The Ministry of the Interior in Kuwait has proposed a set of quotas for every expatriate community in the country in a bid to address the demographic imbalance. Approximately two-thirds of the population in the Gulf State are foreigners.
The (...)
Families of Israelis who were killed and wounded during the 2014 Israeli offensive on Gaza are demanding an inquiry into the performance of the political and military Israeli leadership before, during and after the offensive, Quds Press reported on (...)
Saudi jets launched air strikes on Tuesday against Houthi militiamen close to the kingdom's southern border with Yemen, after a series of deadly incursions the previous day.
Al Arabiya reported that "tens of Houthi" fighters were killed in the (...)
Telling the truth has never been a strong trait in Benjamin Netanyahu. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy once described Israel's prime minister as "a liar". Uncharacteristically, Netanyahu broke that mould last week when he told his Ethiopian (...)
Italy opposes unilateral military intervention in the fight against terrorists in Libya, unless the national unity government being formed has officially demanded it, the special representative of the Italian government in Libya said.
"Italy opposes (...)
Mayor of the French town of Migennes François Boucher banned on Tuesday teaching Arabic and Turkish languages in the schools under his administration for "security reasons", Anadolu reported.
Boucher was elected from the center-right Union for a (...)
The three were killed when Saudi forces destroyed seven Houthi vehicles during an attack on the southern Asir region near the Yemeni border, the state-run Al Ekhbariya television said. No further details were given.
Saudi Arabia accuses Iran of (...)
Hundreds of Jewish settlers forced their way into a religious site in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Nablus in the early hours of Tuesday, triggering clashes with Palestinian youths, according to eyewitnesses.
"At least 2,000 Jewish settlers (...)
The Islamic-Christian Commission in Support of Jerusalem and the Holy Sites yesterday hailed the Vatican's decision to recognise the State of Palestine.
In a press release, the commission's Secretary-General Hanna Issa said the existing relations (...)
Saudi Arabia's King Salman Bin Abdulaziz has called on the international community to fulfil its responsibilities and take the necessary measures to protect the Palestinian people from the "antagonistic Israeli actions that are a provocation to the (...)
The Israeli occupation authorities has arrested 90 Palestinian students at Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank recently, a spokesman of the university's Students Union has told Quds Press. On Saturday, the Israelis arrested the last batch (...)
Media reports in Israel have reported that the army is planning to build walls around Palestinians towns and villages on the pretext that it will stop stones being thrown at illegal Jewish settlers.
"The army will build 9 metre high walls in the (...)
Spokesman of the Jordanian government yesterday called on the Israeli government to stop securing settler raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque, considering this a "flagrant violation" of the mutual peace agreement, the Anadolu Agency reported.
In a statement the (...)
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said the Israeli occupation forces committed 277 attacks against ambulance crews in the Palestinian territories since the beginning of October.
In a statement received by Quds Press yesterday, the society (...)
Turkey has arrested a man believed to have served as a guard at an ISIS prison holding foreign hostages in Syria, Anadolu news agency has reported. Security sources told the agency that British citizen Leslie Davis used a fake passport to enter (...)
Some 400 Palestinian boys are being held in Israeli jails, the Palestinian Prisoners Club (PPC) revealed yesterday.
Quds Press reported the PPC saying the number of Palestinian boys being held at Ofer Prison has sharply increased to 187 since the (...)
The Tunisian Ministry of Defence announced yesterday that clashes broke out between the army forces and an Al-Qaeda affiliate group in the Kasserine province on the border with Algeria.
Ministry spokesman Colonel Belhassen Oueslati said (...)
French Ambassador in Algiers Bernard Emié yesterday called on the Algerian authorities to strengthen security measures around French establishments in the country after the bloody attacks that targeted the French capital, Paris, on Friday, Turkey's (...)
Jordan's King Abdullah II has stressed that Jerusalem will remain under Hashemite guardianship in terms of Jordan's religious and historical responsibility towards the Holy City.
In his speech during the opening of the third session of the Jordanian (...)
A former agent of the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, David Ben-Ozil, has recently revealed that Israel took part in the Sudanese civil war between Sudanese government forces and southern separatist between the years of 1969 and 1971, the (...)
The Kuwaiti interior ministry announced on Friday that it has arrested four Egyptians for "publishing libellous posts" on social media against Kuwait and calling for a protest in front of the Egyptian embassy, Middle East Monitor has reported.
The (...)
Six fighters belonging to Lebanon's Hezbollah Shia militia have been killed during fighting in Syria, Al-Khaleejonline has reported. According to Al-Jazeera news channel, the death toll of Hezbollah fighters who have been killed since the beginning (...)
Israeli Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked, Minister of Internal Security Gilad Erdan and Tourism Minister Yariv Levin have received money from a drugs and weapons trafficker to further their political careers, Israeli Channel 2 revealed.
The three (...)
There were 89 cases of Israeli aggression against journalists in the occupied Palestinian territories in October, Quds Press reported yesterday.
Salama Ma'rouf, spokesman of the Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza, told a press conference in Gaza (...)
The Islamic Educationa, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ISESCO) has condemned the Russian airstrikes on a popular market in the Syrian city of Duma, Quds Press reported.
In a statement released on Friday, the organisation condemned the (...)