Middle East News
Barack Obama visits Israel for first time as US president
Barack Obama has arrived in Tel Aviv for his first trip to Israel as US president. After landing in Tel Aviv, BarackObama also referred to the...
Ghassan Hitto named prime minister for Syrian rebel-held regions
Syrian opposition National Coalition has chosen Ghassan Hitto as the prime minister to head a government for rebel-held regions. Ghassan Hitto is a Damascus-born IT...
Israel’s new government sworn in after two months of negotiations
Israel's new coalition government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, has been sworn in after nearly two months of negotiations between political parties. Benjamin Netanyahu will return...
Benjamin Netanyahu signs coalition deal to form new government
Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu has reached a deal to form a new coalition government. Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud-Yisrael Beitenu alliance signed the agreement with the centrist...
Syria marks two years of nation’s unrest
As Syria marks two years since the start of the nation's unrest, the EU is set to discuss lifting its arms embargo to allow...
Children recruited into Syria war
A Save the Children report has revealed that an increasing number of children in Syria are being recruited by armed groups on both sides...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticized for hugging Hugo Chavez’s mother
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been heavily criticized over both real and fake photos showing him consoling the grieving family members of late Venezuelan...
Egypt unrest over Port Said football riots sentences
Rival football fans in Egypt have protested over sentences handed down over riots at a match in Port Said in February 2012. The court upheld...
Egypt court halts April general elections
An Egyptian administrative court has suspended general elections that were scheduled to begin in April. The court said the electoral law needed to be reviewed...
Syrian rebels detain 20 UN observers in Golan Heights
The UN has confirmed that about 20 observers have been detained by about 30 armed fighters in the Golan Heights on the Syria-Israel border. A...
Syrian refugees reach million mark
The United Nations has announced that the number of Syrian refugees who have fled the conflict has reached a million. The UN High Commissioner for...
Hosni Mubarak retrial date set for April 13
Egypt’s former President Hosni Mubarak will face retrial on April 13, the country’s appeal court has decided. Hosni Mubarak faces charges of conspiring to kill...
Bashar al-Assad accuses UK of bullying Syria
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has accused the UK government of bullying and naivety in its approach to the conflict in his country. In an interview...
Egypt hot air balloon crash kills 19 tourists in Luxor
French, British, Hong Kong and Japanese nationals are among 19 tourists reportedly killed in a hot air balloon crash near the Egyptian city of...
Iran announces nuclear expansion after finding new uranium deposits
Iran has announced it found major new uranium deposits and is planning to expand its nuclear power programme. Iran said 16 sites had been identified...
Mohamed Morsi calls Egypt’s parliamentary elections
Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi has called parliamentary elections, starting on April 27 and end in June. A presidential decree said voting would take place in...
Damascus: Car bomb explosion kills at least 31 people near Russian embassy
A car bomb exploded in the Syrian capital Damascus killing at least 31 people and sending smoke billowing across the capital's skyline. State media blamed...
Syrian football player Youssef Sleiman killed in mortar strike near Tishreen stadium in Damascus
Syrian footballer Youssef Sleiman has been killed in a mortar strike near a stadium in Damascus, state news agency Sana says. Sana news agency says...
Israel confirms Prisoner X Ben Zygier arrest for the first time
Israel has confirmed it imprisoned Prisoner X, an Australian-Israeli man under a false identity, for security reasons, and that he died in custody. The justice...
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismisses US offer of one-to-one talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has dismissed a US offer of one-to-one talks on Tehran's nuclear programme. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacked with shoe in Cairo
Security guards have seized a man who tried to hit Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with a shoe as he visited a mosque in the...
Iraq: at least 30 people killed in Kirkuk police HQ attack
At least 30 people have been killed after gunmen and a suicide bomber attacked a police headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk,...
Clashes at Mohamed Morsi’s palace in Cairo
Anti-Mohamed Morsi protesters have clashed with police outside the presidential palace in Cairo, after a week of violence in which more than 60 people...
Syria protests over Israel attack
Syria has formally complained to the United Nations over a reported Israeli attack within its borders. Syria's army said Israeli jets had targeted a military...
Iran plans to upgrade uranium enrichment centrifuges at Natanz plant
Iran has announced its plans to upgrade uranium enrichment centrifuges at Natanz plant to the UN nuclear agency, reports citing diplomats say. The move would...
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