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'Real steps’ agreed between Israelis and Palestinians: Kerry #AqsaFallout

No specifics released but deal seems to hinge on returning the agreed status quo to al-Aqsa

Kerry meets with Abbas, King Abdullah and Netanyahu

Al-Aqsa erupts with violence as Israeli policeman killed in Jerusalem attack

In pictures: West Bank erupts in protest

Islamic State releases alleged Baghdadi recording after death rumours #IslamicState

11 hours 56 min ago

Activist shot dead in Cairo by police: April 6 Movement #EgyptTurmoil

16 hours 36 min ago

'Terror' attack on Egypt naval vessel leaves 8 servicemen missing #EgyptTurmoil

20 hours 4 min ago

FIFA investigator attacks report clearing Qatar and FIFA of corruption as 'erroneous' #HumanRights

19 hours 21 min ago

In Depth

Features

The Falcon has landed: the problematic rise of Egyptian private security

Article - News

ANALYSIS: Libya divisions grow despite UN mediation efforts

Features

Algerian football fans sing songs of freedom

Features

Egypt’s Sinai demolitions reverberate back in Gaza

Features

Kuwait makeshift school takes in shunned stateless students

Article - News

Tunisia’s Nidaa Tounes: nostalgia for a past that never was?

Article - News

Border closure means lost jobs, deadlock in rebuilding Gaza

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News

Group of 12 Turks charged over attack on US sailors #Diplomacy

MEE and agencies

16 hours 43 min ago

Cairo metro bomb blast injures 16 #EgyptTurmoil

MEE staff

18 hours 26 min ago

Inside Kobane: Kurdish fighters push back IS but fear road ahead #IslamicState

Ibrahim Khader

1 day 10 hours ago

Dubai port operator to buy free zone, delist from London #Business

AFP

16 hours 37 min ago

Kurdish fighters recapture strategic hill in Kobane 'game changer' #IslamicState

MEE staff

1 day 15 hours ago

Abbas to meet Kerry in Amman on Thursday #AqsaFallout

MEE and agencies

19 hours 10 min ago

Columns

Hollywood and Washington: A tale of synchronicity #Diplomacy

There is synchronicity in the way America’s ruling elite eye the economic spoils of the Middle East and the way Hollywood portrays Arabs

CJ Werleman

Obama’s legacy of indecision in the Middle East #Diplomacy

The legacy of Barack Obama’s foreign policy approach towards the Arab world will be one of failure, marked as it is with uncertainty, indecision and a fatal lack of coherent strategic thinking

Bill Law

The dynamics of the Syrian conflict, and how to resolve it #SyriaWar

The time has now come for the world to get serious about resolving the Syrian conflict; if not for the sake of the Syrian people, then at least for the sake of global stability

Edward Dark

The first one-state president #AqsaFallout

When Israeli President Reuven Rivlin says that Jews and Arabs are meant to live together, he speaks from the bottom of his heart

Meron Rapoport

Bombing Iraq is not the answer #IraqatWar

To everyone’s detriment, the US is pretending that Iraq - post Saddam Hussein - is a functioning democracy, threatened by ISIS

Dr Burhan al-Chalabi

Libya’s lesson for Iran: Beware of rapprochement

Britain and the US used the so-called “rapprochement” with Gaddafi’s Libya to cultivate a fifth column and prepare the ground for war

Dan Glazebrook

What could possibly go wrong in the war on IS?

Here are seven worst-case scenarios in a part of the world where the worst case has regularly been the best that’s on offer

Yemen’s Saleh hits back at UN sanctions

Former ruler, amid claims his political backing is fracturing, strips President Hadi of party role and rouses public show of support

Libya's shame as soldiers return from UK

18 soldiers have been linked to crimes in the UK and are still in the country: army officer

Can an open-air graffiti museum lure tourists back to Tunisia?

150 graffiti artists from 30 countries covered the lazy Tunisian town of Erriadh, with bright and colourful graffiti, attracting tourists from around the world.