians should be granted international protection continues. Adalah’s November 2018 Report to the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 Protests in the Occupied...

Some 40 journalists were killed and 76 others were wounded in Iraq between 2015 and 2017, the Association for the Defence of Press Freedom in Iraq said on Sunday....

Renown Jordanian publisher and radio show host Mohammed Al-Wakeel has been detained for one week pending investigations on charges of causing offense that could after he published an altered...

Saudi Lieutenant General Eid Bin Awad Al-Shalawi was appointed Commander of the GCC Unified Military Command (UMC) during the 39th GCC meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh. Gulf Cooperation...

Human Rights Day is celebrated on 10 December to remember the day that the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. The irony of...

Radical Jewish groups today called for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to be killed. Posters placed by the groups at the entrance of the illegal Jewish settlement of Yitzhar near...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday his government is looking to obtain retroactive approval for the illegal settlement outpost of Ofra built on private Palestinian land near Ramallah....

UN special envoy Martin Griffiths said on Monday Yemen’s warring parties had yet to agree on main sticking points in peace talks, including a ceasefire in Hodeidah and reopening...

Jamal Khashoggi is on the shortlist of Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, the publication announced Monday, Anadolu reports. The Washington Post columnist who was killed at the hands of...

The Arab League has told Brazil’s right-wing President-elect Jair Bolsonaro that moving Brazil’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would be a setback for relations with Arab countries, in a...

After ten months of “hard work,” Lebanon’s internal security forces have foiled two major bombing attacks, the country’s interior minister, Nohad Machnouk, announced yesterday. “A ten-month-long high-level security operation...

How does one explain Canada’s contradictory foreign policy regarding Palestine and Israel? On December 4, Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Saeb Erekat, praised Canada’s commitment not...

“The Sultanate of Oman has been understandable to the dimensions of the war in Syria,” the Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad, revealed yesterday. Assad said that Oman did not sever...

Saudi Arabia is reviewing its policy of imposing fees on expatriate workers after it has negatively affected numerous corporations and has not achieved its primary objective of reducing the...

Yemen is calling for more humanitarian aid and protection from Turkey, said the undersecretary of Yemen’s Ministry of Local Administration. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Hasan Alsoudi said: There is...

At least 11 Palestinian demonstrators were injured by Israeli gunfire off northern Gaza Strip’s Beit Lahia shore, the Palestinian Health Ministry announced Monday, reports Anadolu Agency. The ministry said...

A Qatari envoy overseeing the Gulf state’s humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip said on Monday that he had proposed building an airport in the blockaded Palestinian enclave but...

Bethlehem is enjoying its busiest Christmas season on record, the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism said on Monday, with hotels in the birthplace of Jesus almost fully booked for the...

Turkey said on Monday the world should seek justice for slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi under international law after Riyadh ruled out extraditing two senior Saudi officials who Turkish...

A general cooperation agreement between OPEC and non-OPEC countries will be signed in three months’ time in Saudi Arabia, the UAE’s energy minister said on Monday, reports Reuters. “By...

The European Union’s foreign policy chief said on Monday a system to facilitate non-dollar trade with Iran and circumvent US sanctions could be in place by year’s end, reports...

Israeli soldiers raided the official Palestinian news agency on Monday in the occupied West Bank, a day after suspected Palestinian gunmen opened fire on Israelis outside a nearby Jewish...

Middle East Monitor has partnered with the Palestinian History Tapestry Project (PHT) to launch its exhibition in London tomorrow evening (Tuesday), celebrating the story of Palestine as told by...

The pace of Judaisation in occupied Jerusalem has increased since the US Embassy was moved from Tel Aviv to the city in May. This was accompanied by an increase...

Chile has declared supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement illegal, less than two weeks after saying it would support Palestinian rights. Chile’s National Comptroller – an autonomous...

Israel has been granted permission to become a member of the international body combatting financing of terrorist groups. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) confirmed Tel Aviv as its...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has boasted that Arab countries are falling in line and submitting to Israel’s financial and technological superiority. Claiming that Oman had allowed Israeli planes...

The 6 December was the first anniversary of US President Donald Trump’s announcement that he recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and that he would move the American Embassy from...