Middle East

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Sunday that he opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state and proposed 'a form of rule' in parts of the territories occupied...

Israeli aircraft have attacked targets in South Lebanon owned by Hezbollah, Lebanese and Israeli media outlets report. The official Lebanese news agency said that the Israeli Air Force flew...

Israel has dropped from 92nd place on the Reporters without Borders' press freedom index in 2012 to 112th place in 2013 out of 179 countries. The organization points out...

A group known as the Black Bloc has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks against the offices of the Muslim Brotherhood and security forces over the past few...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza has announced that a military academy is to be built in the territory. Speaking during the graduation ceremony of a military...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Palestinian naval police have found several ancient archaeological artefacts in the depth of the Mediterranean Sea off the Gaza coast, a spokesman for the Palestinian police...

The leader of the Egyptian Arab Socialist Party has called on President Mohamed Morsi to demand compensation for Egyptians who, it is alleged, were tortured by Israel. Waheed Aloksory said...

Osama Hamdan, the senior representative of the Islamic Resistance Movement in Lebanon, has said that the meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's leadership in Cairo was "positive and made...

Yair Lapid, the leader of Yesh Atid, the second largest party in the Israeli Knesset, has said that incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to impose "strict" austerity...

The EU missions in Jerusalem and Ramallah have expressed Europe's deep concern about the death toll of Palestinian civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories as Israeli forces have resorted...

An Israeli newspaper has revealed that the main cause of death among Israeli soldiers is suicide. In 2012 alone, fourteen soldiers killed themselves, claims Haaretz. The figures provided by...

Israeli soldiers swept into Wadi al-Rababeh neighbourhood of occupied Jerusalem on Monday and detained eight Palestinian residents of Silwan, Tobas and Beit Amer. Armoured bulldozers accompanied the soldiers in...

Former Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said on Wednesday that the current Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is going to form the upcoming Israeli government which will maintain the...

A further 12 Palestinians have been arrested by Israeli occupation forces in the latest military sweeps through several West Bank cities and refugee camps. Soldiers broke into homes and...

A senior Fatah official has said that he expects Hamas to win "an overwhelming majority" in the Palestinian Liberation Organisation elections if they are carried out in a free...

After driving Palestinians out of their villages to purportedly set up military exercise bases, the Israeli daily, Haaretz, accused Israel on Monday of carrying out the "ethnic cleansing" of...

The former Director of Israel's Mossad spy agency, Danny Yatom, has ruled out any response by the Syrian army or Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon to the Israeli attack on...

The Palestinian Ministry of Justice in Gaza has welcomed the United Nations decision to open an investigation into the use of drones by the Israeli occupation forces and other...

Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has spoken to senior Egyptian officials to brief them on the up-to-date condition of Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli jails. He asked the unnamed...

The opposition in Kuwait has announced that it intends to take serious steps toward internationalising its crisis with the country's government. Former Member of Parliament Adel Al-Damkhy told a...

The Palestinian Minister of Religious Endowments in Gaza has warned of Israeli threats to Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. Ismail Radwan said that this is...

A report in Haaretz has claimed that Israel's national security advisor, General Jacob Amidror, has warned of the risks of building more settlement units. Speaking behind closed doors in...

Sources in the Israeli occupation and internal security forces have said that the latest campaign of detentions and arrests against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank is an attempt...

The Islamic Resistance Movement has said that it did not authorise Jordan's King Abdullah II to forward its agreement on the two-state solution to the US administration. A member...

Is Hamas Political Bureau chief Khaled Meshaal being lined up to lead a reformed Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)? That's the claim being made in a report in the London...

The Palestinian Authority has expressed its readiness to deal with any Israeli government which is committed to the legitimate international resolutions related to the Palestinian cause. Hamas and the...

The head of the Islamic Movement in the parts of Palestine occupied in 1948 – now called Israel – has told Palestinians not to pin too many hopes on...

According to Israel's Ma'ariv newspaper, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, pledged on Friday that should he head any prospective Israeli government, he would not evacuate any settlement in the...

For the third day in a row, Israeli bulldozers are demolishing historic arches and facades of Islamic buildings dating back to the Mamluk and Ottoman eras on the north...

Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups have revealed that 20,000 children from Jerusalem are denied permission to live with their parents in the occupied city of Jerusalem because, the...

The Saudi Foreign Minister has criticised the performance of the UN Security Council with regards to what he views as its "failure" to find a just solution to the...

The leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, has won the International King Faisal Award for services to Islam. The International King Faisal Awarding Body said...