Middle East

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...

The head of the Palestinian National Council, Saleem Al-Zanoun, has said that the follow-up committee for the activation of the Palestine Liberation Organization held an extensive meeting on Sunday,...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Monday, 09.01.2012, the Committee for Political Prisoners and the Association of Muslim Youths in the West Bank organized a solidarity sit-in against policies of political detention...

A member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation has set out his view of the meeting to be held between Israel and the Palestinians in Amman...

Israeli Parliament Knesset is discussing, in its meeting held on Monday (26/12), a bill on the Jewish state's recognition of the "Armenian Massacre" which the Turks are accused  of committing...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES A 34 year old Palestinian man's life hangs in the balance as he enters his 45th day of hunger strike. Khader Adnan was so traumatised by his...

A British newspaper claims that the Israeli government has refused to pledge to let the United States know well in advance of any unilateral attack against Iranian nuclear facilities....

Israel Radio has claimed that the Israeli occupation authorities have issued special permits to the heads of the Palestinian security services and officials in the Palestinian Authority, rather than...

Hebrew media sources have reported that Israeli Defence Force investigations into the Rishrash (Eilat) attack in August have revealed that all the bombers involved were Sinai Bedouins and not...

Israel's Minister of Defence, Ehud Barak, has claimed that the security situation in the occupied West Bank is relatively stable at the moment. He attributed this to the security...

The Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, strongly condemned a draft law that declares the city of Jerusalem as "the capital of Israel and the Jewish...

On Sunday, January 29th, Turkish President, Abdullah Gul, began an official visit to the United Arab Emirates – the first visit by a Turkish president to the UAE in...

Israeli occupation forces sealed the entrances to the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank, on Saturday, isolating it from the surrounding area for a...

A lawyer acting for women activists in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has filed a complaint with the general prosecutor against the editor-in-chief of Alfajr weekly newspaper and one of its...

Israeli foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has ruled out the possibility of a breakthrough in the political process due to what he claimed is "the Palestinian negotiator's lack of interest". During...

The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has condemned the Israeli occupation authority's approval of 130 new housing units in the settlement of Gilo...

A senior member of the PLO Executive Committee has said that withdrawing recognition of Israel is a "valid option" in the event of the collapse of other possibilities. Dr....

The head of the Executive Office of Al-Nahda Party, which won the election in Tunisia, has said that his people will focus on internal issues but not at the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Gaza Strip is expected to export at least one thousand tons of strawberries to Western Europe this year. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, strawberry farmers...