US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday, without providing hard evidence, that al Qaeda had established a new home base in Iran and the United States had...

France on Tuesday condemned Israel's plan to advance construction of 800 more Jewish settler homes in the occupied West Bank in a move to cement the projects shortly before...

Sheldon Adelson, a major funder of the US Republican Party and supporter of both Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has died in Malibu, California, aged 87....

"Shocking scenes of violence" was how the Jewish Insider described last week's storming of the Capitol Building in Washington DC by supporters of outgoing US President Donald Trump. It...

The US special envoy to Syria, Joel Rayburn, is expected to step down when President-elect Joe Biden takes office, UAE news outlet the National has reported. Rayburn is only...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will pay an official visit to Pakistan tomorrow, according to an official statement by the Foreign Ministry, Anadolu reports. The visit, the statement said, will cover...

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman has bragged about his support for Israeli occupation of Palestinian and Syrian lands, as well as Israeli settlement, Anadolu news agency reported yesterday. During the...

Donald Trump is likely to go down in history not only as the first US president to be impeached twice, but also as the first (and so far only)...

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) yesterday criticised the timing of the US State Department's plan to designate Yemen's Houthi group as a "terrorist organisation", saying Yemen is on the...

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has condemned the US' decision to impose sanctions on Falih Al-Fayyadh, head of the Popular Mobilisation Forces in Iraq, saying the move is "doomed to...

Egypt's foreign minister has said that no country has the right to interfere in the internal affairs of his country besides Egyptians themselves. "Each society has its own conditions...

A senior leader of Yemen's Houthi group, Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi, has rejected plans by the US to designate the group as a "foreign terrorist organisation" and accused Washington of...

An app that reminds Muslims when to pray, shows nearby mosques and determines the direction of Makkah has been tracking users' location and selling their information on, reveals a...

While US President Donald Trump was busy inciting a mob to attack the Capitol Building in Washington DC, Palestinian activist Issa Amro was convicted on three counts of protesting...

Beny Steinmetz, Israeli-French mining tycoon, yesterday appeared in a Swiss court over corruption claims that he paid millions of dollars to Guinean officials for mining franchises, international news agencies...

The Israelis have significantly increased talk about the emergence of a new threat front represented by Yemen, which did not exist before, whether in terms of the Houthis targeting Israeli naval...

Oil prices declined today in light of renewed concerns about a shortage of global demand for fuel, amid the re-imposition of strict lockdown measures as coronavirus cases rise across...

US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday tapped a former career diplomat in William Burns to lead the CIA as the Democrat raced to put a national security team in...

The labelling of products originating on Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory has sparked further controversy in Canada after a government run wine seller was found distributing bottles of Palestinian-made wine after...

The Paris-based Union of Arab and French Banks (UBAF) has agreed to pay an $8.6 million penalty imposed by the US Treasury Department for violating a series of sanctions...

"The designations are intended to hold Ansarallah accountable for its terrorist acts, including cross-border attacks threatening civilian populations, infrastructure and commercial shipping", says Pompeo

Former Israeli Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn said on Friday that democracy in Israel is "more fragile" than in the US, despite the chaos in Washington last week, local media...

There is no doubt that the storming of the Capitol Building in Washington DC by supporters of President Donald Trump, which was witnessed live across the world, was unprecedented...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning chaos in Israel more dangerous than what happened in Capitol Hill, the Shehab News Agency reported former Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman saying. "What we...

Iraq denounced on Saturday as "unacceptable" a US decision to blacklist the leader of a state umbrella group for mainly Iran-backed Shia militia, Reuters reports. Washington imposed sanctions on...

Iran will expel United Nations nuclear watchdog inspectors unless US sanctions are lifted by a Feb. 21 deadline set by the hardline-dominated parliament, a lawmaker said on Saturday, Reuters...

Turkey extended condolences to Indonesia over Saturday's passenger plane crash near the capital Jakarta, Anadolu Agency reports. "We have learned with great sadness that a passenger airplane flying from...

On the evening of 18 November, 1985, Jay, an innocent-looking analyst, left his office at the US Naval Intelligence. Jay was in his early thirties, looked slightly overweight, sported...

Iran's elite revolutionary guard corps on Friday unveiled an underground anti-ship missile base along the shores of the Persian Gulf to the country's south amid heightened tensions in the...

Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok on Friday agreed to appoint a formal representative in Turkey, according to a senior Turkish official, Anadolu Agency reports. "Our hope is that other social network providers...

The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on an Iraqi militia leader and former national security adviser, connecting him to human rights abuses during the 2019 anti-government demonstrations in...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani yesterday said the storming of the US Capitol by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump exposes the weaknesses and failure of Western democracy. Trump, Rouhani added, is...