Al-Quds Al-Arabi

The heads of the list gave a long interview to the Israeli daily Maariv April 24, and the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi published its Arabic translation April 26. The Palestinian leadership has yet to express an opinion on the issue. Palestinians involved in the plan are to meet with Palestinian President ...

An editorial in Al-Quds Al-Arabi argued that the granting of citizenship to the PA officials was done with reluctance. “They were the ones who applied for it, and perhaps they had embarrassed senior Jordanian government officials with the requests,” it wrote. The Jordanians were unable to reject the ...

The continuing presence of the United States and other actors, including Turkey, Russia and Iran, will ensure that the conflict continues for the short to medium term, Shafeeq Ghabri, a professor of politics at the University of Kuwait, wrote for pan-Arab daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi. Besides the presence of troops ...

He also writes for Arabic newspapers such as Al-Hayat, Al-Quds al-Arabi and Al-Jumhuriya. His wife Samira Khalil is a prominent human rights defender who was abducted in Douma along with three others by unidentified assailants in December 2013, none of whom has been seen since. Known as the ...

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are reportedly recruiting thousands of African mercenaries to serve in their military adventurism overseas, including the bloody war on Yemen. Saudi sources told the al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper that the kingdom is likely using Chadian mercenaries in its ...

A former Iraqi official thought to be one of the most corrupt politicians in the country's history was seized in Jordan and handed over to Baghdad, London-based newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi reports. Former secretary general of the Ministry of Defence, Ziad al-Qattan, was flying in from Poland when he was ...

Still, Tareq al-Fayed, a journalist who covers local news for Al Quds al-Arabi newspaper, told Al Jazeera that in the past he would cover perhaps one serious crime, involving drugs or robbery, for example, every few weeks, but now he receives "police reports almost every day about major drug trafficking ...

As Western capitals threaten to strike Syria, there are conflicting reports over the location of Bashar al-Assad and his family, according to the London-based newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi. Amade News, an Iranian opposition website, has reported that the Syrian president and his family will be evacuated to ...

Iran plans to build a highway connecting Tehran with cities in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon and provide the country with access to the Mediterranean Sea, Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper reported. According to the media outlet, Iranian authorities have already signed bilateral agreements on the construction of a ...

An Israeli army spokesman appeared in a video recording using Saudi fatwas as justification for arguing that Palestinians should not take part in upcoming protests against the occupation. "The Saudi scholar, Sheikh Saleh al-Fawzan, has decreed for banning demonstrations and sit-ins, saying that this ...

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told al-Quds al-Arabi that the pro-government troops, also known as Popular Mobilization Forces (PMFs), were “planned to leave Anbar after eliminating all IS cells in the province last November, but they did not.” He pointed out that the presence of those ...

Four hundred Yemeni Jews were transported to Tel Aviv last month in a special military operation involving Israeli commandos, London-based newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi reports. The operation required the assistance of an unnamed neighbouring Arab country which allowed Israeli helicopters to land on ...

In an article published on November 3, 2017 in the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily, Ibtihal Al-Khatib, a Kuwaiti journalist and professor of English Language and Literature at Kuwait University, compared freedom of expression in Western societies, where it is sacred and rooted, with freedom of ...

In an interview with London-based newspaper Al Quds Al Arabi in January, al-Aloul declared that “the entire Palestinian leadership” is of the opinion that American administrations – all of them — “have not given the Palestinians anything of substance but rather worked in order to pull the rug out from under ...

Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) – An Iraqi official source said on Wednesday that Iraqi troops foiled a terrorist plot by the Islamic State (IS) group to destabilize the situation in Mosul through targeting vital facilities with bombs and assassinating public figures there. Speaking to the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi ...

According to London-based newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi, veteran leftist Gamal Abdel Fattah was arrested in a dawn raid on Wednesday. His family said he was being held in an undisclosed location. Egyptian security services also arrested another left-wing activist, former Kefaya movement member ...

Turkey's economic partnerships with Algeria are set for a boost that could see trade between the countries treble to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's target of more than $10 billion per year, the London-based pan-Arab daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported on Wednesday. Erdoğan discussed his goal of ...

The Egyptian government is taking the BBC to task over a documentary about torture in Egyptian prisons and enforced disappearances which aired last week, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reports. Diaa Rashwan, head of the Egyptian State Information Service, summoned the director of the BBC's Cairo office and ...

Abdel Bari Atwan, the retired editor-in-chief (1989-2013) of the pan-Arab newspaper Al Quds Al Arabi and author of widely respected books on the Middle East, headlined on February 18th, “A superpower confrontation could be triggered by accident in Syria” and he opened: Qatar's plans to build a gas ...

Photos that emerged over the weekend of boxes of food aid with exiled Palestinian leader Mohammed Dahlan's photo being distributed in Sinai have sparked controversy among Egyptian activists, according to the London-based newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi. According to the newspaper, Dahlan's ...

Zidan, who wrote for pan-Arab daily al-Quds al-Arabi and local news website Fekra, was arrested over an internet meme making fun of Sisi that she had posted on her personal Facebook page, Spanish daily El Periodico reported last year. The offending post reportedly mocked the president for comments ...

Sources stated that Saudi officials will transfer 60 percent of the group's ownership to the state and leave the remaining percentage to Al Ibrahim, according to Al-Quds Al-Arabi. This action is part of Saudi Arabia's recent moves to seize assets of businessmen who have been involved in the corruption ...

The crisis between Jordan and Iraq has reached the media, as reports surfaced this week that Baghdad has requested that Amman hand over Raghad Saddam Hussein, the eldest daughter of the late Iraqi president, according to Al-Quds Al-Arabi. Raghad fled to Jordan with her sister, Rana, and their ...

A senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's executive committee has stated that the US's peace envoy to the Middle East has tried and failed to break a freeze on relations with Palestinian leaders, according to al-Quds al-Arabi. Ahmed Majdalani said Jason Greenblatt had invited three ...

A Syrian asylum seeker is still stuck after more than 40 days of living at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia, the London-based newspaper, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reports. Hassan Kontar fled Syria in 2006 and found work in the UAE, but was deported in 2016 after losing his work permit as a result ...

He also writes for Arabic newspapers such as Al-Hayat, Al-Quds al-Arabi and Al-Jumhuriya. His wife Samira Khalil is a prominent human rights defender who was abducted in Douma along with three others by unidentified assailants in December 2013, none of whom has been seen since. Known as the ...

Israeli sources have said two Israelis are competing as drivers in the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge rally, after receiving an official invitation from the hosts, according to al-Quds al-Arabi. The newspaper stated that the drivers, along with three escorts, entered the UAE with Israeli passports. The invitations ...

The security forces in Iraq are reported to have been preventing citizens who live in Mosul from entering the capital, Baghdad, and subjecting them to ill-treatment as they try to pass through checkpoints, Al-Quds Al-Arabi news website has reported. According to one resident from Mosul, Umm Rasha, ...