Turkey has doubled the truck transit fees for Iranian trucks in response to Iran taking a similar step for Turkish trucks, Turkish media reported on Tuesday. The new measures...

Gaza’s oldest resident, Um Saleh Hamood passed away and was buried on Monday in a grave which was dug out for her more than 20 years ago. The 128...

At the supermarket deli-counter, children tug at parents’ arms, gesturing at the towering aisles of biscuits and crisps. The cavernous, gleaming outlet is the latest development by the World...

The words don’t come out of our mouths and the ink of the pens we write with fades away when Jerusalem is at the heart of events. When it...

At some point in the process that led to the end of the conflict in Northern Ireland, there was an audible snap, a break in the link between the...

Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini said on Tuesday, during a meeting in Rome with her Israeli counterpart, that resuming the peace talks is “essential” to the “birth” of a...

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Tuesday that his country would recognise Palestine as a state when doing so would help to promote peace, stressing that French recognition...

Amnesty International yesterday accused Shia militias, backed by the Iraqi government, of committing what it called “war crimes”. In a report that was released today and published on its...

The significant decline in oil prices, in recent times, has had a negative impact on the Iranian economy, which already suffers from the international sanctions imposed on it, at...

Israeli authorities yesterday returned trucks loaded with 14 tonnes of agricultural produce that were on their way from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank hours after its decision...

The General People’s Congress (GPC) Party headed by former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said that it would maintain the same number of portfolios in the upcoming government as...

Jordan’s parliament asked on Tuesday for the government to take all “political and legal measures” to challenge Israel’s encroachment of Al-Aqsa Mosque and to stop the occupation authorities from...

More than $1.6 billion in Iraqi funds had been stolen and moved to a bunker in rural Lebanon for safekeeping, the former Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart...

The popular Arab proverb “so and so is like a porcupine; their eyes lie but their ears tell the truth” has some truth to it, as it applied to...

Palestinian prisoners are suffering in Israeli jails, especially those who have become ill following the bad detention conditions imposed on them by the Israeli Prison Service, as there is...

Palestinian resistance faction Hamas has called on U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who arrived in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, to support calls for lifting Israel’s years-long blockade of the...

The salaries of some of the employees in the Gaza Strip will reach them in the coming days via Egypt, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today. In a statement...

The Lebanese people feel as if they have been left to face their fate; no one is making any decisions regarding their security and lives. No one is defending...

At a conference in Cairo on Sunday Norwegian Foreign Minister Boerge Brende announced that international donors have pledged $5.4bn (£3.4bn) towards the reconstruction of Gaza, exceeding the $4bn (£2.5bn)...

Financial pledges from the international community to aid Gaza’s reconstruction were not the only outcome of the donor conference held recently in Cairo. Following PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ overture...

The Israeli embassy in Britain announced its rejection of the need for legislators in the House of Commons to vote to recognise a Palestinians state alongside the state of...

“Israel does not occupy the Gaza Strip”, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed, while expressing his commitment to maintaining the status quo at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. During a...

Israeli settlers set fire to the Abu Bakr Mosque in the town of Aqraba, Nablus in the northern West Bank, at dawn today. An activist said a number of...

Hamas leader Yahya Moussa said the group does not expect anything from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s visit into the Gaza Strip today. In an interview with Al-Quds Net, Moussa...

Al-Houthi gunmen yesterday stormed Al-Hudaydah port, a major harbour in the west of Yemen, local officials said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Anadolu Agency...

Jordan will deal firmly with the Israeli escalation in the holy sites in Jerusalem, the information minister said. In a statement to Anadolu Agency, Mohammed Al-Momani said: “Jordan will...

Senior Hamas leader Osama Hamdan has said that the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, following Israel’s latest military aggression, will be a “real test” for the “seriousness” of the...

British lawmakers have voted to recognise Palestine as a state in a historical and symbolic move which “calls on the government to recognize the state of Palestine alongside the...

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said on Monday that lifting the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip could only take place after dismantling Hamas’s resistance capabilities, responding to comments made...

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ali Khamenei has accused the US, UK and Israel of creating the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq in order to...

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal called on Monday for Yemenis not to serve foreign interests in the region and charged that Iranian forces were “occupying” other countries....

When the first spontaneous explosions of the Arab democratic revolutions erupted in Tunisia in December 2010, many were hoping that this revolt might usher in a new beginning for...