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Western military interventions in the Muslim world are at best muddled and at worst fraudulent. In 2003, the US led an invasion of Iraq for reasons that changed like...

The best opportunity to definitively prove What Killed Arafat – the name we gave the documentary investigation that appeared on al-Jazeera earlier this month – is fast approaching. The...

There's a real sense in which, more than any other part of the former colonial world, the Middle East has never been fully decolonised. Sitting on top of the...

A media frenzy followed the publication of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's description of Benjamin Netanyahu as "a liar" during a private discussion with US President Barack Obama. The exchange...

The 12th European Palestinians Conference kicked off today under the title "Palestine unites us, and we will meet in Al-Quds." The conference is organized by its general secretariat and...

The Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom reported on Wednesday that the French government has halted the transfer of donations worth €3,000 to an Israeli association operating in the Gilo settlement...

French President Francois Hollande said in an interview with Europe 1 radio Sunday that France has information regarding the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons. Responding to a question...

The French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal accused the Syrian president of seeking to eliminate his people by committing massacres against them. In a press conference Thursday, Nadal said...

French diplomats are puzzled by Moroccan fierce reaction to French judiciary's decision to investigate the Moroccan Intelligence Chief Abdellatif Hammouchi on charges of torturing French citizens from Moroccan and...

France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Monday that Western countries will not intervene to combat terrorism in the south of Libya as demanded by Niger. Fabius told Radio...

French President Francois Hollande said on Friday that the new constitution in Tunisia "proves" the harmony between Islam and democracy. Speaking at a ceremony for the adoption of the...

The French daily Le Monde said in its Friday edition that Saudi Arabia is trying to undermine the gains of the Arab Spring and block the democratisation of Arab...

Shimon Peres, Israel's president, has said there has been "progress" in efforts to free Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier captured by Hamas three years ago. The disclosure by Peres,...

The Israeli navy has fired several shells at a number of Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Gaza. The Israeli navy opened fire on the fishermen near the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESLast night the Children of the beleaguered Gaza strip held a candlelit protest on the streets of a Gaza City plunged into darkness as a result of the...

The Prisoners Studies Centre has expressed concerns that the administration of Israeli prisoners commits "unprecedented" abuses against Palestinian prisoners and their possessions, and that such abuses are often conducted...

The French daily Le Monde said in its Friday edition that Saudi Arabia is trying to undermine the gains of the Arab Spring and block the democratisation of Arab...

A French court has overturned a claim filed by Zionist extremists about the video which shows the killing of the Palestinian child, Mohamed al-Durra, by an Israeli soldier in...

A sword believed to have been symbolic in the creation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932 was sold in France for 955,400 euros (almost $1.3 million) at...