Europe & Russia

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov started Thursday a visit to Baghdad aiming at discussing regional issues with senior Iraqi officials, Iraqi foreign ministry said in a statement. The statement...

Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office has issued a statement advising British nationals against travelling to the Sinai Peninsula and the provinces of Beni Suef, Minya, Assiut, Sohag and the...

France has asked Russia to put pressure on Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in order to reach a settlement of the crisis after the failure of the Geneva II conference....

International companies have dropped out of the Israeli government's tender to build private seaports in Haifa and Ashdod due to concerns over political repercussions, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that his country has implemented all its pledges regarding the Syrian government's participation in the Geneva II conference, stressing that Moscow...

Egyptians for Democracy UK today strongly condemned the 'heinous attack' on a tourist bus in Taba, Egypt, on Sunday. "We extend our condolences to the families of the victims...

Turkey's Prime Minister vowed on Saturday to fight all parallel entities in Turkey and to hold them accountable for their actions before the law and the Turkish people. "We...

Britain's Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has said that Syria's president has no plans to leave office because he believes he is strong and in control of the country. Speaking...

Russia may call an urgent UN Security Council meeting to "stop the slide towards escalation in Syria", Russian sources told Al-Mayadeen channel. The source revealed that Russia had information...

Brigadier-General Yosef Kuperwasser, director- general of Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs, declared this week, during a speech in London, that "all the Jewish people have to be mobilised" to...

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, met on Thursday with the commander of Egypt's military coup, Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, at the Kremlin in Moscow. According to Egyptian media,...

The goal behind the Russian-Egyptian cooperation and arming Egypt is Russia's need for another base and focus point in the Mediterranean Sea, other than Syria, as it is unstable...

Turkey will not recognise Egypt's Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi who orchestrated the military coup or any other person if elected as president of Egypt, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip...

The President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz said he was "surprised" by the reaction of the Israeli Financial Minister Naftali Bennett during his speech in the Knesset, German...

A leading Dutch association of investors has claimed that many of the country's pension funds, insurance companies and banks "fail to adequately apply guidelines on international law and human...

European countries should enact laws to prohibit future boycotts of Israel; Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reported to have said on Sunday. Israel's Maariv newspaper published on Wednesday...

Turkish-Israeli relations will not return to normal until Israel lifts its strict blockade on the Gaza Strip and signs a protocol agreement between both countries, Turkish Prime Minister Recep...

According to news reports, Israel has agreed to pay $20 million in compensation to the families of the nine Turkish citizens who were killed during the 2010 Israeli army...

The Egyptian army controls almost 45 per cent of the country's economy, German newspaper Die Welt claimed. In a report entitled "The Egyptian army is Egypt's real economic power"...

International relations based on a country's political interests serve as the underlying reason for the volatile nature of foreign policy. When considering regional and global developments, a country can...

France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Monday that Western countries will not intervene to combat terrorism in the south of Libya as demanded by Niger. Fabius told Radio...

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has announced that Turkey and Israel are very close to resuming normal ties, Turkish and Israeli media reported on Sunday. According to the Turkish...

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu convened senior ministers Sunday to discuss ways of fighting boycott and divestment initiatives proliferating in Europe and worldwide. Present at the meeting were Netanyahu, Foreign...

Israel's Jerusalem Post published a poll conducted by the Israeli Geocartography Institute, the results of which indicate that 70 per cent of Israeli Jews do not believe the Obama...

French President Francois Hollande said on Friday that the new constitution in Tunisia "proves" the harmony between Islam and democracy. Speaking at a ceremony for the adoption of the...

Foreign Secretary William Hague expressed his concerns on Friday about the detention of journalists and increasing restrictions on the mass media in Egypt. The British minister called upon the...

Representatives from Israel's Leviathan Gas Company met with members of the British Gas Group in Cyprus last week to discuss exporting gas to Egypt, Israel's Calcalist business newspaper said....

Tunisia's Ennahda Party Leader Rashid Ghannouchi met with Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday. Following their meeting Ghannouchi told the Anadolu news agency the two leaders discussed...

Israeli policies have been severely criticised this week by human rights NGOs, with a particular focus on the exclusion of Palestinians from their land in both the West Bank...

Israel is angered that the head of the Danish parliament, Mogens Lykketoft, has scheduled a visit this weekend to Ramallah and the Gaza Strip, an itinerary that does not...

Washington has ruled out the collapse of the American-Russian deal on the destruction of Syria's chemical arsenal despite the Syrian regime failing to meet its promises to deliver the...

Turkey and Israel are close to reaching a deal for compensation on the killing, in 2010, of Turks on-board of Mavi Marmara by Israeli commandoes, when the ship was...