US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday that at least ten countries had approved their participation in the proposed American military strike on the Syrian regime. At...

According to US President Barack Obama, the US is training Syrian opposition fighters in Jordan. In the past, the Jordanian government has refuted several media reports which suggested the...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged the European Union to postpone a planned ban on financial support for Israeli institutions operating in the occupied Palestinian territories. Kerry...

American Congress members have described the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation and even accused them of being behind the 11/9 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New...

A senior official in the US Department of Defence has predicted that a strong response to Syria’s use of chemical weapons will help to deter North Korea from using...

Former US envoy to the Middle East Dennis Ross wrote in an opinion article published by the Washington Post on 9 September that the price of cancelling the military...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has hinted that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad may be tried for crimes against humanity. “The priority at the moment, though, is to bring an end...

Intelligence sources have revealed that the US Corps of Engineers has given a $10 million contract to Raytheon Technologies Company to detect the tunnels underneath the Egypt-Palestine border. The...

Two Republican senators have criticised the US-Russian deal to bring Syria’s chemical weapons under the control of the international community. John McCain and Lindsey Graham described the agreement reached...

Barack Obama has revealed that he has exchanged letters with the new Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani. The US president told ABC news that the diplomatic efforts to resolve the...

The United States said on Tuesday that an Arab lobby to single out Israel over its nuclear arsenal would harm diplomatic efforts to ban weapons of mass destruction (WMD)...

Eric Trager, an American scholar and fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy specializing in Egyptian politics, said that one thing that may encourage Egypt’s Defence Minister...

The US Secretary of State said on Thursday that it is necessary to implement the US-Russia agreement on Syrian chemical weapons. John Kerry called upon the UN Security Council...

White House officials have conducted secret direct talks with Israel over the claim by Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani that his country would never develop nuclear weapons under any circumstances....

The US administration has announced that President Barack Obama is planning to meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday. Spokesman Ben Rhodes said that the meeting will be...

Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy has described US President Barack Obama’s remarks to the UN General Assembly about Egypt as “positive” and reflective of “an objective treatment of the...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that a relatively quick agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue is possible to achieve. During an interview with CBS News on...

A New York Times editorial has criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before the UN General Assembly and the threats of war he made against Iran. The newspaper...

The US government has given Egypt $584 million in military aid out of a total expected annual amount of $1.3 billion. The payment has been made by the administration...

Deputy spokesperson of the US Department of State Marie Harf said on Wednesday that US military aid to Israel might be affected if closures of federal institutions continue. “The...

Delegates at the UN General Assembly left the chamber this week when Egypt’s Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy went to the podium. He spoke to a virtually empty floor, with...

US State Department Deputy Spokesperson Mary Harf has said that the US would be more open to Iran’s participation in the Geneva II conference if Tehran supported the Geneva...

On Monday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called for setting up a “joint mission” consisting of 100 experts to carry out the dangerous operation to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons,...

The American news network CNN said on Tuesday that the White House is planning to cut military aid to Egypt soon because of civil rights violations in the country....

The World Bank published a report on Tuesday stating that the Palestinian economy could expand by up to a third if Israel were to lift its restrictions on the...

Iran has proposed a candidate for the position of vice chairmanship of the UN Disarmament Commission, a move that the US describes as “unacceptable in light of Iran’s many...

VIDEO Noam Chomsky has insisted that nobody can alienate the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. He criticised the military coup which ousted Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi in July, accusing its...

The US Department of Defence has announced its intention to sell arms to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates valued at $11 billion. Officials at the Pentagon said...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has expressed his belief that there is no military solution to the current Syrian crisis. A diplomatic solution is the most appropriate for...

The Canadian government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has blocked a bid by the Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris to invest in the country’s telecoms sector. The decision evoked an...

VIDEO On October 10 former CIA officer Michael Scheuer – once senior advisor for the Osama Bin Laden department – testified in front of a House Homeland Security Committee...

Despite meeting for seven hours in the American ambassador’s residence in Rome, Benjamin Netanyahu and John Kerry have failed to reconcile their differences over Iran. The US Secretary of...