Middle East

43 days ago Khader Adnan launched his latest hunger strike for collective dignity and rights. Adnan's name has been intrinsically linked with the hunger strikes of Palestinian political prisoners...

The 15th Israeli National Security conference, organised by the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Centre, ended a few days ago. The conference addressed, as it has done previously, the map of strategic...

Last week a short video clip made its way onto my desk, taken on a mobile phone in Saudi Arabia. It was only a few seconds long, but it...

For some, when you mention Palestine, images of war, bombings and destruction come to mind, most forget that Palestine has a rich and beautiful history and a colourful culture....

There was nothing surprising about Israel finding itself not culpable for the killing of four boys on a Gaza beach in July last year, as it did in a military judgment released...

As part of the Boycott Israeli Products campaign, organised by the Palestinian National Initiative, dozens of Palestinians in Gaza held signs condemning the sale of Israeli products on the...

A dog has been brought into a zoo in the Jabalia refugee camp, north of the Gaza Strip, to nurse a lion cub who was rejected by its mother,...

The European boycott campaign against the Israeli settlements' agricultural products caused Israel's economy a loss $6 billion in the years 2013 and 2014. According to the data of the...

The Israeli government approved a bill on Sunday that will allow the force-feeding of prisoners on hunger strike if their lives are in danger. The bill will still need...

The Palestinian unity government slammed an Israeli report on last summer's offensive on the Gaza Strip on Sunday, noting this would not change its stance regarding the demand of...

Italian activist, Samantha Comizzoli, who has been detained by the Israeli army since Friday, threatened to start a hunger strike in protest against Israel's decision to deport her. In...

South African Representative to the State of Palestine, Professor M W Makalima, yesterday reiterated his country's support for the Palestinian people and their cause, Quds Press reported. Makalima paid...

Egypt has discovered and destroyed 1,429 tunnels between the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula over the last one and a half years, Quds Press reported. In a statement,...

Kuwait has donated US$15 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for its work with Palestinian refugees across the Middle East, UNRWA said in a statement...

Press reports said on Sunday that the Israeli government had sent a "direct threat" to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas earlier this month, demanding him and the Palestinian leadership to...

Head of aid convoy Miles of Smiles Dr Isam Yousef has revealed sovereign Egyptian promises to open the Rafah border crossing for goods, Palestinian Al-Resalah newspaper reported on Sunday....

Israel's report on last summer's offensive on Gaza is a "lie", Al-Sharq newspaper reported a senior Hamas member as saying yesterday. Izzat Al-Risheq said that the Israeli report issued...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has urged African Union member states to boycott goods produced in Israeli settlements in the West Bank by following the same labelling programme currently...

Since the end of the Israel's offensive against the people of Gaza last summer, Hamas has spent a great deal of its energy on proving to human rights organisations...

The Old City of Sana'a, inhabited for more than 2,500 years, is one of the oldest cities in the world. On Friday, airstrikes reduced its historic houses to rubble....

Houthi Shia militants and forces loyal to former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh have seized control of Al-Hazm, district capital of the north-western province of Al-Jawf. Al-Jawf borders Saudi...

The US said Friday that it is concerned about the human rights record of Syrian Kurdish fighters after a recent offensive in northeast Syria forced thousands of Arabs and...

Turkey's Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) has said it will help deliver more than 30,000 food packages to over 15,000 families in Syria. In cooperation with the Qatar Charity association,...

The US Department of Defence has announced the transfer of seven detainees from Guantanamo Bay prison to Oman. According to a Pentagon statement on Friday (local time) the detainees...

Recognising that it may soon be holding its lasts thread of dignity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, Russia has reportedly been taking appropriate action. According...

In the past four years, Arabs have been living in an endless Sisyphean ordeal, an unexpected nightmare after rising for what they called "the Arab Spring". The scenario was...

The Muslim Scholars Committee in Iraq condemned on Friday US and British plans to send additional military trainers to the country, stressing this is "not a useful measure", Quds...

Druze political leader Walid Jumblatt said on Friday that Syria's Bashar Al-Assad has taken Syria and the Alawite religious community to which he belongs to "destruction", Jordan's Al-Sabeel newspaper...

Russian news agency TASS reported on Friday that nuclear talks between Iran and the G5+1 world powers have "virtually stalled". The deadline for a final deal may have to...

The Governor for Palestine at the Islamic Development Bank, Mohammad Shtayyeh, called on member states to boycott Israel, and link the world's economic interests with the behaviour of Israel...

Israel's Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice (HCJ), has dismissed a petition to restore planning rights to Palestinian villages in 'Area C' of the West Bank....

The Israeli army announced yesterday that it has stopped investigating the killing of four children on a Gaza beach during last summer's war. No-one has been convicted for the...