Middle East

Approximately 5,000 Palestinians are currently being held in Israeli jails, including 20 women and 230 minors, figured released by the Palestinian Prisoners Club today showed. The figures were released...

The Israeli authorities allowed nearly 600 Christians from the Gaza Strip to pass through the northern Beit Hanoun crossing on Thursday in order to participate in the Easter celebrations...

The judicial panel hearing the lawsuit that calls for labelling Qatar a "terror-sponsoring country" stepped down from the court, citing "uneasiness", judicial sources said. The case has been adjourned...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that his country will stand firmly against any country working against the interests of the Iranian people. In a speech before a...

Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh confirmed on Wednesday that the former Qatari Emir had approved multiple projects to reconstruct the Gaza Strip in just one meeting. During...

The United Arab Emirates has denied entry to seven Kuwaiti university students who were due to study in the UAE, Kuwaiti MP Hussein Alqoiean reported. Alqoiean said the Emirati...

The Monitor of Human Rights in Saudi Arabia has reported that its founder, lawyer Waleed Sami Abu Alkhair, was arrested on Tuesday while attending a hearing in his trial....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed the Palestinian Authority (PA) for the attack on the Israeli intelligence officer in occupied Hebron which took place earlier this week, Israeli...

"Iran is a strategic partner to the UAE not only because of commercial and economic relations, but because of cultural and civilisation links," he said. The minister added: "The...

Israel's Haaretz newspaper condemned Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon's decision to seize Palestinian land in Bethlehem to expand the Gush Etzion settlement bloc. In its editorial today, Haaretz said: "With...

Iran's charge d'affaires in Cairo Mojtaba Amani yesterday denied media reports claiming the Egyptian Foreign Ministry summoned him over the diplomatic mission's behaviour. Amani told reporters at his residence...

Syrian rebels have seized shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles from regime forces in spite of Israel and the Syrian regime's best efforts to prevent such strategic developments from happening, an Israeli...

Tens of worshippers were wounded yesterday when the Israeli army and police broke into Al-Aqsa Mosque and attacked Palestinians inside, eyewitnesses reported According to locals "many worshipers suffocated from...

Fathy Al-Qarawy, a leader in the Palestinian movement Hamas in the West Bank, expressed his pessimism regarding Arab and Islamic role in rescuing holy Islamic sites from Israeli assaults....

A female Libyan employee at the US embassy in Tripoli was able to flee from her kidnappers on Tuesday after being held on Monday. The employee has been transferred...

The Iranian Minister of Defence Hussein Dahqan said Wednesday that Iran refuses any negotiations on its missile powers. According to Fars News Agency, Dahqan said that Iranian missiles are...

The Israeli Directorate of Military Intelligence (Aman) has predicted that the year 2015 will be a decisive one for the fate of the Egyptian regime and the coup that...

Saudi authorities arrested over the past 45 days more than 15,000 "infiltrators" who tried to illegally cross to Saudi Arabia through the borders with Yemen. Spokesman of border security...

Youssef Rizqa, a political adviser to the Palestinian Prime Minister, said that Egypt is overseeing the current efforts to achieve reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah. Rizqa told Alresalah.net that:...

Saudi Arabia has replaced intelligence chief Prince Bandar Bin Sultan with General Youssef Al-Idrissi, Saudi media reported yesterday. Citing a royal decree, the Saudi Press Agency said: "Prince Bandar...

The Iraqi government announced on Tuesday that it had shut down Baghdad's central prison, formerly known as Abu Ghraib, and transferred all the facility's prisoners to detention centres in...

Media adviser to the Syrian Opposition Coalition Bahia Mardini said she was alarmed by the Syrian regime's decision to refer three Syrian women to the counter-terrorism court. Mardini noted...

Israeli forces arrested two young men and closed the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque yesterday morning amid high tension. According to the Palestinian news agency‎ WAFA, occupation forces arrested Musbah...

Reuters has revealed Israeli efforts to rebuild strained ties with old allies Egypt and Turkey through natural gas deals. Israel, which has been looking for regional customers for its...

Hamas yesterday denounced Fatah and Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas' decision to hold elections in parts of the occupied Palestinian territories. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoom said if elections...

Continuing the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks will achieve nothing because Israel insists on depriving the Palestinians from their rights and land, General Tawfiq Tirawi, a member of Fatah's Central Committee,...

The Jordanian ambassador to Libya was kidnapped by masked gunmen in Tripoli, the Libyan Ministry of International Cooperation and Foreign Affairs announced today. Official sources in the ministry said...

American and Arab sports activists in the United States have launched the Red Card Israeli Racism campaign calling for Israel to be expelled from the Fédération Internationale de Football...

Ambassador Ibrahim Yousry, the leader of Addameer National Front, has denounced the Egyptian military for trying to exclude such an important faction as the Muslim Brotherhood from Egypt's political...

The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sub-delegation in the Gaza Strip, Christian Cardon, has said that the humanitarian and service situation in Gaza is...

A Palestinian woman died on Monday evening after Israeli occupation forces fired tear gas at Palestinian protesters in the Aida refugee camp northwest of the West Bank city of...

Kuwait's Foreign Ministry has categorically denied the claims made by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman about holding secret talks with Israel. Kuwait's state-run KUNA news agency quoted on Monday...