Middle East

Some 42 per cent of Israeli employers do not prefer to hire Arab workers, an official Israeli study found. Local media reported the study was commissioned by the Israeli...

The Palestinian leadership is demanding that Israel freezes its settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories as a condition for extending the negotiations. Maan News Agency quoted on Tuesday...

Egyptian security sources revealed details of a meeting between Egyptian and Israeli military officials which took place two weeks ago. The same sources uncovered two secret visits by the...

,p>One of the top issues on the agenda of the latest visit of the Qatari Emir Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani to Jordan was an attempt to persuade Amman to...

Israeli settlers set fire to agricultural land in the village of Qaryout south of Nablus in the north of the West Bank before dawn today. An activist with the...

The Saudi Royal Court's announcement of the appointment of Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz as the second in line to the throne is believed to be the first step towards...

Jewish groups are calling on the Israeli public to take part in preparations for events which they hope will take place in Al-Aqsa Mosque on the eve of the...

Member of Hamas's political bureau Mousa Abu Marzook has refused the possibility of any one faction taking unilateral measures in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), be it minor or...

The Egyptian Minister of Interior General Mohamed Ibrahim acknowledged the validity of a leaked document which exonerates Hamas from accusations of militant activity in Sinai. The document, leaked by...

Mohammed Shtayyeh, a member of Fatah's Executive Committee, has called for a full local, regional and international economic boycott of Israel to oblige it to withdraw from the occupied...

Hamas have refused Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas's request for the group to issue written consent to carry out general elections, the Islamic movement's spokesperson said. "This is...

"Erdogan won", reads an Arabic hashtag that went viral as the results of Turkish municipal elections started to come out on Sunday. Twitter and Facebook users from across the...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is not safe in the West Bank if Israel withdraws, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said yesterday. Bennett said: "He has no real authority on...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been found guilty of accepting bribes, a Tel Aviv District Court ruled today. According to the investigation conducted in this case, Olmert...

On March 30th 1976, as the latest Israeli mass-appropriation of Palestinian-owned land was underway, Palestinian citizens of Israel staged mass protests from the Galilee to the Naqab. The state's...

The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture in the Gaza Strip has commemorated Land Day – March 30th – by planting tens of olive trees in the Jabaliya area. The region...

The Syrian National Council has criticised a Russian Foreign Ministry statement which considered the opposition forces advancements in the coastal area; west of the country as harmful to the...

Israel's minister of the economy and leader of the right-wing Jewish Home Party, Naftali Bennett, objected to releasing a fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the extension...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he will not release a single Palestinian prisoner unless the Palestinian Authority recognises Israel as a Jewish state; Israel's Channel 10 reported...

The Hamas-led government spokesperson; Ihab Ghussein denied media reports claiming that the government in Gaza has agreed to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas proposal to form a committee to...

On Friday night Israeli forces killed two Syrians near the border of the occupied Golan Heights and Syria, Israeli media said. According to the Israeli media, three suspects were...

On Friday the temporary Syrian government announced that it had allocated $500,000 to help opposition forces seize new land in coastal Latakia in the east of Syria, a statement...

Saudi activist Madiha Agroush said Saturday that female activists will drive cars as a sign of protest against the government's banning of women from driving. The protest comes in...

The Palestinian and Israeli negotiation teams held a joint meeting with the US envoy for the peace process in the Middle East, Martin Indyk, in Jerusalem on Friday night,...

Mustafa Barghouti, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative movement, has estimated that Israel has incurred losses of around eight billion dollars due to the boycott campaign against illegal...

The Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Prisoners, Ziad Abu Ein, has confirmed in a statement on his social network Facebook page that Israel has refused to release the...

Hamas praised UNRWA Commissioner-General for Palestinian refugees Filippo Grandi's "humanitarian stance and the leadership" in which he called for the lifting of the "unjust siege on Gaza and for...

Rashid Al-Rashq, a 14 year-old Palestinian boy, has revealed that Israeli forces tortured and mistreated him, including stripping him of his clothes, after he was imprisoned for two months...

An official European parliamentary delegation was prevented, by Israel, from entering the besieged Gaza Strip yesterday. A Moscow News Agency published a statement by the European Council which said...

The Dubai Chief of Police, Dhahi Khalfan, has accused the Gulf States, and especially Kuwait, of destroying Iraq, saying Kuwait's unprecedented retaliation against former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's invasion...

Filippo Grandi ends his four-year term as UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Commissioner-General on 29 March, and is handing over to the Swiss national, Pierre Krähenbühl. Mr. Grandi,...

Prince Muqrin Bin Abdul Aziz has been named deputy Crown Prince making him officially second inline to succeed King Abdullah and Crown Prince Salman Bin Abdul Aziz, the Saudi...