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The female co-founder of the once-feared radical leftist militant Japanese Red Army group, Fusako Shigenobu, was released from prison yesterday after serving a 20-year sentence in connection to a...

Muslims are overwhelmingly portrayed in a negative light in American and Western media, two political scientists have discovered through the analysis of hundreds of thousands of articles. In a...

Iran, on Friday, summoned the Envoy of Switzerland, which represents US interests in Tehran, to protest against the US seizure of Iranian oil from a Russian-operated ship near Greece,...

The son of Egypt's Minister of Immigration and Expatriate Affairs, Nabila Makram, is facing charges of the premeditated murder of two young men in the United States, media reports...

Al Jazeera media network called yesterday on Reuters agency to retract an editorial error in a recent news release in which it is said to have misquoted statements by...

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Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said, Thursday, Tehran is committed to reaching a deal during the Vienna nuclear talks, adding that US interests and foreign policy have been "taken...

Two of President Joe Biden's senior advisers are reportedly on a secret visit to Saudi Arabia for talks about a possible arrangement between Saudi Arabia, Israel and Egypt. They...

Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' Quds Force, Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, said Israel no longer "dares to fire a single shot" at the pro-Iran Hezbollah group in...

Greece announced yesterday that it will deliver Iranian oil cargo that was on board the 'Lana' oil tanker, which authorities seized in mid-April, to the US at the request...

Iran's Ports and Maritime Organisation (PMO) said yesterday that Greece had seized an Iranian-flagged ship, arrested its crew members, and seized the cargo onboard. PMO said Greece had acted upon orders from...

The United States has warned that a new Turkish military operation into northern Syria would cause regional instability, threatening to condemn such a move and escalation of conflict. Speaking...

Talks with Iran aimed at ending a long standoff on explaining the origin of uranium particles found at apparently old, but undeclared, sites are at "a very difficult juncture",...

The United Arab Emirates has won a contract to operate ground services at three airports in Afghanistan, UAE presidential adviser, Anwar Gargash, said on Wednesday on Twitter, confirming an...

Saudi Arabia is in talks to acquire Turkey's Bayraktar unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), according to a recent report by the geopolitical and market intelligence website Tactical Report. "The Saudi...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett tweeted yesterday that US President Joe Biden informed him last month that Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) would remain on the US State Department's terrorism...

Egyptian courts sentenced 356 people to death in 2021, the highest number of death sentences worldwide, according to a new report by Amnesty International. Death Penalty 2021: Facts and...

It said that videos obtained by CNN, “corroborated by testimony from eight eyewitnesses, an audio forensic analyst and an explosive weapons expert, suggest that Abu Akleh was shot dead in a targeted attack by Israeli forces.”

The Palestinian Authority called on Tuesday for the Biden administration in Washington to remove the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) from its list of foreign terrorist organisations, Wafa has reported....

The United States, on Tuesday, imposed sanctions on a Hamas finance official and a network of financial facilitators and companies that have generated revenue for the Palestinian militant group,...

The Biden administration in Washington has been mediating quietly between Saudi Arabia, Israel and Egypt about negotiations that, if successful, could pave the way for the normalisation of relations...

Yemen is searching for new wheat suppliers but will need help to pay for increasingly costly imports, an official and a main importer said, as the World Food Programme...

The US State Department yesterday issued an advisory warning US companies operating in Sudan that they may face "reputational risks" if conducting business with state-owned or military-controlled firms in...

Over 100 million people have been driven from their homes around the world, according to new data released by the UNHCR, making it the highest number on record. The...

The Taliban will sign an agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on operating airports in Afghanistan, the group's acting deputy prime minister said today, after months of talks with the...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi vowed "inevitable revenge" following the assassination of Revolutionary Guards Colonel, Sayyad Khodaei which took place in the capital, Tehran, on Sunday. "Revenge against the criminals...

Palestinian student Nooran Alhamdan refused to shake hands with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, during her graduation ceremony from Georgetown University in Washington.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) yesterday condemned the United States' decision to remove the radical Jewish Kach group from its terror list, considering the American move a "reward for the...

A diplomat from the US consulate in Jerusalem met the leader of an extremist Jewish organisation on Sunday following its removal from America's list of foreign terrorist organisations. The...

Former Fatah member Muhammad Dahlan has condemned the United States' decision to remove ultranationalist Israeli group Kahane Chai from its list of foreign terrorist organisations (FTO), saying it "encourages extremism and...

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani announced on Wednesday that his country is ready to mediate between Iran, the European Union and the US regarding the nuclear deal,...

The White House has not yet set a date for US President Joe Biden's visit to Israel, and this likely stems from the political crisis in Israel and the...