Middle East

Foreign Minister Riad Maliki could not be reached for comment regarding the publication of a letter revealing that the Palestinian Authority has so far prevented the launch of a...

42 Palestinian, Israeli, and international organizations have issued an urgent call to the international community to stop Israeli plans to "forcibly transfer" thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank...

The release of 45 Fijian UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights was down to Qatar's mediation, Doha announced. A statement by the Qatari foreign ministry said that Qatar mediated...

The Hamas movement denied accusations that negotiating directly with Israel is one of its policies, stressing that it is not considered in the movement's deliberations. A statement issued by...

Israel's Unit 8200, known in Hebrew as Yehida Shmoneh-Matayim, is one of the country's most prestigious military intelligence units. Many who serve in it go on to high-flying jobs...

The Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Salaheddine Mezouar said yesterday that his country had not received an invitation to participate in the conference hosted by Saudi Arabia...

Senior Syrian opposition member Kamal Al-Labwani is in Israel to take part in a conference to combat terrorism. In the first visit by a Syrian politician to Israel, Al-Labwani...

During the 50 day long Israeli bombardment and massacre of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip 2146 Palestinians were killed according to the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights, of...

Palestine's many experiences with Israel, especially that of resistance and the steadfastness of our people, not least in facing up to "Operation Protective Edge", highlight the failure of the...

The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B'Tselem said Thursday that it does not hold out hope that an army investigation into the Gaza hostilities...

The Palestinian unity government has invited more than 80 countries to attend the Gaza reconstruction conference scheduled to be held in Cairo on October 12, Deputy Palestinian Prime Minister...

A monthly report on Israel's foreign trade, issued by the Central Bureau of Statistics Israel (CBS), on Thursday, said that the deficit in the Israeli trade balance during the...

Deputy Head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, called on the Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, on Thursday evening, to sign the Rome Statute and join the ICC...

A senior member of the PLO Executive Committee, Ahmed Qurei, received the Spanish consul general in Jerusalem in his office recently. The meeting coincided with the opening of the...

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has called for the accession to the International Criminal Court and Rome Statute to be hastened and urged Palestinian President...

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has called for the accession to the International Criminal Court and Rome Statute to be hastened and urged Palestinian President...

Head of Prisoners and Freed Prisoners Affairs in Ramallah, Issa Qaraqe, said Thursday, that a Palestinian prisoner had died due to severe torture in an Israeli jail. Qaraqe said...

The United States and Israel agreed about the importance of strengthening the Palestinian Authority during meetings regarding the strategy to be used by the two countries held in Washington....

Germany Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that his country was not asked to take part in airstrikes against IS in Syria and would not participate in them. The Anadolu...

Deputy Head of Hamas political bureau Mousa Abu-Marzouk said yesterday that "those who failed to disarm the Palestinian resistance in the field and on the ground cannot succeed at...

Yemen President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi yesterday sent his political adviser Abdul-Karim Al-Iryani and the Secretary of the capital Sanaa, General Abdul-Qader Hilal to meet with the leader of...

Returning to pre-war conditions in Gaza might prove counterproductive, according to the EU's ambassador to Israel, Lars Faaborg-Andersen. Citing the possibility of recurring violence without venturing into or mentioning...

American President Barack Obama said yesterday that his country's war on IS is different to previous wars as he would not send American forces to foreign lands. "So tonight,...

President Obama addressed his nation on 10 September and announced a widening attack on the Islamic State. In a sombre speech Mr Obama said: "I have made it clear...

During the brutal attack on the Gaza Strip, one of the Israeli military's propaganda claims was that Hamas fighters were "shooting from within homes". The army even dropped leaflets...

Israel's Minister of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources Silvan Shalom has told members of the Israeli delegation to the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Water Commission that Israel would approve establishing...

Secretary-General of the Arab League Nabil Al-Araby denied reports of a planned visit by an Arab ministerial delegation to Gaza on October 12. In a press statement issued yesterday,...

A new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) – in which it accuses Israel of committing war crimes during its recently-ended military onslaught on the Gaza Strip – has...

A curious piece of theatre took place outside the Chief Prosecutor's Office in the International Criminal Court in The Hague on August 5. This was 28 days into Israel's...

Extreme Islamic groups in the Middle East are on the rise and the most prominent of these is ISIS, otherwise known as the Islamic State. ISIS is an organisation...

Israeli police are investigating allegations that close aides of the former Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak and Major General Yoav Galant revealed military secrets to people who were not...

In 2009, Palestinian leaders attempted to bring Israel's actions during "Operation Cast Lead" to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Although the bid was refused by the then prosecutor Luis...