TEL AVIV – Local elections in the Palestinian Authority (PA)-administered territories are heating up, with local news reports of gunfire and threats against candidates as well as the burning of their property and a slew of related arrests. Palestinian media
TEL AVIV – A 24-year-old Palestinian man has been fighting for his life at a Khan Younis hospital, south of Gaza City, after he tried to kill himself by drinking pesticides and other chemicals.
JAFFA, Israel – Social media users across the Arab world are still expressing outrage over the conduct of French police officers who recently attempted to enforce a new law forbidding burkinis by forcing a Muslim woman to remove her garments on a beach in Nice in the French Riviera.
JAFFA, Israel – The Islamic State terrorist organization this past Saturday reportedly executed four men, including two of its own, on suspicion of homosexuality.
JAFFA, Israel – The Islamic movement of Morocco, the ruling Justice and Development Party, has decided to eject from its ranks two senior officials, a man and a woman, who were reportedly discovered being intimate in a car near the beach.
JAFFA, Israel – Iran is actively trying to bring Turkey and Syria closer together, according to a report in the international Saudi publication Asharq Al-Awsat, headquartered in London.
JAFFA, Israel – Iraq’s Foreign Ministry has summoned their ambassador in Portugal to return to Baghdad in light of a recent diplomatic crisis that threatens relations between the two countries.
Major churches across Egypt oppose a government bill regarding the building of churches in the country, according to Halim Boulous, a spokesman for the Egyptian Orthodox church.
Israel is expected to demolish Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque in 2019, 50 years after an arsonist attempted to burn down the Muslim holy site, the Palestinian Authority’s Jerusalem Affairs Minister Adnan Ghaleb al-Husayni baselessly claimed in a recent interview with the Palestinian Information Center.
The Israel Air Force conducted 50 airstrikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip late Sunday night, following a rocket fired into Israel by Palestinian militants earlier that day.
TEL AVIV – Two Palestinian security officers were killed in a gunfight with militants in Nablus over the weekend, further raising concerns the West Bank is sliding into anarchy.
JAFFA, Israel – A Cairo man has been arrested on charges of pushing his wife to her death from their fifth-story apartment window.
JAFFA, Israel – The Scottish football team Celtic Glasgow has won praise after its fans flew Palestinian flags during a Champions League match against Israel’s Hapoel Beersheba on Wednesday, in which the Israeli team was defeated 5 to 2. Hamas
Egypt’s Attorney-General has ordered an inquiry into two prominent politicians suspected of spying for Hezbollah.
The Dubai police have been investigating claims that a Pakistani woman forced her 16-year-old daughter into prostitution to finance her family’s travel expenses for the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
The UAE’s single medal so far in the 2016 Olympic Games was won by a Moldavian who was offered citizenship for this purpose.
JAFFA, Israel – Egypt has stepped up security measures ahead of the third anniversary of former President Mohammed Morsi’s ouster, arresting 17 Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers on charges of illegal possession of firearms.
TEL AVIV – Intelligence agencies in several Arab states suspect the Turkish regime may attempt an assassination campaign against people affiliated with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s arch enemy Fethullah Gulen as well as other opposition figures that Erdogan believes may have been involved in last month’s failed coup attempt, an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
JAFFA, Israel – Inès Boubakri, the winner of Tunisia’s first medal in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, has received more media attention for kissing her French husband than for her achievement.
JAFFA, Israel – Mona Yehya Yaman, a Saudi woman, has found an unconventional way to keep her nuclear family closely knit: She levies a 1500 riyal (US$400) fine on her children and grandchildren who skip her weekly family dinner.
JAFFA, Israel – Despite a lack of information on the killings, Arab social media has been laden with accusations of “Christian terror” regarding the case of an imam and his friend being gunned down Saturday in Queens, NY, shortly after leaving a mosque where they were reciting afternoon prayers.
JAFFA, Israel – The surveillance unit of extremist rulings at Egypt’s Fatwa Council has issued a warning against the Islamic State’s attempts to recruit female “sex jihadists.”
JAFFA, Israel – The Jordanian authorities have reportedly recently barred a middle aged man from marrying a 14-year-old Syrian refugee.
JAFFA, Israel – Egyptian Christians have rejected a government-sponsored reform bill purportedly meant to ease building restrictions on churches.
The rebels’ military gains in the battle of Aleppo increased Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s position ahead of his meeting on Tuesday with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, an Arab intelligence official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVV – The Syrian regime and opposition have been bracing for a looming battle on Aleppo, the second-largest city in the country, which is likely to become a turning point in the 5-year civil war, the 21Arabi website reports.
JAFFA, Israel – A top Egyptian cleric sparked outcry after declaring that Ahmed Zewail, an illustrious Egyptian-American scientist who died last week, was an infidel who should not be mourned.
JAFFA, Israel – Tens of thousands of illiterate people have been employed by the Saudi government in 2015, a new report reveals.
TEL AVIV – Most Arab countries quietly endorse Israel’s condemnation of US President Barack Obama’s praise for last year’s Iran nuclear deal, an Arab official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
JAFFA, Israel – Arab social media users were fuming at reports that the Obama Administration gave the Iranian government $400 million in cash during the time period it was negotiating the release of captive American soldiers.
Christian Egyptian-Americans have come under fire for their intention to stage a vigil opposite the White House in protest of the plight of their community in the home country.
JAFFA, Israel – A contingent of moderate Syrian Arab rebel reinforcements have deployed along the Jordan-Syria border, ready to launch an offensive against Bashar al Assad’s regime in the event of a rebel defeat in Aleppo, an informed Arab intelligence official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
JAFFA, Israel – The Mufti of Jordan came under fire after issuing a fatwa that permits Muslims to extend their condolences to non-Muslims as well as accept non-Muslims’ condolences.
The publication of pictures of Christian-themed objects found in the pockets of the crew of a Russian fighter jet intercepted over Syria on Monday prompted Arab social media users to allege that Moscow is carrying out “Christian terror” in Syria.
JAFFA, Israel – The 90th Boycott Israel conference opened in Cairo on Wednesday, in the wake of an Arab League resolution to increase efforts to isolate Israel diplomatically and financially.
TEL AVIV – The Fatah leadership has been in turmoil since media reports suggested that the movement has been milling the appointment of a former Hamas-affiliated politician as its nominee for the local elections in the West Bank city of Nablus.
JAFFA, Israel – One week on, Saudi social media is still reeling from former Saudi general Anwar Eshki’s visit to Israel.
TEL AVIV – Turkish officials suspect that Mohammed Dahlan, the one-time Palestinian security boss and today’s President Mahmoud Abbas’ arch-rival, was involved in the failed attempt to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier this month, Arab and international reports now claim.
The Egyptian media has been full of reports of violence against and harassment of Christians all across the country. In May, a Muslim mob attacked Christian-owned houses and stripped an elderly Christian woman and paraded on the streets of the village.
The victory clinched by the Syrian army in Aleppo on Wednesday is a turning point in the Syrian conflict as well as global diplomacy at large, according to the assessment of an Arab diplomat speaking to Breitbart Jerusalem.