Asia & Americas

Palestine's Islamic Resistance Movement has warned of the dangers embedded in the framework agreement proposed by US Secretary of State John Kerry. Hamas said that no force on earth...

The secretary of the PLO Executive Committee has revealed the details of John Kerry's plan for the Israel-Palestine negotiations. Yasser Abed Rabbo spoke to London's Al-Hayat newspaper. According to...

During his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Friday former chief of Saudi intelligence Prince Turki al-Faisal accused American foreign policy as having "no sense...

According to Swiss television RTS on Thusday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said that reopening of the American embassy in Tehran is "not impossible." Rouhani was interviewed by RTS...

On Wednesday US President Barack Obama discussed with the speaker of the Iraqi parliament Osama al-Najafi the possibility of accepting Sunni tribal militias into the official Iraqi army. A...

The US State Department deputy spokesperson, Marie Harf, said on Wednesday that Iran's absence from the Geneva II peace conference on Syria will not affect the talks between Tehran...

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry summoned on Monday the Australian Representative to the Palestinian Authority, Thomas Wilson, to express its surprise and dismay at the statements made by Australian Foreign...

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said that "recognising Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state is absolute and non-negotiable". The right-wing politician's comments came during his speech...

Members of US Secretary of State John Kerry's team have started communicating with the Palestinian and Israeli sides to check on the possibility of extending the ongoing negotiations until...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon rescinded on Monday evening his last-minute invitation to Iran to participate in the Geneva II conference slated to start on Wednesday in Switzerland. Ki-moon announced...

US President Barack Obama has said that the odds of reaching a final settlement between Israel and the Palestinians are less than fifty-fifty, without giving reasons for his pessimism....

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon insisted on Saturday that Israel's legislative or administrative measures taken to change the character and status of Jerusalem have no "legal validity". The UN chief's...

In his first remarks on the Egyptian constitutional referendum, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stressed that "it's not one vote that determines a democracy, it's all the steps...

American newspaper World Tribune has revealed that the United States has issued guidelines that link military exports to human rights in the receiving country. In the context of the...

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) has commented on the oppression campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Egypt. CSM, which is close to US decision makers, ruled out the...

The U.S president Barak Obama renewed his commitment to Israel's security in a recorded speech transmitted to a conference in Tel Aviv over the weekend to commemorate the 14th...

By Shuki Sadeh, Haaretz Correspondent Thousands of people in Buenos Aires protested against President Shimon Peres' visit to Argentina on Monday, some of whom carried a banner telling the...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the U.S stance toward Israeli settlement building to worried Arab allies on Wednesday, saying Washington does not accept the legitimacy of the...

Dozens of nations at the UN have backed a non-binding resolution calling for independent inquiries by Israel and the Palestinians into war crimes in Gaza. The UN General Assembly...

NEW YORK – October 30 – The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) calls on the United States not to block Security Council action on the Goldstone Report concerning war...

Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has said that Israel must make greater efforts to ensure peace with the Palestinians, a day after supporting Israel on the contentious...

The US pledged on Tuesday to help Israel combat the Goldstone report documents alleged war crimes committed during the attack on Gaza last winter. This offer to "fight the...

The United States sent a message to Egypt stating it does not support the proposed reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas as it would undermine negotiations with Israel, Haaretz...

Washington will not support any potential action by the UN Security Council on the Goldstone report on war crimes in Gaza, Former US Permanent Representative to the United Nations...

The Israeli Foreign Minister has said that his government will not agree to freeze settlement building in Jerusalem. The US administration is demanding such a freeze to encourage the...

Israel's public humiliation of both the President and the Vice President of America on two separate occasions over the last few weeks has apparently not hindered America's desire to...

For the first time in the University of California history, the UC Berkeley Student Senate has approved a bill to divest from two US companies involved in the Israeli...

Gaza: Former American President Jimmy Carter has called on the present US administration to adopt a more balanced and less biased policy in its relations with Israel.  President Carter...

In an almost unprecedented event 54 US Congressmen have written a joint letter to President Obama urging him to press for "immediate relief for the citizens of Gaza" by...

A Palestinian MP has said that if the US administration was "genuinely interested" in helping to ease the suffering of his people, it could do so. Instead, claims Jamal...

The scientist, Stewart David Nozette, 52, from Chevy Chase – Maryland, USA. He was approached by an FBI agent pretending to be an Israeli Intelligence officer. He is facing...

The United Nations Special Human Rights Rapporteur in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Richard Falk, yesterday stressed the need to urgently and wholly implement the findings of the Goldstone report...