Middle East

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....

A senior official has confirmed that the Islamic Resistance Movement's political chief will meet the Jordanian monarch to discuss relations between the state and Hamas. Osama Hamdan, who is...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Parliamentarians from the Change and Reform bloc have held a vigil on front of the parliament building in Ramallah in solidarity with the Speaker, Dr Aziz Dweik,...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Sunday, January 15th, the Central West Bank Municipality of al-Bireh in conjunction with the Centre for Happy Childhood observed the anniversary of Palestinian Martyr's Day which...

Jordanian sources have reported that the Jordanian judiciary has ordered the seizure of all movable and immovable properties of the former Fatah leader, Mohammed Dahlan. In its Monday ...

A delegation of international medical specialists has arrived in the Gaza Strip after crossing via the Rafah border post, which links Gaza with Egypt. The delegation is associated with...

The head of the Algerian Society for Peace has praised Turkey's prime minister for his criticism of what Recep Tayyip Erdogan called French "genocide" in Algeria. Mr Erdogan was...

The former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in Gaza's Hamas-led government has claimed that some European countries are preparing to begin direct talks with the Islamic Resistance Movement. Dr....

Israeli occupation authorities have confiscated more land belonging to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The latest land grab has taken place in the village of Alkahs, to the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESYesterday night, the Miles of Smiles Convoy 8 arrived in the Gaza Strip through the Rafah Land Border Crossing with Egypt. The Convoy consisted of 48 solidarity activists...

Mustafa Barghouti, the coordinator of the Freedom Committee for Palestinian reconciliation, has said that next week will witness an "actual application" of the agreement by the Palestinian factions. In...

Data issued by the Statistics Department of the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners show that 4,500 Palestinians, including six women, are being held in Israeli jails at...

Ismail Haniyeh, the elected Prime Minister of the Palestinian government in Gaza, has left the territory for a tour of Arab capitals and Turkey. This is his second such...

A three-week long round of meetings in the Jordanian capital, Amman, between the Palestinian and Israeli negotiators; Saeb Erekat and Isaac Molkho, has ended without having led to a...

Israeli sources have revealed that the United States has called upon the King of Jordan to appoint a new ambassador in Tel Aviv. According to a radio report on...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Officials from the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Fatah met yesterday, January 14, in Gaza at the residence of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. Attending the meeting on...

Israel's occupation authorities have destroyed agricultural land and uprooted trees in Al-Khodar, south of Bethlehem on the occupied West Bank. A warning of the destruction was given to the...

The Director of Property Management at Israel's Foreign Ministry is preparing a draft bill which, if passed into law, will see the Zionist state sending claims for compensation for...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES A Russian delegation headed by Shamil Sultanov began a three-day visit to the Gaza Strip on 25 December. The purpose is to examine the health sector in...

The speaker of the Egyptian People's Assembly, Dr Saad El Katatni, has declined an invitation to visit Tel Aviv from his Israeli counterpart; Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin. On Thursday, January...

A delegation of senior members of the Islamic Resistance Movement, led by Khaled Meshaal, has held talks in Cairo with the Swiss envoy to the Middle East peace process,...