The Palestinian group Hamas has warned Israel against crossing a "red line" at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, as residents of the Gaza Strip demonstrate for a second day in solidarity with Muslim worshippers protesting against the new security measures at the holy site.
"To the Zionist enemy I say openly and clearly: al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem are red lines. Truly they are red lines," Ismail...
Qatar's Ministry of Interior says experts now have evidence of the source of the cyberattack on the country's official media which occurred in late May.
In a press conference in Doha on Thursday, officials said the hacking of Qatar News Agency accounts took place in coordination with, and through, one of the blockading states.
"The hackers had total control of the QNA network, including the...
A Saudi prince has been arrested on the orders of Saudi King Salman bin Abdelaziz after videos were circulated on social media which appeared to show the prince beating several people.
According to the state-run Al-Ikhbariya TV's Twitter account @alekhbariyatv, the arrest order for Prince Saud bin Abdulaziz bin Musaed bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was issued to deter any similar violations, and...
An Israeli student whose grandparents survived the Holocaust has admitted stealing items from the Auschwitz death camp for her art project.
Rotem Bides visited the former Nazi German camp in Poland several times and removed items, including a sign forbidding people from taking anything.
She told an Israeli newspaper she had acted out of concern that the Holocaust would over time "turn into a...
Saudi police have released a young woman who appeared in a video wearing a miniskirt and crop-top in public without charge.
She was summoned for questioning after a video of her dressed in "indecent" clothing sparked a heated debate in the Muslim country.
Some demanded she be punished for breaking the strict Saudi dress code.
But the public prosecutor has now closed the case, the ministry...
The four Arab nations leading a boycott of Qatar are no longer insisting it comply with a list of 13 specific demands they tabled last month.
Diplomats from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt told reporters at the UN they now wanted it to accept six broad principles.
These include commitments to combat terrorism and extremism and to end acts of provocation and...
The US has announced fresh sanctions against Iran over its ballistic missile programme and what it says is Iran's support for terror organisations.
The US state department said 18 entities or individuals would be affected by the new measures.
It said all 18 supported Iran's ballistic missile programme or the elite Republican Guards Corp.
The statement also criticised Iran's support for the...
German prosecutors are investigating whether a 16-year-old German girl is among a group of suspected members of so-called Islamic State held in Mosul.
She was reportedly among a group of 20 foreigners found by Iraqi troops in a tunnel under the Old City on Thursday.
Officials are trying to confirm if she is the same girl who went missing from the German town of Pulsnitz last year.
Iraq's...
A Jordanian soldier has been sentenced to life in prison with hard labour for killing three US military trainers last year.
Marik al-Tuwayha, who pleaded not guilty to premeditated murder, attacked the men as their vehicles approached al-Jafr airbase in November.
One was killed at the base and two others died later in hospital.
Jordanian authorities initially claimed the US nationals had...
The United Arab Emirates has denied it was behind the alleged hacking of Qatar's state news agency in May.
The Washington Post cited US intelligence officials as saying the UAE had orchestrated the posting of incendiary quotes attributed to Qatar's emir that he insisted were fabricated.
The incident helped spark a diplomatic rift between Qatar and its neighbours.
UAE Minister of State for...
