Asia & Americas

Lebanon's Central Bank announced, Wednesday, that it has set a new exchange rate for the country's currency, at 15,000 lira against the US dollar, a devaluation of nearly 90...

Sources told Al-Arabiya that Cairo had put forward an initiative to stop the current escalation in the Palestinian Territories. According to the sources, Cairo conveyed the messages of the...

China's new Foreign Minister Qin Gang wants to build stronger ties with Saudi Arabia and set up a China-Gulf free trade zone "as soon as possible", according to a...

Palestinian resistance factions condemned on Tuesday the latest Israeli crackdown on Palestinian prisoners, describing the aggression as "playing with fire". The factions released the statement after meeting in Gaza....

The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday rejected "anti-Iran remarks" made by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, describing them as "ridiculous". The...

South Korea and Turkiye signed a deal for the engines to be used on Turkiye's domestic main battle tank (MBT) project, Altay, which was on hold after a deal...

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday for talks with Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, Anadolu News Agency reports. The visit...

The United States, on Tuesday, added seven Iranian entities to its trade blacklist for producing drones that Russia has used to attack Ukraine, according a posting by the US Department...

Adalah yesterday filed an objection against the Jerusalem District Planning Committee over the US' plan to build a new embassy on illegally confiscated Palestinian land in Jerusalem. Action was...

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, visited the West Bank on Tuesday on a tour where he is appealing for a halt to violence and reaffirming Washington's backing for...

Iraq's Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein has reiterated the importance of building close relations with regional countries, stressing that Baghdad needs the Gulf Arab states. In an interview with Saudi...

The Palestinian baseball team qualified for the final of the 15th West Asia Cup after defeating Bangladesh in the semi-finals, reported Wafa news agency. Organised by the Pakistan Baseball...

The UK's High Court of Justice in London will consider, on Tuesday, the legality of the British government's decision to resume the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia that...

An OPEC+ panel is likely to recommend keeping the oil producer group's current output policy unchanged when it meets this week, five OPEC+ delegates told Reuters on Monday. Ministers...

Palestinian group, Hamas, on Monday condemned US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Israel, Anadolu News Agency reports. Blinken arrived in Israel, on Monday, from Egypt on the...

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, urged Israel and Palestinians to calm tensions as he visited on Monday during the worst violence in years, reaffirming a long-stalled peace vision...

The United States will continue to encourage Egypt to take steps on human rights, including freeing more political prisoners and guaranteeing freedom of expression, US Secretary of State, Antony...

The Israeli hacker behind "one of the biggest cybercrimes in history" has returned to Israel, his father has revealed in an interview broadcast in the Republic of Georgia. Gery...

Iran and Russia have connected their inter-bank communication and transfer systems to help boost trade and financial transactions, a senior Iranian official said on Monday, as both Tehran and...

Patel refused to answer the question despite being asked repeatedly to clarify the position of the US regarding the status of the West Bank. At one point Patel shockingly said that the status of the Palestinians is that “they reside on those territories.”

When the floodgates are open, a torrent of water gushes into a dry river bed and races to the shore of the Sea of Galilee, a biblical lake in...

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi has insisted that diplomatic relations between Tehran and Azerbaijan will not be undermined following an attack carried out at Baku's embassy in the Iranian capital...

Russia on Saturday voiced its "deep concern" over spiraling Israeli-Palestinian violence, urging both sides to exercise "maximum restraint" to avoid further escalation, reports Anadolu Agency. Israeli raids in the...

A total of 139 Afghan migrants, who entered Turkiye illegally, were deported on Saturday, said the head of Turkiye's Migration Management Directorate, reports Anadolu Agency. As part of the...

The UK and the US on Saturday condemned Syria's Bashar al-Assad regime after a report found it responsible for the 2018 chlorine attack on Douma city which left 43...

Following the Israeli killing of ten Palestinians in Jenin, the White House has expressed deep concerns about the "escalating cycle of violence" in the occupied West Bank. Speaking to...

The US Treasury Department's senior sanctions official, Brian Nelson, will be warning countries and businesses during a trip to the Middle East next week that they could lose access...

CIA Chief, William Burns, has made an unannounced visit to the Palestinian Territories and Tel Aviv, coinciding with the escalation of tensions between the two sides, Anadolu News Agency...

Canada has appointed its first Special Representative to combat Islamophobia, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday, Anadolu News Agency reports. Amira Elghawaby is a former journalist, a founding member...

Members of a bipartisan delegation of seven US Senators who visited the four signatory countries of the 2020 Abraham Accords, namely the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Morocco and...

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, will travel to Egypt, Israel and the West Bank from Sunday to Tuesday to discuss heightened tensions between Israelis and Palestinians as well...

The United States announced on Wednesday it would provide $72 million as cash stipends to Lebanon's security forces through a bespoke United Nations program after a currency meltdown slashed...