The Israeli army stormed the city of Hebron on Saturday, closing the Ibrahimi Mosque and preventing worshippers from entering, according to eyewitnesses and local authorities.
Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli forces raided the Wadi al-Hariya (...)
The Israeli army withdrew from the city of Tulkarm and its refugee camps in the northern occupied West Bank on Thursday evening after a 48-hour military operation.
The Israeli forces left behind four dead, several injured, and extensive damage to (...)
For East Palestine residents John and Lisa Hamner life as they knew it came to a screeching, flaming halt at 8:55 p.m. on Feb. 3.
It was that day that a toxin-laden train derailed just meters from their successful garbage truck business, which they (...)
A public meeting that was meant to ease fears about a toxic chemical spill in an Ohio town only heightened anger when the rail firm at the heart of the disaster failed to show up.
Representatives of the Norfolk Southern railway company, whose train (...)
As he hopscotches through the Middle East, President Donald Trump is urging Israel and its Arab neighbors to unite around a "common cause": their deep distrust of Iran.
Trump's first trip abroad has highlighted the extent to which strident (...)
Four Palestinians have been found dead in a smuggling tunnel linking the Gaza Strip to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, local officials said Sunday, accusing the Egyptian military of flooding it.
The four men aged 22 to 45 "were found dead after the tunnel (...)
Palestinian movement Hamas has thanked Turkey for its efforts on behalf of Gazans in a weekend reconciliation deal with Israel but urged it to increase pressure for an end to a decade-old blockade.
In its first reaction to the agreement, Hamas (...)
Instead of going to school, Walid and Ibrahim spend hours each day rummaging through houses destroyed in Gaza's wars in search of scrap to raise a few shekels for their families.
They were once good students but Walid Maaruf, 11, and Ibrahim Ghaben, (...)
In front of a gym's empty bleachers, a group of veiled women in wheelchairs exchange passes, practicing to form a female Paralympic basketball team in the Gaza Strip.
Wessal Abu Alyan, a 40-year-old mother of four, said playing helped her "feel free (...)
In a duel within Israel's military court system, prosecutors filed charges against a prominent Palestinian academic days after a judge ordered him freed from internment, the army said late Sunday.
Astrophysics professor Imad Barghouti, 52, was (...)
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Tuesday dismissed an Israeli proposal for direct negotiations instead of a French multilateral peace initiative, calling it an attempt to "buy time."
Hamdallah made the comments as he met French Prime (...)
Israeli forces demolished the family homes early on Monday of three Palestinians killed after a deadly attack in east Jerusalem in February, Palestinian security sources and the Israeli army said.
The three homes were destroyed in Qabatiya in the (...)
THE first romantic comedy ever shot in Saudi Arabia, Barakah meets Barakah, will debut at a Florence-based art and film festival this week.
The romantic comedy by Saudi filmmaker Mahmoud Sabbagh will be among other films featured at Middle East Now (...)
Circus performers around the world are mobilizing in support of a Palestinian clown held by Israel without trial for more than three months on unspecified grounds.
They are showing solidarity with red noses and fluorescent wigs in Europe and with a (...)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pledged on Saturday to improve conditions for teachers whose three-week-old strike has closed several schools in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
In a previously unscheduled television address Abbas, flanked by (...)
Amnesty International and Palestinian cultural institutions have launched an appeal for help for 23-year-old Palestinian circus performer and teacher Mohammad Abu Sakha, held by Israel for nearly three months without trial.
Abu Sakha was arrested on (...)
A man has been formally charged with six counts of capital murder in the killing of a family at a Texas campsite, AP reported.
Anderson County District Attorney Allyson Mitchell issued the warrants Thursday afternoon against William Mitchell Hudson, (...)
Quds to perform prayers at Bait Al-Maqdis.
He depicted Israel's Judaization of the city of Al-Quds as the most unprecedented violation of Muslim and Palestinian rights in history, a move he said would divert the conflict from political and legal (...)
Israeli solidarity to exploit conditions of Palestinians and exert financial pressures to prevent them from joining the International Criminal Court.
Finally, Al-Riyadh newspaper lamented the current bad situation of Arabs, saying that our present (...)
Quds operation yesterday morning partially came as a natural reaction by the Palestinian people in the Palestinian Authority to the fact that the peace process no longer exists after Israel rejected the two-state solution.
On Lebanon, Okaz newspaper (...)
Watan" said the Palestinian's have to have their "Mandela" who shows the world that the Israeli regime, imposed on Palestine in 1948, is far complicated and grieving that the apartheid in former South Africa.
"Al-Bilad" added that the Organization (...)
The Summit affirms that the issue of Palestine is the central issue of the Islamic World, hence ending the Israeli occupation of Arab and Palestinian territories since 1967, including East Al-Quds, Syrian Golan Heights, and completion of Israeli (...)
Andalus Street intersection has been closed for three months to allow important rain and flood drainage works to be carried out. Commuters who normally use the intersection are being advised to use alternative roads.
Brig. Muhammad Hassan (...)
Quds as its capital, and to achieve a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East.
The Kingdom has been appreciated and admired by the world for its emergency aid to people in need in times of disasters and adversities, and perhaps the most (...)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on
Sunday left for the United States, but it was unclear whether he
would meet with President Barack Obama during his visit, dpa reported.
Netanyahu is set to address Jewish community activists in the (...)