Middle East

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal said on Tuesday that the Saudi kingdom has extended an invitation to Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to visit Riyadh, expressing his...

US President Barack Obama has said that President Bashar Al-Assad has lost all legitimacy to rule the country and has no place in Syria's future. He was speaking during...

No one will ever forget that the blockade imposed by the occupying power in Gaza, in cooperation with international and regional powers, is the longest siege in modern times....

Outgoing Israeli president Shimon Peres talked in a recent interview about a peace agreement he reached with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in 2011. According to Peres, the Israeli prime...

Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz reshuffled on Wednesday the top army and civilian posts in the Defence Ministry, state news agency SPA reported. Prince Sultan bin Salman was...

U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry blamed the Syrian regime's President, Bashar al-Assad for blocking a political solution to Syria's crisis. The United Nations and Arab League special envoy...

The Italian authorities have returned 63 illegal Syrian immigrants to Greece who tried to enter the country, Italian ANSA news agency reported Tuesday. The agency said "the immigrants arrived...

The Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday met a Hamas and Fatah delegation in his home in Al-Shati' Camp, west of Gaza. The Hamas delegation was headed by...

The 1950s saw the rapid spread of socialism, Pan-Arabisim and nationalism across the Arab world. These movements were led mainly by the president of Egypt, Gamal Abdel-Nasser, who was...

When Sara Ishaq returns to Yemen after ten years abroad reconnecting with the Scottish half of her roots she finds the country she grew up is on the brink...

Abdul Basset Saroot, goalkeeper of the Syrian national youth football team turned armed opposition fighter, is now classed as a terrorist by Bashar Al-Assad. The army raided his neighbourhood...

In apartheid South Africa marriage between black and white people was prohibited and white-only jobs sanctioned. Areas designated as white were destroyed by bulldozers and the black population living...

"He was a man seeking power. He would do anything to achieve his goals, regardless of anyone. Even if you were a close friend he'd send you to jail....

"If the Nakba signifies the expulsion of the Palestinian citizen from his land, and seizing his land by force, then the Nakba began decades before 1948." It is this...

"The Israeli blockade may have taken a heavy toll on Gazans, but this film reveals life and hope among the devastation." Kamal Khalaf is a construction worker and father...

Today around 300,000 Palestinian refugees live in Lebanon, yet only 2% of them have work permits. Lebanese law bans Palestinians from working in most professions; those that do work...

The British government has granted temporary diplomatic immunity to Israel's Justice Minister, Tzipi Livni during her visit to London this week, which serves to protect her from an arrest...

The third round of Geneva talks on the Syrian crisis will only be resumed upon the condition that the Syrian regime agrees to postpone the upcoming presidential election scheduled...

The Egyptian government has been asked by economic experts to approve gas imports from Israel in order to fulfil the needs of the local market. The experts demanded that...

"In the film I will document a legal system; a system which organizes the rule of law in the territories we conquered in 1967. This is a unique system....

On the occasion of their party Spring Conference taking place this weekend, the Liberal Democratic Friends of Palestine (LDFP) have isued a new position paper on Palestine. MEMO has...

We, citizens of the world, celebrating the human pursuit of freedom and independence, adhering fully to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, rejecting the ideology and practice of colonization...

By Khalid Meshaal This paper was originally presented by Mr Khalid Meshaal, the Chief of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) at a conference convened by...

HE Jacob ZumaPresident of the Republic of South AfricaCape TownSouth Africa Cape Town, 7 November 2011 Dear Mister President, On 5-6 November 2011 we held our third session in...

Arab Delegation Members of the delegation confirmed their frank and forthright demand for the immediate release of Sheikh Raed Salah. They informed Mr Gould that Salah's arrest was tantamount...

26 former European leaders, including former Presidents, Prime Ministers, Foreign Ministers and European Commissioners, have written a letter to EU President Van Rompuy and High Representative Catherine Ashton, calling...

The national decision serving as a basis for those measures having been repealed, the Council was no longer able to maintain financial sanctions against Al-Aqsa In order to implement...

Introduction Failed bilateral talks over these past 16 years have shown that a Middle East peace accord can never be reached by the parties themselves. Israeli governments believe they...

By John McHugoUJ is the legal power which allows suspected perpetrators of crimes such as war crimes, torture and genocide to be prosecuted in the national courts of countries...

John Duggard, Chair of Independent Fact-Finding Committee on Gaza; and Former Special Rapporteur to the Human Rights Council on Human Rights in Palestine. It is clear that serious crimes...

The pro-Israel lobby in Britain: FULL TEXTDispatches investigates the pro-Israel lobby in Britain which is working in support of the interests of the State of Israel. We have obtained...

The Haaretz Newspaper has obtained a copy of the draft resolution that the Palestinian Authority will present to the United Nations, calling for condemnation of Israel over its actions...