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Two Iranian truck drivers detained by Azerbaijani authorities last month have been released following hectic diplomatic efforts between the two sides, officials said yesterday. Jafar Barzegar and Shahroud Norouzi...

The sole US base in Syria outside of Kurdish-held territory has come under attack by drones in a "deliberate and coordinated attack", US Central Command said today. The attack...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement hailed on Wednesday Malaysia's rejection of normalisation of ties with Israel. Hamas thanked Malaysia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Saifuddin Abdullah, for "refuting Israel claims"...

The United States has been trying to drag more Arab and Muslim states to normalise ties with the occupation state of Israel, Palestinian Authority (PA) Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki...

Almost half of the 53,000 Afghan refugees that have arrived in the US and are living at military facilities are children, according to a report published Thursday, and as...

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan and US Special Envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, discussed on Wednesday the Iranian nuclear talks, state news agency SPA reported. SPA...

Amnesty International (AI) has urged the Sri Lankan government to put an end to violence and discrimination against the island's Muslim minority. According to a statement released on Sunday,...

Every foreign agricultural worker was sexually assaulted in Israel, according to a new report presented to the Knesset's Special Committee on Foreign Workers yesterday. Shocking levels of abuse were...

Dubai has signed a memorandum of understanding with the far-right Hindu nationalist government of Narendra Modi to build infrastructure in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Details of the MoU were...

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Israeli Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid, said on Tuesday that he agreed with his US, Emirati, and Indian counterparts to establish a forum for economic cooperation, Anadolu News Agency reports....

Turkey signed an agreement to import natural gas from Azerbaijan to meet the surging demand, Reuters reports. According to the report, Azerbaijan will supply 11 billion cubic metres (bcm)...

Israel's Regional Cooperation Minister, Issawi Frej, has said that every Arab state has direct or indirect ties with the occupation state, Emirati website Erem News reported on Monday. "We...

The Pentagon is holding consultations with Turkey to resolve the dispute related to Ankara's expulsion from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, State Department spokesman Ned Price said yesterday....

Iran backs talks with six major powers that are result-oriented, Iranian hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday, as Tehran and six powers struggled to overcome snags in the...

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The head of Turkey's Defence Industry, Ismail Demir, has said that Turkey is still keeping its options open to considering the purchase of Russian Su-35 fighter jets, in the...

Indian Foreign Minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, hailed Israel as their "most trusted and innovative partner," during yesterday's meeting with US, Indian and Israeli business leaders and government officials. "The degree...

The naval forces of Saudi Arabia and the US have kicked off a joint maritime exercise in the Red Sea, aimed at strengthening relations and military cooperation between the...

The last Jew from Afghanistan arrived in Turkey yesterday, after being granted a visa by the Turkish government. 62-year-old Zebulun Simantov, who hails from Herat province near the Afghan...

Staff at the recently purchased American news agency, Politico, has been warned that they must abide by the parent company's commitment to Israel or else find a new job,...

Former US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, revealed on Saturday that Saudi Arabia wants the US to adopt a tougher stance against Iran in order to normalise its ties...

All murals celebrating the January 25 revolution at the American University in Cairo (AUC) have been removed, according to a Twitter post by Journalism Professor Kim Fox. Well, look...

Lack of coordination between Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on the issue of reopening the US Consulate in East Jerusalem was the cause of...

Houthi rebels in Yemen on Sunday rejected a US call for allowing safe passage for civilians and halting its military offensive in the central Marib province, Anadolu reports. In...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian held talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the Iran nuclear deal alongside bilateral relations and regional and international developments, according to the...

Iran is not ready to return to talks with world powers over its nuclear programme yet and its new negotiating team wants to discuss the texts that will be...

Tunisian President Kais Saied yesterday expressed his country's dissatisfaction with US Congress discussions on democracy in the North African state. In a meeting with the US Ambassador to Tunisia, Donald Blom, at the Carthage Palace, Saied "informed the US ambassador of his dissatisfaction with the inclusion of the situation in Tunisia on the agenda of...

Israeli authorities have stopped dozens of Jewish families of the Lev Tahor ultra-Orthodox sect from fleeing to Iran where they had applied for asylum. "Israel and the US are working to...

Iranian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Majid Takht Ravanchi warned of Israel's growing threats against his country's nuclear programme, reiterating that the threats should be condemned...

The United States will offer $67 million in additional support to the Lebanese army, bringing Washington's total support in 2021 to $187 million, US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland...

Democracy in Tunisia is in danger following a series of executive orders issued by President Kais Saied, the Congress Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa and Global Counterterrorism said yesterday....