Palestine

UN demands end to Israeli settlements after US abstains

NEW YORK: The UN Security Council on Friday demanded that Israel halt its settlement activities… Read More

Abbas re-elected party leader as Fatah opens rare congress

RAMALLAH: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah re-elected him party head on Tuesday as the movement opened… Read More

Jewish settlers flee as Israel wildfires spread

JERUSALEM: Wildfires near Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank have forced hundreds to flee… Read More

Israeli Arabs, Gazans protest against anti-Azan bill

JERUSALEM: Hundreds of Muslims in Israel and the Gaza Strip demonstrated on Friday against a… Read More

Israel court sticks to deadline for Amona settlement

JERUSALEM:  Israel's high court Monday rejected a government bid to delay the evacuation of a… Read More

Museum to Yasser Arafat offers facts, leaves open questions

RAMALLAH: The battle for Palestinian statehood consumed Yasser Arafat's life and a new museum in his… Read More

World in shock as Trump surges to victory in United States

WASHINGTON: Republican Donald Trump edged closer to winning the White House with a series of… Read More

Palestinians to open museum to longtime leader Arafat

RAMALLAH: A museum dedicated to Yasser Arafat, including the room where the Palestinian leader spent… Read More

Israeli troops kill Palestinian suspected of throwing rocks at them

JERUSALEM: Israeli troops on Thursday shot dead a Palestinian whom they suspected had thrown rocks… Read More

Palestinian child killed along Gaza border: ministry

GAZA: A 10-year-old Palestinian boy was killed along the Gazan border late Wednesday. Ashraf al-Qudra,… Read More

The population of blockaded Gaza Strip has reached two million

GAZA STRIP: The two millionth person has been born in Gaza, with the birth of… Read More

Palestine youths march on Israel settlement in message to FIFA

MAALE ADUMIM: Palestinian children marched on an Israeli settlement to play football there on Tuesday,… Read More

Palestinians call on FIFA to act against Israeli settlement clubs

RAMALLAH: Palestinian officials have called on FIFA to kick out six Israeli clubs based in… Read More

Unsettled disputes including Kashmir seek UN’s attention, says Lodhi

UNITED NATIONS: As the United Nations frames its anti-terror strategy, Pakistan has called for the… Read More

Lodhi at UN says Kashmir was and will never be an integral part of India

NEW YORK: Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Maleeha Lodhi told the world body that… Read More

Pakistan to continue support of Kashmir’s freedom movement: envoy

NEW YORK: Pakistan said that it will continue to support the freedom movement of the… Read More

ICC to decide on Israel-Palestine war crimes probe ‘in due course’: official

JERUSALEM: The International Criminal Court has no deadline for deciding whether to investigate alleged war… Read More

US warns settlements harm Israel’s democratic future

WASHINGTON: The United States rebuked Israel on Wednesday for approving more settlement building on Palestinian… Read More

Abbas to UN: Israel destroying two-state solution hopes

UNITED NATIONS: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas told the UN General Assembly on Thursday that Israel's settlement… Read More

Israel shuts Palestinian radio station for alleged ‘incitement’

HEBRON, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: Israeli authorities have shut down a Palestinian radio station in the occupied… Read More