Middle East

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is making familiar noises about Hamas and "terrorism" in the wake of the announcement of the Palestinian unity government. "I call on all responsible...

If we are to think with the same logic as Fatah, the Palestinian Authority or Hamas, then maybe we would be happy to celebrate the announcement of the new...

Eight years ago, Mostafa Easariaj set off on a summer vacation to visit his father. His father, Hachem, still lives in the tiny, impoverished Gaza Strip, where Mostafa was...

The Turkish presidential office has welcomed the formation of a Palestinian national consensus government in Ramallah in the West Bank. A senior adviser to Turkish President Abdullah Gul said...

An Egyptian court on Monday postponed until 16 June an appeal against the decision by the Court of Urgent Matters that it lacked jurisdiction to rule in a lawsuit...

Hundreds of settlers entered the holy grounds of Al-Aqsa Mosque to perform religious rituals under the protection of occupation authorities which had imposed a siege on the area and...

Israel is "deeply disappointed" with the Obama administration's announcement that it would work with the Palestinian unity government sworn in by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday, Israeli...

Egyptian comedian and TV satirist Bassem Youssef said Monday his show has been cancelled, citing pressures faced by the Saudi-owned MBC group to suspend his show. According to producers...

The cost of supporting Syrian refugees in Jordan is expected to reach $4.295 billion dollars of the next three years, news reports said today. According to the Jordanian newspaper...

At least 10 people have been killed in a car bombing in a village in the city of Homs Monday on the eve of presidential elections, the Syrian television...

The United States announced that the Qatari government played a key role in the release of US Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for 5 Taliban prisoners held in Guantanamo....

The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said on Monday that Iran has implemented all the practical measures that had been agreed upon, helping the International Atomic Energy Agency...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has called for the establishment of alliances with moderate Arab states to achieve, as he put it, their common interests. Lieberman said yesterday: "Israel...

More than 200 Palestinian architects, planners and building professionals have written to Royal Institute of British Architects president Stephen Hodder in support of a motion supporting the suspension of...

The Jordanian authorities expelled the Syrian ambassador to Amman last week, ordering him to leave the country within 24 hours. Jordanian officials insist that the expulsion was based on...

An Israeli embassy-sponsored film festival is set to take place in London later this month, part of efforts to 'rebrand' an apartheid state increasingly the target of international boycotts....

The institutional and popular Zionist racism has become rampant all over Palestine and torturing the Palestinians living in Palestine has become an acceptable and even welcomed matter by the...

Israeli cabinet agreed yesterday to impose sanctions on the Palestinian Authority (PA) because of the formation of a national unity government with Hamas, the Jerusalem Post reported today. The...

Former Palestinian Prime minister Ismail Haniyeh said on Monday afternoon that his cabinet "will quit voluntarily" and he would support the new unity government. Speaking at a press conference...

Whatever the numbers are that are being broadcast about voter turnout percentages in the current presidential elections, one must bear in mind that the number of people going to...

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal is expected to visit Russia this month, Palestine newspaper quoted the group's spokesman Husam Badran saying yesterday. Speaking to the newspaper, Badran said: "This visit...

Nine countries will observe the Syrian presidential elections, which opposition groups described as a "democratic farce", a senior Iranian official announced yesterday. The Chairman of the Iranian parliament's National...

The London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) documented the death of 3,204 people in Syria in the month of May alone, 66 per cent of who were civilians....

Palestinian workers drill water wells in Gaza City, June 1, 2014. The coastal aquifer, Gaza's main water source, has been over-pumped for decades, even prior to Israeli occupation in...

Iraq slammed Turkey for exporting the oil of northern Kurdistan, dismissing it as a sign of "greed." It also warned against dire consequences if Euphrates water supply is cut...

For Israel the most worrying aspect of the Palestinian unity government is the future of security coordination with the Palestinian Authority, which is a matter of conflict for the...

Seventy Palestinian prisoners were transferred by the Israeli Prison Authority to Israeli hospitals on Sunday following the deterioration of their health as a result of their hunger strike that...

On Monday morning Israeli air forces carried out a series of strikes targeting sites inside the Gaza Strip and Syrian territories, Al-Arabi Al-Jadid news website reported. The spokesperson for...

Palestinian student movements in Israel have organised two separate rallies, one at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba and the other at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, in solidarity with hundreds...

Hamas supporters organised a massive rally in the centre of Gaza City on Sunday night calling for Palestinian Authority President (PA) Mahmoud Abbas not to dissolve the Ministry for...

The Obama administration has promised Israel that the US would not immediately recognise the Palestinian unity government, which is expected to be announced on Monday. Spokesperson of the US...

Israel's Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar and the legal adviser to the Israeli Government Yehuda Weinstein have barred the country's nuclear whistle blower, Mordechai Vanunu, from travelling to Britain for...