Asia & Americas

The new US envoy to the Horn of Africa, David Satterfield, and Assistant Secretary Molly Phee will visit Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Ethiopia next week, the State Department said...

Washington announced on Friday its strong support for free, fair and inclusive elections in Libya, as stipulated in the roadmap of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum. This came during...

The new US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides stated on Friday that he will not visit Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank but would support normalisation. Speaking to...

A meeting to discuss reconciliation between the Taliban and the National Resistance Front (NRF), led by Ahmad Massoud, ended without progress, AFP reported on Friday. The NRF is the...

Greece has received a strike from the US after freezing the excavation works of US-owned ExxonMobil and French company Total off the island of Crete in the East Mediterranean,...

US President Joe Biden will not allow Iran to attain a nuclear weapon, the White House said on Friday, as ongoing negotiations in Europe hit a "critical" period, Anadolu...

Iran's top diplomat, on his first official visit to China, announced the implementation of the ambitious 25-year strategic agreement between the two countries has begun, Anadolu News Agency reports....

The Taliban administration approved its first budget since the takeover of Afghanistan last August, the Finance Ministry said on Friday and reported by Anadolu News Agency. The budget of...

Pluto Press has published the fourth, and rewritten edition of Paul Roger's "Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century". The first edition was published a little while after...

Two civilians were injured, Thursday, when a rocket attack targeted Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, Anadolu News Agency reports. A police officer confirmed to Anadolu Agency that the Green...

Russia thwarted an American-Israeli plan to bomb Kazakhstan the way they did with Afghanistan, which was what happened in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen, benefiting from the experience of...

Syria and China have signed a memorandum of understanding on a number of issues, bringing Damascus into the fold of Beijing's Silk Road initiative. In a meeting at the...

Coming across drug addicts while walking down the streets of the Afghan city of Herat is nothing out of the ordinary; the country ranks second to none in terms...

US army officers were given a tour of the Palestinian city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) last week by a far-right settlement spokesperson at the request of Major General Yehuda Fuchs,...

The turmoil in the Republic of Kazakhstan made Israel worried about its secret oil, cybersecurity and weapons deals with the Central Asian country, according to Haaretz columnist David Rosenberg....

Eight UN member states, including Iran and Venezuela, have lost their voting rights because of unpaid dues, according to documents revealed on Wednesday and reported by Anadolu News Agency....

US lawmakers voted, last month, in support of a bill to create a State Department office tasked with monitoring and combating Islamophobia across the globe. With members of the...

The United States has seemingly abandoned support for a pipeline project in the eastern Mediterranean which aimed to transport Israeli gas to Europe through Cyprus, voicing its misgivings about...

A mother in western Afghanistan faces the prospect of having to hand over her 5-year-old daughter to a man if she cannot pay off a $1,500 debt left by...

China and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are moving towards establishing a strategic partnership, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, and reported by Anadolu News Agency. "Both sides agreed...

Anti-narcotics police in Ecuador have seized 656.7 kilogrammes of cocaine concealed in a shipping container carrying bananas headed for Tunisia. According to the police, the drugs were dispersed among ten jute...

The first high-level detainee at the controversial US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been cleared for transfer with security guarantees, according to a recently published report and...

Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, says Mr Blair deserves knighthood, the title of "Sir" bestowed on him by the Queen, the UK's highest honour, for "making Britain a better...

Afghans in the US have demanded that the Biden administration lift restrictions on the Afghan banking sector and release financial assets belonging to the Afghan people, Anadolu News Agency...

An Uyghur Muslim scholar detained in Saudi Arabia may be deported back to China "within days" and is at risk of facing imprisonment and torture, his family has revealed....

A group of US lawmakers from both the Senate and the House of Representatives have launched the Abraham Accords Congressional Caucus to encourage more Arab countries to normalise relations...

India's largest art museum, and third largest museum in the country, will be opening an Islamic art gallery by next year. The Salar Jung Museum, in Hyderabad is said...

The UN and its partners launched the "largest-ever" humanitarian aid appeal for a single country on Tuesday, Anadolu has reported. The appeal seeks to raise $4.4 billion to avert...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will pay a visit to China tomorrow, Anadolu reported today. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said Cavusoglu will address "bilateral relations as well as current...

The Jerusalem Post has reported in the past few days that Palestinian Americans will be allowed to land at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport on their way to the West...

Pakistan has finalised an Rs11.2 billion ($63 million) education package for Afghan students and plans to establish a university campus in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, a senior official said on...

At least nine children were killed and four others wounded when a live mortar shell exploded in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar on Monday, local authorities said, and Anadolu...