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The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is an "independent legal body dedicated to the protection of human rights, the promotion of the rule of law, and the upholding of democratic principles in the Occupied Territories."
GAZA, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Mahmoud Zahar, described as a strongman for the Palestinian militant group Hamas, says doctors have not visited abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
Damascus - Syria and Iran agreed to expand their cooperation in the fields of energy, technology and utilization of water resources, state media in Damascus reported Monday. Iranian Minister of Energy Majid Namjou met in the Syrian capital with Syria...
"Iraq has experienced first-hand the devastating effects of cluster munitions, and its government has promised never to use this weapon...Whatever excuses Middle East governments have given for not signing this treaty, Iraq's example shows they won't hold up."
Parliament has approved a plan to let Israelis vote on returning land in Jerusalem, Golan Heights
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union foreign ministers urged Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday to make Jerusalem their shared capital, prompting a swift, angry reaction from Israel.
Political and civic leaders largely turn a blind eye to flourishing anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment in Egypt, a new report said.
In the occupied West Bank, a bedouin community whose school is made out of car tires and mud faces the same problem as a developer planning a whole new Palestinian town: building controls imposed by Israel.
Jewish settlers planned a mass protest in downtown Jerusalem on Wednesday night in what they said would be the largest show of resistance to the government's new slowdown on new housing construction in the West Bank.
Amman - Sandwiched between Israel and the Palestinian territories to the west and Iraq to the east, Jordan has often served as a corridor for migration flows from Palestine and Iraq during the tur...
Middle East Progess talks to Karim Sadjadpour -- Middle East Progress: The Iranian government has yet to agree to the IAEA proposal for enrichment of Iran's low enriched uranium in a third country. What do you think are the aims of the government with regards to the proposal?
Since the Iranian nuclear crisis has hit the headlines up to the present time, some Iranian politicians, experts, analysts, and journalists supporting Iran's positions have frequently recommended that Iran should quit the Non-Proliferation Treaty or do it if there were continued and heightened pressure from the United States and the European Union, the International Atomic Energy Agency, or the ...
BEIRUT -- Iran's top diplomat yesterday accused the United States and Saudi Arabia of having kidnapped one of its nuclear scientists.
Can Chile's "The Maid" clean up after being shut out at the Oscars?
Pro-government Basij militiamen stormed the campuses of two universities in the Iranian capital of Tehran and attacked hundreds of protesting students, while Iran's chief prosecutor vowed to come down harder than ever against demonstrators he described as a threat to security.
Opinion: Obama’s Nobel Prize should benefit 2003 Iranian laureate
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 9, the 343rd day of 2009. There are 22 days left in the year.
Gaza City - Two well-dressed young men at Atlas Tours and Travel company in Gaza City's Omer al-Mukhtar main street are finding out how to travel to a new life. They want to know what documents th...
European Union foreign ministers discussed a proposal Tuesday for the 27-nation bloc to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of both Israel and a future Palestinian state.
Sources familiar with the ongoing negotiations to free captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit tell Fox News that German mediators have told Hamas and the Israelis that they would like to see a breakthrough in the talks by Christmas.