The Sunday Times newspaper in the UK has obtained a draft report by the EU that underlines the concern that the Palestinian Authority has lost 2.5 billion euros in...

France is to take a tough line over Iran’s nuclear programme, President Francois Hollande told Israel’s prime minister on Friday. He is expecting hard concessions from his Iranian counterpart,...

The EU’s Middle East envoy, Andreas Reinicke, has confirmed that the union’s policy regarding companies based in Israeli settlements will be implemented as scheduled on the first of January...

German Die Zeit newspaper has published an article stating that Egypt’s coup authorities have failed to stop protests despite the use of force and state repression. Meanwhile, the divisions...

The International Parliamentary Union has renewed its demands to the Israeli government for the immediate release of all Palestinian parliamentarians held in Israeli jails. “The arrest and trials of...

Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay has denied rumours that the government intends to build a fence along the border with Syria. He insisted that all security procedures have...

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said that London and Tehran are exchanging chargé d’affaires in a move to rebuild their diplomatic ties. Hague explained on Tuesday that, “the two...

The Arab League has condemned the “violence and terrorism” in Egypt, Iraq and other Arab countries, Turkish news agency Anadolu reported. Political Undersecretary General of the Arab League Fadel...

France has condemned the latest violence in Egypt and expressed regret over the casualties. Philippe Lalliot, a spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry, told a press conference on Monday...

Russia announced on Thursday that it has evacuated the staff from its embassy in Tripoli after the Libyan authorities said that they couldn’t guarantee their safety. The building was...

PHOTOS The inter-Parliamentary Union, an international organisation of parliaments which seeks to promote dialogue and ensure peace and co-operation between peoples and their representative democracies, suspended the membership of...

The Turkish Parliament has approved the renewal of a mandate that allows the Turkish government and Armed Forces to carry out military operations outside Turkey’s borders when necessary. This...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has signed a framework agreement for cooperation with Russia. Secretary General Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu met the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow this week....

UN Foreign Affairs Representative Catherine Ashton left the Shura Council headquarters following her meeting on Wednesday with Amr Moussa without giving any statements. Moussa, Chairman of the 50 Commission...

Turkey’s military chief of staff has revealed that two F-16 aircrafts took off from the Amasya Merzifon Airport in western Turkey and headed to the Syrian border, following reports...

Every time UN Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Representative Catherine Ashton visits Egypt it fuels speculations about the announced and concealed purposes of her visit, so much so that...

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday that it was still not clear whether Western countries would be able to convince representatives of the Syrian opposition to join...

The Italian Coastguard Service announced on Wednesday that it has rescued around 700 asylum-seekers, most of them Syrians including many children, on board three boats in the Mediterranean Sea....

Moscow has accused some NATO countries of trying to repeat the Libyan scenario in Syria. In a statement on the fringe of the International Exhibition of Weapons and Military...

The European Union has requested clarifications from Cairo in regards to the judiciary’s recent decision to ban the Muslim Brotherhood and all its activities, as well as confiscate its...

On Wednesday Germany’s foreign minister warned its citizens against travelling to several locations in Egypt, especially the tourism areas overlooking the Red Sea. In a statement, the ministry said...

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has asked the Egyptian authorities to reintegrate the Muslim Brotherhood into society. The movement was banned by a Cairo court on Monday. Westerwelle discussed...

A senior source at Egypt’s privately owned Marsa Alam International Airport has announced that Italian tourism companies are postponing flights to Cairo until mid-October because of the continuing unrest...

Russia has criticised what it called the “strange” attempts to use the agreement about the elimination of Syria’s chemical weapons to obtain a resolution from the UN to use...

The European Union is demanding that Israel provide a full clarification over the Israeli army’s assault against European diplomats on Friday, especially the manhandling of a French diplomat. The...

A convoy of diplomats was allegedly attacked by Israeli soldiers on Friday as they oversaw the delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinians whose West Bank homes had been destroyed....

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has denied that German chemicals exported to Syria were used by the ruling regime to manufacture poisonous gases. Speaking to ARD, a German television channel,...

Syria has chemical weapons, claims Vladimir Putin, in order to counter Israel’s nuclear threat. The Russian president raised this point in a discussion with Western leaders on Thursday. After...

A German government report has revealed that Germany sold the Syrian regime chemicals that have a military potential. The government’s response on Wednesday followed an official inquiry made by...

The Russian and French foreign ministers have agreed after their meeting in Moscow on the need to stop the bloodshed in Syria and disable Syria’s chemical weapons. But the...

Following the coup in Egypt, there have been many discussions about a possible embargo on military aid to the new regime in Cairo. Saudi Arabia has said that it...

A group of 15 former EU officials sent a letter on Sunday to EU foreign policy chief Katharine Ashton and to the foreign ministers of the 28 EU member...