News from category Middle East
BAGHDAD (Agencies)
Iraq’s electoral commission will announce on Thursday the partial results of this week’s parliamentary election as Prime Minister expected to emerge as the front-runner.
Partial results from Iraq’s parliamentary election will be released on Thursday, …
GAZA (Reuters)
Paul Martin, a British freelance journalist arrested by Hamas in the Gaza Strip last month and held on suspicion of espionage for Israel, was released on Thursday, his lawyer and a Palestinian official said.
Martin …
CAIRO (Agencies)
Israel found itself under increasing international pressure on Thursday over its decision to build new Jewish settlements just as U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was visiting Jerusalem to promote the talks.
The Israeli decision prompted …
DUBAI (AlArabiya, Agencies)
Egyptian religious leader Sheikh Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, the grand sheikh of al-Azhar, has died of a heart attack during a visit to Saudi Arabia, Egypt’s official MENA news agency reported on Wednesday.
Tantawi, …
RIYADH (AFP)
Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz presented Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan with one of the country’s most prestigious prizes on Tuesday for his ’service to Islam’.
Erdogan earned the King Faisal International Prize …
UNITED NATIONS (Agencies)
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday condemned Israeli plans to build 1,600 more homes on occupied land where Palestinians seek their own state, echoing comments made earlier by U.S. Vice President Joe …
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Agencies)
Palestinians and Israelis held their first indirect talks in more than a year in a tentative boost to the Middle East peace process, frozen since the Jewish state’s devastating war on Gaza; however …
WASHINGTON (Agencies)
The U.S. State Department apologized on Tuesday for dismissive comments its spokesman made about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s call for “jihad,” often translated as “armed struggle,” against Switzerland.
“I understand that my personal comments were …
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Agencies)
Israelis and Palestinians face a “moment of real opportunity” to make peace after agreeing to resume American-brokered talks, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday as he launched the highest-level visit by an …
WASHINGTON (Agencies)
President Barack Obama’s Vice President Joe Biden is expected to start a visit to the Middle East on Monday aiming mainly to build support for reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace talks despite deep skepticism on both …
DUBAI (Saud al-Zahed)
Germany security forces arrested Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi, the leader of Iranian Kurdish opposition group, the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK), at his apartment near Cologne, the group confirmed Sunday.
Nooroz news, the …
BAGHDAD (Agencies)
Turnout in Iraq’s parliamentary poll was 62.4 percent, the nation’s electoral commission said on Monday, as authorities continued counting the votes with Prime Minsiter Nuri al-Maliki emerging as a front-runner.
Hamdiyah al-Husseini, a senior official …
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Reuters)
Israel will this week unveil plans to produce nuclear-generated electricity, officials said on Monday, a move that could draw fresh international attention towards its assumed atomic arsenal.
Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau told Reuters he …
WASHINGTON (Agencies)
President Barack Obama’s Vice President Joe Biden is expected to start a visit to the Middle East on Monday aiming mainly to build support for reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace talks despite deep skepticism on both …
SANAA (Agencies)
An al-Qaeda suspect killed two police guards on Sunday in an unsuccessful attempt to escape from custody while in hospital, a medic said.
The suspected militant managed to get hold of the weapons of two …
BAGHDAD (Agencies)
Polling stations in Iraq closed on Sunday after a parliamentary election which militants tried to disrupt with attacks that killed 38 people and wounded 110.
Hamida al-Hussaini, an electoral commission official, said the polling stations …
