From time to time I receive from my friends in the Middle East, horrific photographs of the atrocities perpetrated on the Palestinians by the IDF.

The Government is planning to introduce a giant database that will hold the details of every phone call we have made, every e-mail we have sent and every webpage we

When Amnon Rubinstein speaks, many people in Israel listen. As an intellectual who has held the posts of minister of education and of justice, Rubinstein commands the respect of the

Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, there has been growing American interest in checking the spread of radicalism in the Middle East by communicating more effectively with the region’s Islamist

Hoda al-Latif and the son she describes as "ill in the head" have long relied on the comfort of friends and neighbours. Sympathisers paid the rent on a cramped flat

Ex-US President Jimmy Carter has said Israel has at least 150 atomic weapons in its arsenal.

Engineer Khairat Al-Shater, second deputy chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) who has been sentenced to jail for seven years according to a military tribunal, had a successful heart catheterizing

The jailed, ailing third-in-command of Egypt’s opposition Muslim Brotherhood will undergo a cardiac catheterisation procedure in a Cairo hospital on Monday, his daughter and the Brotherhood said.

The Egyptian government is seeking to extend its emergency law, which gives the security forces sweeping powers in making arrests and holding people in detention without due legal process.

The Egyptian parliament, at the request of the government, on Monday extended emergency law for two years until mid-2010 or until anti-terrorism legislation has been drawn up to replace it.