Asia & Americas

Turkey and the United States have reached an "initial" agreement to give air support to certain groups of Syrian rebels, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Monday. However, while...

A former advisor to the US Army Central Command, Ali Khedery said he has information which reveals that nearly 6,000 Iraqi forces fled the battlefield in Ramadi in the...

Iraq's prime minister yesterday rejected accusations made by the US secretary of defence that the Iraqi army did not show will to fight the Islamic State (ISIS) in Ramadi....

U.S. Defence Secretary, Ashton Carter on Sunday slammed the Iraqi army which abandoned the provincial capital Ramadi last week, leaving it to fall under ISIS control, despite them outnumbering...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu phoned U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to thank the U.S. for blocking a proposal calling for making the Middle East a nuclear-weapon-free zone...

During his visit to Adas Israel Synagogue in Washington on Thursday, US President Barack Obama attempted to persuade American Jews that his policies regarding Palestinian issue and Iran do...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday that his country will not sign any agreement that would allow access to its military and scientific secrets. Iran's Press TV quoted Rouhani...

US President Barack Obama announced yesterday his intention to designate Tunisia as a major non-NATO ally, citing democratic reforms in the country. The upgraded status would put the level...

Emad Shahin is the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics and a professor of public policy. On Saturday, he was sentenced in absentia to death by...

The UN envoy to the Middle East, Nikolay Mladenov, said on Tuesday that both Israel and the Palestinian Authority must work to prevent the collapse of the besieged Gaza...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said on Wednesday that it has signed several agreements with Saudi Arabia in Amman,...

US Defence Department approved a deal to supply Israel with $1.8 billion worth of precision guided munitions and bombs, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported yesterday. According to the paper, the...

A former Israeli minister has warned that Israel is on a collision course with the international community. Dan Meridor, a minister in previous Likud-led governments, made his remarks in...

A former US envoy to the Palestine-Israel peace process has claimed that the administration in Washington may deal with the draft resolution prepared by France on the establishment of...

The Department of International Relations in the Palestine Liberation Organisation called on the United Nations to respond immediately to the Israeli authorities' demolition of Palestinians homes in the occupied...

American State Department yesterday denied reports that it would include Bashar Al-Assad in any future solution for the Syrian crisis, spokesman Jeff Rathke said. Speaking during his daily press...

The Expatriate Affairs Department at the Palestine Liberation Organisation yesterday revealed that more than 100 verbal assaults were documented against pro-Palestinian activists in the United States, mostly accusations of...

Algeria and the US held talks on the security situation in Libya and the North African region as a whole in Algiers yesterday, the Anadolu Agency reported. In a...

Member of political board of the Syrian coalition Anas Al-Abda expressed his sadness that the Syrian revolution, like other issues in the region, is paying the price because its...

The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (IESCO) has condemned the call by a French official that Islam should be banned in France by 2027, Quds Press reported on...

A Palestinian photojournalist was on Saturday shot in the eye by the Israeli army during clashes that broke out near the West Bank city of Nablus. Nedal Eshtayah, a...

American President Barack Obama ruled out on Thursday that a peace deal between the Palestinians and the Israeli occupation would be forged during the rule of the new Israeli...

Students in Kashmir University joined in solidarity with Millions of others around the world to commemorate the 67th Nakba Day. Hundreds of students participated in a Nakba Day solidarity...

A US researcher has said that Egypt lacks any kind of political life since coup leader Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi took control of the country. This, said Michele Dunne, is...

Syrian refugee prodigy pianist Tambi Assad Cimuk performed in the US capital Washington, D.C., on Thursday night to raise awareness for the Syrian conflict. The Turkish embassy, with the...

A summit meeting between the US and Arab leaders ended Thursday with a US pledge to assist Gulf allies against external threats by any means, including militarily. President Barack...

Israel's Haaretz newspaper revealed on Thursday that strategic talks between Israel and France last week have turned into an argument over French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius' initiative to advance...

The vice president of the Iranian chief of staff, Brigadier General Massoud Gazaery, has warned the US and Saudi Arabia against stopping an Iranian ship carrying aid to Yemen....

Israeli media sources have reported that the Canadian authorities are preparing to take legal action against civil organisations which promote a boycott of Israel, as well as those who...

Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, yesterday warned of the repercussions of a ground operation to resolve the crisis in Yemen. In an interview with...

US President Barack Obama has praised his country's relationship with Saudi Arabia, saying that the two countries have always enjoyed an "extraordinary" friendship going back many years. "The United...

Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN secretary-general, said yesterday that the UN is in contact with Iran over the Iranian aid ship heading to Yemen, the Anadolu Agency reported....