Iran currently has no plans to increase the range of its missiles, the head of the Revolutionary Guards said today, noting that the current 2,000 kilometre missile range was...

The US Senate’s decision to pass a bill prohibiting the sale of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 jets to Turkey is unfortunate and against the spirit of strategic partnership, Turkish Prime...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke by telephone on Monday and discussed Syria and problems of the Korean peninsula, Russia’s foreign ministry...

Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman has taken to Twitter to gloat about Lionel Messi’s penalty miss at the FIFA World Cup. The Barcelona and Argentina star missed the spot...

According to Haaretz, one option being discussed is a solar energy project to be built in northern Sinai to supply Gaza with electricity

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will visit neutral European neighbours Switzerland and Austria next month, the Swiss and Austrian governments said, on a trip overshadowed by the looming imposition of...

Russia got their World Cup campaign off to a dream start with a 5-0 thumping of Saudi Arabia but face an entirely different beast in the form of Egypt,...

Houthi forces fought to keep control of the airport in Yemen’s main port city of Hudaydah on Sunday as Saudi-led coalition air strikes struck the compound, in an offensive...

At least 74 undocumented migrants have been held in northwestern Turkey, security sources said Friday. In Canakkale’s Ayvacik district, gendarmes held a total of 41 undocumented migrants, including women...

Arab warplanes and warships pounded Houthi positions in Yemen’s Hudaydah on Thursday as a Saudi-led alliance tried to seize the port city in the largest battle of a war...

Debris from five missiles fired at Saudi Arabia by Yemen’s Houthi group since July 2017 “share key design features with a known type of missile” manufactured by Iran and some of...

President Donald Trump’s nominee for a top State Department Middle East post said on Thursday he would dissuade countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt from weapons deals with Russia that could...

Expatriate workers who accept low wages and are willing to work long hours are exacerbating the Iraq’s unemployment problem, locals have said. Hussein Jassim, an Iraqi worker who left...

A federal judge today allowed an American journalist based in Syria to challenge his alleged placement on a US kill list, the Washington Post reported today. The green light...

A Palestinian youth succumbed this morning to wounds he sustained during the Great March of Return protests in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Spokesperson of the Gaza...

At least three OPEC members disagree with Saudi Arabia and Russia on the need to pump more oil, OPEC sources said, complicating any official decision to boost supply just...

The US State Department announced the imposition of sanctions on two Israeli companies that the authorities claim cooperated in a Russian cyberattack against American authorities. The companies, Embedi and...

In recent years, Israeli authorities have carried out dozens of “pre-emptive” arrests of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, on the basis of so-called intelligence gathered...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday he opposed any repeat of the 12 May parliamentary election and warned that anyone who tried to sabotage the political process...

The Syrian army has reinforced its anti-aircraft defences near the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, a commander in the regional alliance that backs President Bashar al-Assad said on...

India’s oil imports from Iran surged to about 705,000 barrels per day (bpd) in May, their highest level since October 2016, according to data from shipping and industry sources, despite the...

The Saudi-led coalition geared up on Tuesday for an assault on Yemen’s main port, preparing to launch by far the biggest battle of a three-year-old war between an alliance...

The White House has denied that President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner had a “stormy and abrupt meeting” with Kuwait Ambassador to Washington, Salem Abdullah Al Jaber...

Iranian Minister of Economy and Finance Masoud Karbasian announced yesterday that Iran and China are using their national currency for a joint trade exchange. According to the official IRNA...

President Donald Trump announced last month the US was withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal and re-imposing sanctions that would hit international businesses working in the Islamic republic. The...

A US soldier killed in combat with Al-Shaabab in Jubaland, Somalia, has been identified as Alexander Conrad, the Hill reported yesterday. Conrad was killed in an ambush by Somalia’s...

Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat today blasted US envoy Jason Greenblatt for criticising Palestinian protests in the Gaza Strip against the decades-long Israeli occupation. “The US administration’s defence of...

The UK, US and France are backing the civil defence forces in Syria to attack civilians, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said in an interview with the Mail on Sunday...

The Palestinian Boycott Campaign (BCP) has strongly condemned the intention of an Indonesian association to visit the occupied Palestinian territories at the invitation of the Israeli authorities next week....

The number of illegal settlers living in occupied East Jerusalem has reduced to ten per cent while Palestinians make up 61 per cent of the area’s population, a study...

An opinion poll published on Sunday shows deep divisions between Israelis and American Jews, particularly in relation to President Donald Trump, highlighting the growing rift between the world’s two largest Jewish...

Afghanistan has accepted an offer from the United Arab Emirates to boost its presence in training Afghan forces fighting Islamist insurgents, senior government officials said, as Kabul seeks to...