Europe & Russia

Iran, on Thursday, dealt a near-fatal blow to chances of reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, as it began removing essentially all the International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring equipment...

Iran expects an oil cargo confiscated by Greece to be returned in full, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported Tehran's Ambassador to Athens as saying on Thursday, following a...

Saudi Arabia's Savvy Gaming Group (SGG) which is owned by the kingdom's sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF) has acquired a $1 billion stake in the Swedish...

Israel's desperate bid to get European countries to back its designation of six Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist organisations has been struck a blow. European diplomats have said...

Tunisia's presidency announced that President Kais Saied received Lord Tariq Mahmoud Ahmad, State Minister for South Asia, North Africa, the United Nations and the Commonwealth at the Foreign, Commonwealth...

Algeria has with "immediate effect" ended its 20-year-old cooperation treaty with Spain after Madrid reversed its long-standing policy of neutrality on the Western Sahara conflict in March by backing Morocco's position. "Algeria...

Turkiye will never allow terrorism-backing countries to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), the Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. "Supporting a terrorist organisation that attacks an alliance member...

Turkiye has great potential and plays a very important role in the world, the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday. "Turkiye has great potential in Europe, Asia and among...

Russian President, Vladimir Putin, discussed bilateral cooperation and the Iran nuclear deal, Wednesday, with his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, according to the Kremlin, Anadolu News Agency reports. Putin offered...

Turkish efforts to ease a global food crisis by negotiating safe passage for grain stuck in Black Sea ports met resistance as Ukraine said Russia was imposing unreasonable conditions...

Human rights groups said they had today submitted papers at the High Court in London to get an injunction to halt next week's planned deportation of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda, a...

This comes after peaceful protests by British Muslims outside venues in Birmingham, Bolton, Bradford and Sheffield over the negative portrayal of some of Islam's most important figures

The Indian monsoon depression has hit the Middle East causing high temperatures in the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Iraq, Iran and Egypt. The city of Jahra in Kuwait recorded...

Spain's High Court has called the CEO of Israel's notorious NSO Group for questioning over hacking Spanish officials' mobile phones using Pegasus, a spyware product of the Israeli firm,...

Seven in ten British Muslims have experienced some form of Islamophobia in the workplace, according to a new poll released on Tuesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. The survey showed...

Amnesty International has called on Israel to immediately release a human rights defender held under Tel Aviv's administrative detention policy for another three months, Anadolu News Agency reports. "The...

Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, will pay a two-day official visit to Turkiye, beginning on Tuesday, the Turkish government said, Reuters reports. Maduro has repeatedly said he will visit Turkiye,...

Turkiye has said that it is working with Ukraine and Russia to provide a safe shipping corridor to enable the continued export of wheat and grain to the world,...

The UK's shadow minister for the Middle East, Bambos Charalambous, has condemned Israel's cruel policy of separating Palestinian mothers from new-born babies in a recent article describing how the...

Security forces in Thailand have thwarted a series of Iranian attempts to harm Western and Israeli targets in Thailand, Israel's Channel 12 reported. The channel said the Thai security forces were...

Qatar plans to re-install a sculpture immortalising French-Algerian football player, Zinedine Zidane's head butt during the 2006 World Cup final, which had been removed in 2013 amid a domestic...

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has revealed that it is "open" to working and coordinating with Syrian regime forces in order to repel an incoming Turkish military operation...

Turkiye will not change its position on the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO before its conditions are met, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. During a meeting with members...

After years of absence from the international arena, Algeria has been exerting efforts to revive its international diplomatic presence, Rai Al-Youm reported yesterday. The online newspaper added that Israel is worried...

Lebanon yesterday warned Israel against "encroaching" on its maritime wealth after the arrival of Greece's Energean Power floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to the area, Jordan's Assabeel newspaper reported. The rig...

Joint military drills between Israel and Cyprus should not be provocative, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said yesterday according to Anadolu. Spokesperson Tanju Bilgic said that Turkiye repeated its call to countries...

The Russian Embassy in Libya will resume work soon, according to the Russian presidential envoy for the Middle East and Africa, Anadolu Agency reported. Mikhail Bogdanov told reporters on...

Turkey is set to host foreign ministers of nine countries over the next two weeks, Anadolu Agency reports. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian will share his first official visit...

The EU foreign policy chief on Saturday warned that the prospect of restoring the Iran nuclear deal is "shrinking", Andolu Agency reported. "The possibility to strike a deal and return to...

A total of 1,682 irregular migrants were held across Istanbul on Saturday, security sources said, according to Anadolu Agency. Turkish security units, in coordination with the Anti-Migrant Smuggling Branch,...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday blamed recent protests in Iran on foreign "enemies" seeking to overthrow the Islamic Republic, Reuters reported. He also said the United...

The withdrawal of some Russian forces from Syria is one of the determining factors for Turkey's planned military operation into the country, Turkish military sources have revealed. According to...