Asia & Americas

Texas-based Apache Corporation has announced that it is assessing its Egyptian interests as it considers pulling out of the country. The US company has large oil and gas operations...

Israeli security services are suggesting that Barack Obama could initiate a strike against Syria to punish the regime for its use of chemical weapons against civilians in Ghoutah last...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has hinted that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad may be tried for crimes against humanity. "The priority at the moment, though, is to bring an end...

Former US envoy to the Middle East Dennis Ross wrote in an opinion article published by the Washington Post on 9 September that the price of cancelling the military...

A senior official in the US Department of Defence has predicted that a strong response to Syria's use of chemical weapons will help to deter North Korea from using...

American Congress members have described the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation and even accused them of being behind the 11/9 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged the European Union to postpone a planned ban on financial support for Israeli institutions operating in the occupied Palestinian territories. Kerry...

According to US President Barack Obama, the US is training Syrian opposition fighters in Jordan. In the past, the Jordanian government has refuted several media reports which suggested the...

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday that at least ten countries had approved their participation in the proposed American military strike on the Syrian regime. At...

The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has agreed a draft resolution which authorises President Barack Obama to use military force in Syria. The resolution bars the involvement of ground...

Israeli officials are expecting that US President Barack Obama will get Congressional approval for a military strike on Syria next week when the Congress reconvenes. Israeli media reports said...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said, on Tuesday, that the use of force was illegal unless it was for self-defence or authorised by the UN Security Council. Analysts said...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that a relatively quick agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue is possible to achieve. During an interview with CBS News on...

Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy has described US President Barack Obama's remarks to the UN General Assembly about Egypt as "positive" and reflective of "an objective treatment of the...

The US administration has announced that President Barack Obama is planning to meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday. Spokesman Ben Rhodes said that the meeting will be...

White House officials have conducted secret direct talks with Israel over the claim by Iran's President Hassan Rouhani that his country would never develop nuclear weapons under any circumstances....

The US Secretary of State said on Thursday that it is necessary to implement the US-Russia agreement on Syrian chemical weapons. John Kerry called upon the UN Security Council...

Eric Trager, an American scholar and fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy specializing in Egyptian politics, said that one thing that may encourage Egypt's Defence Minister...

The United States said on Tuesday that an Arab lobby to single out Israel over its nuclear arsenal would harm diplomatic efforts to ban weapons of mass destruction (WMD)...

Barack Obama has revealed that he has exchanged letters with the new Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani. The US president told ABC news that the diplomatic efforts to resolve the...

Two Republican senators have criticised the US-Russian deal to bring Syria's chemical weapons under the control of the international community. John McCain and Lindsey Graham described the agreement reached...

Intelligence sources have revealed that the US Corps of Engineers has given a $10 million contract to Raytheon Technologies Company to detect the tunnels underneath the Egypt-Palestine border. The...

VIDEO Noam Chomsky has insisted that nobody can alienate the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. He criticised the military coup which ousted Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi in July, accusing its...

Iran has proposed a candidate for the position of vice chairmanship of the UN Disarmament Commission, a move that the US describes as "unacceptable in light of Iran's many...

The World Bank published a report on Tuesday stating that the Palestinian economy could expand by up to a third if Israel were to lift its restrictions on the...

The American news network CNN said on Tuesday that the White House is planning to cut military aid to Egypt soon because of civil rights violations in the country....

On Monday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called for setting up a "joint mission" consisting of 100 experts to carry out the dangerous operation to destroy Syria's chemical weapons,...

US State Department Deputy Spokesperson Mary Harf has said that the US would be more open to Iran's participation in the Geneva II conference if Tehran supported the Geneva...

Delegates at the UN General Assembly left the chamber this week when Egypt's Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy went to the podium. He spoke to a virtually empty floor, with...

Deputy spokesperson of the US Department of State Marie Harf said on Wednesday that US military aid to Israel might be affected if closures of federal institutions continue. "The...

The US government has given Egypt $584 million in military aid out of a total expected annual amount of $1.3 billion. The payment has been made by the administration...

A New York Times editorial has criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech before the UN General Assembly and the threats of war he made against Iran. The newspaper...