BEIRUT: A Jewish European peace group is to launch a boat to break the blockade of Gaza in the coming months, organizers said, almost a week after nine activists were killed making the same trip.

European Jews for a Just Peace (EJJP) - an umbrella organization of Jewish groups...

BEIRUT: Look back at Noam Chomsky's lectures over the years and you will notice a recurring title: "The current crisis in the Middle East." The reason for this, Chomsky says, is because often he is asked to give titles for speaking engagements years in advance, and it is a...

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's appearance at the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War was predictably slick. This was always going to be the case for the former barrister, so adept at public relations.

The testimony itself told us little we don't already know. Blair repeated the mantra he...

BEIRUT: Organizers of a Palestinian solidarity march hoping to enter Gaza said Thursday its participants have been forcibly detained in hotels around Cairo and have faced violence from Egyptian security forces.

"Members of the Gaza Freedom March are being forcibly detained in hotels around town, in Lotus and Liala,...

BEIRUT -- An 85-year-old Holocaust survivor entered the second day of her hunger strike on Tuesday, in protest over the Egyptian government's refusal to allow an international Palestinian solidarity march to enter the Gaza Strip.

American peace activist Hedy Epstein came to Cairo as part of an...

BEIRUT: It was a typically cold London day in January earlier this year when, in front of thousands of people demonstrating against the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, British MP George Galloway announced a convoy of aid would be travelling from London to Gaza under the banner "Viva Palestina."

Time is running out for world leaders to agree on a deal to reduce carbon emissions sufficiently to prevent catastrophic climate change. The conference currently taking place in Copenhagen is being described as the last chance saloon by scientists and researchers, but representatives of a small few are instead treating...

BEIRUT: The official explanation for a bus explosion in Damascus on Thursday has been cast into doubt after expert analysis suggested it was "most unlikely" that the reasons given could have caused such damage.

The explosion took place at a garage south of Damascus, causing significant damage to a...