West Asia

Several Yemen's Ansarollah strikes targeted the Emirati capital over the past weeks, prompting the UAE to invest in new air defence systems.

Transparency International's 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index has given Israel its worst ever score in the global rankings of how governments deal with graft, it was reported on Tuesday.

Professor Rear. Admiral (Ret.) Shaul Chorev tells Israeli media JNS that Israel needs a more thought-out strategy when it comes to dealing with the Iranian threat at sea, as well as combat that has become "increasingly asymmetric."

Isaac Herzog will travel to the United Arab Emirates on Jan. 30-31, his office said on Tuesday, seeking to strengthen Persian Gulf ties.

Some 100 Israeli troops today broke into the Ibrahimi Mosque in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.

Tensions escalate in East Jerusalem neighborhood.

Mohammad Al-Awadi withdraws from Dubai Tennis Championships U-14 semifinals.

The Israeli public’s trust in the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) is in decline, according to the 2021 Israeli Democracy Index.

The announcement constituted the latest example of Qatari support to the Palestinian enclave.

Politicians, opposition protest leaders, and government employees were bugged and tracked without authorization.

Hajj Suleiman was a pillar of the community in the Masafer Yatta area of the South Hebron Hills, and an icon of anti-occupation resistance.

Yemen’s Armed Forces Spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree said Monday that the Yemeni military struck areas deep inside the United Arab Emirates after a warning a few days ago as Abu Dahabi aggression continues.

Most of those asked, believe the former prime minister is guilty of the corruption charges against him.

A Gaza TV studio of Hamas is being used to shoot a "pro-resistance" television series on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Protesters called to 'investigate the Attorney General.'

Milwaukee's Islamic community is mourning the death of a Palestinian-American man who lived much of his life in Milwaukee and was found dead Wednesday in the occupied West Bank after being detained by Zionist forces.

Hackers targeted Israel in 2021 at twice the international rate of cyber attacks, the Jerusalem Post reported today. According to Israeli cyber security provider Checkpoint, hackers targeted Israel more frequently than France, Japan, the United States and Germany.

The Hamas-run Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip warned late on Monday that the territory is seeing a rapid spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 that could overwhelm health services there.

An expert meeting on the recent developments of Yemen and its impact on regional upheavals will be held on Wednesday in Tehran.

Hamas said the resistance forces have captured a dolphin wearing a military device designed to attack members of its naval unit.

Palestinian political experts

Palestinians hold weekly anti-settlement rallies in different areas across occupied West Bank.

Army general says serious malfunction behind crash, exact cause of death of 2 pilots still unknown.

With the martyrdom of the great commanders of the resistance, not only has the anti-arrogance and anti-Zionist resistance not been weakened, but it pursues its founding goals stronger and more active than before everywhere, including Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen.

Israeli tourists were caught stealing from duty-free in the Dubai airport, Israeli media reported.

Israeli media outlets Maariv Online and The Jerusalem Post were hit with a cyberattack early Monday, which marks the second anniversary of the martyrdom of prominent figure Gen. Qasem Soleimani.

The martyrdom of Gen. Qasem Soleimani at Baghdad’s airport pushed Iran and the U.S. perilously close to all-out conflict and sparked outrage in Iraq.

An Israeli air strike hit the Syrian port of Latakia on Tuesday, according to Syrian state media.

Syria on Monday condemned Israel's plan to double within five years the number of Jewish settlers in the Golan Heights captured from Syria in 1967 as a "dangerous and unprecedented escalation," Syrian state media reported. 

Factions say military training aims to exchange expertise, enhance combat preparedness.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) will start rebuilding houses destroyed in the Gaza Strip and pay financial compensation to those affected by the latest Israeli aggression.

Over 27% of Israelis live in poverty and 774,000 children, nearly a third (31%) of all children in Israel, live with food insecurity.

Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will convene a cabinet meeting in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights on Sunday to approve a plan to double the population of the region.

The city where Christians believe Jesus was born is usually a focal point of the holiday, with thousands packing the streets and filling the hotels.

Report claims White House snubbed Israeli leader over frustration with settlement construction; US National Security Adviser Sullivan on 3-day visit to Mideast, focused on Iran.

Footballer Nawaf Al-Temyat from Saudi Arabia, who plays for the FIFA Arab Legends, has reportedly blacked out the Israeli flag on his uniform, according to pictures on social media.

Nabil Rajoub spent last days of his detention in solitary confinement under tormenting conditions.

Salah is staunch defender of Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem

Israel has reportedly refused to sell the UAE missile defense systems after recent rapprochement between the Persian Gulf state and Iran.

Israeli forces have rounded up 402 Palestinians in November, according to Palestinian rights groups on Saturday.

During the conference, strategies and methods to deal with the normalization of academic ties with the occupying regime in Jerusalem were discussed, and some solutions to counter the process of recognizing the Zionist regime were offered by participants.

Ambulances rush to the scene in the Burj al-Shemali camp in port city of Tyre as authorities investigate source of blast.

Trump also told Israeli journalist Barak Ravid that he helped Netanyahu get re-elected by recognizing the occupied Golan Heights as Israeli territory.

An article published last month in one of Israel’s leading newspapers, Haaretz, shed light on how the Israel Security Agency (ISA) is using Facebook to combat Palestinian resistance groups in the Palestinian occupied territories.

The OHCRHR body is among dozens of other rights organisations who have denounced Israeli forces' excessive use of force.

Palestinian political experts

A Kuwaiti decree banned the entry of vessels carrying goods to or from Israel into Kuwait territorial waters.

In a heroic operation, a Palestinian killed one Zionist and injured four others before being martyred by Israeli police near the entrance of Al-Aqsa Mosque.