Israel’s plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank has been postponed until normalisation deals with Arab states is complete, a US official said yesterday. Avi Berkowitz, the...

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman was informed of a US court’s lawsuit against him via the WhatsApp messaging app, new documents related to the case have revealed....

The United States on Thursday slapped sanctions on multiple entities in Iran, China and Singapore over their purchase and sale of Iranian petrochemical products, in the Trump administration’s latest...

The Trump administration has notified Congress of its intent to sell advanced F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a key lawmaker announced Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports. Outgoing House...

The Trump administration has announced that Americans born in Jerusalem can request to have Israel listed on their US passports as their place of birth

The Czech Republic agreed to designate the whole of Lebanese Hezbollah a terrorist organisation yesterday, becoming the latest European Union (EU) member to break away from the bloc’s partial...

Deputy Chairman of Sovereign Council in Sudan, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti) claimed on Tuesday that the country’s decision to normalise ties with Israel is based on popular consent, Asharq Al-Awsat reported....

Israel and Lebanon on Wednesday held a second round of US-mediated talks over their disputed sea border that has held up hydrocarbon exploration in the potentially gas-rich area, though...

Israel and US today signed an agreement that extended scientific cooperation to the occupied Palestinian West Bank and occupied Syrian Golan Heights, Israeli media and news agencies reported. The...

An Iranian plane owned by a company said to be sanctioned by the US over alleged weapons shipments to Syria, landed in Venezuela yesterday, according to a Venezuelan opposition...

US Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft told the UN Security Council on Monday that the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002 “is no longer needed”, Al-Watan Voice reported. Kraft said: “[US...

The United States announces that it killed seven senior leaders of Al-Qaeda in Syria in an air strike last week as they were meeting near Idlib, US Central Command...

Iranian hackers suspected of emailing threatening messages to US voters last week and spreading false information about compromised election systems ran a disinformation campaign last year targeting the Middle...

Following Bolivia’s election results last week, which saw the Movement to Socialism (MAS) party receiving 55 per cent of the votes and overall majorities in both houses of Congress,...

India and Morocco are to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the field of defence cooperation as both countries look to increase bilateral ties and extend their strategic...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has prevented cabinet ministers from travelling to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) before he visits the country, the Walla news agency reported yesterday. The agency said...

Chairman of the Council of Israeli Settlements in the occupied West Bank, Yossi Dagan, called for Americans to vote for US President Donald Trump, Arutz Sheva 7 reported on Sunday. The...

The mother of Austin Tice, a freelance journalist and former US Marine officer who disappeared while reporting in Syria in 2012, on Monday accused US Secretary of State Mike...

The United States on Monday imposed fresh Iran-related sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic’s oil sector, including the Iranian Ministry of Petroleum, in Washington’s latest action to increase pressure on...

Paraguayan officials say workers discovered the remains of seven people — apparently would-be migrants — in a shipment of fertiliser from Serbia, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Saturday. Three of...

Izzat Al-Douri, a former close aide to longtime Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, has died in Iraq at 78, the Arab Socialist Baath Party announced today. Al-Douri was one of the...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has deployed military units in the northwestern border area near Azerbaijan and Armenia as tensions rise in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, the official...

UN Security Council is today expected to discuss Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’ proposal to hold an international peace conference, Riyad Mansour, the PA’s envoy to the UN,...

The US welcomed decisions by Guatemala and Estonia to sanction Lebanese Hezbollah on Saturday. Guatemala said it would designate Hezbollah a terrorist organisation last week. While Estonia’s foreign ministry announced...

In a televised speech broadcast on Saturday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “we are changing the map of the Middle East”, in reference to the normalization deal being...

Chief of Israeli Mossad Yossi Cohen has revealed that Saudi Arabia will normalise ties with Israel after the US elections, the Times of Israel reported yesterday. According to the online newspaper,...

The United States and Bahrain’s King Hamad Global Center for Peaceful Coexistence signed an agreement in the field of combating anti-Semitism and promoting peaceful coexistence on Friday. “Groundbreaking: We...

The United States has called on the Egyptian government not to allow Chinese companies to help establish the country’s 5G telecommunications infrastructure. In an official statement, the American embassy...

Ethiopia on Saturday summoned the US ambassador over what it called an “incitement of war” between Ethiopia and Egypt from President Donald Trump over their dispute about the filling...

The Pakistani prime minster has added his voice to the growing criticism of the French president for “encouraging Islamophobia” following the killing of a teacher who showed cartoons of...

An Israeli cabinet minister said on Sunday that a US sale of advanced F-35 warplanes to Qatar could be possible despite Israel’s objections to such a deal given the...

Oman will be the next Arab country to normalize relations with Israel, according to Israeli media on Sunday, Anadolu reports. Israeli officials believe that Oman will soon sign a...