Middle East

Fatah's Central Committee denied on Monday any solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict without East Jerusalem as a capital for the Palestinian state. The Central Committee, convened in Ramallah and...

The Israeli army has destroyed a nature reserve and uprooted agricultural seedlings near the city of Hebron, in the south of the occupied West Bank. The 1,200 acre reserve...

Israel's Defence Minister said on Sunday that Egypt's coup last year has alleviated the fears of Israel and several other countries about what he described as an "Islamist winter"....

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has reaffirmed its pledge to help alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people, especially in Gaza. UNRWA's director of...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES Since 1967, Israel has kept the remains of an undisclosed number of Palestinian and Arab fighters following their deaths during military operations. Their whereabouts remained secret for...

The International Quartet support the creation of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, a Palestinian official has said. The official, who...

The Head of the Popular Committee against the Gaza Siege has accused Israel of the collective punishment of the people of Gaza in what he described as a "clear...

Hundreds of patients, injured people, children, elderly, pregnant women and persons with disabilities were evacuated from the Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said. In...

British Foreign Secretary William Hague has called on Moscow to put more pressure on the Syrian regime in order to accelerate the destruction of its chemical weapons. The appeal...

The Middle East will change despite opposition groups who are resisting the changes, Qatar's Foreign Minister said. The Qatar News Agency reported Khalid Bin Mohamed Al-Attiyah's remarks on the...

Israeli media outlets have been discussing the fact that Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon was present as Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif spoke on Sunday at the Munich international...

Palestine's Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has said that the ideas expressed by President Mahmoud Abbas in his latest interview with the New York Times are his personal views and...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has proposed to US Secretary of State John Kerry that a state of Palestine would be demilitarised, protected only by a police force. Speaking to...

Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper has released a report revealing that the Foreign Ministry has acknowledged its inability to face the growing boycott campaign despite resorting to all political and...

Western countries are going to increase the pressure on the Syrian regime for guarantees about getting humanitarian aid into the country, especially to the besieged city of Homs. A...

In a pre-emptive move, Israeli Security Minister Moshe Ya'alon attacked the Palestinian leadership and held it responsible for the expected failure of the peace negotiations. In a speech at...

Israeli settlers have uprooted about 1,500 olive trees owned by Palestinians in two separate neighbourhoods in the occupied West Bank. The chief of the settlement dossier in northern West...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES The National and Islamic Committee for Palestinian Prisoners has congratulated the International Red Cross on its 150th anniversary. Representatives of the committee made their comments when they...

The US denied claims by Syrian Foreign Minister Waleed Al-Moualem that America suggested conducting direct talks with the Syrian delegation in Geneva, Aljazeera.net reported on Sunday. US State Department...

PHOTOS Farmland in the 'Ain Faris area belonging to the village of Nahalin near Bethlehem have been destroyed after Israeli settlers from the illegal Beitar Illit settlement flooded fields...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said that during the months of December and January a total of 1,900 Iraqi asylum seekers registered with its offices...

Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh said on Sunday that Jordan refuses to recognise Israel as a Jewish state. He added that there are no written US documents about the proposed...

EU officials have confirmed that further measures targeting Israeli settlements are prepared, with the timing of their implementation directly related to future settlement construction and the status of Kerry's...

The New York State Senate has overwhelmingly passed a bill that targets the American Studies Association (ASA) for supporting an academic and cultural boycott of Israeli institutions. The bill...

The Palestinian chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said on Sunday that his meetings with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington last week did not achieve any tangible progress...

DEBKAfile, an Israeli military intelligence website based in Jerusalem, has argued in a report that Israel will pay a heavy price for its continued security coordination with Egypt's Minister...

An official at the Foreign Ministry has admitted Israel's failure to stop European campaigns calling for economic boycotts of the state. The official made his comments after remarks by...

The former Chief of Police in Dubai has called for Al-Jazeera TV Network to be shut down. It is, claimed Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, a "threat to all regimes in...

Europe's High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton has said that the EU and the Middle East Quartet will provide "unprecedented" support for the Palestinians and Israelis if they...

Turkey will sign a technical cooperation agreement with Jordan on Monday, the first such agreement between the two countries. Talks will also start on Monday to discuss means of...

A senior Fatah official has told the Iranian government that the movement reserves the right to resort to armed struggle should negotiations with Israel fail. Executive Committee member Jebreel...

Official data revealed on Friday showed that 1,013 Iraqis were killed during the first month of this year as a result of the ongoing violence in the country. The...