Since the Russian-Syrian alliance was forged in Syria several years ago, many have wondered what could bring together the former communist Russia and Shia Iran. The Russian government is...

A Pentagon “propagandist,” who previously headed a company that was paid half a billion dollars to produce fake terrorist videos in Iraq, was hired by a Dubai based company...

This will be remembered as the year when the United States of America broke with the international consensus by moving its Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, thus recognising...

Last Saturday, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas made the distinction between political corruption and the Palestinian people, albeit unwittingly. What remains to be done is articulate the dissociation between...

Without warning, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan surprised the whole world with his decision to hold early presidential and parliamentary elections on 24 June, sixteen months before they were...

A Saudi-led coalition airstrike last week killed the top civilian leader in the armed Houthi movement in Yemen, the group reported on Monday. He was the most senior official...

US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner are expected to be among the 250 US delegates to open the US embassy in Jerusalem in May,...

Human Rights Watch has expressed concern over the risk of a looming humanitarian crisis in North Sinai as a result of the Egyptian army’s military operation against terrorist elements...

Lebanese political analyst, Nidal al-Sabea has said that that Mahmoud Abbas expelled the Atallah Hanna from the Palestinian National Council because he fears obstruction to the Trump-backed negotiations with...

Albert Einstein, along with other Jewish luminaries, including Hannah Arendt, published a letter in the New York Times on December 4, 1948. That was only a few months after...

US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron emphasized pomp and ceremony on Monday as Macron began a state visit to Washington likely to be dominated by differences...

The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said Monday that the UN does not have a magic solution for the Syrian crisis. Speaking at a press conference with Swedish Prime...

The UN, EU and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Monday called for preservation of the Iranian nuclear deal before the 12 May deadline set by US President...

MK Yousef Jabareen and Adalah – The Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel filed a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court yesterday appealing a decision by the...

Malaysian police today released e-fits of two suspects in the assassination of Palestinian academic Fadi Al-Batsh. “This drawing is based on an eyewitness statement on the day of the...

US President Donald Trump was so perplexed by the decisions of Israeli prime minister that he questioned whether Benjamin Netanyahu seriously cared about making peace with the Palestinians. According...

Hundreds of bodies have been found in at least two mass graves in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the former stronghold of Daesh, according to local news agencies. Contrasting...

The Czech Republic has withdrawn its previous decision to transfer its embassy from Tel Aviv to the occupied city of Jerusalem, Israel Hayom newspaper reported. “The Czech Republic; a...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned that Tehran will “vigorously” resume uranium enrichment if the United States withdrew from the nuclear deal signed in 2015. Speaking to...

French President Emmanuel Macron said in a Fox News Sunday interview that he has no “plan B” for the Iran nuclear deal and that the United States should stay...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday Iran’s atomic agency was ready with “expected and unexpected” reactions if the United States pulls out of a multinational nuclear deal, as...

Israel’s defence minister said on Sunday a Palestinian scientist shot dead in Malaysia was a rocket expert and “no saint”, but dismissed suggestions by Hamas that Israel’s Mossad spy agency...

Palestinians will not allow any country to move their embassies to Jerusalem, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday. According to Palestine’s official WAFA news agency, Abbas, during a meeting...

A Palestinian family on Saturday accused Israel’s spy agency Mossad of killing a Palestinian lecturer in Malaysia. Fadi Mohammed al-Batsh, 35, was shot dead by two gunmen on a...

Saudi citizens have complained about the high prices of the tickets of the only cinema in the country, calling for a reduction of prices to meet their limited incomes, Thenewkhalij.org reported on...

Amelia Smith interviews Hammam Yousef, a Syrian activist who co-founded the Syrian Non-Violence Movement during the 2011 uprising.

Russia is obstructing the access of international chemical weapons inspectors to the site of a suspected poison gas attack in the Syrian town of Douma, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le...

Iraq resumed paying Kuwait compensation on Friday for the destruction of Kuwaiti oil fields and facilities during the 1990-91 Gulf War, the United Nations said in Geneva in a prepared...

The U.S. President, Donald Trump, slammed the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Friday, complaining the cartel was keeping crude oil prices high. “Looks like OPEC is...

When Donald Trump announced that he would be withdrawing from Syria and leaving it to others to take care of its affairs, the common belief was that by others...

The US administration is resolved to “destroy the peace process and the two-state option”, the Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s (PLO) Executive Committee, Saeb Erekat, said yesterday. Erekat’s remarks...

A US federal court has blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from transferring a US citizen currently held in Iraq for seven months to another country, the American Civil Liberties...