Asia & Americas

Leader of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Walid yesterday condemned calls by US Secretary of State John Kerry for talks to be held with Syrian regime President Bashar Al-Assad,...

An annual security report submitted recently to the US Senate by James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, removed both Iran and Hezbollah from the list of terrorism threats to...

Iran and the US have agreed on 90 per cent of the technical issues regarding the Iranian nuclear issue, an official from Tehran said yesterday. Iranian state television reported...

The US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif met in Lausanne, Switzerland, yesterday to discuss the nuclear issue, according to journalists and photographers. The...

Leader of the Syrian regime Bashar Al-Assad said yesterday he had heard reports that international powers were planning to negotiate with him however he is waiting for them to...

Former Head of NATO and the multinational forces in Afghanistan US General David Petraeus warned about the Iranian regime's threat to Iraq, French daily Le Figaro reported. Petraeus described...

Google has decided to restore the Gaza Man game to its Play Store after removing it following Israeli pressure to remove it earlier this month, Palestinian newspaper Al-Resalah reported...

The United States will have to negotiate with Syrian regime President Bashar Al-Assad to remove him from power; Secretary of State John Kerry is reported to have said. During...

On Friday, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas launched a social media campaign, #AskHamas, to reach out to the world. The campaign was launched given the imminent deadline for appeals...

Protests by international solidarity activists against Israel's military occupation continue 12 years after the killing of Rachel Corrie. The young woman was crushed by an Israel Defence Forces armoured...

The UN children's agency has warned the escalating conflict in Syria and Iraq has put more than14 million children across the region under risk of violence, poverty, trauma and...

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has warned that his country will not allow the United States to spoil the possibility of reaching a nuclear deal with the major...

The EU representative in Jerusalem has issued a mild condemnation of Israel's destruction of two shelters intended to alleviate hardships for displaced Bedouin. The shelters were located in Area...

A petition calling for charges against Republican senators who sent a letter to Iran's leaders has collected more than 187,000 signatures in two days.While the US is attempting to...

Iran will refuse any agreement on its nuclear capabilities if all outstanding issues are not treated as one package, Palestinian Al-Resalah newspaper reported the country's foreign minister as saying...

A group of 47 Republicans wrote an open letter to Iran yesterday warning that any nuclear deal with US President Barack Obama will not last after he leaves office...

A prominent Egyptian economist and history commentator has accused the United States of committing a "heinous crime" against Iraqi civilisation. Writing in Al-Ahram newspaper under the headline "Civilisation destroys...

Military pressure may be needed to topple Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, US Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday. "He's lost any semblance of legitimacy, but we have no...

Israel's Haaretz newspaper said that the US views the Israeli ambassador to American, Ron Dermer, as a persona non grata due to his role in coordinating a controversial speech...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has potentially achieved one more seat in Parliament following his speech in the United States according to a poll conducted by the Israeli television...

Demanding Iran's capitulation is no way to get a nuclear deal with it, US Secretary of State John Kerry warned yesterday. Kerry's remarks were seen as veiled criticism of...

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that US President Barack Obama's remarks regarding his country's nuclear programme are meant to appease the American public and to counter...

Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, who killed three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, may face the death penalty, a district attorney general has said. Hicks is charged with...

The Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said on Monday that the number of needy Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip has increased by 80,000...

The United States has stopped intelligence cooperation with Israel on Iran's nuclear programme, Israel's Channel 10 has reported. According to the channel, the halt in intelligence cooperation comes as...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned the United States against signing a nuclear deal with Iran, claiming such a "deal" would threaten the survival of his country. Speaking...

The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry yesterday called on Israel, Egypt and the Palestinian factions to adopt a "Gaza first" policy to ensure...

Palestine's Ambassador to the United Nations has condemned John Kerry's criticism of the UN Council for Human Rights. Speaking to Anadolu, Ibrahim Khreisheh said that the US Secretary of...

Five pro-Palestinian protesters from the anti-war women's group CODEPINK were arrested on Sunday outside the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington DC. The...

A new opinion poll suggests that a quarter of all American citizens have no idea who Benjamin Netanyahu is, have never heard of his name and don't know what...

Texas A&M University's plan to open a branch in Nazareth has been hampered by its inability to find a suitable investor. University representatives met with the mayor of Nazareth...

The US and UK embassies in Yemen are set to resume operations within days, but from the southern city of Aden, diplomatic sources said Sunday. According to the sources, the...