Middle East

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Yesterday evening , the Palestine Institute for Culture held an awards ceremony at the Red Coral Hotel in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, to recognise Palestinian cultural creativity....

Jewish settler groups stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday morning, under the protection of the Israeli security forces which prevented hundreds of Palestinian worshippers from entering the mosque to protect...

The Palestinian Minister of Health in Gaza, Dr Bassem Naim, is to declare a state of emergency in Gaza's hospitals due to acute power cuts and fuel shortages. In...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Israeli aircrafts launched a wave of coordinated bombings across the Gaza Strip last night. F-16 jets bombed an area east of Khan Yunis and the Shawka district,...

UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon's decision to reject a request by the families of Palestinian Prisoners being held in Israeli prisons to meet with them during a recent visit to...

As solidarity with Palestinian hunger strikers grows, the National Council for the Support of Prisoners in Israeli Prisons organised a demonstration on Monday in support of Hana Al-Shalabi, who...

The Egyptian foreign ministry has announced that the Egyptian embassy in Madrid has recovered a number of priceless antiquities which were smuggled out of Egypt in 1999 by an...

Israel's Hebrew-language Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said yesterday that the country's parliament, the Knesset, is to look into an unprecedented proposal submitted by extreme right-wing parliamentarian Danny Danon. The Likud...

A spokesman for Hamas has said that the results of the meeting of the Islamic Resistance Movement's Political Bureau, held in Cairo this week, "are a testament to the...

The UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Professor Richard Falk, has called on the Israeli authorities to release the Palestinian detainee, Khader Adnan, who...

An official at the Ministry of Electricity and Energy in Cairo has said that talks will be held on ways to resolve the electricity crisis in the Gaza Strip....

Hamas has denounced the treatment Palestinian refugees in Iraq and pleaded for an end to the "killing, torture, displacement and arrests in Baghdad". The Islamic Resistance Movement said that...

A reliable source in Egypt claims that the elected Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, has left Gaza for a second international tour, starting with a visit to Doha to...

The health of some of the student hunger strikers at Bethlehem University in the occupied West Bank has deteriorated as they continue their protest against the university's "financial procedures"....

A senior member of Fatah's Central Committee, Nabil Shaath, has told the media that the meeting last Saturday between a delegation from his organisation and the Prime Minister of...

The Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, arrived in Cairo on Monday as part of a two-day official visit to Egypt and concluded his first Arab and international...

Elected Palestinian legislator Mustafa Barghouti has expressed his belief that the meeting held in Amman between Palestinians and Israelis will not have any benefits. The General Secretary of the...

Sources in Ramallah have revealed that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in his capacity as the head of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation's Executive Committee, has dismissed Yasser Abed Rabbo...

A spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister has denied claims that Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to hand back control of the Jordan Valley to the Palestinians. A report in Israel's...

The Israeli occupation authorities have confiscated 350 acres of land in the occupied city of Jerusalem and the surrounding area in the past three weeks. Details of the land...

A Jerusalem-based body has condemned the Israeli Citizenship Law which has been announced by the authorities. The Islamic-Christian Commission in Support of Jerusalem and the Holy Sites said that...

Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud Barak, flew to the Greek capital of Athens on Tuesday as part of an official visit to discuss bilateral security cooperation. Israel Radio reported that...

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command has criticized the meeting held in Amman on Tuesday between officials from the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Israeli unmanned drones launched a wave of attacks on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday night. In the northern district of Jabaliya one civilian, Abdullah Al Talbani, was...

A spokesman for Tunisia's ruling Al-Nahda Party has denied that leader Rashid Ghannoushi gave an exclusive interview to Voice of Israel Radio during his visit to the Davos Economic...

Israeli forces arrested two more elected Palestinians parliamentarians earlier today (Monday) after breaking into the compound of the International Red Cross where the two men had been taking refuge....

Former Sudanese President Field Marshal Abdul Rahman Swar Al-Dahab has praised the popular revolutions in the Arab world, describing them as "an important Arab achievement which will bring the...

UNRWA has held the premiere of "Someone like me", a documentary film produced as part of the agency's Dignity for All project. The screening took place in Beirut and...

The head of Israel's internal security service has criticised Jewish settler groups for carrying out "terror attacks" against Palestinian and Israeli targets. Shin Bet chief Yoram Cohen told a...

The Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, has started his foreign tour by holding talks with Egypt's Intelligence Minister Morad Mowafi, the Arab League Secretary General Nabil El...

Documents obtained by the Egyptian "Rose al-Yusef" newspaper have revealed that throughout 2011 Israel sought international agreement for a plan which would establish an alternative to the Suez Canal....

Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party, having won more than 46 per cent of the seats in the next parliament, has confirmed that it will lend its full support to...