Middle East

A Palestinian journalist is being held incommunicado at an unknown location by state security officials in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Mahmoud Abdulhadi, 55, was arrested by plain-clothed state...

The residents of the village of Al-Mazra'a al Qibliya, near Ramallah, look set to lose their land as Israeli bulldozers have started to clear the way for yet another...

Deputy Israeli Defence Minister Danny Danon ruled out the possibility of a Palestinian presence in the occupied Jordan Valley, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. Danon, who is a member...

A member of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Dr Hanan Ashrawi, has warned that since Israel is sending a clear message to the US and the...

Ethiopia's Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday that it has repatriated more than 100,000 citizens after Saudi Arabia decided to expel all illegal workers several months ago. According to the...

Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid Bin Mohammed Al-Attiyah accused Bashar al-Assad's regime of committing "systematic crimes" against people in Syria. Al-Attiyah also blamed the international community for not putting an...

36 human rights organisations demanded on Wednesday for Israel to put an end to the demolition of Palestinian homes in the areas under its control in the West Bank....

The head of the political committee of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Mahmoud Al-Zahar, has demanded for the various Palestinian factions to form a strong and organised front in face...

Iman Haridi, a Palestinian journalist from Ramallah in the West Bank, surprised her readers when she published an open letter on her Facebook account to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud...

Israel's Minister of Economy, Naftali Bennett, who heads the Bayit Yehudi party, said that there was no point in reaching any agreement with the Palestinian Authority as long as...

Former head of the Al-Jazeera News Network Waddah Khanfar has argued that it would be wise for Saudi Arabia to quickly reconcile with its Arab neighbours, especially regarding Egypt,...

Chechnya's President Ramzan Kadyrov said that his country has established a special security unit to deal with 'Islamic extremists' on the North Caucasus republic's territory, and abroad, if the...

Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority (PA) are scheduled to sign an agreement on Monday to build a pipeline from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea. The project...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES The University College of Applied Sciences in the Gaza Strip has opened an exhibition of Palestinian antiquities and heritage, including embroidery and pottery as well as famous...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES The University College of Applied Sciences in the Gaza Strip has opened an exhibition of Palestinian antiquities and heritage, including embroidery and pottery as well as famous...

Israeli settlers have, on Sunday, sprayed racist slogans outside the walls of a mosque in Baqa Al Gharbiyeh town in Israel. Local residents told reporters the settlers sprayed racist...

Israel's Channel 10 has released a government's confidential document on Saturday evening which reveals that the Israeli settlements expansion budget has risen dramatically in recent months from 58 million...

On Friday Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman ruled out that Palestinians and Israelis will reach any peace agreement and said both sides are at a "dead end." Speaking at...

A senior Hamas official has claimed that the Islamic movement has turned into an enemy as far as Fatah is concerned, instead of Israel. Dr Mousa Abu Marzouk, criticised...

The Islamic Resistance Movement; Hamas has paid tribute to Nelson Mandela saying he was one of the most important symbols of freedom in the world. A member of Hamas...

Israel's former Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg openly recognised that Israel possesses nuclear weapons during a conference in Haifa on Thursday that convened to discuss a Middle East free of...

Two of the most powerful right-wing parties in Israel, Yisrael Beytenu and Jewish Home, have agreed to "torpedo" the Prawer Plan, which aims to expel tens of thousands of...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has paid tribute to former South African President Nelson Mandela who passed away on Thursday. "He was," said Mr Abbas, "the bravest and most important...

Ahrar Centre for Prisoners Studies and Human Rights in the Palestinian territories has said that most of the female Palestinian prisoners detained in the Hasharon Israeli prison are suffering...

Israeli occupation authorities uprooted 40 olive trees from Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank on Monday morning. Witnesses reported that Israeli bulldozers razed the trees to clear the...

A senior Hamas official in Gaza has confirmed that the government has no political contact with the coup regime in Cairo due to the latter's belief that the Islamic...

Egypt's General Authority of Export and Import Control (GOEIC) has issued a report revealing that Egypt's exports have declined by 8 percent during the first few months since the...

In a speech addressed to a delegation of Arab journalists who were participating in a two-day tourism workshop in Hebron, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stressed "the need to achieve...

According to the former chief of Saudi Arabia's intelligence services, Amir Torky Al-Faisal, the Gulf States believe in the necessity of establishing a union "whether Oman agrees or not"....

Israel's Economy Minister Naftali Bennett has called for Israel to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. In an interview on Sunday with Israel radio, the leader of the...

Egypt's faltering economy sustained yet another blow when the Egyptian Central Bank announced on its web site on Sunday that the country's foreign exchange reserves declined from $18.59 billion...

Israel and the Netherlands are at loggerheads after Israel turned down a request to install a new security scanner donated by the Netherlands at the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem...