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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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