Asia & Americas

The US Department of Defence said its units intercepted the North Korean flagged Morning Glory oil tanker which carried crude oil from rebel ports in Libya through international waters...

Ahead of the meeting between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and US President Barack Obama at the White House on Monday, US Secretary of State John Kerry asked Abbas...

US Secretary of State John Kerry told the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Thursday that Israelis are making a mistake by insisting that the Palestinians must recognise Israel...

The US-based Friends of the IDF organisation has managed in one night to raise $20 million dollars, equal to about 70 million Israeli shekels, during its yearly gala in...

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged Russia and the United States to help revive the stalled peace talks aimed at ending the Syrian civil war, stressing that...

The US denounced on Wednesday the rocket attacks against Israel launched by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement and called for an immediate halt to what it described as "terrorist...

The United Nations Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process James W. Rawley expressed concern about the processes that led to the killing of three Palestinians in...

This is what Malaysian Prime Minister Dato' Sri Haji Mohammad Najib told the prime minister of the Palestinian government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, via telephone on Tuesday. According to...

Washington has warned Libyan rebels about attempting to export oil without the consent of the central government. It said that buyers of such "illegal" oil could face prosecution and...

Students from Canada's Ottawa University launched a campaign to boycott the Israeli company which produces Sabra Hummus saying the company's revenues support the Golani Brigade of the Israeli army...

"The main Israeli demand is that the PA recognise Israel as a Jewish state in a framework agreement, which is rejected by Ramallah until now," the Israeli newspaper Maariv...

27 United Nations member states are alarmed by Egypt's repeated use of excessive force against demonstrators and have turned the international spotlight onto Egypt's human rights abuses, Human Rights...

The US State Department voiced its concern over the human rights climate in Egypt following a joint statement on Egypt by the UN Human Rights Council, co-signed by the...

The committee working to free convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard has said that he has been transferred to a hospital for medical treatment from the American prison where he...

Russia, Iran and Hezbollah are losing the war in Syria, US President Barack Obama said. In reference to the unwillingness of Washington to embroil itself militarily in the Syrian...

The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved on Wednesday a bill that would enhance US-Israel defence ties and waived US entrance visa for Israelis. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Congressman Ted...

A local NGO has launched a massive project to promote awareness about several social problems plaguing Jordanian society, including domestic violence, child labour and human trafficking. The project, which...

A report prepared by UN investigators said on Wednesday that the chemical weapons used in the Damascus suburbs of Khan Al-Assal and Al-Ghota last year were taken from warehouses...

The United States has restricted the movement of the Syrian envoy to the United Nations, Bashar Ja'afari, allowing him to move only within 40 kilometres from the UN headquarters...

A senior US official said that US President Barack Obama promised Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he would put pressure on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas "to make...

Israel's Maariv newspaper claimed on Wednesday that tensions surfaced between the US State Department and the White House after an interview given by President Barack Obama last week in...

The US State Department announced on Tuesday that it has requested $7 billion to promote stability, security and economic partnerships with countries in the Middle East in 2015. If...

The US refused to grant entrance visas to senior Israeli security officials, including Mossad and Shabak officers, Israeli newspaper Maariv revealed on Tuesday. The paper reported a senior security...

During a meeting between the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama at the White House on Monday, Obama told the Israeli leader to take difficult...

Using strong language, US Secretary of State John Kerry told the attendees of AIPAC's annual conference on Monday night that he has stood against boycotts of Israel for more...

The US administration is placing "severe pressure on Israel to stop the assassination operations that it carries out in Iran, targeting individuals who have a connection to Iran's nuclear...

Two members of the US Congress have introduced a bill to deprive American educational institutions of federal funding if they implement an academic boycott of Israel. According to Israel's...

US Secretary of State John Kerry is proposing for the Palestinians to establish the capital of a future Palestinian state in Beit Hanina instead of all of occupied East...

The executive secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), Rima Khalaf, is urging both Egypt and Jordan to boycott Israeli settlement products. "Boycotting...

Egyptian authorities should ensure a full, speedy and effective investigation into the February 16, 2014 bombing of a tourist bus in the Sinai Peninsula that killed four civilians, Human...

Israel adopts policies in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip which amount to racial discrimination and apartheid by systematically repressing the Palestinian people and confiscating their land, the...

The US State Department requested clarification from the Iraqi government over media reports claiming that Iraq has signed an arms deal to purchase weapons and ammunition from Iran worth...