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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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Syrian American Medical Society physician says no-fly zones easy to set up, international community should push for it
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White House says administration doesn't believe bill violates nuclear deal with Iran
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...