Middle East

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has called for the international community to intervene and stop an Israeli project aimed at the forcibly displacing...

For the second time, an Israeli military court has renewed the administrative detention of four Palestinian MPs affiliate with Hamas. Director of the Palestinian Prisoners' Centre for Studies (PPCS)...

In August, secret National Security Agency documents revealed from the cache leaked by Edward Snowden to journalist Glenn Greenwald once again addressed Israel. The documents give further insight into...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Sunday for Western countries not to ease any pressure on Iran regarding its nuclear programme in return for Iran's help in fighting...

Dozens of social justice activists managed to prevent a ship that is owned by the Israeli company ZIM from unloading its cargo last weekend at the port of Tampa...

Israeli occupation authorities demolished 20 Palestinian tombs on Sunday in Al-Yousefiyeh Cemetery near Al-Asbat Gate of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Al-Resalah news agency reported. The cemetery is adjacent to the Eastern...

Sir John Sawers, head of MI6, had "lunch with the FT" recently, an idiosyncratic format in which what is eaten is almost as important as what is said. Ploughing...

The Israeli authorities have so far refused to grant access to a UN official planning to visit the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT) between 20 and 28 September, a UN...

Houthi militants stormed the home of Yemeni activist and Nobel peace prize winner Tawakkol Karman in Sanaa yesterday, shortly after the insurgency group signed a peace agreement with the...

"ISIS has been trained by Iran's Revolutionary Guard," claims late Syrian rebel leader. Just hours before an explosion wiped out the entire leadership of one of the most powerful...

Shia Houthi militants stormed on Sunday the headquarters of the 6th military zone in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, with many reported dead and wounded in the ensuing clashes. A...

The director of the border crossings in the Gaza Strip, Maher Abu Sabha denied media reports that Egypt has officially informed his authority of a decision preventing Palestinians from...

Over 60,000 Syrian refugees arrived into Turkey as the Islamic State seized control of the majority of Kurdish villages and continue its progress towards the city of Ain Arab...

Deputy Chairman of Hamas's political bureau, Dr Moussa Abu Marzouk said that talks between his movement and al-Fatah movement will resume on Tuesday in Cairo. The Hamas top official...

The Yemeni Interior Ministry ordered on Saturday a partial curfew in several neighbourhoods in the capital Sanaa after gunmen affiliated with the Shia Houthi rebels took control of the...

The Turkish army is preparing to create a buffer zone in northern Syria to receive the refugees who fled the ISIS advances, which has now controlled 60 Kurdish villages...

The British Ambassador in Amman, Peter Millett said during a lecture hosted by the Faculty of Prince Hussein Bin Abdullah II for International Studies at the University of Jordan...

Iran has a role to play in fighting ISIS, US Secretary of State John Kerry said. "The fact is there is a role for nearly every country in the...

Deputy head of the Palestinian Legislative Council Hassan Khreisheh has accused "influential Palestinian agencies" of attempting to assassinate him three weeks ago by shooting at his car while he...

American Secretary of State John Kerry said during his speech at the UNSC on Friday that Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other countries have paid $1bn towards the war on...

Egypt has denied media reports about refusing to host Palestinian reconciliation talks in Cairo. In a Saturday statement, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry described the reports about refusing to host...

Human Rights watch criticised on Friday the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) statement on Iraq and ISIS, saying that it will lead to the alienation of Sunnis in the...

Islamic State (ISIS) militants seized control of 40 Kurdish villages around the town of Kubani in northern Syria on Friday, raising the number of Kurdish villages controlled by ISIS...

The US is prepared to launch airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria but will not disclose the planned timing of its operations, national security adviser Susan Rice said on...

First Deputy Speaker for the Palestinian Parliament Ahmed Bahar called on Friday on the Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamadallah to resign if he is unable carry out the mission...

A foreign ministry source says the National Intelligence Organization operation to free the Turkish hostages in Mosul followed careful planning and analysis of other ISIL kidnapping cases. The operation...

Egyptian authorities have barred Palestinians seeking to travel to Turkey, Qatar and four other countries from leaving the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing, a Palestinian official said Saturday....

Hamas accused the Palestinian unity government of following orders from the rival Fatah movement on Friday because the Prime Minister has not announced any plans to guarantee the implementation...

ISIS is a real threat to the region and internationally. But, in order to deal with them, we should not be resigned to war. On 11 September 2014, President...

The Israeli government has approved a project to set up a separation barrier in Battir village, south of occupied Jerusalem, Israeli sources have revealed. According to the sources the...

France has launched its first aerial strike against Islamic State (ISIS) positions in Iraq, the office of the French president said in a statement today. The attack destroyed a...

Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansur Hadi held an emergency security meeting for the government yesterday following the renewal of clashes with Houthi militants north of the capital Sanaa, a...