The top defence advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, predicted Monday the establishment of a global Islamic government led by Iran this century.  The Iranian Fars news agency quoted General Yahya Rahim Safavi while...

FranzCrude futures rallied in choppy trading on Monday ahead of an OPEC meeting later in the week that could reap production cuts, while the US dollar recovered from earlier...

As Israel’s illegal military occupation approaches a half-century, it’s long past time for concrete international action to pressure its government to reverse course. The Green Party of Canada’s recent...

The United Nations envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed on Sunday began a new tour which will include Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Oman in a bid to revive...

Israel’s security cabinet on Sunday approved the purchase of an additional 17 Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter jets, bringing its total number on order to 50. Prime Minister Benjamin...

Australia is awaiting Turkey’s response to a request to extradite a citizen believed to be a top recruiter for Daesh who has been arrested in Turkey, the Australian government...

Yemen’s powerful ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, a key ally of the country’s dominant Houthi movement, has asked the United Nations Security Council to allow him to travel to Cuba...

Several thousand residents of opposition-held eastern Aleppo fled shifting frontlines, residents and a monitor said on Sunday, after a rapid advance by the Syrian army and allied forces that...

Four Iraqi soldiers and dozens militants were killed in airstrikes and clashes in Mosul on Sunday amid an ongoing Iraqi offensive to recapture the northern city from the terrorist...

Palestinian people show solidarity with the late Cuban leader, Fidel Castro

Qatar will continue to arm Syrian rebels even if Donald Trump ends US backing for the multinational effort, Doha’s foreign minister said in an interview, signalling its determination to...

Palestine has lost one its oldest and closest friends following the death of Cuba’s former president and leader of the Communist revolution, Fidel Castro. Few leaders, with the exception...

Wikileaks has today published over 500 documents from the United States’ diplomatic mission in Yemen that purport to prove that the US secretly interfered in Yemeni affairs, in the...

UN Special Envoy to Syria, Staffan De Mistura, said that outgoing US President Barack Obama may keep working until his last day in office to end the war in...

Turkey’s central bank announced yesterday that it had raised the benchmark weekly repo rate by 50 basis points in order to end the decline in the price of the...

Bahraini authorities have freed opposition politician Ibrahim Sharif after arresting him for criticising Prince Charles for visiting the kingdom. At the beginning of the month, Bahrain’s Cyber Crime Directorate...

The son of US president-elect Donald Trump has held private talks with pro-Russia activists in Paris, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The meetings were held last month...

A Turkish soldier was killed and five wounded in clashes with Daesh in northern Syria, the military said today, as Turkish-backed rebels pressed an offensive to take the city...

A US service member died on Thursday after being wounded in an improvised explosive device blast in northern Syria, US Central Command, or CENTCOM, said in a statement. CENTCOM...

Daesh has been using drones to attack Iraqi troops advancing in the northern city of Mosul, the militant group’s last major urban stronghold in country, the military said on...

The UN Special Envoy for Syria on Thursday said US President Barack Obama could well keep working until his last day in office to end the war in Syria,...

Libyan forces today resumed their against Daesh militants holding out in a few streets in their former stronghold of Sirte, saying they had captured 25 houses and a stash...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday called on the Islamic world to stand up in the face of the West’s “double standards” toward Islamic countries pointing out that US...

US President-elect Donald Trump will appoint his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as a Middle East peace envoy, according to reports published on Tuesday. In an interview with the New York...

A suspected Kurdish PKK bomb attack has struck the Turkish city of Adana today, claiming two lives and wounding more than 30 outside the governor’s office, weeks after the...

The Israeli Planning and Construction Committee in Jerusalem yesterday approved a new settlement plan consisting of 500 settlement units in occupied Jerusalem, Quds Press reported. In a statement, Ir...

The chief Palestinian negotiator and secretary of Fatah’s Executive Committee said on Wednesday that Qatar is not competing with anyone to sponsor Palestinian reconciliation, AlKhaleejonline.com has reported. “Egypt plays...

Many worried President-elect Donald Trump was making good on his campaign promise to register all Muslims in the country

In the five days after Donald Trump won the US presidential election, the Southern Poverty Law Center recorded more than 400 incidents of “hateful harassment and intimidation” of minorities....

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi has confirmed reports that US aircraft drones will use Tunisian military bases for the “benefit of Tunisia.” In an interview aired on local TV,...

The head of Iraq’s Sunni Endowment, a governmental entity, survived an assassination attempt yesterday while he was supervising the situation of families in areas recaptured from Daesh in the...

The Obama administration has expressed concern over the killing of a Palestinian-American teenager by Israeli occupation forces earlier this year, and the decision by Israeli authorities not to open...