A member of the Hezbollah Parliamentary bloc, Hassan Fadlallah, has slammed the American interference in the appointment of a governor for the Central Bank of Lebanon. Fadlallah said the...

Increasing oil production will not serve the interests of any country, Russia warned yesterday, stressing that Russian President Vladimir Putin was seeking “constructive negotiations aimed at stabilising the global...

Chinese ambassador to Cairo, Liao Liqiang, announced on Thursday that his country will soon be providing a batch of medical supplies to Egypt, in response to the Egyptian government’s...

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia was ready for deep oil production cuts with the United States and OPEC, but firmly put the blame for the collapse in...

A member of the Iraqi parliament’s security and defence committee has condemned the deployment of Patriot missile defence systems at bases hosting US forces in the country, saying they are a...

US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has called on the President Donald Trump to ease sanctions on Iran to help it confront the coronavirus pandemic. “In times of global...

American shale oil companies are calling for a number of measure to reprimand Saudi Arabia including denying the kingdom access to its oil refinery in the US, as part...

Saudi Arabia yesterday called for an urgent meeting of the OPEC+ oil producers with the “aim of seeking a fair agreement that will restore the desired balance to the...

Coronavirus-related deaths pushed past the 50,000 mark Thursday as the spread of the pandemic surges, Anadolu reports. The virus emerged in Wuhan, China last December and spread to at least...

Donald Trump claimed earlier today that the oil crisis affecting the global markets will be resolved in “a few days”, having spoken with the leaders of both Saudi Arabia...

American activists have signed a petition urging the US administration to supply Gaza and the West Bank with much-needed humanitarian aid as the novel coronavirus threatens to overwhelm the Palestinian health...

Acting Sudanese Ambassador to Washington Amira Agaraib asked the US to remove Khartoum from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, Anadolu reported. This came during a meeting between Sudanese official and the...

Philippines Ambassador to Lebanon Bernardita Catalla died early this morning of coronavirus in Beirut, according to local media reports. Catalla, 62, was being treated in a hospital in Beirut...

The coronavirus crisis provides a historic opportunity for the US to lift sanctions on Iran, President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday. The Iranian leader made his comment after a...

A report issued by Amnesty International has revealed that US raids in Somalia have led to the deaths of two civilians and the injuries of three others in February....

The global effect of the coronavirus continued Wednesday as cases surpassed 905,200 globally, according to a running tally by US-based Johns Hopkins University, Anadolu reports. The COVID-19 virus, which...

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday warned Iran and its proxies against attacking US troops or assets in Iraq, citing a possible “sneak attack” but giving no other details,...

US Senator for Texas, Ted Cruz, said nine senators including himself have recently called the Saudi ambassador to Washington, Princess Rima Al-Saud, and “ripped into her” over the kingdom’s...

Missile defence batteries have intercepted a rocket attack on the Ain Assad base in the west of Iraq, which hosts US troops, an Iraqi army source said yesterday, reports...

The German Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday that France, Germany and Britain have sent medical equipment to Iran via the Instex trade mechanism set up to bypass the US...

The Palestine-Turkey Friendship Hospital in the occupied Gaza Strip has started operations in an effort to curb the novel coronavirus, the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s spokesperson announced yesterday. “The Palestinian...

The United States has allowed Russian, Chinese and European companies to continue their work at Iranian nuclear sites, renewing an exemption it granted them from the sanctions imposed on...

A Chinese envoy to the United Nations has called for the lifting of international sanctions against Syria, stressing that they will obstruct the country’s efforts to fight the coronavirus...

Turkey’s state-owned Halkbank on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in a federal court in Manhattan that it helped Iran evade US sanctions, in a case that has...

A UN human rights expert called on Tuesday for lifting international sanctions against countries ranging from Iran to North Korea and Venezuela to ensure that food supplies reach hungry...

American Singer Della Miles has donated to Turkey after President Erdogan’s national call to fight the coronavirus late Monday, Ihlas News Agency reported. Turkey’s president launched a National Solidarity...

Lebanese banks have suspended all dollar withdrawals until the airport reopens, AFP reported yesterday. The move comes more than two weeks after the government announced a nationwide shutdown to...

China is considering sending a medical convoy to Palestine, Chinese ambassador to the State of Palestine, Guo Wei, said yesterday, stressing that his country is doing its best to help...

Mohammad Mohi, a spokesman for the Hezbollah Brigades in Iraq (Kata’ib Hezbollah), has said that the US withdrawal from some of its military bases in Iraq is not real,...

Saudi Arabian Airlines will begin exceptional commercial flights this week to bring British nationals and their families back to the United Kingdom, and similar flights are being arranged for...

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases across the globe climbed to over 600,000 on Saturday, according to figures compiled by US-based Johns Hopkins University, Anadolu reports. The disease known...

Half a dozen US lawmakers accused Saudi Arabia of waging “warfare” against US dominance over the global energy market. In a letter that was signed and sent to the...