Europe & Russia

Rebuffing controversial statements by France's president about the colonial period in Algeria, the nation's parliament Saturday said that on a single day in 1961, some 300 peaceful Algerians were...

An Iranian appeals court has upheld a one-year prison term for British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on security offences, her lawyer was quoted by an Iranian news website as...

A Turkish trade delegation held talks with officials in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on ways of boosting trade cooperation between the two countries, according to the UAE state...

The United Kingdom may consider the purchase of Turkish drones, Turkey's minister of industry and technology revealed yesterday. Speaking to CNN Turk, Mustafa Varank said that "the UK is...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday arrived at the Huber Mansion in Istanbul to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Anadolu Agency reports. Merkel and Erdogan boarded a golf...

"Little Amal", the 3.5-metre-tall puppet depicting the journey of a Syrian refugee, arrived in the French capital on Wednesday

A Rome judge yesterday suspended the trial of four senior members of the Egyptian security services citing concerns that there was no certainty they had been formally made aware that they were charged...

Several hundred Afghan migrants including women, children and a seven-day-old baby have settled in a makeshift tent camp near the border with Croatia, determined to continue their journey to...

The Turkish president will leave on Sunday for a four-day diplomatic tour to three African countries, diplomatic sources have told Anadolu Agency. Recep Tayyip Erdogan has officially visited 28...

The United States backs Turkey's $6B F-16 jet deal request as Turkey sent a letter of request on 40 F-16s and 80 modernisation kits, Daily Sabah reports. According to...

The staff published an open letter in the Guardian, protesting against contracts with the Israeli government and military as part of Project Nimbus

French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian reiterated, on Tuesday, "the unwavering respect for Algerian sovereignty", amid the tension that prevails in relations between Paris and Algiers, particularly regarding colonial...

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has told attendants at the V4 summit that the EU cannot cope without Egypt it's most obvious, external ally. Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger...

The United States yesterday condemned cross-border attacks on Turkish soil and offered condolences for the killings of two Turkish police officers in northern Syria, Anadolu reported. "We condemn the cross-border attack...

On Tuesday, Turkey's Vice President, Fuat Oktay, spoke with Vietnamese Prime Minister, Pham Minh Chinh, over the phone and discussed trade, tourism, and the fight against Fetullah Terrorist Organization...

Greece announced that 250 additional guards would be deployed at the country's land border with Turkey, as thousands of asylum-seekers tried to enter the country last year, Athens News...

The UAE has been named the most desirable country to live in by Arab youth for the 10th consecutive year according to this year's ASDA'A Arab Youth Survey released...

Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has announced that Turkey has lost its patience with the Kurdish militias attacking the country from neighbouring Syria, stating that a new military operation...

Several Palestine activist groups and academics working in the field of anti-Semitism studies have issued separate statements raising their concerns on instrumentalising anti-Semitism ahead of tomorrow's International Forum on...

Civil society organisations and activists in the UK and overseas are threatening to organise a mass boycott of the University of Bristol unless it reverses the decision to fire...

Journalist Jane Cahane has been awarded £80,000 ($108,854) in damages from the Investigative Journal after being hired on false pretences, to smear critics of the UAE and Egypt, rather...

Best-selling and award-winning Irish novelist Sally Rooney has decided not to publish her new novel in Hebrew, saying she is supporting the cultural boycott of Israel, Haaretz and other media reports...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett yesterday revealed plans to bring 500,000 Jewish immigrants from the US, South America and France to Israel, local media reported. Speaking at a Ynet conference marking...

Algerian and Russian military forces yesterday concluded a joint exercise in Russia's southwestern city of Ossetia. The Russian army's official TV channel Zvezda reported that the exercises had included...

The European Union yesterday extended sanctions imposed on the Syrian regime for an additional year over the latter's use of chemical weapons against civilians. In an official statement, the...

Turkish coast guards yesterday rescued 75 irregular migrants who were pushed back by the Greek authorities into Turkish territorial waters off the southwestern coastal city of Mugla. Security sources...

The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is contributing to world peace, justice, and solidarity, the Azerbaijani president said on Monday, as the group marks its 60th anniversary. The Non-Aligned Movement gathered...

On Monday, the Turkish foreign minister met his counterparts from Azerbaijan, Russia, Nepal, Guatemala, Lebanon, and Iraq during his visit to Serbia, reports Anadolu Agency. Mevlut Cavusoglu arrived in...

In March this year, the Danish government declared that the Syrian capital, Damascus, and the territories under the control of the Assad regime are “safe”, enabling it to revoke the resident permits of hundreds of Syrian refugees in Denmark.

The Syrian Kurdish militia of the Peoples' Protection Units (YPG) attacked a nearby Turkish town with cross-border shelling, killing two Turkish police officers and wounding two others. In the...

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki yesterday met with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to discuss bilateral cooperation relations, reported Wafa news agency. The talks were held at the presidential palace, where the...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said yesterday that the return of the Algerian ambassador to France was "conditional on total respect for the Algerian state", Ennahar TV reported. "We can't act like...