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The escalation of violence between Israelis and Palestinians shows no signs of abating as Mel Frykberg reports from the Occupied Palestinian Territories. An audacious and brazen assassination attempt was carried [...]

Palestinians are growing increasingly frustrated by the Israeli government's illegal land grabs, withholding of monies owed and widespread, ritual human rights abuses. The idea of a two state solution is [...]

As embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad fights for his political survival, many negative adjectives can be found to describe the brutality of his regime in its attempts to crush the [...]

As tensions in the Israeli- occupied West Bank and Gaza ratchet up, John Kerry, the 168th US Secretary Of State, has watered his optimistic 'final agreement' for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict [...]

It was only a matter of time before the inevitable happened. The Libyan militias which were instrumental in overthrowing the former dictatorship of former President Muammar Gadaffi have become forces [...]

Insecurity, chaos and violence continue to plague Libya more than two years after the overthrow of former dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Apart from relatively free elections, aspirations towards freedom of the [...]

Israel's relationship with Europe has reached an all-time low over the Jewish state's continued settlement building and land expropriation in the Israeli occupied Palestinian West Bank, and the EU's introduction [...]

Some observers are likening the racism and thuggery of certain Israeli groups against African immigrants...as being reminiscent of the appalling behaviour meted out to the Jews in the run up [...]

THE WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY FOR A TWO-state solution, to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, is closing rapidly as Israeli settlement expansion and expropriation of Palestinian land and resources in the occupied [...]

WITH NEW EVIDENCE EMERGING that Iran now has a heavy-water factory in operation at its nuclear plant near Arak the possibility of an Israeli attack on Iran this year in [...]

ISRAELI SECURITY AGENCIES ARE WARNING OF A THIRD Palestinian Intifada, saying that conditions in the occupied Palestinian Territories are ripe for another uprising. The Palestinian Authority (PA) is developing strategies [...]

EGYPT'S REVOLUTION HAS MORE TWISTS and turns than the TV series Homeland. It is hard to tell whether we are seeing its continuation and resurgence, or a new uprising altogether. [...]

When respected Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, incarcerated in an Israeli prison for a decade, recently called for a third Palestinian uprising or Intifada--and a cessation of all negotiations with the [...]

THE LEADERS OF the PLO who returned to the Israeli Occupied Territories after the Oslo accords were disparagingly referred to as the 'Thieves from Tunis' by the majority of poverty [...]

A MIDST THE EXCITEMENT, BRIGHT LIGHTS, paparazzi, screaming fans, autograph hunters and taut bodies smuggled into skin-tight, dazzling, sequined outfits-leaving little to the imagination--millions of eyes from around the globe [...]

AS THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA FOCUSES on the bloodbath in Syria and the continuing upheaval in neighbouring Egypt, the volatile situation in Libya brewing beneath the surface had been relegated to [...]

A LAST-MINUTE POWER STRUGGLE BETWEEN Hamas' Politburo chief in exile Khaled Meshaal and Fatah leader and Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, over seating arrangements and who would deliver the [...]

A decision by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) to segregate buses in the occupied West Bank has backfired after causing an uproar in Israel's Knesset, or parliament, and political damage [...]

'DEMOCRACY AND GENDER equality will be brought to Palestine and Palestinian women through employment opportunities and the chance for economic self-development. We don't need international donors spending millions on human [...]

THE POSSIBILITY OF peace between Israel and its neighbours is looking extremely precarious as the country struggles to extinguish numerous fires on the home front and regionally. The most ominous [...]

Isolated from the outside world and divided from their compatriots in the West Bank, one and a hall million Palestinians living in Gaza continue to battle against overwhelming odds for [...]

TME: How is Hamas coping with the Israeli siege of Gaza and international sanctions against your organisation? Ahmed Yousef: We are continuing to do our best to overcome the obstacles [...]

GAZA IS ON the brink of a medical disaster as the Israelis continue to tighten their siege of the strip. Hospitals have run out of many essential drugs and pharmaceuticals [...]

CERTAIN PALESTINIAN BUSINESS sectors IN THE WEST BANK HAVE STARTED TO SLOWLY recover. 'I believe the country is on the right track and I feel very optimistic for the future,' [...]

APPROXIMATELY 100 DEMONSTRATORS braved the cold and the biting wind to gather in the centre of Ramallah. As they raised their placards, decrying the Annapolis Conference, the latest round of [...]

THE YAWNING CHASM between the Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams during discussions held last month in Jerusalem, as a prelude to this month's Middle East peace conference to be held [...]

AN ATMOSPHERE OF despair and depression permeates the Old City of Hebron, which is said to be one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the Middle-East. Wandering through the [...]

AN ATMOSPHERE OF triumph and celebration permeated the air in the West Bank village of Bil'in north of Ramallah. Singing and dancing, honking car horns and waving Palestinian flags, the [...]

A TENTATIVE CALM AND shaky peace has settled over the Gaza Strip following the weeks of bloody infighting between Hamas and its political rival Fatah, as the two groups battled [...]

THE DEAD CIVILIANS included two ambulance personnel in fluorescent jackets, clearly marked with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society emblem, a 12-year-old girl shot in the head by an Israeli sniper, [...]

THE CROWD OF Hebron settlers, 30km south of Jerusalem on the West Bank, were baying for blood as they impatiently waited for the Israeli Defence Forces soldiers (IDF) and Israeli [...]

THE GROUND TREMBLED slightly and the dull thud of shells, slamming into northern Gaza, could be heard as our taxi drove into Gaza City, through the narrow streets and bombed [...]

Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Fatah, the largest faction of the movement, is rapidly losing control of Palestinian refugee camps in the region, specifically those in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine, [...]

As embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad fights for his political survival, many negative adjectives can be found to describe the brutality of his regime in its attempts to crush the [...]

Three years after Egypt's historic revolution in January 2011--when people power, in the form of hundreds of thousands of Egyptians converging on Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square during daily protests which [...]

As tensions in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza ratchet up John Kerry, the 168th US Secretary of State, has watered his optimistic 'final agreement' for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict down [...]

ISRAELI SECURITY FORCES WENT ON HIGH ALERT fearing an escalation of violence in the West Bank between Israeli settlers and Palestinian villagers after a group of settlers from an illegal [...]

Al Qaeda-affiliated groups in Syria appear to be gaining the upper hand in the fight for control of the country, an alarming trend, which not only threatens regional stability but [...]

Concerning reports of an escalation in violence by Palestinian Security Force officials against other Palestinians have reached the international press, provoking yet more violence--this time against the media. Mel Frykberg [...]

IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE INEVITable happened. The Libyan militias which were instrumental in overthrowing the former dictatorship of former President Muammar Gadaffi have become forces [...]

ISRAEL'S RELATIONSHIP WITH EUROPE HAS REACHED an all-time low over the Jewish state's continued settlement building and land expropriation in the Israeli occupied Palestinian West Bank, and the EU's introduction [...]

INSECURITY, CHAOS AND VIOLENCE CONTINUE TO plague Libya more than two years after the overthrow of former dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Apart from relatively free elections, aspirations towards freedom of the [...]

AN UGLY CONFRONTATION ND A humanitarian disaster had been brewing for months but came to a head in late September when diplomats from the European Union were physically assaulted by [...]

AL QAEDA-AFFILIATED SYRIAN REBEL groups are growing in strength, influence and economic clout in Syria raising fears of just who would be in control of the country should President Bashar […]

EGYPT LAUNCHED THE BIGGEST MILITARY operation in the country's modern history, since the Arab-Israeli war of 1973, at the beginning of September when it sent in a large ground invasion [...]

IT IS THE HOLY MONTH OF RAMADAN, A HOT AND DRY month. Hundreds of thousands of hungry and thirsty Palestinians from the Israeli occupied West Bank are trying to cross [...]

Mel Frykberg reports from the Occupied Territories of Palestine FOLLOWING MODERATE HASSAN ROUHANI'S presidential victory in the recent Iranian elections, and his apparent willingness to mend ties with the West, [...]

Hamas will no longer be dictated to by Israel. If Israel doesn't abide by ceasefire conditions including lifting the siege on Gaza, Hamas will not feel obliged to control the [...]