Middle East

The Islamic State (IS) presence in Iraq has caused Istanbul-based companies working with, or in, Iraq to suffer from a significant drop in business. "We have been affected so...

Assyrians are the indigenous people of what is known today as Iraq; they belong to the historical land of Assyria, in the north of modern Iraq. Their state fell...

Yedioth Aharonoth newspaper published an op-ed by Israeli journalist Nahum Barnea on Monday claiming that former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad received $10 million from the United Arab Emirates...

45 Palestinian children wounded during Israel's latest assault on the Gaza Strip left the enclave on Monday evening through the Rafah border crossing, making their way to Germany and...

Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has proposed a four-part initiative to deal with the Gaza Strip after the end of Israel's military campaign, which includes the disarmament of the...

This is the question that is etched on everyone's mind. If there is only one issue that Palestinians agree upon today it is the need for President Mahmoud Abbas...

Mofeed Al-Hasayneh, the Palestinian minister for public works and housing, met with the Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende at the Palestinian President Abbas's home in Gaza. The two parties...

The well-known former Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Dayan was right when he famously said, "rest assured, the Arabs are a nation that doesn't read, and if they read they...

Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch predicted on Saturday that Israel's current Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will possibly be the next Prime Minister of Israel if new elections were to...

Israel's Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor will speak today at an event on "Global Anti-Semitism" taking place at the UN in New York. The panel, to be held...

Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas has warned that it will consider any international troops in the Gaza Strip as an occupying power and will treat it as such. Hamas official...

Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday that Israeli insistence on linking the reconstruction of Gaza to the demilitarisation of Hamas is "unrealistic at this point." "I welcome...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has stirred controversy once again, describing internet censorship and gender segregation as not in the country's interest on Sunday. Rouhani was elected last year after...

Two leading Israeli human rights organizations have accused the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being unwilling to investigate rights violations committed during Israel's recent military onslaught on...

Israeli Minister for Intelligence Affairs and International Relations Yuval Steinitz said on Sunday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's attack on Hamas would not relieve him of his responsibility...

In the reconciliation agreement Hamas conceded to and agreed with Fatah and its leader Mahmoud Abbas and displayed national unity between the two movements during the confrontation with the...

The head of the Syrian National Coalition Hadi al- Bahra has called on the Lebanese government to exert pressure on the Lebanese Hezbollah militia to withdraw its fighters from...

The foreign ministers of the Arab League Council announced their support for the plan of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to ask the UN Security Council for a timeline...

Ismail Haniyeh, vice president of the political bureau of the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas, called for the formation of a special committee to follow up on the recent Cairo...

The Commissioner of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has requested $47 million in emergency aid for the Gaza Strip...

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has said that the international community has threatened to boycott his government if it paid the salaries of Palestinian employees recruited by Hamas in...

Yemen's Shia Houthi insurgent group announced on Sunday evening that it had closed all entrances leading to Sanaa, blocking government vehicles from accessing the Yemeni capital in response to...

Chief of Hamas Political Bureau Khaled Meshaal said on Sunday that some Arabs "betrayed Gaza and some went beyond betrayal," but noted that the resistance has "forgiven" them. In...

Gaza triumphed in spite of those who hate the Islamic resistance movement Hamas, the Arab Zionists who wished that Israel would have eliminated them forever. They offered their support...

The Palestinian Islamic Movement Hamas described on Sunday the Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah's remarks that he did not visit Gaza because he received threats as "unacceptable". Hamas Spokesman...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi offered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a Palestinian state in northern Sinai, according to a report Monday on Israel's Army Radio. The station claimed that...

The ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi may face a death sentence in the Qatar espionage case, the official news agency MENA reported Sunday, citing judicial sources. According to the...

PM Netanyahu's government is channelling funds to West Bank settlements at the expense of communities inside the pre-1967 lines, a new report has revealed. The Israeli government transfers hundreds...

Israel has a habit of justifying its actions in the occupied Palestinian territories, however illegal and indecent, in the name of security. But denying any security to the other...

The head of the Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction (PECDAR), Mohammad Shtayyeh, has called on European countries to freeze the EU-Israel Association agreement if Israel continues its aggression...

Later this month Kuwait is in the dock once more on terror financing. The Financial Action Task Force, a group of super-hero accountants, will be reviewing financial regulations and...

The Iraqi president Fuad Masum said that his country does not need ground intervention in Iraq to defeat ISIS, but what it needs is international support. "If there is...