Arms imports to the Middle East were doubled during the period from 2013-2017, compared to the region’s total arms imports in the previous five years, the Munich Security Report...

An Israeli drone fired four missiles near a demolished hospital and an army observation post in Syria’s southern Quneitra province near the border with Israel, but there had been...

The Trump administration threatened on Monday to veto an effort in the US Congress to end US military support for the Saudi Arabia-led coalition in the war in Yemen,...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman will make his maiden visit to Pakistan this week to ink several trade and investment deals worth more than $10 billion, diplomatic officials...

Algeria’s Sonatrach has signed a $1 billion contract with India’s Larsen & Toubro to build plants to produce 11 million cubic metres of gas per day, Sonatrach’s CEO said...

The United States is still probing the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday, as US lawmakers continued to demand stronger US...

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians marched and some burned US  flags to mark the revolution’s 40th anniversary on Monday as Tehran showed off ballistic missiles in defiance of US...

China has slammed Turkey’s criticism of its policy against the country’s Uighur Muslim community, labelling the latter’s condemnation a “double standard”. Turkey broke its silence this weekend over China’s...

The first two Middle East Congresswomen, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, have openly endorsed the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Michigan congresswoman Tlaib said on Saturday that she...

The United States is likely just weeks away from starting the withdrawal of ground troops from Syria ordered by President Donald Trump, the top US commander overseeing American forces...

The head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, Kamal Kharazi, said on Saturday that Tehran is ready for dialogue and cooperation in various fields with all countries in...

The Arab Parliament’s speaker, Mishaal Al-Salami, yesterday renewed its calls to the United States, demanding the removal of Sudan from the American terror list. Speaking at a session held...

Palestinian leader encourages African Union members to continue to stand with Palestine, keep embassies in Tel Aviv

The Trump administration signaled on Friday it was unlikely to meet a deadline to report to Congress on whether it intends to impose sanctions on those responsible for the...

Turkey called on China to close its internment camps for Muslims, saying the camps which reportedly hold a million ethnic Uighur people are a “great shame for humanity”. Last...

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) began an assault against the final Daesh enclave in eastern Syria on Saturday, aiming to wipe out the last vestige of the militant...

Daesh is far from defeated, and instead is morphing into an asymmetrical warfare force after the militant group lost almost all of the territory it once controlled in Syria,...

Palestinian officials have been invited to a US conference on the Middle East hosted by Poland next week, a senior US official said on Friday, but top Palestinian officials...

The fiancée of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said on Friday she would welcome a change in Donald Trump’s approach to the killing, and may visit the United States...

US officials are considering the controversial military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to house captured suspected Daesh fighters as Washington prepares to withdraw from Syria, according to a report, Anadolu...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia sought Vice Media’s assistance to build a sympathetic media empire, according to a report published Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. Riyadh had already taken on...

Details of how pro-Israeli lobby groups have fabricated accusations of anti-Semitism on US college campuses in order to incite official crackdowns against Palestine solidarity activism were revealed earlier in...

Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi is believed to have fled an attempted coup by fighters within his own group last month, senior regional intelligence officials have told the Guardian....

The US has said that Israel had “every right” to expel a UN monitoring force from the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. US State Department spokesman Robert Palladino...

Russia has refused to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, despite previously recognising the west of the city as Israel’s capital. The announcement was made yesterday by...

The highest Shia cleric in Iraq rejected on Wednesday the notion of turning Iraq into a platform to monitor or harm other countries. Ayatollah Ali Sistani made his comment...

Secretary-General of the PLO Executive Committee, Saeb Erekat, yesterday condemned the US for blocking a proposed United Nations Security Council statement expressing regret over Israel’s decision to end the...

Republican and Democratic US lawmakers renewed their push on Thursday to penalise Saudi Arabia for the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and address the humanitarian crisis in Yemen,...

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner will travel to at least five Arab countries in late February to brief diplomats on the economic portion of a long-awaited US peace...

The US State Department said on Thursday it was aware of reports of a failed Iranian attempt to launch a satellite into space last month and it called on...

Canada is willing to receive about 750 victims of slavery in Libya over the coming two years, including the 150 who have already been granted asylum in the country,...

Over the past six weeks, US President Donald Trump has occupied the world with controversial statements about the future of the presence of US troops in its three largest...