Middle East

Some 78 per cent of religious Jews want to enter Al-Aqsa Mosque compared to only 18 per cent from the national Haredim, a new poll has revealed. Published by...

The Jewish Ateret Cohanim organisation said it has bought "a very large and strategic building" situated across from the Old City in the heart of the commercial Palestinian neighbourhood...

The majority of the Jordanian House of Representatives voted yesterday to seek the release of soldier Ahmad Adakkamsh, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment, the expulsion of the...

Damascus has closed its embassies in Riyadh, Kuwait and Washington in an unexpected move not said to have any political dimensions, Syrian diplomatic sources said. The decision was attributed...

Ousted Fatah leader Mohamed Dahlan has formally replied to the accusations made by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas that he was involved in the assassination of the Qassam...

Israel's state comptroller has criticised the Israeli army's failures on defence related issues; Israel Today reported on Thursday. State Comptroller Joseph Shapira said in his 2014 report that the...

The Dubai Deputy Police Chief Dhahi Khalfan's allegations that Kuwait finances the Muslim Brotherhood have sparked a wave of fury in Kuwait and other Gulf countries. The Kuwaiti MP...

Israel has pledged to increase its targeted attacks of Palestinians after ten homemade rockets landed in open areas in south Israel from the Gaza Strip yesterday. Israeli Defence Minister...

A senior source at the Egyptian interim government said that Gulf countries are planning to channel huge investments into the development projects that would be included in the electoral...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas waged an unprecedented attack on Wednesday against ousted Fatah member Mohammed Dahlan, accusing him of assassinating several key Palestinian figures, including the late President Yasser...

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani began a two-day visit to the Sultanate of Oman, the closest gulf state to Tehran among the GCC countries, to discuss bilateral ties between the...

Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, the leader of the military coup and Egypt's Defence Minister, arrived in the UAE yesterday to start an official visit of the country. Al-Sisi...

The political rift between Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki and the Sadrist movement led by Muqtada Al-Sadr has widened in recent days. Al-Maliki, who has been trying to calm...

Bulldozers of the Israeli Land Authority, protected by a large number of occupation forces, destroyed the Arab Palestinian village Al-Araqeeb in Negev for the 66th time yesterday. Despite heavy...

Saudi Arabia announced on Wednesday that it would not prevent Muslim Brotherhood members from performing Hajj and Umrah, the Islamic pilgrimage to Makkah, unless specific instructions have been issued...

Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly condemned a weeklong peace and justice conference for Christian evangelicals that launched on Monday in Bethlehem, and admitted to orchestrating an intimidation...

A number of young Palestinian called on the Egyptian Authorities to open the Rafah Crossing and facilitating the movement for Palestinians in and out of the Gaza Strip. Speaking...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated on Monday in Ramallah that he cannot accept Netanyahu's demand to recognise Israel as a Jewish state, stressing that he "will not betray the...

The US "has not yet delivered anything written to the Palestinian side" regarding the negotiations framework agreement, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO),...

Israel is intensifying its diplomatic efforts to sort out the crisis with Jordan after occupation forces killed on Monday morning a Palestinian judge who holds Jordanian citizenship, Israel Radio...

It has been one year since five teenage Palestinians were kidnapped and imprisoned for alleged stone-throwing, following a settler car accident that took place close to their village of...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia slammed on Monday Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki's accusations that the Kingdom is "supporting terrorism in Iraq", calling the remarks "aggressive and irresponsible". Saudi...

Israeli police arrested an Israeli businessman on charges of selling paragliding equipment with possible military use to Iran, Israel's Channel 10 reported on Monday. According to the channel, 65-year...

The armed wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement revealed on Tuesday that it has recovered an Israeli drone which crashed in the southern Gaza Strip. Members of the Izzudeen...

Israel should include Jordan and Egypt in its anti-missile systems, a defence attaché for the US Embassy in Tel Aviv suggested on Monday. Reuters quoted Brigadier-General John Shapland telling...

The number of children negatively affected by the conflict in Syria has been more than doubled within the last year, with hundreds of thousands trapped in besieged places, a...

Some 10,370 newborn Syrian babies were recorded by the Jordanian Department of Civil Affairs last year in the different refugee camps in Jordan, officials said. The official spokesman for...

The Arab League refuses to recognise Israel as a Jewish state; the league said in a statement on Sunday in Cairo. The statement emphasised recognising East Jerusalem, an integral...

Israeli occupation soldiers shot to death a Palestinian judge while entering Allenby Bridge between Jordan and the occupied West Bank on Monday morning. The judge, Raed Za'eiter, 38, who...

Qatari Emir Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani has reaffirmed his country's support for Palestinians in Gaza, the Palestinian government in the strip said on Sunday. In a statement, the Palestinian...

Mediation by Qatar and Lebanon has succeeded in obtaining the release of 12 Orthodox nuns who were abducted from the Mar Takla monastery in the ancient city of Maaloula...

The Emirates-based Jordanian businessman who signed an agreement with the Egyptian military to build a million housing units for Egyptian youth had been accused of a number of corruption...