Middle East

The Israel Employment Service has published the most shocking figures in three years about unemployment rates and job cuts. A report in newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth revealed that 16,084 people...

A report in Haaretz newspaper on Thursday claims that Egypt has sent troops and military equipment to Sinai without prior approval from Israel. This, notes Haaretz, is in contradiction...

Advocate Mostafa Olwan has submitted a notice to the Egyptian Attorney General in which he accuses former Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan of passing maps of Egyptian security posts to...

A leading strategy and security analyst in Egypt has called for a review of the peace agreement with Israel in the wake of the attack which resulted in the...

The Israeli occupation authorities have issued demolition notices to Palestinians in the northern Jordan Valley area, informing them that their homes and farms are going to be knocked-down. According...

Israel's Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, claims that the Syrian opposition has rejected an offer of humanitarian aid from Tel Aviv. Quoted on Hebrew Radio, Lieberman said in response, "Everyone...

The Israeli Foreign Ministry has launched a campaign to persuade Arab Jews to tell the story of their migration from Arab countries. "I am a Jewish refugee" aims to...

The Mayor of Ma'ale Adumim has claimed that South Africa's decision to boycott products produced in the illegal Israeli settlement will harm the Palestinian economy and workers. Israeli newspaper...

Israel's Minister of Information and Diaspora has denied media claims that his ministry plans to withdraw the recent Levy Report. The controversial report calls for settlement outposts across the...

Sheikh Ikrama Sabri, a senior Imam at Al-Aqsa Mosque, has denounced the Knesset decision to discuss a proposal submitted by a militant Jewish MK to divide access to Al-Aqsa...

The Arab League's Deputy Secretary-General for the affairs of Palestine and the occupied Arab territories has claimed that the Israelis "are more likely" to have been behind the latest...

A letter sent to Egyptian businessman Najib Sawirus has revealed that the Palestinian Attorney General has issued a court order demanding that the assets held by former PA officials...

Israel's Prime Minister is intending to enact the Levy Report to legalise settlements in the occupied West Bank under Israeli law, Likud member of Knesset Danny Danon said on...

The Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories said on Thursday that Israeli police violence against Jerusalem's Palestinian citizens is increasing. B'Tselem confirmed that it has documented...

The Islamic-Christian Commission in Support of Jerusalem and the Holy Sites has warned that the Israeli occupation authorities are working to impose a false Jewish history in the occupied...

Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad named his minister of health as the new prime minister of his government yesterday, replacing caretaker Omar Ghalaounji who was appointed just three days ago...

An exceptional summit of the Palestine Committee of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was cancelled on Sunday after the Israelis refused entry to the occupied West Bank for delegations from...

A former senior Palestinian security official has revealed that around 25 per cent of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are there as a direct result of collaboration between the...

Tunisia's Minister of Religious Affairs, Noureddine Alkhademi, has given instructions to the country's imams to present a moderate and tolerant discourse so that they serve Tunisian society's aspirations of...

Recent claims by Palestinian Authority officials that there is a financial crisis contradict data published by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. Figures published by the PCBS show that...

The Mufti of Al-Azhar University in Cairo has urged the leaders of the 57 Muslim-majority states meeting in Makkah to withdraw the Arab Peace Initiative in response to the...

As the number of openly racist statements by Israeli politicians and officials grows daily, the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Information has said that Israeli terrorism "is the culmination of...

Hundreds of Palestinians whose families were displaced from their villages in 1948 when Israel was created, have taken part in a rally to demand the right to return to...

A political adviser to the Tunisian Prime Minister and senior member of Al-Nahda Party has said that his party's support for the Syrian revolution is an "established and fundamental...

The Chairman of the National Resistance Front and member of the Islamic Action Front in Lebanon, Sheikh Zuhair Juaid, has called upon the government in Beirut and the Lebanese...

A spokesman for President Morsi has claimed that Egypt has not received any official objections from Israel to the deployment of tanks in Sinai. Speaking to Aljazeera, he stressed...

Israel's Channel 10 TV station website has quoted Israeli political sources as saying that if the newly-appointed Egyptian army commanders don't work with Israel, then the Israel Defence Forces...

Israel's parliament, the Knesset, is discussing a bill submitted by right-winger Aryeh Eldad to split Al-Aqsa Mosque for use by both Muslims and Jews. A similar arrangement has been...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES West Bank cities are suffering from massive rises in the price of basic food commodities and fuel, as well as the general economic recession caused by uncertainty...

Israel's Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has said that the peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan have question marks hanging over them due to the political developments of the Arab...

The Palestinian government in Gaza has allocated some land to develop a free trade zone on the border with Egypt in Rafah. The move is seen as a contribution...

A recent referendum conducted in Israel has revealed a sharp increase in racism by Jews against Palestinians. The referendum was conducted in the run up to the new academic...