The Syrian regime is on the defensive in a way it has not been for years, former US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford said on Monday. During an interview...

UNICEF has distributed aid to families that it has been unable to reach for two years, the organisation revealed yesterday. According to a statement issued by the organisation, the...

The smuggling of migrants from Africa to Europe generates $150 million annually to its perpetrators, a senior UN official revealed yesterday. In a press conference held at the United...

African-American singer Lauryn Hill has cancelled her concert in Israel after coming under pressure from activists on social media. The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of...

The Department of Defence in Washington has revealed that a US warship has escorted a British merchant ship during its passage through the Strait of Hormuz, Reuters reported on...

The UN Senate approved the Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 on Wednesday in a move which is clearly designed to protect illegal Israeli settlements built across the...

A group of Canadian doctors hope to make blackouts a thing of the past for Gaza’s hospitals by installing solar panels to provide energy 24/7 for emergency rooms and...

The price of oil increased yesterday, marking the largest monthly rise in six years, while crude oil prices reached a record high in April, as it rose by 20-25...

Malaysia has denied Shin Bet’s claims that Hamas has been providing military training for Palestinian students studying at Malaysian universities. Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar told the...

A well informed Palestinian source said yesterday that the Palestinian Authority (PA) had sought the cancelation of the former US President Jimmy Carter’s visit to the Gaza Strip, Quds...

Iran is to ask the UN Security Council to support the potential nuclear deal with P5+1 countries, the country’s foreign minister said yesterday. The Anadolu Agency reported Mohammad Javad...

The board of New York City’s transport authority voted yesterday to ban all political advertising on its buses and trains after a judge ruled that it could not reject...

Political parties in Libya’s capital rejected a draft proposal on Tuesday which was put forward by UN envoy Bernardino Leon. The proposal is intended to bring about an end...

The US said yesterday that it supports talks that would lead to a political solution in Syria, even if the discussions included Iran. “We support efforts to restart meaningful...

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on European countries not to resort to military solutions to prevent migrants drowning in the Mediterranean Sea, the Anadolu Agency reported. In...

PLO member and head of the Department of Refugee Affairs Zakaria Al-Agha yesterday called for the donor countries to increase their financial support for UNRWA to help resolve the...

Friends and relatives of Islam Hamed, the Brazilian-Palestinian man who started a hunger strike in a Palestinian prison, have launched a campaign on social networking sites urging authorities to...

Former US President Jimmy Carter is undertaking Saudi-backed mediation efforts between rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah, a Palestinian source said Sunday. “Carter has lately met with prominent Saudi...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has revealed that the air strikes launched by the US-led coalition in Syria have killed 2,079 people. The figure includes 66 civilians killed...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has expressed his country’s desire to see a new president installed in Lebanon following an eight-month presidential vacuum. Kerry’s comments came during a...

The United States will supply Iraq with F-16 fighter jets in July, the Iraqi Defence Ministry announced yesterday. Iraqi Air Force commander, Staff Lieutenant General Anwar Hamad Amin said...

Arab and Palestinian diplomatic sources unveiled an effort led by former US President Jimmy Carter to move the Palestinian reconciliation file with Saudi mediation. The sources, who spoke to...

The United States has reportedly deployed 12 warships in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean in response to the deteriorating security situation in Yemen. “By having American...

The US Embassy in Baghdad said on Monday that the international coalition has launched 3,200 air strikes against ISIS sites over the past 8 months, Anadolu has reported. Almost...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described the notion that his country was trying to develop a nuclear weapon as a “myth” fabricated by the United States to portray...

The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMS) has warned of sectarian war in the country in the light of the continuous killing, kidnapping and deportations carried out by...

Members of the UN Security Council held a closed meeting yesterday to hear testimonies related to the use of chlorine gas in Syria. During the meeting, a video showing...

The Libyan General National Congress (GNC) warned that it would suspend participation in the United Nations (UN) backed national dialogue in the Moroccan city of Skhirat, Anadolu news agency...

UKIP’s recently released manifesto criticises previous government’s deployment of armed forces to Afghanistan, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Libya and Iraq, while maintaining the ‘war on terror.’ The current government has...

The United States yesterday called on Iran to respect the United Nations Security Council’s newly passed arms embargo on Yemen and stop supporting Shia Houthi rebels there, the Anadolu...

After delays caused by the war with ISIS, Iraq hopes to take the first deliveries of its F-16 fighter jets from the United States this summer, said a senior...

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously passed legislation that gives the Congress review power over a final nuclear deal with Iran, Anadolu news agency reported. The Corker- Menendez bill...