Middle East

According to Maariv newspaper, the Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations resumed yesterday evening despite the killing of three Palestinians in the Qalandiya refugee camp, north of Jerusalem. The paper confirmed that...

The Latakia Rebels' military council is reporting that the first ship has departed from the Russian fleet located in the Tartus port. In a brief statement issue today, the...

Fatah has rejected an offer from Hamas to participate in the government of the Gaza Strip. The offer was made by Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. In response, Fatah said...

Rumours are rife about the possible actions that may be taken by the Palestinian Authority leadership against Hamas and the Gaza Strip within the context of the stalled reconciliation...

Qatar is preparing to launch its first communications satellite before the end of August. Es'hail 1 has been built using advanced anti-interference technology and will give priority to Qatari...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The ongoing political crisis in Egypt has had a major influence on the people of the besieged Gaza Strip. The Rafah border crossing has been the Palestinians'...

Amid the talk about a possible military strike on Syria, unusual numbers of Israeli soldiers have moved into the occupied Syrian Golan. Also, an Israeli military drill took place...

The Palestinian movement, Islamic Jihad, announced its opposition to any foreign aggression against any Arab or Islamic country in a statement released on Thursday. The statement said that Islamic...

Jordanian soil will not be used as a launch pad for attacks on Syria, a government spokesman said on Wednesday. The kingdom will remain neutral on Arab issues, as...

Gulf stock markets have suffered sharp declines due to fears of an impending military intervention in Syria. Dubai's share price declined by 7.01 per cent, while Saudi Arabia's share...

According to Ahrar Centre for Prisoners' Studies and Human Rights, Israel still has a number of prisoners from Jerusalem who have been in prison since before the signing of...

In recent days, UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) has been attacked after an Israeli film-maker released a film called "Camp Jihad". This alleges...

Israeli Radio reported this afternoon that Yohanan Danino, the General Inspector of Israeli Police, is asking Israelis to remain calm, saying that Israel is ready to face every possible...

According to the Al-Rai newspaper in Kuwait, high-ranking sources say that Western nations have requested Israel to exercise restraint over possible retaliation from the Syrian regime and its allies...

Mousa Abu-Marzouq, the Deputy Chief of Hamas's Political Bureau, said on Wednesday that his movement has no interests in any of the chaos in Egypt, especially what is happening...

Qatar's trade surplus in June 2013 reached QR 32.1 billion. According to a preliminary report issued by the ministry of development, planning and statistics yesterday, during the month of...

The Israeli security authorities have arrested Shaikh Raed Salah, the head of the Islamic movement in Israel, while he was driving near Jerusalem. He was on his way to...

Israeli mass media broadcast on Monday morning the operetta "Blessed are the Hands" to hail the Egyptian military forces that carried out the coup in Egypt last month. Israel's...

The military coup in Egypt is believed to have entered its second phase. The security forces affiliated with General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, commander-in-chief of the Egyptian armed forces, have...

Hundreds of students in the United Arab Emirates have signed-up to a Twitter campaign to expel one-time Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan from the country. The students insist that Dahlan...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS Egyptian navy vessels have attacked Palestinian fishermen going about their work off the coast of Rafah. Five fishermen were arrested and two were shot when their boats...

The crisis engulfing the Gaza Strip has deepened following the closure of the Rafah Border Crossing and many of the lifeline tunnels by the Egyptian coup authorities. Fuel supplies...

Qatar's Ambassador to Jordan, Zayed Bin Saeed Al-Khiyarein, has denied claims that his country has evacuated its nationals from the country because of the crisis in Syria. Al-Khiyarein told...

Yemeni Prime Minister Mohammed Salem Basindwa has escaped an apparent assassination attempt in the capital Sanaa. According to security sources, the incident took place on Saturday evening as he...

Haaretz newspaper has reported that Israel is preparing to start a large-scale campaign to deport African immigrants after September's Jewish holidays. It revealed that the Israeli government has reached...

PHOTOS To mark the occasion of World Humanitarian Day, the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Gaza Strip organized an exhibition and competition for photographers about humanitarian...

A spokesman for Fatah has claimed that the Egyptian coup, which he called a "revolution", has "downed the establishment of a mini-state in Gaza and Sinai". Osama Qawasmi referred...

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon has criticised the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli negotiations and refuses to consider the evacuation of settlements in the occupied West Bank to be negotiable. "The negotiations...

In an interview with Fox News, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal said the Kingdom has helped Egypt both before and after the revolution. Following the deposition of President...

On Wednesday, Israeli occupation forces banned Jerusalem's Mufti Mohamed Hussein, as well as other religious and prominent Palestinian figures, from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The fatwa department of Palestine...

Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad threatened to "attack Jordan and Turkey in the event they took part in any American-led military action against Syria." Mekdad said in an...

Israeli daily newspaper, Maariv has reported that the main office which investigates Nazi crimes has announced that a Nazi criminal is currently living in Israel. The office said that...