The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday summoned Hungarian ambassador Shaba Rada to protest the opening of a diplomatic trade office in Jerusalem, says Anadolu Agency. In a statement, the Foreign...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Wednesday Foreign Minister Winston Peters will travel to Turkey to “confront” comments made by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on the killing...

France, one of the main contributors to the fight against Daesh in the Middle East, has received no answers to questions about the US calls for it and others...

The UK government will help lead a review into Palestinian Authority (PA) school textbooks, according to a press release by the Department for International Development. “After calls by the...

Students at more than 30 UK universities are taking action on their campuses today “to protest their institutions’ complicity in Israel’s violations of human rights”, according to a press...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the Algerian people will determine their fate based on their constitution and in line with the principles of international law. during a joint...

The French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian lauded the “great progress” made in southern Libya by Libya’s National Army Chief Marshal Khalifa Haftar, pointing out at the same time...

Russian Defence Minister and President of the Russian Geographical Society (RGO), Sergey Shoigu announced that his country would hand over files related to the restoration of the ancient Syrian...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his son for verbally attacking Turkey. On Saturday Erdogan called on Netanyahu to “twist the ear”...

Thirteen independent trade unions in Algeria have refused to support the efforts of newly-appointed Prime Minister Noureddine Badawi to form a government he hopes will help pacify protesters who...

Egypt has signed a $2 billion deal with Russia to buy more than 20 Sukhoi SU-35 multi-role fighter jets, Russia’s daily Kommersant reported yesterday. The contract, which was signed at...

Turkey repeated on Monday that it and Iran were carrying out a joint operation against Kurdish militants, despite a denial from Tehran that it was involved, Reuters reports. Turkish...

Turkey on Monday condemned a shooting that had claimed three lives in the Netherlands, reports Anadolu Agency. “We strongly condemn the attack that took place today (18 March 2019)...

An Iraqi court sentenced a Belgian man to death by hanging on Monday for being part of Daesh, one of dozens of foreign nationals facing the death penalty in...

Dutch police arrested a man of Turkish origin suspected of involvement in a shooting in Utrecht on Monday that killed three people and wounded five, city authorities said. The...

Three people were killed today and nine others injured in a shooting in a tram in the central Dutch city of Utrecht, the mayor said, Dutch broadcaster NOS reported. Police said...

The Guardian newspaper has refused to publish a letter by a Jewish women’s group challenging the allegations of anti-Semitism within the Labour Party. The signatories of the letter revealed...

Some 28 civilians were killed in the eastern Syrian province in Deir Ez-Zor yesterday due to the ongoing US-led bombing campaign on the last Daesh stronghold, and an explosion...

The population of Turkey’s biggest city of Istanbul is more than that of 131 countries in the world, according to the United Nations Population Fund. With a population of...

The US military plans to keep roughly half of its 2,000 troops stationed in Syria following a withdrawal President Donald Trump described in December as immediate and complete, according...

Clashes between the Iraqi army and Kurdish PKK militia killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded five of the militants on Sunday, the Iraqi military said in a statement, Reuters...

Erdogan: "We do not want to see a cross and crescent conflict again"

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said on Saturday frequent US comments about oil prices had created market tensions, the ministry’s news website SHANA and Reuters reported. US President Donald...

An Iraqi official in Baghdad has revealed on Thursday that several foreign intelligence delegations have arrived recently in Iraq, most of which are European. They came to Iraq in...

The EU saw 580,800 first-time asylum application in 2018, a drop of 11 per cent, the bloc’s statistical office reported on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports. The number of applicants...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that his country would stand up for Al-Aqsa Mosque against any Israeli attack; describing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “tyrant,...

The Syrian army, aided by Russian warplanes, attacked rebel-held towns in northwestern Syria on Wednesday in the most extensive bombardment in months against the last remaining rebel bastion in...

The United States aims to cut Iran’s crude exports by about 20 percent to below 1 million barrels per day (bpd) from May by requiring importing countries to reduce...

The United States is not discussing a Turkish offensive in northeast Syria with Turkey and believes no such operation is needed to address Ankara’s security concerns, a US official...

The Syrian army aided by Russian warplanes shelled rebel-held towns in northwestern Syria in the most extensive bombardment in weeks against the last remaining rebel bastion in the country,...

The US Senate will vote on Wednesday on a resolution to end Washington’s support for the Saudi Arabia-led military campaign in Yemen, as lawmakers push President Donald Trump to...

Daesh faced imminent defeat in its final enclave on Tuesday as hundreds of jihadist fighters and their families surrendered and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said the battle was...