Asia & Americas

The Arab Spring has resulted, in many cases, in giving rise to extremist forces instead of strengthening democratic values, a US Republican Congressman said yesterday. Speaking during a meeting...

A Malaysian government delegation arrived in the Gaza Strip on Monday via Egypt's Rafah border crossing to assess the humanitarian situation in the embattled Palestinian enclave. The delegation is...

American fighter jets launched nine airstrikes on Saturday against ISIS fighters near Erbil in northern Iraq in a joint operation with Iraqi and Kurdish forces aimed at retaking the...

In another sign of the increasing support for the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, activists in the state of California, on the Western coast of the US,...

A U.S. Congressional delegation, headed by Republican congressman Darrell Edward Issa, has started a visit to the Egyptian capital Cairo for talks on latest developments in the Middle East...

The Algerian Foreign Ministry today described the US' warning to its nationals against traveling to Algeria as having no basis as there is no problem with the security situation...

The United States has decided to suspend a scheduled shipment of Hellfire missiles to Israel as tensions between the two countries grows over the war on the Gaza Strip,...

Following a meeting with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki, President Nicolas Maduro announced plans to give orphaned Palestinian children a home in Venezuela. Venezuela has announced that it will...

A federal judge in Detroit withdrew on Tuesday from a Palestinian activist's case over his financial ties to Israel. The US federal authorities arrested Palestinian activist Rasmieh Odeh several...

The US State Department expressed concerns about the "the mass killings in Egypt during the months of July and August 2013" as reported in the Human Rights Watch report...

The Canadian judge William Schabas, who was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to chair a committee to investigate Israel's violations of human rights in the occupied Palestinian...

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin apologised on Tuesday to Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff for an insulting remark made by a foreign ministry official, Anadolu news agency reported. The apology came...

A delegation from the US Congress reportedly arrived in Cairo on Monday afternoon to visit Egypt. The duration of the visit has not been announced, but they will meet...

Ismail Sabri, Malaysian Minister of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry has announced that he will be boycotting HSBC bank by cancelling his credit card in response to the bank's closure...

US Vice President Joseph Biden welcomed on Monday Iraqi President Fuad Masoum's nomination of Haider Al-Abbadi for prime minister of Iraq, Anadolu news agency reported. The prime minister-designate must...

The US yesterday said that it is supports the Iraqi President Fuad Masoum after Prime Minister Nouri Al-Malki announced on state television he would be filing a complaint against...

Former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has strongly criticised President Barack Obama's foreign policy in Syria, saying that the failure to provide military assistance to moderate opposition forces in...

The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon Saturday reiterated calls to Iraqi leaders to unite and form a "broad based" government in Iraq. In a statement issued by his...

A senior UN official said that the reconstruction of Gaza requires lifting the Israeli siege, imposed since 2006. In statements to AFP, spokesperson of the United Nations Relief and...

A report by the Wall Street Journal's John Emshwiller unveiled new evidence which suggests Israel stole bomb-grade uranium from a Pennsylvania nuclear facility in the 1960s to use in...

After less than two weeks since the US Secretary of State John Kerry's slip of the tongue in which he sarcastically questioned Israeli claims about the accuracy of the...

Washington says it will not directly engage in the mediation efforts in Cairo between Palestinian resistance factions and Israel, because Hamas is designated as a foreign terrorist organisation by...

A Palestinian-born US attorney has filed a lawsuit against US Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel for providing Israel with weapons used in the...

Israeli Finance Minister, Yair Lapid, accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of sabotaging the country's strategic relations with the United States, saying relations between the two countries have reached their...

Spokesperson of the US Department of State Jen Psaki said on Tuesday that her country objects to the Palestinian Authority's efforts to try Israel at the International Criminal Court...

Iconic Cuban leader Fidel Castro has accused Israel of practicing "a new, repugnant form of fascism" in its brutal war against the Gaza Strip, constituting a "macabre genocide". In...

Former US President Jimmy Carter called on the United States government to recognise Hamas, who Washington deem a "terrorist" organisation. In an article published in the Foreign Policy journal,...

The Pakistani parliament issued a statement on Tuesday labeling Israel's operation in Gaza as "a war crime and genocide." The prime minister's national security adviser, Sertaj Aziz, had earlier...

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are facing a "massive health disaster" caused by the continuous Israeli war which has been ongoing for four weeks, the UN warned yesterday. The...

The US State Department yesterday said it was "appalled" by the "disgraceful" Israeli shelling of a UN school sheltering displaced civilians in the city of Rafah, in the southern...

Israeli intelligence services reportedly tapped US Secretary of State John Kerry's telephone during his efforts to broker a peace agreement between Palestinians and Israelis earlier this year, German magazine...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned on Sunday the killing of Palestinian civilians in an Israeli attack on an UNRWA school in the city of Rafah in the south...