Former Egyptian ambassador to the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Fahmy Karim rejected the Egyptian media’s labelling of Hamas as “terrorists”, noting that Egyptian judiciary has not convicted any Hamas member...

On Saturday morning Israeli and Egyptian warships opened fire on Palestinian fishing boats near the Palestinian-Egyptian sea borders, witnesses have said. The Palestinian local news agency Safa said that...

The death toll in the Syrian uprising turned civil war is more than 146,000 with more than a third civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said. According...

On Friday Qatar expressed “deep concern” over the violation of human rights under the pretext of fighting terrorism and “its use by some oppressive regimes to refute the desire...

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said in a press conference on Friday that Turkey will intervene to protect a historic Ottoman period shrine in Syria if it is attacked by...

On Friday night Israeli occupation forces launched a shower of artillery rockets on a Hezbollah outpost in the south of Lebanon, Lebanese and Israeli sources have said. According to...

A three year old child died on Thursday after he was unable to receive medical care abroad due to the closure of the Rafah crossing, an activist group said....

The details released about the meeting held between Qatar’s first lady Sheikha Mozah Al-Missned and the head of Egypt’s Ibn Khaldun Centre for Development Studies Saad Eddin Ibrahim are...

The permanent representative of Kuwait to the United Nations, Mansour Al-Otaibi, has revealed that the Arab Group is calling for securing permanent representation in the United Nations Security Council....

Some nine million Syrians have been forced to flee their homes because of the violent conflict over the past three years placing them on the top of the world’s...

Ten per cent more Israelis travelled out of Israel so far this year compared to the same period in 2013, Israel Today said on Friday. The newspaper pointed out...

The spokesperson for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip, Adnan Abu Hasna, denied on Thursday afternoon that any of UNRWA’s foreign...

Some 78 per cent of religious Jews want to enter Al-Aqsa Mosque compared to only 18 per cent from the national Haredim, a new poll has revealed. Published by...

The Jewish Ateret Cohanim organisation said it has bought “a very large and strategic building” situated across from the Old City in the heart of the commercial Palestinian neighbourhood...

The majority of the Jordanian House of Representatives voted yesterday to seek the release of soldier Ahmad Adakkamsh, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment, the expulsion of the...

Damascus has closed its embassies in Riyadh, Kuwait and Washington in an unexpected move not said to have any political dimensions, Syrian diplomatic sources said. The decision was attributed...

Ousted Fatah leader Mohamed Dahlan has formally replied to the accusations made by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas that he was involved in the assassination of the Qassam...

Israel’s state comptroller has criticised the Israeli army’s failures on defence related issues; Israel Today reported on Thursday. State Comptroller Joseph Shapira said in his 2014 report that the...

The Dubai Deputy Police Chief Dhahi Khalfan’s allegations that Kuwait finances the Muslim Brotherhood have sparked a wave of fury in Kuwait and other Gulf countries. The Kuwaiti MP...

Israel has pledged to increase its targeted attacks of Palestinians after ten homemade rockets landed in open areas in south Israel from the Gaza Strip yesterday. Israeli Defence Minister...

A senior source at the Egyptian interim government said that Gulf countries are planning to channel huge investments into the development projects that would be included in the electoral...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas waged an unprecedented attack on Wednesday against ousted Fatah member Mohammed Dahlan, accusing him of assassinating several key Palestinian figures, including the late President Yasser...

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani began a two-day visit to the Sultanate of Oman, the closest gulf state to Tehran among the GCC countries, to discuss bilateral ties between the...

Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, the leader of the military coup and Egypt’s Defence Minister, arrived in the UAE yesterday to start an official visit of the country. Al-Sisi...

The political rift between Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki and the Sadrist movement led by Muqtada Al-Sadr has widened in recent days. Al-Maliki, who has been trying to calm...

Bulldozers of the Israeli Land Authority, protected by a large number of occupation forces, destroyed the Arab Palestinian village Al-Araqeeb in Negev for the 66th time yesterday. Despite heavy...

Saudi Arabia announced on Wednesday that it would not prevent Muslim Brotherhood members from performing Hajj and Umrah, the Islamic pilgrimage to Makkah, unless specific instructions have been issued...

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly condemned a weeklong peace and justice conference for Christian evangelicals that launched on Monday in Bethlehem, and admitted to orchestrating an intimidation...

A number of young Palestinian called on the Egyptian Authorities to open the Rafah Crossing and facilitating the movement for Palestinians in and out of the Gaza Strip. Speaking...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated on Monday in Ramallah that he cannot accept Netanyahu’s demand to recognise Israel as a Jewish state, stressing that he “will not betray the...

The US “has not yet delivered anything written to the Palestinian side” regarding the negotiations framework agreement, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO),...

Israel is intensifying its diplomatic efforts to sort out the crisis with Jordan after occupation forces killed on Monday morning a Palestinian judge who holds Jordanian citizenship, Israel Radio...