Middle East

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday denied Turkish claims of covert involvement in Iraqi Kurdistan’s recent independence vote, reiterating however his “sympathy” for the Kurdish people. On Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Israel’s intelligence agency played a role in the September 25 referendum, citing as proof the waving of Israeli flags during […]

Hamas has accepted an Egyptian proposal for a prisoner swap with Israel and is awaiting Jerusalem’s response to the offer, the terror group’s leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, said Thursday night, according to Channel 2 news. A report earlier this month in the Palestinian daily Al Quds quoted sources in Cairo as saying

Three men were arrested Saturday for attacking security guards at a hospital in Tel Aviv hospital last week, beating them and breaking their limbs. The three, residents of the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Malachi, Jerusalem and Haifa, were arrested while hiding out in an apartment in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv, police said

All foreign flights to and from the Iraqi Kurdish regional capital Erbil will be suspended from Friday evening on Baghdad’s orders, its airport director said, following a controversial independence referendum. “All international flights without exception to and from Erbil will stop from 6:00 pm (1500 GMT) on Friday following a decision by the Iraqi cabinet

By JT – Sep 28,2017 – Last updated at Sep 28,2017 AMMAN — Jordan and Palestine on Wednesday signed five memoranda of understanding and executive programmes in the energy, education, health, roads, bridges, buildings, housing, tenders and social development sectors. The deals were signed at the conclusion of of 5th meeting of the Joint Jordanian-Palestinian