Iranian Foreign Ministry rejects reports that Tehran and Washington have agreed on shipping Iranian uranium to Russia Iran's foreign ministry denied on Saturday media reports that claim Tehran and...

Israeli settlers on Friday hurled rocks at a convoy carrying U.S. consulate personnel near the West Bank settlement outpost of Adei Ad, which led to a confrontation between U.S....

Nearly 500 police personnel were killed and around 1,500 others injured in clashes with the Islamic State (ISIS) in the Anbar province of Iraq in 2014, Brigadier Jasim Al-Dulaimi,...

The Grand Mufti of Australia yesterday criticised Canberra's decision to vote against the Palestinian-Arab draft resolution to end the occupation at the UN Security Council. In a statement, Ibrahim...

PLO Executive Committee member and chief negotiator Saeb Erekat is reported to have delivered papers signed by President Mahmoud Abbas to join the International Criminal Court to the representative...

Some 26,500 Jews immigrated to Israel in 2014, the highest number in a decade, a joint report released by the Jewish Agency and the Israeli Ministry of Immigration revealed...

The reopening of the Iranian embassy in the US and the American embassy in Tehran are not on the agenda for talks between the two countries, Iran's Foreign Ministry...

A US official has denied media reports that Secretary of State John Kerry threatened the Palestinian Authority with economic sanctions if President Mahmoud Abbas goes ahead with a unilateral...

The US has asked Turkey to put pressure on the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in order to "reduce tensions and prevent violence" in the occupied territories. A spokesman...

It will take the Iraqi army five years to rid the country completely of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorist group, head of the Peshmerga's Makhmur-Gawar...

The US has "deep concerns" about Egypt's detention of three Al-Jazeera English journalists on terrorism-related charges, the State Department said Monday. "We continue to urge the Egyptian government to...

US President Barack Obama has said that he is "very hesitant" to devote another trillion dollars to help in efforts to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the...

The US State Department has sharply criticised the Palestinian statehood bid recently submitted to the UN Security Council. The Palestinian Authority (PA) submitted the final draft of the bid...

"There will be no discussions in the UNSC until the end of the year", the head of the UN Security Council and Chad's Permanent Representative...

Informed sources in Washington have said that efforts of the US Secretary of State John Kerry to suppress Palestinian Authority (PA) attempts to ask the UN Security Council to...

‫ China is preparing to send its first infantry battalion to southern Sudan to participate in the UN peacekeeping mission. A rally was held on Monday in the city...

The United States officially informed the Iraqi government on Sunday night that it will not deliver the first batch of F-16 fighter jets to Baghdad, a senior official in...

Deputy US Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Michele J. Sison yesterday accused the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad of being the root cause of all the problems...

A secret CIA review published recently by WikiLeaks reveals that Israel has been among the least successful countries regarding the targeted killing of opponents, Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported on...

Washington is to send 1,300 soldiers to Iraq next month to train Iraqi security forces, the Pentagon announced on Friday. The announcement was made in a media conference by...

Countries east of the Mediterranean Sea have sustained economic losses amounting to $35 billion due to the Syrian war and the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS), the World...

The United States will not support a draft resolution submitted to the UN that demands Israel's withdrawal from Palestinian lands, according to a US official. "We have seen the...

The United States embassy in Khartoum has welcomed Sudan's accession to the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children. The protocol...

China is expected to become the largest export market for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) by 2020, a new report revealed yesterday. According to the report, released by the...

US Secretary of State John Kerry is reported to have informed the Palestinian delegation headed by Saeb Erekat that Washington will use its veto power at the UN Security...

Senior American officials have failed to reach an agreement on how the US administration should react regarding the Palestinian Authority (PA)'s project to the UNSC calling for a timeline...

The US Congress allowed two Kurdish groups to be removed from a terror blacklist under US immigration laws. The move was part of a wider defense spending bill passed...

Egyptian authorities has barred a US researcher from entering the country for "security reasons" and sent her back to Frankfurt in Germany, a security source said Saturday. Michele Dunne,...

Settlement construction will continue in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon said in a statement published by Israeli media outlets yesterday. He claimed that...

US Congress voted in favour of authorising President Barack Obama to carry out military operations against the Islamic State (ISIS) for three years. During a speech before Congress, US...

The contracting parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention will hold a special meeting on the situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip later this month, despite pressure by...

The embassies of the UK and Canada in Cairo remained closed yesterday in spite of the Egyptian authorities' compliance with the embassies' security requirements. A spokesperson for the British...