Asia & Americas

Annual Israeli arms sales increased to a new record in 2021, according to Defence Ministry data released today. The Israeli ministry's International Defence Cooperation Directorate (SIBAT) observed a sharp...

Earlier this year, when a group of Muslim school girls in the southern Indian State of Karnataka were barred from entering the classroom wearing the hijab, or headscarf, no...

Israel has appointed actress, writer and activist Noa Tishby as its first special envoy for combating anti-Semitism and what it calls the "delegitimisation" of the occupation state. The Israeli-American...

An Iraqi man has had his case seeking compensation for the deaths of 35 family members killed in an Australian air strike dismissed. The unnamed man who lives in...

Iran summoned the Afghan envoy to Tehran today and is stopping all consular services in Afghanistan, Iranian state TV reported, a day after protesters threw rocks at Iranian diplomatic...

Iran yesterday questioned the United States' will to reaching an agreement to restore the 2015 nuclear agreement, citing unresolved differences; after a year of talks. "We really don't know...

Iran confirmed, Monday, that it will receive part of its $7 billion assets unfrozen by South Korea by the end of this week, Anadolu News Agency reports. Foreign Ministry...

The private equity firm of Jared Kushner, the senior adviser and son-in-law to former US President, Donald Trump, received a $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese company, Power China, to build four new dams without...

The Saudi-led coalition in the ongoing war in Yemen has an outstanding payment to the US for the sum of $17 million. The debt remains unpaid more than three...

Iranian lawmakers have set conditions for the revival of a 2015 nuclear pact, including legal guarantees approved by the US Congress that Washington would not quit it, Reuters reported Iranian state...

US President Joe Biden should lift some sanctions on Iran to show his goodwill towards reviving the international nuclear agreement with Tehran, Iran's foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on...

Mimi Reinhardt, who drew up lists for German industrialist Oskar Schindler that helped save hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust in World War II, has died, according to the...

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi said Saturday his county has not left the Vienna talks and will not end its participation, asserting that his government seeks to secure the rights...

Canada may move to lift its ban on arms exports to Turkey after the UK's decision to do so, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said, as the war...

An Iranian newspaper reported that Iranian funds frozen in South Korea would be released in exchange for three US citizens of Iranian origin. On Friday, Entekhab newspaper reported: "Three...

Iraq's Hashd Al-Shaabi paramilitary forces, on Friday, said the armed factions would hand over their weapons after a new government is formed and US forces withdraw from the country,...

Charitable donations from the US Jewish community are funding far-right Israeli groups and fuelling violence against Palestinians, 19 American rabbis warned in a letter last year following Israel's 11-day onslaught on Gaza last May. The group, which includes several prominent rabbis...

The Biden administration has stated in congressional correspondence that the potential sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkiye would serve US interests and bolster NATO unity, according to a...

Amnesty International has slammed a bill introduced by two staunch pro-Israeli Republican members of Congress designed to deny federal financial support to the human rights group. Senators Rick Scott...

A senior US diplomat said the proposed pipeline to transport gas from the eastern Mediterranean to European markets, via Israel, Cyprus and Greece, was "not viable", stressing that "Europe...

Leader of the Israeli opposition and former Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called Thursday on members of the right to form a new party and bring down the government of...

Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, said on Thursday his US counterpart, Antony Blinken, invited him for talks on 18 May, which would mark the first in three years between...

The top US General said, on Thursday, that he does not support removing Iran's Quds Force, an arm of its Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), from a list of foreign terrorist...

Two US personnel suffered minor injuries after an apparent rocket strike on a base in eastern Syria, US officials said on Thursday, an attack which a war monitor and a tribal source said...

The foreign world leader who Indonesians have the most confidence in, out of all others, is Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, a survey by a think tank...

Israeli criticism of the US administration remains unchanged, whether because of what it considers the "farce" of withdrawing from Afghanistan, or what it sees as laxity with Iran by...

A Tunisian delegation will travel to Washington on 18 April for a week of talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Economy Minister Samid Saied said yesterday. Saied added...

Japan, on Wednesday, said it will cooperate with Qatar on efforts to stabilise global energy markets reeling due to the Russia-Ukraine war, Anadolu News Agency reports. Prime Minister, Fumio...

Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh yesterday received the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, in his office in Ramallah. According to a statement...

Israel has been the 10th largest international arms exporter over the past five years, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Measuring the arms trade from 2017 to...

Turkey and the United States announced the culmination of months of talks to set up a procedure for improving their strained ties, eyeing cooperation in the areas of economy...