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The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has signed a framework agreement for cooperation with Russia. Secretary General Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu met the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow this week....

Turkish newspaper, Hurriyet, reported that Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will meet Russian President, Vladimir Putin, in Moscow at the end of November, when discussions will focus on...

Syria has chemical weapons, claims Vladimir Putin, in order to counter Israel's nuclear threat. The Russian president raised this point in a discussion with Western leaders on Thursday. After...

The Turkish Parliament has approved the renewal of a mandate that allows the Turkish government and Armed Forces to carry out military operations outside Turkey's borders when necessary. This...

A former Israeli official demanded that Turkey be expelled from NATO following media reports which accused the Turkish intelligence service of leaking the names of 10 Iranian agents who...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has denied that German chemicals exported to Syria were used by the ruling regime to manufacture poisonous gases. Speaking to ARD, a German television channel,...

PHOTOS The inter-Parliamentary Union, an international organisation of parliaments which seeks to promote dialogue and ensure peace and co-operation between peoples and their representative democracies, suspended the membership of...

The German government has admitted that until 2009, German companies were allowed to supply special valves and pumps to Syria that could be used to construct plants that produce...

A convoy of diplomats was allegedly attacked by Israeli soldiers on Friday as they oversaw the delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinians whose West Bank homes had been destroyed....

Russia announced on Thursday that it has evacuated the staff from its embassy in Tripoli after the Libyan authorities said that they couldn't guarantee their safety. The building was...

A "diplomatic embarrassment" has arisen following the refusal of Pope Francis I to meet with Israel's prime minister at short notice. Benjamin Netanyahu's office had already announced that a...

The European Union is demanding that Israel provide a full clarification over the Israeli army's assault against European diplomats on Friday, especially the manhandling of a French diplomat. The...

France has condemned the latest violence in Egypt and expressed regret over the casualties. Philippe Lalliot, a spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry, told a press conference on Monday...

A German court in Berlin is to try a German citizen of Lebanese origin on charges of espionage. The 60-year old man is accused of spying on behalf of...

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Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel stated in Berlin on Wednesday that her country has ruled out destroying Syria's chemical weapons within its borders, saying: "I will not destroy chemical weapons...

The French President's cancellation of a speech to the Israeli Knesset has created a diplomatic crisis. In return, reported Yedioth Ahronoth, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein has decided to boycott...

VIDEO Social media activists circulated pictures on Tuesday revealing the early moments of Egypt's former Minister of Supply Dr Bassam Odeh's arrest. Odeh was one of the most popular...

Egypt's former Chief of Staff General Sami Annan's sudden trip to France, while accompanied by members of his family, has stirred speculations about the trip's timing; especially following the...

A delegation including eleven academics from Oxford University is coming to the end of a visit to the Gaza Strip where they have attended a medical conference at the...

The United States and Russia failed to agree a date for the Syria peace conference. They disagreed over the role that Iran might play in talks to end the...

In 1955, young Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser took a bold step by making an arms deal with Czechoslovakia. At that time, the world was going through the Cold...

Arab and Western officials have ruled out that the Geneva II Conference on Syria would take place on schedule because of clear differences between Washington and Moscow. Washington and...

The Geneva II conference on Syria is impossible to convene, according to the opposition's representative in Paris, Monther Makhous. Makhous noted that while international parties are seeking to hold...

Albania has refused financial and technical support from the US to destroy Syria's chemical weapons on its territory. Albania recently destroyed its stockpile of chemical weapons due to an...

On Tuesday, delegations from across the UN member states convened in Geneva for Israel's Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Only 48 hours before the hearing was due to commence, it...

A spokesperson for the German Foreign Ministry announced: "Germany has reiterated its demands to the Egyptian authorities to release President Mohammed Morsi and to stop all forms of violence....

Iran and the world powers have reached a deal in Geneva on Tehran's nuclear program; Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif confirmed. A senior US official said according to...

A German expert in international communications has expressed her surprise that the Egyptian media have rejected the freedoms opened up by ousted president Mohamed Morsi and opted instead for...

A recent study by al Sharq revealed that Qatar's investments in the UK, France and Germany have amounted to 65 billion USD. The investments are concentrated largely in Western...

Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan responded to Egypt's decision to expel his country's ambassador from Cairo by raising the Rabia Al Adawiya four fingers symbol in front of...

Hatem Azzam, a member of an anti-coup public diplomacy delegation touring Europe, recently addressed a conference in Vienna to discuss the negative consequences of the 3 July coup in...