Asia & Americas

Syria's army and allies pushed into opposition-held parts of Aleppo's Old City on Tuesday, a monitoring group said, looking closer than ever to achieving their most important victory of...

US-led coalition warplanes on Tuesday struck a bridge in Daesh-held Mosul in an effort to cut the terrorist group's supply lines in and out of the city, according to...

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said today he would not let US President-elect Donald Trump rip up a global nuclear deal and warned of unspecified repercussions if Washington reneges on...

US President Barack Obama will today make the case that his counterterrorism policies have helped protect Americans from evolving international threats as he prepares to hand over the White...

Canada has vowed to help Lebanon to cope with the flow of refugees from Syria, Anadolu has reported. The offer of help was made by Minister of Foreign Affairs...

The conference is a joint project of the Centre for Arab Studies of USP, the Institute for International Relations at USP, Middle East Monitor (London) and Common Action Forum...

In recent years, the parents of Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and trusted confidant of US President-elect Donald Trump, have donated tens of thousands of dollars to organisations and institutions...

Israel's parliament gave initial approval on Monday to a revised bill that would legalise Israeli settlement homes built on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. The proposed...

Turkey's benchmark index was up 0.28 percent at the close of the daily session on Monday. The BIST 100 index rose 208.76 points to close at 73,599.70. The total...

Saudi-led coalition aircrafts bombed boats allegedly loaded with weapons that were being smuggled to Houthi militias off the coast of Mocha and Dhubab, situated in western Taiz, sources told...

A top South American university will host a conference on Palestine tomorrow, bringing together politicians, academics and activists from the region and Middle East. "Brazilian Perspectives on Palestine in...

US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday launched an attack on Israeli ministers who oppose Palestinian statehood, as well as criticising the ongoing settlement expansion. Speaking at the Saban...

Almost half of Americans support economic sanctions as a US response to new Israeli settlements, according to a national poll conducted on behalf of the Brookings Institute. The figure...

US Defence Secretary Ash Carter said today that while the fight to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from Daesh is going to be difficult, it is "possible" that...

A senior Iraqi security source inside the country's Nineveh province dismissed reports that the leader of Daesh, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, was dead, according to Russian news agency Sputnik. A...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the Likud ministers in his government not to make any comments on Israel's illegal settlements across the occupied Palestinian territories until Barack...

Syrian opposition groups have informed the United States that they will not leave Aleppo, in response to Moscow's calls for talks with Washington over their withdrawal from the besieged...

Daesh fighters retreating in the face of a seven-week Iraqi military assault on their Mosul stronghold have hit back in the last two days, exploiting cloudy skies which hampered...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he will discuss with Donald Trump the West's "bad" nuclear deal with Iran after the US president-elect enters the White House....

Syria's army and allied militia advanced towards opposition-held areas of Aleppo's Old City on Sunday in an attack which a military source predicted would be over in a matter...

Thousands of people gathered in Malaysia's capital Sunday for a rally led by Prime Minister Najib Razak to protest violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine State, where...

Syrian American Medical Society physician says no-fly zones easy to set up, international community should push for it

White House says administration doesn't believe bill violates nuclear deal with Iran

China's foreign ministry has expressed concern after Yemen's armed Shia Houthi movement and its political allies formed a new government, in what appeared a blow to UN-backed efforts to...

McDonald's Corp said today it had sold the franchise rights for its restaurants in Singapore and Malaysia to Saudi Arabia's Lionhorn Pte Ltd as part of a plan to...

Iran today threatened to retaliate against the US Senate's vote to extend the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) for 10 years, saying it violated last year's deal with six major...

A senior official in the Palestinian Authority said US President-elect Donald Trump will send a special envoy, likely to be his son-in-law Jared Kushner, to revive the peace talks...

US President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is examining proposals for new non-nuclear sanctions on Iran, the Financial Times reported today, citing congressional sources who have been in contact with...

US President-elect Donald Trump has sparked concerns following his announcement that he intends to nominate General James Mattis to serve as Secretary of Defence. The retired US Marine Corps...

Daesh is continuing to regroup in other areas of Libya, the United States' special envoy for Libya has warned. In a hearing statement, US Department of State Special Envoy,...

The US Senate yesterday passed the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act which activists believe will stifle anti-Israel actions and target student groups. The bill, proposed by Senators Bob Casey, a Pennsylvania...

More than 1,000 Afghan combatants, who have been fighting in support of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and are affiliated to the so-called Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG), were...