Middle East

There is no risk of mission creep in Iraq, for Britain at least. This is worth saying as speculation mounts in the media each time even a handful more...

A Tunisian court on Monday annulled a previous decree that entitled the state to confiscate assets of ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his relatives, the Anadolu...

With the recent BDS gains weighing heavily on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's mind, the rhetoric is once again emphasising a return to "peace talks" without preconditions. The latter...

A series of experiments have been conducted by Israel to examine the effects of and damage caused by so-called "dirty" bombs, a combination of conventional explosive and radioactive materials....

The Secretary-General of the Arab League said on Monday that he holds Bashar Al-Assad's regime fully responsible for the current situation in Syria. Nabil Elaraby made his comment during...

Syrian authorities asked the International Atomic Energy Agency to help it convert a nuclear facility and to move potentially dangerous nuclear material abroad, according to agency chief Yukiya Amano....

The United States still does not have a "complete strategy" to train Iraqi defence forces battling Islamic State (ISIS) fighters who've seized control of swaths of the country, President...

Israeli media sources have revealed that CIA Director, John Brennan, secretly visited Tel Aviv and that the discussions between the two parties focused on the upcoming nuclear deal between...

Deputy Chairman of the Popular Mobilisation Committee Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis stressed the importance of liberating Fallujah from ISIS, alamatonline.net reported yesterday. Speaking in a memorial for those killed in...

Israeli sources yesterday announced that the Israeli army had deployed the fourth Iron Dome Rocket Defence System, fearing a deterioration of the security situation in Gaza, the Anadolu Agency...

Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company, is to relocate its factories and offices from an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank, Arab48.com reported on Sunday. The company, which is...

-UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has overruled his colleagues' recommendations and removed Israel from a list of parties guilty of grave violations of children's rights, it was revealed Monday. The...

American Supreme Court yesterday struck down part of a federal statute that allowed Americans born in Jerusalem to record their place of birth as "Israel" on their passport, American...

The US is worried that ISIS will become so powerful it will take over control of a capital city and demand international recognition, Al-Quds newspaper reported experts saying yesterday....

The Saudi Arabian-Yemeni border is witnessing an unprecedented escalation in fighting between the Houthis and forces loyal to former president Ali Abdalluh Saleh on one side, and Saudi artillery...

The military wing of Hamas deployed several fighters north of Gaza on Sunday to protect a construction site after the Israeli army fired at the bulldozers building a road...

While the international boycott campaign against Israel is growing and the BDS movement is making headway, Arab-Israeli communications are increasing; officially behind closed doors and "popularly" out in the...

Hamas has received positive information from an Egyptian official in Qatar stating that Cairo wants to improve its bilateral relations with the movement, a senior official said. In an...

The state of Israel is being very sensitive when it comes to the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, with decision-makers in Tel Aviv considering it to be...

China has demanded that the Israeli government should sign a bilateral labour cooperation agreement so that Chinese construction workers sent to Israel are not employed in settlements in the...

Jordan's Islamic Action Front has condemned Amman's third loan deal with the US on the basis that it increases the national debt and actually aggravates the economic crises, Quds...

The aid convoys heading to Gaza aim to establish a waterway that connects the Gaza Strip to Arab and international ports, the coordinator of Miles of Smiles said. In...

A new poll claims that around 82 per cent of Israelis foresee another round of fighting against Hamas in Gaza, Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Sunday. The poll...

A noteworthy development in Saudi-Egypt relations occurred last Sunday, when newspapers in both countries published similar reports that concurred in stressing one thing, namely that there is no disagreement...

The US yesterday announced its support for the Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, stressing its "right to defend itself", Palestinian news agency SAFA reported. White House Spokesman Josh...

Senior Hamas leader Izzat Al-Reshiq described an Israeli settlement project in Jaffa as a new expulsion effort carried out by Israel against Palestinians, Felesteen newspaper reported yesterday. "The new...

Leader of the right-wing Israeli Jewish Home Party Naftali Bennett called for the "free world" to recognise the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights, Arab48.com reported yesterday. While addressing...

In a recent gathering on the 65th anniversary of the founding of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon continued to call for...

Israeli government officials and representatives of the European Union have held meeting over the past few days to prevent the labelling of products made in the settlements, local radio...

The Israeli army yesterday carried out military exercise in the area of Sderot and in some of the settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip. Hebrew public radio said that...

Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia have agreed to step up security measures along their borders with Libya and to support the Libyan army in its fight against the Islamic State...

Palestinian political analysts welcomed an Egyptian court's decision to annul a lower court's ruling that labeled Hamas a terrorist organisation, calling it an important political step that will have...