Middle East

The Saudi ambassador in Sanaa, Mohammed Saeed Al-Jaber, revealed on Monday that his country will provide food aid worth $54 million to Yemen to support nearly 45,000 Yemeni families,...

For all its bravado, Israel is terrified of bad publicity. So it should be, for neither the legions of public relations companies nor well-paid lobbyists have been able to...

Member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee Hanan Ashrawi has stressed that the Palestinian leadership is serious about stopping security coordination with Israel in the event that...

Recent statements by Fatah and Hamas concerning the validity of the Palestinian unity government now that its interim period is over provided an initial contrast with regard to the...

Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi has been leading reconciliation talks between Fatah Leader Mahmoud Abbas and the dismissed senior Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan, a Palestinian newspaper reported yesterday. The...

It's 2012 and Tarek, a water engineer from the West Bank, is guarding a dark secret from the Second Intifada. A flashback to 2002 reveals Tarek returning home one...

Israeli media have reported a meeting in Paris between Tunisian presidential candidate Beji Caïd Essebsi and officials from Gulf States. The meeting is alleged to have focused on ways...

Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has stressed his country's readiness to cooperate with Jordan in the fight against extremism, MEMO sources revealed on Tuesday. The Islamic Republic News...

Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said that Turkey agrees with Russia on the need to reach a comprehensive solution to the Syrian crisis, but they differ on what...

The United States said yesterday that it is not ready to enforce a no-fly zone over Syria in response to Turkey's demands, AFP reported. White House spokesman Josh Earnest...

The developments in the West Bank are picking up pace and this raises questions about whether these are early indications of another intifada (uprising). How realistic are the chances...

The latest Israeli decision to apply Israeli law in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank "legalises occupation and reinforces Israeli racial and religious conditions", the Anadolu Agency...

There is one man for whom Hosni Mubarak's acquittal will come as welcome relief: his friend and fellow potentate King Abdullah. Such was the Saudi King's anxiety about Mubarak...

Local Palestinian sources said that the Egyptian authorities had closed the Rafah Crossing until further notice, Al-Resalah newspaper reported yesterday. On Sunday morning, Egypt opened the crossing for Palestinians...

Iranians organised a funeral procession in Al-Ahwaz yesterday for the late leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Hassan Hizbawi who was killed in Syria, alamatonline.net reported. Sources close to...

Fatah members are to discuss the idea of naming a deputy chairman for the movement next month, the Palestinian newspaper Al-Resalah reported Fatah Revolutionary Council member Abdullah Abdullah saying...

Double standards proliferate everywhere, and nowhere more so when it comes to defining the elusive concept of "terrorism". On Friday, Ryan Mcgee, a 20-year-old British Army soldier, was sentenced...

The Palestinian Football Federation yesterday called on FIFA to show Israel "the red card" after Israeli soldiers stormed its offices in Ramallah last week, Arabs48.com reported. Palestinian Football Federation...

The Israeli foreign ministry said yesterday that it has opened an "immediate investigation" into reports that an Israeli citizen, who was fighting with the Kurdish People's Protection Units, has...

Libyan renegade general Khalifa Haftar, who leads the Libyan militias fighting against Islamists in eastern Libya, has said he does not mind "cooperating with Israel and receiving various forms...

Hamas has criticised the charges levelled against it and Palestinian factions in Gaza by Egypt's prosecution in the Wadi Natrun case. Egyptian prosecution officers accused Hamas and its allies...

Deputy Head of Hamas' political bureau Dr Mousa Abu-Marzouk said that his movement has never held secret negotiations with Israel and does not have a hidden agenda. Abu-Marzouk's remarks...

Cairo is to work on calling the different sides to resume ceasefire talks very soon, local Palestinian newspaper Al-Istiqlal reported yesterday. Egyptian Ambassador to the Palestinian Authority (PA) Wael...

The former head of Israel's Security Agency Shin Bet, Carmi Gillon, launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, slamming him as an "egomaniac". Gillon's remarks...

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) opened fire on agricultural land at the edges of Khan Younes in the south of the Gaza Strip on Sunday, resulting in no injuries....

Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center formally requested the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor open an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The...

Last weekend the anti-virus company Symantec released details of a newly-detected piece of malware that it had intercepted and been decoding for some time. Several other anti-virus vendors released...

Mass abuse of migrant workers by the Gulf monarchies and sheikhdoms has a fan-club in the West; a clique of academics, lawyers and ideologues who think that exploitative labour...

More than 200 Sunni and Shia religious scholars in Iran condemned the violation of Al-Aqsa Mosque's sanctity at the hands of Israeli settlers and security forces. The scholars issued...

It has emerged that US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged the Palestinian Authority, possibly even used the threat of sanctions, not to ratify the Rome Statute of...

Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo on Saturday backed a Palestinian bid to resort to the United Nations Security Council to determine a timetable for ending Israeli occupation of...

Israel's navy on Saturday opened its fire on Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of the Gaza Strip, a man speaking for the blockaded enclave's fishermen said. "There have...