Iran must return to talks with world powers over its 2015 nuclear deal to avoid a diplomatic escalation that could jeopardize the negotiations, a French presidency official said on...

Iran on Tuesday rejected a US call to grant UN inspectors access to a nuclear site, saying Washington was not qualified to demand inspections without condemning a sabotage attack...

Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy claimed a motion calling for sanctions against Israel because it practises the crime of apartheid was not "comprehensive" or "balanced" and the leadership...

The Yemeni government has urged the international community to provide it with urgent financial support to avoid further economic collapse in the country. Speaking at the United Nations General...

Syria's Foreign Minister has claimed that the doors are open for refugees to return, even as warnings emerge about the dangers that returnees face in regime-controlled territory. Faisal Mekdad...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has called on Iran to directly and peacefully negotiate the dispute over three islands in the Gulf and has condemned the country's interference in...

The Jordanian government has agreed to resume flights to the Syrian capital Damascus as of 3 October after a 10-year hiatus as a result of the Syrian civil war. Jordan's...

The year 2020 was the worst for the Palestinian Authority (PA) since its establishment in 1994 due to the Israeli occupation and the coronavirus pandemic, the UN Conference on...

Israel does not have conventional military capabilities that enable it to strike and permanently eliminate the Iranian nuclear project, as it did in Iraq in 1981 and Syria in...

The head of Israel's National Security Council, Eyal Holata, is scheduled to meet US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Washington next week to discuss Israel's worries about the...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the passing of a motion at the UK Labour Party conference on Monday that recognised Israel as an "apartheid" state and called for...

Imprisoned member of Fatah Central Committee, Marwan Barghouti, has said: "the Palestinian Authority (PA) has no authority" adding that the Battle for Jerusalem "revealed the inability and fragility" of...

The Palestinian Authority security services arrested on Monday the key witness in the Nizar Banat murder case, local sources have revealed. Banat, a harsh critic of PA President Mahmoud...

In cooperation with the UNDP, the Palestinian Ministry of Works has started work to demolish Al-Jawhara Tower which was repeatedly bombed by Israeli occupation forces during the latest offensive...

Unidentified aircraft hit a base run by Iranian-backed militias in Syria's eastern province of Deir Ez-Zor near the Iraqi border where Tehran has in the last year expanded its...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will discuss the most prominent developments in Syria, Afghanistan, and Libya during their meeting tomorrow, the Kremlin spokesman...

Lebanese Hezbollah yesterday condemned a normalisation conference held recently in the Iraqi city of Erbil. In an official statement, the group described the event as a "failed attempt to...

Pakistan has discussed Taliban-led Afghanistan joining the multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) infrastructure project, the Pakistani ambassador to the country said on Monday, Reuters reported. "Regional connectivity is an important element...

Jordan will fully reopen its main border crossing with Syria from Wednesday, government and industry officials said, as a high-level Syrian team arrived in Amman to discuss how to...

Jordan said today that Crown Prince Al Hussein Bin Abdullah had contracted coronavirus, Reuters reports. "His Highness Prince Hussein, who had received the vaccine against the coronavirus, showed mild symptoms and...

Nearly 400 journalists, academics, and cultural figures signed a letter of solidarity with journalist Nemi El-Hassan, after she was axed by Germany's WDR channel for attending a Palestinian solidarity demonstration...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said today that Iran had crossed "all red lines" in its nuclear programme and vowed that Israel would not allow Tehran to acquire a...

Palestine's tourism revenue has continued to fall due to the coronavirus pandemic, officials have confirmed. There was an estimated loss of $1.5 billion last year, they added on World...

Bahrain's government sent a draft bill to parliament for approval to amend the value-added tax rate, currently at five per cent, from next January, the state-run Bahrain News Agency said today....

Investment funds in Abu Dhabi are looking for investment avenues in Turkey, Bloomberg reports. According to the report, the negotiation meetings between the funds from the United Arab Emirates and companies...

The motion commits the Labour party to implementing sanctions including ceasing UK-Israel arms trade and trade with illegal Israeli settlements.

A probe into the catastrophic explosion at Beirut port was frozen today when a former minister wanted for questioning as a suspect filed a case questioning the lead investigator's...

Jewish Israeli settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque sanctuary in Jerusalem today and waved the Israeli flag around the Islamic site, in what was a major incursion. According to Jordan's Department...

The death of 89 Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia over the past two years has been described as "suspicious" by the African state's foreign ministry. Saudi authorities have told...

The father of American singer Britney Spears hired an Israeli surveillance firm to record her phone calls and communications, a former employee of the firm said in a New York...

Israeli police officers have been accused of working in league with crime lords and not caring about the death of Palestinians as anger grows over their failure to get...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met senior ministers from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in New York yesterday, his office said, ahead of an address to the United...