Middle East

Nine months ago during the 51-day Israeli assault on Gaza, which killed 2,200 people, El Wafa rehabilitation hospital was bombed. Its helpless patients, mostly paralyzed or unconscious, were saved...

Now that the Lib Dems are back in opposition, it is worth reflecting on how the Conservatives are likely to act without their restraining hand. That hand will be...

(Video will be uploaded later on) Yosef Al-Hissi, 23, from Jabalia Refugee Camp in the north of the Gaza Strip, was a footballer before he was hit by a...

Egypt's foreign minister has expressed his hope that all of the relevant Yemeni parties will reach a peaceful political agreement that preserves the stability and territorial integrity of the...

An Egyptian court adjourned the trial of ousted President Mohamed Morsi on Sunday, wherein he is accused of espionage on behalf of the State of Qatar. The proceedings are...

The Gulf Cooperation Council and the European Union on Sunday have agreed to resolve the Yemeni conflict based on UN Security Council Resolution 2216. In a joint statement issued...

A report prepared by the World Bank said that unemployment rate in Gaza has reached a record as it is the highest across the world, Quds Press reported on...

U.S. Defence Secretary, Ashton Carter on Sunday slammed the Iraqi army which abandoned the provincial capital Ramadi last week, leaving it to fall under ISIS control, despite them outnumbering...

Senior Hamas leader Musa Abu-Marzouq denied on Sunday Egyptian accusations that Islamic Jihad leader Ramadhan Shallah is responsible for the death of Hamas founder, Quds Press reported. Posting on...

Palestinians in Negev, southern Israel, have decided to escalate popular activities, including protests against Israeli policy of home destruction, Quds Press reported on Sunday. In a statement, the Supreme...

The US-Gulf Camp David summit, held last week, did not bridge the gap between America and the Gulf states, or limit the "doubts" of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...

A man who below himself up inside a mosque in the eastern city of Qatif on Friday was a Saudi national affiliated with ISIS, the Saudi Interior Ministry said...

The Palestine Festival of Literature, popularly known as PalFest, opened on May 23rd simultaneously in Ramallah and Gaza. A large crowd packed Ramallah's Ottoman Court to hear a range...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu phoned U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to thank the U.S. for blocking a proposal calling for making the Middle East a nuclear-weapon-free zone...

An Egyptian court on Saturday postponed to 6 June delivering its ruling in a lawsuit calling for designating Palestinian faction Hamas as a "terrorist" group. Cairo's Urgent Matters Court...

It's April 2002 and the Second Intifada has engulfed cities across the Occupied Palestinian Territories. In Bethlehem, a group of armed fighters have fled to one of the world's...

Algeria calls for intensified Arabic media support for Palestine Algerian Communication Minister Hamid Grine called on Thursday for intensified Arabic media support for the pivotal Arab issue –Palestine, Quds...

This week, the Hamas military wing started to pave a new road along the Israeli military buffer zone along the eastern borders of the Gaza Strip. Farmers in the...

During his visit to Adas Israel Synagogue in Washington on Thursday, US President Barack Obama attempted to persuade American Jews that his policies regarding Palestinian issue and Iran do...

Last November, a post appeared on the blogging platform Medium which claimed that between March 1, 2014 and August 31, 2014 – a period of six months – some...

Yemen's Houthi group yesterday made its participation in a UN-sponsored conference on Yemen in Geneva later this month conditional on the halt of an ongoing air offensive launched by...

King Abdullah II of Jordan said today that the problems of the Middle East can be solved by utilising the region's strengths. Speaking during the inaugural session of the...

A child was killed and three others injured in southern Saudi Arabia today when missiles fired from Yemen fell in villages in the kingdom's Jizan province, Saudi media has...

Palestine was elected to chair the third Meeting of States Parties to the UNESCO 1970 Convention on Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property for the first time earlier this week....

The surge in unemployment in the Gaza Strip is a "ticking time-bomb", an Israeli member of Knesset said today. Gaza's joblessness rate has risen to 43 per cent, according...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said today that he rejected all transitional solutions and the introduction of temporary borders for the aspired Palestinian state. Speaking at the World Economic...

The Israeli authorities released the Palestinian Authority's former Minister of Prisoners, Wasfi Kabha, on Thursday. Hailing from the northern West Bank city of Jenin, Kabha has spent 10 months...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday that his country will not sign any agreement that would allow access to its military and scientific secrets. Iran's Press TV quoted Rouhani...

A Hamas-led Interior Ministry in Gaza yesterday issued a public warning to Palestinians in Gaza against dealing with suspicious sites believed to be operated by the Israeli intelligence that...

Israel's newly appointed Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely yesterday told ministry employees that all of the land of Israel belongs to Jews only. Israeli media quoted Hotovely as saying...

Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende warned Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday evening that international pressure on Israel over the Palestinian issue will be renewed after the signing of the final...

New audio leaks of recorded telephone calls said to be from the Egyptian president's office appear to show the involvement of both Egypt and the UAE in the transfer...