Asia & Americas

The Turkish intelligence service has been conducting negotiations with the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad in Damascus to define a "road map" on several issues, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

Turkiye will deploy more troops to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus to protect Turkish Cypriots, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said yesterday, Anadolu news agency reported. Speaking at a...

The United States, on Thursday, imposed sanctions on companies it accused of involvement in Iran's petrochemical and petroleum trade, including some based in China and India, pressuring Tehran as...

Turkiye is set to reinforce its military presence of 40,000 troops in northern Cyprus with more arms and equipment, following the United States' lifting of an arms embargo off...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said yesterday they fired missiles and drones at militant targets in the Kurdish region of neighbouring northern Iraq, where authorities said 13 people were killed, Reuters reported. The...

Spain yesterday summoned the Iranian ambassador to Madrid to protest against the police crackdown on protesters following the death in custody of a 22-year-old lady. The Ministry of Foreign...

Commenting on the ongoing protests led by Iranian women against the hijab, Reza Pahlavi, son of Iran's late Shah said that this is the first modern day revolution for...

More than half of American university students support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, an official survey conducted by Israeli Foreign Ministry released on Monday has found. The survey, Israel's Ynet...

Indonesia's Al-Aqsa Working Group yesterday condemned the recent celebration of the Jewish New Year in Al-Aqsa and Ibrahimi Mosques. The activities conducted between 25-27 September triggered widespread unrest in the occupied West Bank. The statement said the celebrations...

Iranian security forces have arrested Faezeh Hashemi, the daughter of former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, on charges of "inciting riots." Iran's Tasnim news agency said Faezeh "has a...

Turkish banks have completely ceased the facilitation of transactions through the Russian payment system MIR, following significant pressure and the threat of sanctions from the United States. According to...

The UK's Shadow Foreign Secretary has proposed that British citizens abroad receive a statutory right to Foreign Office consular assistance, reports The Guardian. The UK government is currently not...

Japan's Prime Minister, on Wednesday, urged against any move that would harm the Palestinian peace process, including settlements, Anadolu News Agency reports. Fumio Kishida reaffirmed Japan's support for a...

Bipartisan support for Israel in Washington has waned following the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May. Leading members of Congress have threatened to cut US...

US Ambassador to Khartoum, John Godfrey, yesterday warned the Sudanese government of the repercussions of allowing Russia to build a military base in the Red Sea, the Anadolu news...

The US branch of the Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems has confirmed that it was hacked in early June, according to America's TechCrunch newspaper. The Texas-based company said the...

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and the cyber institute led by one of his closest aides, Saud Al-Qahtani, signed a deal in early 2018 with the former...

Egypt has launched a pilot programme to teach the Chinese language at 12 public middle schools across three governorates in the upcoming 2022/2023 academic year, the Deputy Minister of...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Greece that it will pay a "heavy price" for "conspiring" against Turkiye, following the deployment of US armoured vehicles to the Greek...

Turkiye said that Malaysia and Indonesia had expressed keen interest in buying armed drones from Turkish Defence firm, Baykar, Reuters reports. According to the report, Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut...

Iran accused the United States, on Monday, of using unrest triggered by the death of a woman in police custody to try to destabilise the country, and warned it...

Support for Palestine has surged in the US over recent years, especially among young adults where there has been a dramatic shift. Sixty-one per cent of American adults under...

Saudi Arabia's women's national football team made history yesterday after playing their first ever international fixture on home soil. The team known as the Green Falcons, led by German...

Ukraine has downgraded its diplomatic relations with Iran and withdrew the accreditation of the Iranian ambassador over Tehran's supply of drones to Russia. Ukrainian military forces yesterday shot down...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of killing Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and urged the US to prosecute her killers. Abbas announced before the United Nations (UN) General...

The President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan called on the African Union (AU) on Friday to "correct" its decision to freeze his country's activities in...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez surprised observers after he ignored the Moroccan autonomy proposal to solve the Saharawi issue and concentrated on the United Nations (UN) resolutions regarding the...

Iran’s protests continue after the death of 22 year old woman.

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas told world leaders gathering at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on Friday that Israel has decided not to be a partner for...

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi warned against the UK moving its embassy to the occupied city of Jerusalem. Late on Thursday, in response to journalists' questions regarding the announcement...

The National Investigation Agency (Indian Intelligence) and the Enforcement Directorate (specialising in financial crimes) on Thursday arrested at least 100 Popular Front of India (PFI) leaders and prominent Islamic...

Turkiye will send more than 3,000 riot police to Qatar to help secure World Cup stadiums and hotels in a security operation paid for by the competition hosts but...