The usual images on the Palestine-Israeli conflict involve people, activists, Israeli soldiers and politicians in different states of tumult and violence. The following pictures show a different more jovial, happy sight of Palestinians, as a fun people, who love life, are sports-conscious, and have deep aspirations. Their presence here are at the sight of pitched up tents in southern Gaza, near the border with Israel, to demonstrate the right of Palestinian refugees to return to the villages and towns they were expelled from when Israel was established in 1948. The ...

Hundreds of protesters gathered at Whitehall opposite Downing Street in London to protest in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. This was after Israeli troops killed nine during the latest border clashes. Thousands of protesters approached the border fence around Gaza for a second Friday in a row, burning tyres and hurling stones at Israeli forces, who responded with tear gas and live ammunition. In addition to the nine dead, at least 491 were wounded by Israeli gunfire, the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza enclave said. Among those ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met on April 4 in Ankara for their second three-way summit that discussed reaching a ceasefire across Syria and supporting a political resolution of the crisis in the war-torn country. Russia, Turkey and Iran are all involved in the Syria crisis and have sponsored a series of peace talks in the Kazakh capital, Astana. The three leaders held the first tripartite summit in Sochi last November as the guarantor countries of the Astana process, for which they ...

Palestinians commemorate Land Day and "The Great Return March" by holding demonstrations and protests along the Gaza strip The exceptional protest is dubbed "The Great March of Return" and has the backing of the Gaza Strip's Islamist rulers Hamas. Gazans converged on the strip border for the Return Marches with Israel. The rallies in the Gaza Strip also coincide with Land Day, which marks the killing of six Arab Israelis on 30 March, 1976 demonstrations against Israeli confiscations of Arab land. Clashes with the Israeli police took place in the ...

Exit polls show an estimated 25 million people participated in the 2018 Egyptian presidential election with election turnout standing at 40 percent. Results indicated presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi got around 23 million votes, 92 percent of ballots cast. His rival Moussa Mostafa Moussa received a mere 3 percent of the vote. What follows is a slide show of the campaign and voting process for the three-day election starting 26 - 28 March, 2018. Final results on 2 April.

Syrian players look on prior to the international friendly football game Qatar vs Syria at Basra Sports City stadium in the southern Iraqi city on March 24, 2018. HAIDAR MOHAMMED ALI / AFP

Owning a superyacht is the dream for many aspiring billionaires, but with eye-watering price tags in the hundreds of millions it is unlikely most of us will even step foot on one, let alone own one! But for the world’s richest and most powerful Arabs, owning a superyacht is no big deal. In fact, Arab names dominate the list of owners of the world’s largest superyachts. So get ready for some serious bling - here are the top 10 largest superyachts owned by Arabs in 2018, according to Wikipedia.

Bethlehem Hosts the 6th International Palestine Marathon in which around 7,000 Palestinian and international runners from around the globe participated in on Friday. Participants are shown running along Israel's controversial separation barrier, which divides the West Bank from Jerusalem, in the biblical town of Bethlehem. They are seen running past a mural depicting U.S. President Donald Trump drawn, and Banksy's "The Walled-Off Hotel," near it.

The Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) traveled to the U.S this week for his Washington tour which began with a CBS interview, the first time the young prince has done a video interview with an American broadcaster. Following suit MBS visited the White house where he met with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office to discuss weapons sales and more.

More than 200,000 civilians have fled the city of Afrin in northern Syria in less than three days to escape a Turkish-led military offensive against a Kurdish militia, a war monitor said on Mar.17. Turkey and its Syrian Arab rebel allies have waged a nearly two-month offensive on the Afrin enclave, which is held by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG). On the edge of Ghouta, a sprawling semi-rural area within mortar range of central Damascus, hundreds of civilians were still streaming out of destroyed towns, carrying scant belongings in ...

Smoke billows following Syrian government bombardment on the rebel-held besieged towns of the Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of Damascus on Mar. 12, 2018. Syrian regime forces cut off the largest town in Eastern Ghouta from the rest of the opposition enclave in a blow to beleaguered rebels defending their last bastion near Damascus. Government troops and allied militia have recaptured half of the besieged region in a blistering assault launched on Feb. 18 that has left nearly 1,000 civilians dead and prompted global outcry. Displaced Syrian civilians gather ...